i think nolan is good for the futuristic and modern type of movie, but for something mythical and a bit of fantasy, it feels quite bland for the colors and outfits...
I havenβt seen it yet-not sure if I will-but I canβt help but think that the Odyssey is simply a story not fit for Nolan. Yes, Nolan can make an epic, grandiose film with jaw dropping shots and with beautiful set pieces, but can he make a story that doesnβt just borderline fantastical but openly embraces it? Not sure. His art is more on what is intelligible; on rules and logic, than fantasy with magical elements and a mythology of active gods. The Odyssey shouldnβt be grounded down any more than Lord of the Rings should. And Nolan, for all his genius, simply saw the forest and missed the trees. He made a movie that was epic but not one that was fantastical. And maybe that works for some people.
I think it is a myth-step (π) to assume he is demythologizing. The gods worked and manifested providentially. And Athena certainly did so via Odysseusβs imaginative faculty. Everyone going with the naturalist assumption I think speaks more to our societyβs inability to read providence than to anything Nolan is doing (or not doing) in the film.
This was always the version we were going to get from Nolan. People duped themselves into thinking it would be anything else, and so are upset mostly at themselves for psyching themselves up for the wrong outcome, blaming Nolan for their own misgivings about the reality of the situation.
On the wish to be more kind to strangers; do you happen to have any Norwegian ancestors in your lineage that you could call upon? Perhaps, some Upper Midwest that may direct you in that way?
Being from Wisconsin, and of 'Wegian ancestry, I can't imagine being any other way.
My thought is that Nolan was telling the story of what he thought led to the myth. In this version there are no gods or the supernatural-- they were just memories corrupted by hallucinations that were wrought about by the lotus. Odysseus' telling of those past events were when he was coming out of his years long drugged up bliss, which is why there are no mythological elements in any other perspective other than his. They were hallucinations that were inspired by the myths he was told.
This is why it feels so materialism-washed, even though there are fantastical elements.
i think nolan is good for the futuristic and modern type of movie, but for something mythical and a bit of fantasy, it feels quite bland for the colors and outfits...
I havenβt seen it yet-not sure if I will-but I canβt help but think that the Odyssey is simply a story not fit for Nolan. Yes, Nolan can make an epic, grandiose film with jaw dropping shots and with beautiful set pieces, but can he make a story that doesnβt just borderline fantastical but openly embraces it? Not sure. His art is more on what is intelligible; on rules and logic, than fantasy with magical elements and a mythology of active gods. The Odyssey shouldnβt be grounded down any more than Lord of the Rings should. And Nolan, for all his genius, simply saw the forest and missed the trees. He made a movie that was epic but not one that was fantastical. And maybe that works for some people.
I think it is a myth-step (π) to assume he is demythologizing. The gods worked and manifested providentially. And Athena certainly did so via Odysseusβs imaginative faculty. Everyone going with the naturalist assumption I think speaks more to our societyβs inability to read providence than to anything Nolan is doing (or not doing) in the film.
This was always the version we were going to get from Nolan. People duped themselves into thinking it would be anything else, and so are upset mostly at themselves for psyching themselves up for the wrong outcome, blaming Nolan for their own misgivings about the reality of the situation.
On the wish to be more kind to strangers; do you happen to have any Norwegian ancestors in your lineage that you could call upon? Perhaps, some Upper Midwest that may direct you in that way?
Being from Wisconsin, and of 'Wegian ancestry, I can't imagine being any other way.
My thoughts on Odyssey !
https://ghazibenahmed.substack.com/p/christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-when?r=4ukxmm&utm_medium=ios
My thought is that Nolan was telling the story of what he thought led to the myth. In this version there are no gods or the supernatural-- they were just memories corrupted by hallucinations that were wrought about by the lotus. Odysseus' telling of those past events were when he was coming out of his years long drugged up bliss, which is why there are no mythological elements in any other perspective other than his. They were hallucinations that were inspired by the myths he was told.
This is why it feels so materialism-washed, even though there are fantastical elements.