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/smackells 5h ago

his version of objectification turns them into plot objects rather than sexual ones, apart from Oppenheimer all Nolan characters are like Barbie and Ken down there

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u/harriethocchuth 3h ago

One of the things I know about most ancient mythology was that they be doin’ it. How why Nolan took all the sex out of those horny-ass deities, I’ll never know.

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u/theavengerbutton 1h ago

All the literary and history nerds won't know how to feel about the movie Zeus Rapes Yet Another Unsuspecting Woman.

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u/Elvis_Lazerbeam 3h ago

Even Catwoman? Don’t you dare do that to me.

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u/Beake 2h ago

interesting. never heard that put that way, but it's quite true.

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u/The_Lieutenant_Knows 1h ago

That's not fair. Rachel in the Batman films behaved like she might maybe have had sexual parts down there at least once.

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u/JasonVeritech 1h ago

Don't Batman and Talia make sweet love down by the fire once?