re: They will never learn. Woke does not sell. The Odyssey movie.

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Nolan didn’t bend the knee to Hollywood. He bent the knee to his wife.

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I think it has more to do with the fact that he based this adaptation on a translation that was written by a literal progressive feminist

The problem is that to be considered for Best Picture at the Oscar, a film must now have an LGBT or minority in a leading role.

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I look forward to bumping this thread

Not everyone is so worried about someone being black in a fictional retelling of a story

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It depends Power... on whether it is any good.

We just think it's stupid to portray Hellen (who had Alabaster-like skin) as a black person... for no reason.

Or have Ellen (or Elliot) Page as a male in this movie... I suspect, for me, it will possibly remind me of how great she was in Inception, the height of Nolan filmography.

The budget was like $250m and the "break even" figure (after marketing, etc.) is somwhere in the $650m range.

Are you saying this movie will lose money (less than the 650m figure)? I'll take that bet all day.

Oppenheimer did about $1b for reference, I'm guessing Odyssey will do similar numbers (maybe slightly less).

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They want to rewrite history to their version.

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Some are under the impression that if you rewrite history then you will change your future. Good luck with that.

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Define, won't sell. Like in terms of revenue? Awards? Be specific.

These kinds of threads are subjective jibberish if you're unwilling to stand by some kind of actual metric.

I'd caution you to bet against Nolan right now, but you do you.

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What makes it even better is the movie doesn't come out until July

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You mean there wasn't a cadre of sassy black women doing nuclear physics in some back office?

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What? you didn't like Madea Goes to the Moon??

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But a majority of woke dumb fricks are freaked out whenever a white person gets cast in anything.

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Kind of like you melting your face off about anyone non white in a fictional movie

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I think it's almost guaranteed that the domestic US market is lower than expected given all the bad press around castings and trailers. This type of film will probably kill it in Asia though.

We'll see if the movie is better than the trailers.

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Nolan (and Hollywood in general) are in the business of taking money from everyone, international audiences included. If it makes a lot money, it makes a lot of money, full stop.

Also, put an actual number on your prediction. US, intl, both, something objective. Be bold!

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Nolan bent the knee after Oppenheimer got so much praise while being almost exclusively white.

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I want to know his thoughts about going with a completely inaccurate and laughably incorrect explosion in the nuclear test scene when so much camera footage was available for it. You cannot recreate a nuclear explosion with conventional explosives and pyro.

Also missed his chance to portray Truman walking back in to the Potsdam Conference after hearing of the successful test and dragging his nuts across the table in front of the Soviets. Not just casually informing them.