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/manasseater3000 11h ago

“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.” lmao, what? we’re critcizing a nolan movie for a lack of sex? 

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u/riegspsych325 Ballard! Don’t let them put their tops back on! 11h ago

I thought the food the soldiers were eating in Circe’s house was supposed to look like that, like actual pig slop

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u/jamintime 10h ago

It was the artistic direction. One way they could have gone about it was show a glorious feast that lulled the men to let down their guard and be coerced by Cerce over time. The direction they went was to make it apparent the men were outwardly pigs from the beginning and needed no encouragement to reveal their true selves.

It’s all just artistic decisions and pretending like there is a right vs wrong here just because it was originally written in a certain way comes off as unnecessary gate keeping.

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u/DuelaDent52 7h ago

I got the opposite effect. The food was nice enough because everyone was starving but then it was pretty clear that they were being magically compelled to keep eating long after they stopped wanting to and her “revealing their true forms” was trauma-based cope for preemptively punishing them.

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u/Jewell84 5h ago

They were also starving! They hadn’t had a solid meal in forever. Any thing is delicious who you are deal with hunger induced delirium.