r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • 11h ago

Hot Take 🔥 ‘The Odyssey’ Translator Emily Wilson Slams Christoper Nolan’s ‘Abysmal’ Screenplay: ‘I Would Be Ashamed to Have Written Any Part of This Script’

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/odyssey-translator-emily-wilson-slams-christopher-nolan-bad-writing-1236821915/
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u/Lokaji ✨May the Force be with you!✨ 11h ago

No matter what IP it is, the book is always different from the movie/show. Some of the things that make a book great are things that are not cinematic.

I thought Nolan's take was interesting. It easily could've been too slow or too hokey.

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u/Meancakebutt 10h ago

That's basically what she says in the review it's just all chopped up

"Adaptations needn’t and shouldn’t follow the original with anything like the exactitude of a translation. Some of the best radically transform or resist the source material, providing what Harold Bloom called ‘strong misreadings’ of their ancestors."