Christopher Nolan and the DGA being spineless cowards was not on my Bingo List
This is the kind of truly heartbreaking thing to me that unfortunately puts Nolan's entire oeuvre into a new surprising perspective that sadly renders true to the rest of his material.
Every single one of his movies is about a man getting along in a completely broken world that cannot be fixed. Chiefly Interstellar which ironically was a Paramount Warner Bros. Co-production that would never happen under a merged company.
I rewatched The Dark Knight (my favourite Nolan film and a masterpiece) ahead of The Odyssey and read its most ardent negative reviews, among them Armond White who hates the film for a lot of the reasons you and I like it but detested the film's cynicism. I get that now and now even moreso with Nolan putting his hands up saying this ship has sailed nothing we can do. Emma Thomas said as much in a Cinemacon interview earlier this year.
And Emily Wilson's critique of The Odyssey makes a lot more sense. Presenting a world that's already gone before the film gets started. The hero has ransacked a paradise at the cost of great shame by undoing it from the inside. The film presents no solution or consequence to Odysseus himself for this and he gets to hand off the kingdom to his children and sail into the sea with his wife.
All they had to do is what Sean Astin did with SAG and simply say we support the WGA and states lawsuit and do nothing, but putting political pressure on the state AG when they are in the right and stopping a merger that violates the Clayton Act with the Philadelphia Bank Standard of theatrical monopoly AFTER all his professing about the sacredness of the theatrical experience shows he doesn't care.
Just like how he agreed to have a theatre named after him where people have to take out their cell phones to order food. He's taking steps to ensure fewer filmmakers can have what he has and under the guise of protecting jobs amid uncertainty.
It's truly all time heel turn.