I love this discourse because it's a bunch of nerds and artists being critical of nerd shit without being assholes about it. Wilson even says Nolan's "Odyssey" is "absolutely" still worth seeing. I long for a world where this is the discourse, instead of the Idiocracy we're living in.
'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson says Nolan shouldn't have written the movie himselfThe renowned classics scholar caused a stir when her critical review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey went viral. Wilson explains her reaction to the film and why she's translating the poem again.www.npr.org