Wesley Morris

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391 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · How "The Odyssey" Outsmarts Itself, with Wesley Morris · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

But he's also not James Cameron, who can also be like, okay, here's what I'm about to do.

You're about to spend three hours.

I'm going to tell you in the first 10 minutes, I am sinking this boat.

I'm going to show you how I'm going to sink the boat.

Here's the boat.

Here is actually the boat.

And just zoop.

Here's how the Titanic sank.

And then two and a half hours pass and you're like, oh my God, this boat is good.

He's going to do it.

He's not quite, to me, the magician that James Cameron is in terms of making you forget that something wild is about to happen or you're seeing something you've never seen before in part because the people are just pieces on a board to him.

the auteur yeah and even that is enough for me you know even that is enough for me I think that like one of the virtues of this movie really is the thing that's a that's a vice as far as or like a weakness for me in the other movies which is all the all the expository talking to me here is about

the power of the story itself.

There's real belief in the power of these assorted people telling each other stories of how what happened happened.

Right?

The myth within the myth, the myth-making within the myth-making...

is a huge part of the Odyssey as a Homeric text and as a Nolanistic text.

Yes, yes.

And that part works for me here.

I like The Dark Knight.

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