“They’re judging it relative to the overall cultural flow of the movement of cinema and the conventions of cinema.” Now that you’ve seen it, learn more about the choices writer / director Christopher Nolan made adapting The Odyssey for the big screen in this excellent interview. For many years, Nolan was famous for never doing allowing any online interviews – only magazines & newspapers. All that has changed and he has been front and center in the promo campaigns for his last two movies Oppenheimer and The Odyssey. This interview has gone viral online and it’s entirely worth a watch. Yiyang Zhuge is a Chinese political theorist & translator who teaches at Brandeis University, and also a PhD Candidate at Boston College. She conducted an interview with Nolan for the Chinese release of The Odyssey and all 17 minutes of this conversation are worth listening to – view the full video below. I love how she pushes back at Nolan, I dig her philosophical questions about language, being the “bard for a civilization at dusk” (yes he definitely is), and Christianizing this Ancient Greek story. And I also dig Nolan’s very thoughtful answers to these ideas. Both are engaging in this conversation in an intellectual way and it’s rare we ever see interviews this good for Hollywood movies. // Continue Reading ›
