It's confirmed that Greek movie studios paid six million euros for Nolan's Odyssey and it infuriates me that the big productions instead of stop making slop and produce something nice we have big companies licking Hollywood's shoes
If they stopped to decide what another cheap soap opera, money game or reality tv to produce they could make a great leap into quality with giving money to make actual good films. For a good start they could adapt the hundreds of myths and greek tragedies just saying
Hold on, WE paid them? Why???...
Okay I looked it up. It's even worse. It's not private Greek movie studios. It's once again the Greek government which paid 6 million (from people's taxes, obviously) to Nolan to film here, as an incentive for large movie productions to come to film in Greece.
No, I get them. They thought it would probably boost tourism even more. And then Nolan came and transformed Greece from this
Beautiful Greek landscape behind Charlize Theron.
World famed Greek beach behind Zendaya.
Although I am not holding back when it's needed, I will acknowledge that nobody expected that Nolan would go mad like this. He was treated as one of Hollywood's best directors. I don't blame the Greek government for trusting him. But it's just impossible for the Greek government to do right somehow... whether it's an acceptable or a not acceptable mistake, you can rely on them making it anyway.
I think all Nolan waited to go batshit crazy was to be handed an Oscar. It's so ironic because Oppenheimer did not even deserve the Oscar. Killers of the Flower Moon was the rightful winner. His movies have always been convoluted, nonsensical and boring - it was the performances of Heath Ledger and Leonardo Di Caprio that catapulted him to a fame he is probably not worthy of.
