Discussion on Oppenheimer and the Odyssey

It felt like, in some respects, the Odyssey was a sequel

to Oppenheimer.

And I I know that sounds incredibly, incredibly dumb, so let me explain

why I think that.

I'm incredibly dumb.

No.

Uh, when I think about Oppenheimer, what what so stayed with me

in that movie was the weight that Oppenheimer must have felt

when he saw the reality of what he had created.

And the Odyssey feels like a journey of a

man reckoning with what he had done in war and what war does to men.

And it made it...

They they felt very connected to me, both films.

I was about to stop you,

because we don't want any spoilers. Oh. 3 000 year old spoilers.

Uh, but, no, I I am very much...

I I feel like you certainly watched the film the way I intended,

and I think, by the end, that that connection is made.

Um, you know,

the interpretation of of the Odyssey,

what it could mean, the idea of...

these extraordinary events of the Trojan War, the Force, all of this,

um, yeah, we wanted to try and wrestle with it, you know, in a modern sense,

to try and say, okay,

what if these things were real? What if we were there? What would it be like?

You know, what would the resonance be?

What would the gravity of the situation be?

And in micro,

you know, it's things like being on a real

ship in a real storm or going into the cave of the Cyclops.

What would that really be like? Right. And the answer is intense.

Um, and as far as the effect of everything that Odysseus has been through

and what part he's played in this

mythic conflict of the Trojan War,

uh, yeah, it felt like the thing to do was to really

try and take that on with a certain amount of weight, a certain amount of gravity.

But for me, every film I do, if I've done my job right,

I leave it with questions and sort of interesting things that I want to

keep drilling down on. Right.

And coming out of Oppenheimer, yeah,

I definitely brought Oppenheimer into this movie with me, yeah, certainly.