Richard Brody
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196 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 21 Jul
Richard Brody’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, it's good on its terms.
The terms aren't so good, but the movie's pretty good.
It's very hard to spoil that story.
It's such an exciting story, and Christopher Nolan keeps it moving really nicely.
But it's a very unusual interpretation or reinterpretation of the Odyssey, which I kind of enjoyed for its intellectual coherence and didn't quite enjoy for its lack of substance.
Yeah, exactly.
Athena is played by Zendaya, but her role is cut down to a few more or less cameo-like appearances.
Essentially, he turns the Odyssey into an American-style, a Hollywood-style action film.
And Odysseus, far from being the glib, sly schemer that he is in Homer, is played, you know, very tight-lipped and terse, like a current-day military hero in movies.
So Matt Damon is more Jason Bourne than he is Odysseus?
Exactly.
There's none of the glint in his eye that he had in Good Will Hunting.
There's something strange about Christopher Nolan.
You know, I, for instance, rather liked Inception and Interstellar and Tenet.
I think that Christopher Nolan excels at science fiction precisely because it allows him a certain, let's say, emotional and even political freedom.
With a film like Oppenheimer, where he is so devoted to the subject, to transmitting a particular message, and that's exactly the case with The Odyssey also.
It's as if he's filming with his hands behind his back.
Well,
It means he's not doing everything he's capable of doing.
He's restraining himself.
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