{"id":73054,"date":"2026-07-20T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=73054"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:48:27","slug":"there-are-two-very-good-reasons-why-the-odyssey-is-really-an-absurd-movie-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=73054","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>There are two very good reasons why &#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; is really an absurd and insulting movie tragedy&#8230;&#8230;<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mt-2 text-[1.625rem] font-bold leading-tight md:text-[2rem]\"><strong>#1:<\/strong> Ben Shapiro Calls \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 a \u2018Masterpiece\u2019<br \/>\nEven Calling Christopher Nolan\u00a0the \u2018Best Working<br \/>\nDirector Today\u2019 &#8212; WOW!!!<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&amp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>#2:<\/strong> Nolan also directed one of the most perfidious<br \/>\npieces of cinematic propaganda and prevarication&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;Oppenheimer&#8221; (after Schindler&#8217;s List, of course)<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Hardcore cultural marxist Christopher Nolan\u2019s<br \/>\nadaptation of <em class=\"eujQNb\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\">The Odyssey<\/em>\u00a0faces intense online<br \/>\nbacklash driven by\u00a0<mark class=\"HxTRcb\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-wiz-uids=\"eydguc_l\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwjYpNq0qeKVAxUE4ckDHU6DMesQuJAPegoIAggACAAICBAB\" data-complete=\"true\" data-sfc-inited=\"2\">casting choices, perceived<br \/>\nhistorical inaccuracies, and complaints over<br \/>\nmodern dialogue<\/mark>. Much of the criticism centers<br \/>\non the casting of Black and trans actors in a<br \/>\nfoundational Western text<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Odyssey | Official New Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f_bKjZeJBBI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73054"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73065,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73054\/revisions\/73065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}