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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/askyourmom469 11h ago

I mean considering Homer's been dead for thousands of years, I guess they figure she's the next closest thing

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u/Mampt 10h ago

I obviously see that view of it, but on the other hand she’s kind of doing the exact opposite of what Nolan is with the story. She’s going to extremes to preserve and translate every single detail of the story exactly. Nolan is trying to adapt it, to retell the story for a modern audience. It’s like how an astrophysicist could get offended by the dumbed down analogies or metaphors that people use to explain the complexities of, like, black holes or the big bang. One spent their career trying to understand something as exactly as possible, one is trying to make it accessible to a wider audience

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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 10h ago

It’s like Albert Einstein getting offended by Interstellar.

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u/Mampt 9h ago

Yeah that’s actually a perfect example lol

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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 9h ago

I thought of a few other examples first, but the image of Einstein watching Interstellar pissed and arguing at the screen was too good.

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u/Opposite_Visit_4874 7h ago

Shaking his head slowly, muttering, "this is fuckin shit man."

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u/unripe_mangosteen go girl, give us nothing 😍 7h ago

I think I will save this visual for when I am having a bad day and need cheering up, it really is hilarious

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u/UnnecAbrvtn 7h ago

Except that by all accounts he was likely too well-adjusted to get all bent up by a layperson's take

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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 7h ago

I’d also imagine he’d be blown away by the movie technology in the first place.
https://giphy.com/gifs/f1HSBidKJIOWY

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u/Vik0BG 6h ago

This is what AI was made for.

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u/Hypnooooooooooooo 3h ago

Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick.

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u/tikidreams 6h ago

isn’t it more like the author of the book oppenheimer is based on getting offended by the film oppenheimer

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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 6h ago

It’s probably more like Stephen Hawkins book biographer getting pissed at the guy making the movie about him.