‘Odyssey’ Director Finally Lashes Back at ‘Amateur’ Critics of His Movie

Amid both praise and controversy surrounding Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the director finally addressed his “real problem” with critics of the film. “When you’re talking about storytelling, you’re always in conversation with the expectations of the audience,” Nolan told political philosophy lecturer Zhong Shu in an interview in Beijing. “Nolan’s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. “When I was talking about film criticism, I was talking more about amateur film criticism than professional film criticism,” he clarified, “Because professional film criticism tends to understand the necessity for the mechanisms. Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pic/Courtesy Universal PicturesAnother of Wilson’s gripes with the film was the way Nolan remixed the original story.