Si Uttley
@siuttley.bsky.social
Alive and in perfect hibernation. Screenwriter, Rugby Fan, Prognosticator of Prognosticators. Repped by Cathy King & Alex Bloch at 42.
There are so many different audiences for different movies and there's no magical rule to follow to get a hit and anyone who claims to know the rule is a grifter.
Emily Wilson’s critique of the Odyssey is weak juice - I have problems with the source material. Where’s that hot take, huh? HUH?!
For those of you who are still over there because of "the reach" or "the discourse" or whatever.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last wk.Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions
History isn’t just a set of facts. It’s a story we tell about who we are. My contribution to Odyssey discourse is about how the American right wants a history where only white men feature because they want a future where only white men rule. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-vand...
The New Vandals
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" offends right-wingers' notion that only white men make history.
liberalcurrents.com
He explained it TWICE. Dear god he belongs in regular hell and comedy hell.
Eric Champnella@echamp.bsky.social · 2w agoJokes are always funnier the second time — after you have to explain them b/c they bombed the first time. Right, @marmel.bsky.social?
This is revealing but *not* because @zannymb.economist.com shows Musk up as a raving psychopath. Fine, but hardly news. It's because *she* describes Alice Weidel - the openly racist leader of a far-right party infested with neo-Nazis -as a "perfectly thoughtful person."
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoAt one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.
Trump, Putin, Farage, Musk, they're all entering difficult times, and we are getting a sneak preview of how their influence ends: in angry frustration.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoBy the end of the interview Musk insists that more people like him than hate him. "They hate YOU," Musk tells the interviewer. "They hate YOU far more than they hate me."
There's a reason Elon Musk rarely does interviews with real news outlets.
Elon Musk Melts Down Over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview
"Maybe some people do loathe me. And that's probably true. I don't care," said Musk.
gizmodo.com
So now the online right have truly shown their arses in regards to a critical and box office smash like the Odyssey, the media will stop taking their opinions on pop culture franchises as being in good faith too right? Right?
There's just something hilariously desperate about trying to pretend that this is good, let alone better than the Nolan movie. They literally don't understand art or story.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is the video Musk is quote-tweeting when he says he'll deliver a feature length version of The Odyssey, just in case you were curious how dogshit it is
Simply would not say this if I looked like a Nazi Mekon.
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w agoMiller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
Stewing on it, I think some of my struggles with the Odyssey are because of the way the structure unfolds - and I think it has to play out that way. Keen to see again.
Not sure about all of the Odyssey but I loved the themes of it and there’s a scene late on that unlocked that aspect completely that was brilliant.
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf is currently delivering a speech accusing his party's critics of using language that will put his colleagues' lives at risk. In other news, here's Zia Yusuf two months ago
Happening right in front of us. The world's richest man.
It’s very funny that all indications are that an adaptation of Homer could be one of the biggest movies of the year with both critics and the box office and this is universally interpreted as a catastrophe for the conservative right because they’re poisoned themselves against culture
In a Telegraph video podcast, former Reform MP and now leader of Restore Rupert Lowe described himself as a “pureblood” because he refused the Covid vaccine and claimed horse de-wormer Ivermectin was “just as effective” as the vaccine.
So much radical. So much populist. So much anti-establishment
Reform's secret ingredient, it turns out, was crime - More Reform UK transactions worth millions reported to National Crime Agency www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
More Reform UK transactions worth millions reported to National Crime Agency
Exclusive: Bankers have raised potential money-laundering concerns over loans and donations involving senior party figures
theguardian.com
George Cottrell, a 32-year-old aristocrat nicknamed “Posh George”, is regarded as one of Farage’s closest aides. Earlier this year, he co-wrote a book entitled How to Launder Money: A Guide for Law Enforcement, Prosecutors and Policymakers via @rachel-rees.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7a0f...
Nigel Farage under scrutiny over aide who wrote book on money-laundering
Reform UK says gifts from convicted fraudster George Cottrell were personal despite him having party business card
ft.com
Still can’t remember who anyone in House of the Dragon unless they are Matt Smith or Emma D.
The "family" in this case being George Cottrell, who calls Farage "Daddy", so probably counts.
Politics UK@politicsuk.com · last mo.🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage threatens a Sky News journalist who asks about his undeclared gifts from convicted criminal George Cottrell "You harass my family anymore, there will be serious consequences"
Much better second 20 from England. Hope they can keep building on that. And first choice props can last as long as possible