"What could possess Nolan to sabotage his and Homer’s work? Yes, the Hollywoke Strain, but something else, perfectly described by Jesse Kelly on X. “Please understand that communists do this on purpose … They live for destroying beautiful things. Especially the ones most important to you.'”. . .
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. . . "Which brings us to Christopher Nolan. He may be an overrated director in my view, but he’s smart enough to know about the film-killing potency of the Hollywoke Strain. Yet instead of avoiding it, he appears to be injecting it, into his adaptation of one of the greatest and oldest classics of literature, The Odyssey.
"How many people, myself included, would flock to a screen retelling of the Homeric epic, full of gods and monsters, heroes and battles, sirens and villains, and a man’s long voyage home to his wife and son. What we won’t accept is a feminist interpretation of one of the manliest tales of all time. And that’s precisely Nolan’s source for the material — Emily Wilson’s gender heavy, morally ambiguous, unromantic translation of the story.
"We’re not thrilled by Matt Damon as Odysseus. We’re fine with Ann Hathaway as Penelope. We dislike Zendaya as Athena, goddess of wisdom. We welcome the beautiful Charlize Theron as the seductive demigoddess Calypso. But we’ll avoid like the plague a small deluded girl, Elliot Page, as the fearsome warrior Achilles, and a plain black woman, Lupita Nyong’o, as Helen of Troy, “the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Illium.” (Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus)
"What could possess Nolan to sabotage his and Homer’s work? Yes, the Hollywoke Strain, but something else, perfectly described by Jesse Kelly on X. “Please understand that communists do this on purpose … They live for destroying beautiful things. Especially the ones most important to you.”" . . .
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