Christopher Nolan is one of the most famous film directors in the world, up there with the greatest and most famous of them. He is best known for highly successful movies such as Memento, The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar and Oppenheimer. While his writing/directing style might not be exact as recognizable and unique as eg. that of Quentin Tarantino, it's still quite much so, and he is famous for it (a style that he most clearly demonstrates in Inception and Interstellar.)
In the context of this post and his most recent upcoming movie, his previous movie, Oppenheimer, is quite notable: It's a historic docudrama that depicts the eponymous historic person and the development of the atomic bomb as historically accurately as possible, with only very slight deviations from actual historic events for the sake of drama. The movie prides itself for its historic accuracy, and isn't pushing any political agendas or sugar-coating anything.
It is, thus, incomprehensible what Nolan is doing with his next upcoming movie, ie. The Odyssey. That's because he is quite deliberately and blatantly making a complete 180 compared to Oppenheimer, and engaging in heavy-handed historic revisionism for the sake of modern leftist politics.
Don't get me wrong: Homer's Odyssey is in itself largely a work of literary fiction, although parts of it are based on actual historic events. However, the story is very clearly set in ancient Greece of the period, telling a story about Greek characters in the Mediterranean area of the time. While many of the events and characters themselves may be fictitious, the setting and the time period is not. It's not like Odyssey is some kind of fantasy story about some fantasy world that doesn't exist.
Moreover, and most importantly, it's one of the most important works of literature of Greece, depicting Greek culture and Greek mythology of the time, and one of the most important and significant works of Greek language of the time.
A correct respectful filmatization of Odyssey would use a translation that's as accurate as possible, and would try to be visually as accurate as possible to the place and time period, particularly in terms of architecture, people, clothing, armor, weapons, sea ships, and so on.
Instead, Christopher Nolan is actually using one of the worst translations of the original text in existence, written in the 2010's by a feminist activist, who deliberately, purposefully and openly rewrote and changed Homer's original story from a modern feminist perspective. Accuracy of translation was very, very low in the list of priorities in this version. Not only did the author completely change a lot of the text in the original, but she outright changed details of the story and even completely invented completely new parts that are not in the original. It's essentially a fan-fiction version of the original.
On top of that, as seen in the numerous trailers, Nolan quite clearly does not give a single fuck about historic accuracy in terms of architecture, ships, armor and, most notably, people. Indeed, pretty much none of the actors in the movie look like ancient Greek, and quite infamously he cast a black sub-Saharan African woman as Helen of Troy (which completely contradicts her description in the ancient texts.)
Quite clearly the choice of casting was done for political purposes with complete disregard to accuracy.
I really can't understand what the fuck Nolan is doing, particularly given that this is coming immediately after Oppenheimer.
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