{"title": "Why Christopher Nolan and why The Odyssey???", "timestamp": 1784711834.9903831, "description": "On the surface it seems like *The Odyssey* is a vanity project. Like if [Christopher Nolan]() after getting an Oscar for *Oppenheimer* ( which I still didn't review for some stupid reason ), decided that he is big enough, of a filmmaker, to take on a project of epic proportions, or something. Like he can tell Homer himself, how to properly tell a story, or whatever. But then you watch the movie. ", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. 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This time he casts Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy. If you scroll through the wikipedia article about this character, you don't see a single image of her being black. While Lupita Nyong'o is not just black. She is like the darkest shade of black there is.\r\n\r\nI would say quite the opposite. The movie white-washes Mediterranean. There was no Greek looking person in the entirety of the film. the closes we got was Tom Holland with his black curly hair. \r\nAnd then there were Norse longboats. This whole movie feels like a XIXth century reimagining of how Bronze Age Greece was like. The whole movie feels like 'twas created through Eurocentrist lens.\r\n\r\nNot my idea, I took it from Farya Faraji.", "username": "Troler", "id": 0, "timestamp": 1784743228.5862427}, {"text": "> Take for example the entire premise of the climax of The Dark Knight. It is showing, without any hesitation, the exact problem with mass surveillance. And it calls this mass surveillance evil in plain language. This was the message of the movie.\r\n\r\nAs does [Steven Spielberg]()'s film [Minority Report](https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/Minority_Report)", "username": "Troler", "id": 1, "timestamp": 1784743425.9804447}, {"text": "> Dunkirk first and then Odysee.com, made Nolan realize that people that like him are pigs. Literally. His men are fucking pigs. I won't spoil it any longer, but Samantha Morton ( you know, the precog Agatha from Minority Report ) is great in that scene.\r\n\r\nThey're [swines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suina) not pigs.", "username": "Troler", "id": 2, "timestamp": 1784743577.2035513}, {"text": "c:2\r\n\r\nhttps://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-hogs-boars-swine-and-pigs ", "username": "Troler", "id": 3, "timestamp": 1784743720.005356}]}, "collections": [], "languages": {}, "hashtags": ["theodyssey", "christophernolan", "odyssey", "odysee", "lbry", "film", "review", "movies", "cinemastodon"], "not_ai_proof": "", "warning": "", "tab": "reviews", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/why_christopher_nolan_and_why_the_odyssey___", "likes": ["blenderdumbass", "https://mastodon.online/users/blenderdumbass", "https://mstdn.social/users/ozzelot"], "boosts": ["https://mastodon.online/users/blenderdumbass"]}