Christopher Nolan Slams ‘AI Slop’ and Disagrees With Matt Damon’s ‘Defeatist’ Opinion That ‘The Odyssey’ Is the Last Movie of Its Kind
Christopher Nolan does not agree with his “The Odyssey” leading man Matt Damon when it comes to their new epic being the last of its kind in Hollywood....
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- Christopher Nolan does not agree with his “The Odyssey” leading man Matt Damon when it comes to their new epic being the last of its kind in Hollywood.
- Damon has stated repeatedly during the movie’s press tour that filming “The Odyssey” felt like his “last chance” to make an old school Hollywood epic given Nolan’s commitment to practical, large format filmmaking and shooting on location.
- “It was a really weird movie for me personally in the sense that I had almost a nostalgic feeling the entire time I was making it, because it felt like the movies when I started working.
- “I knew that this was the last chance I was going to have to do something like this… I don’t think people are going to be given the resources to shoot movies that way for much longer.” In a recent interview with The Telegraph, Nolan said that he can understand where Damon is coming from but he does not agree.
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Christopher Nolan does not agree with his “The Odyssey” leading man Matt Damon when it comes to their new epic being the last of its kind in Hollywood. Damon has stated repeatedly during the movie’s press tour that filming “The Odyssey” felt like his “last chance” to make an old school Hollywood epic given Nolan’s commitment to practical, large format filmmaking and shooting on location. “It was a really weird movie for me personally in the sense that I had almost a nostalgic feeling the entire time I was making it, because it felt like the movies when I started working. “I knew that this was the last chance I was going to have to do something like this… I don’t think people are going to be given the resources to shoot movies that way for much longer.” In a recent interview with The Telegraph, Nolan said that he can understand where Damon is coming from but he does not agree. Popular on Variety “I think I know what [Damon] was driving at, because it does seem like a long time since somebody made a film like this in this type of way, where you travel the world, get together a cast of thousands and so on,” Nolan said. And yet young people can’t get enough of them.” Oscar winner...
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