@emmaskies: READ THIS before yelling at me: If this gets any traction at all, I know I’m going to be inundated with comments about how my opinion is invalid because I just want it to be exactly like the original story and don’t understand that it’s an adaptation (bonus points for saying I don’t understand that it’s an adaptation “FOR MODERN AUDIENCES” specifically, lmao), to which I will remind you that not only do I say multiple times that adaptations don’t have to be exact, but that the thing I expressly advocate for in this review is CUTTING things from the original story that he kept in this movie. Of course it was always going to be different, it’s an adaptation of a thousands of years old story being presented in an entirely different medium with its own limitations and opportunities. The point I’m making here is that it’s worth thinking about what a writer changes in an adaptation, and WHY. What did Nolan change from the epic to his movie, and why did he make those changes? What story was he trying to tell? Was it ultimately successful? Was it a meaningful addition to the conversation it exists in with the original and all its various other adaptations? The argument I’m making here is that the changes Nolan made are boring. Point blank, that’s the argument. It’s bland. The changes he made served to make the story more comfortable and familiar to a largely white male western audience (and if you don’t fit that demographic and you loved it, that’s great! I’m not saying you can’t!). It’s ultimately a VERY conservative telling of the story. This is the sad war veteran movie western audiences expect to see in media about war. And to what end? I don’t think it does much of anything successfully. I could keep going but I’m going to stop now because no one is going to read this far anyway. #theodyssey #moviereview #movietok #christophernolan

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