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Director Christopher Nolan has responded to the MAGA \u201cmeltdown<\/u>\u201d over his upcoming film adaptation of Homer\u2019s The Odyssey, slapping down criticisms from conservative corners complaining that the trailers have been too \u201cwoke,\u201d calling their argument \u201cirrelevant.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nolan dismissed such critics during a new interview with the Telegraph. As the Daily Beast explained, \u201cHis comments come after MAGA commentators \u2014 including X owner Elon Musk \u2014 trashed the film<\/u> for months over Nolan\u2019s choice to cast Lupita Nyong\u2019o as Helen of Troy and trans actor Elliot Page as the Greek warrior Sinon.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cMusk, Newsmax host Robert Finnerty, and more have slammed the film, which isn\u2019t out until July 17, as a \u2018rewriting of history\u2019 and Nolan as \u2018racist\u2019 for casting a Black actress in a fictional Greek character\u2019s role,\u201d added the Daily Beast. As the outlet implied, The Odyssey is not based on a historical text, but a work of mythology. <\/p>\n

But Nolan had another basis for his rejection of critics like Musk, dismissing them entirely. <\/p>\n

\u201cComes with the territory,\u201d Nolan said. \u201cThese conversations that happen before people see the film \u2014 they\u2019re always irrelevant, because no one having them knows what the film actually is yet.\u201d <\/p>\n

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He compared the situation to his experience working on the Batman franchise, noting, \u201cRemember, I spent 10 years of my life dealing with Batman. When I came on to Batman Begins, writers and artists had been working on this beloved character for almost 65 years, and a lot of freighted thoughts were out there about what he represents. And what I learned over my time on that trilogy is you can\u2019t worry about any of that at all. What you have to do is honor the original text by interpreting it in the strongest way you personally can.\u201d <\/p>\n

According to the Daily Beast, \u201cDespite Nolan\u2019s cavalier attitude about MAGA\u2019s crusade against The Odyssey \u2014 which sold out its first round of tickets a year in advance and crashed ticket-sale apps when sales opened this year \u2014 the movie studio has taken note. Universal restricted comments<\/u> on the film\u2019s official X account following a barrage of hateful posts. Musk has used the platform to engage with posts calling Nolan \u2018racist against Greek people\u2019 and trolling the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which he claims influenced the director to cast a \u2018diverse\u2019 actress in order to meet Oscars eligibility requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

But as the Daily Beast notes, \u201cNolan won Best Picture for Oppenheimer, a film with a mostly white male cast that met diversity standards through its production team.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Forbes<\/u>, legitimate film critics who have actually seen the film have been almost unanimously positive, \u201csome calling it Nolan\u2019s best and others even saying it might be a frontrunner for Best Picture. You could find a couple of negative reviews, but on investigation, on more than one occasion, random users were taking world premiere photos from actual critics and passing them off as their own, accompanied by a negative opinion based on\u2026not seeing the film. Just another angle of the hate being directed at the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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