u/Comfortable_Studio37

For that matter, how did Van Zant even know who Mccauley is? He never got his name from Nate, how does he know who to ask Waingro about?

Do you think he regrets any creative decisions from The Odyssey, like casting choices or dialogue or costumes?

I have to say, I didn't expect this much controversy, but I guess I should have. There are essentially no aspects of art or society that are untouched by the culture wars, but I honestly (naively) thought Nolan might receive the benefit of the doubt. Nolan is not even my favorite filmmaker, but I thought it was universally accepted as fact that he's making some of the most important and thought provoking films in recent history.

People keep saying things like "nobody asked for him to make Odyssey". Yeah, no shit. Nobody asked for Prestige or Inception or Interstellar or Oppenheimer either, those all seemed to work out pretty well.

When did we go from "this movie doesn't interest me so I won't see it", to: "this movie shouldn't exist". Like why does anyone think that they are in a position to tell any filmmaker but especially Nolan what movies he's allowed to make or who he is supposed to cast? 99% of these people freaking out have literally never read or cared about the Odyssey, but now all of a sudden it's this sacred text that has to be preserved and protected from being corrupted?