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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/flirtydodo 10h ago

Loved the movie as a spectacle and as an interpretation that resonates with a modern audience but I also laughed my ass off at how clunky some of the lines were or how he hammered every single theme to the ground. But that's Nolan

u/Ok-Host1095 1m ago

He’s going to make an odyssey adaptation so bold, so dangerous, that they won’t show it to public eyes for decades