BS Summary: This video contains 32 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Availability Heuristic, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 17.1% saturation with 144 hits. Analysis detected 1,770 faulty-reasoning hits from 842 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 60.7% and a BS Rank of 67% (7,277 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 66.80% of the video peer group.
Ready to discuss the Odyssey, sir? I am. Tell me what you remember.
Action. Christopher Nolan returns to cinemas with his most ambitious film yet,
an adaptation of the [music] Odyssey. That does mean you will come back.
Nolan's take on the Greek epic set over 3,000 years ago, has a lot of people excited. Why? Well, there's a few reasons.
One, it's a massive summer blockbuster. Two, it's a full circle moment for Nolan. And three,
if you love cinema or even just love stories, you should probably care about the Odyssey.
I'll let Nolan explain. At first sight, you look at the poem and it feels very alien. It feels
of another time, another another society, uh, you're very conscious of the differences. And
then as you engage with the text and as you engage with the story,
suddenly you start to realize that no, nothing's changed. These are primal elemental
uh storytelling things uh and ideas about society and that's why Homer sustains. Is it impossible to
overstate its importance on storytellers such as yourself? I think it is impossible to overstate.
In adapting it, you start unpacking the mechanism. You start unpacking the story modules, models and
the tropes. And of course, [music] as a filmmaker, what you suddenly realize is everything I've
done in the past that I thought was stunningly original. All the rest all derives from Homer,
from the Odyssey. It's it's all stories combined. It's, you know, a family story. It's a coming
home story. It's a coming of age story. It's about war and love and death and all of these things so
important to us as human beings. It also underpins many incredible movies. Without the Odyssey,
we might not have 2001, a space odyssey, The Wages of Fear, Apocalypse Now, After Hours, The War,
Lord of the Rings, Cinema owes Homer a great debt that includes Nolan, too. A complicated man,
a forgotten story, an improbable journey, a homecoming,
a story of the horrors of war, a story of the horrors after war and civilization on the brink.
Many roads have led Nolan back to the Odyssey. There's a sort of circular nature of you being
able to play your greatest hits in a way. Oh, yeah. The Odyssey is all about time.
The poem is nonlinear. folding back on itself like Momento, Dunkirk,
and Tenant. It frames stories within stories like Inception.
It stretches and contracts over many years like Oppenheimer and Interstellar.
Understandably, Nolan told me he didn't want to over complicate the writing process. I don't let
myself start writing for many months. I I take notes. I draw diagrams. I think of the film more
abstract terms. Um, ironically for somebody who tends to to work often in nonlinear structural
terms, uh, I do start with page one and I do just write, you know, through to the end. Back to the
big themes. The Odyssey is also a love story. Adysius is trying to return to his wife Penelope
and their son Tmicus, who he hasn't seen for 20 years. It's a love undemed by space and time.
like Cobb, Leonardo DiCaprio's dream thief in Inception, or Cooper, the astronaut played by
Matthew McConna in Interstellar. This might be a real good time for you to come back.
They also just want to get back to their families. Why is this something you return to?
And if I I hope I'm not overstepping the market, but um has your family ever asked you about this?
No. families uh starting with Emma who produces all the films so involved with the production
and actually all four of my kids worked on the Odyssey. So uh no they they've never
they bother to ask about it. Uh for me it's fairly straightforward. I mean I work in a field where
the work becomes at times all consuming and it carries you away from your family and around
the world. Emma and I have done a very good job of of taking our family with us as we've
worked. But even that's not possible all the time. And so certainly like so many people
uh so many parents I have found a lot of my adult working life drawing me away from the family and
and that yearning to get back and that feeling of time spent away is time precious time lost.
It's something I think as parents we we all share that that feeling.
As for Adysius, one of the versions of the poem begins Tell me about a complicated man.
That's an understatement. The character of Adysius is quite challenging because
I mean the the term most often associated with Adysius historically is wy and that's not a
characteristic you associate with the hero at the center of a story. He's more Han Solo than than
Luke Skywalker. So the challenge is okay how how do you take the audience with him on this journey
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