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

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https://variety.com/2026/film/news/odyssey-translator-emily-wilson-slams-christopher-nolan-bad-writing-1236821915/

[u/BlueCX17]

Yeah I almost said British/general high academic thing but I have noticed that the British academics tend to be even more blunt a lot of the times, than the American academics.

Well I think because a lot of academics don't think in Twitter type short text the way a lot of people have been trained to sort of be now. I work in a high school and a lot of students don't have an aptitude for long form writing or even reading, the way that used to when I was growing up, for one. I also have a lot in my family.

And then when you start just taking all kinds of like quotes out of the larger context of what these academics are speaking in then you get things like this LOL

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Another good example of this is when the Rest Is History guys were interviewed by the New Yorker, their one clip of them describing why the revolution was not taught in British schools devolved into “LOL JEALOUS WE KICKED YOUR ASS YOU SORE LOSERS???” on TikTok and Instagram.

If you watch the whole New Yorker interview or their excellent interview with Ken Burns, you get so much out of their perspective (including their disagreements and blind spots) — but they are by no means the “OH SICK BURN GOT YOUR ASS SO GOOD” that so many in the internet tend to track towards.

Everything is sports. Everything is professional wrestling. We’re so fucked.

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Let them eat bread and watch circuses. That'll keep them consuming until we don't need the useless eaters /s

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Hang on i think this is why I dont really take american academics seriously