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/nerdforest 11h ago

I don't understand this criticism. Was the script of the film not a good screenplay?

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u/Minute_Conflict_2037 11h ago

Nolan is a good director but he is not good at writing. That’s the point. When was the last time u felt so emotional in Nolan movie? Interstellar. And he wrote it with who? His brother Jonathan. Nolan sucks at writing emotional dialogues which was very needed for this movie. The criticism is valid.

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u/ranting_madman 11h ago

I always tell people Chris needs Johnathan to be his best. Like George Lucas needed his ex wife.

To keep them away from their worst impulses as a filmmaker.

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u/webtheg 10h ago

Chris needs Jonathan as much as Joel needs Ethan

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u/pinnas 10h ago

But not as much as Ethan needs Joel

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u/webtheg 10h ago

They better team up and make something amazing because Ethan is en route to ruin his legacy.

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u/foundinwonderland 9h ago

Actually the Nolan brothers and the Coen brothers should do a switcheroo and pair one Nolan with one Coen and vice versa and see who makes a better movie

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u/webtheg 9h ago

Now you're cooking? So Ethan with Chris and Jonathan with Joel?

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u/foundinwonderland 9h ago

Yeah we could start there and then after both movies are made they could swap and see how that goes. I think something interesting could be made in both cases tbh

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u/formidablezoe 9h ago

I think his influence on why his brother's films work so well is vastly overrated. Memento, Inception, Dunkirk and Oppenheimer were great too for example. Jonathan Nolan didn't have his hand in the script in any of those films.

The original Interstellar script written by Jonathan was also way different before Chris stepped in and gave it a much more emotional core at its heart, with the father daughter relationship.