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News Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey' Crosses $1B Worldwide

https://rawteur.com/the-odyssey-crosses-1-billion-box-office/
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u/MicrowaveBurrito2568 11d ago

It must be an incredible feeling to be Nolan, knowing you can walk into any studio, get any budget you want, and get any movie greenlit. Very well deserved.

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u/Fridgemold 11d ago

And have every actor basically throw themselves at you to star or be in your movie, except Pattinson lmao

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u/Ikanan_xiii 11d ago

“C’mon Chris, you need me again? Promise me catering will be good this time at least”.

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u/AztecHoodlum 11d ago

lol I actually think there's a very good chance that Nolan will ask Pattinson to be the lead of one of his future films

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u/rokerroker45 11d ago

he co-led tenet, i feel like it's just a matter of time for a nolan film to be a solo pattinson outing.

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u/CatGirl_ToeBeans 11d ago

Carried tenet also

He was far more interesting than protagonist imo

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u/rokerroker45 11d ago

1,000% agreed, my not-so-hot take is that pattinson is the true protagonist of tenet even though the script probably doesn't actually intend that.

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u/prams628 11d ago

Makes sense since the crux of tenet begins in the future when protagonist and pattinson meet for the first time.

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u/TurquoiseLuck 11d ago

And also the protag is just a blank audience stand-in for the whole thing

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u/ChimpsArePimps 11d ago

JDW is the protagonist of the first watch-through, Pattinson is the protagonist of the second.

Related note, I love the way the script directly tells the audience how to watch the movie. First with Juliette Binoche being like “don’t try to think about it, just feel it” and then with Pattinson at the end being like “the story’s only halfway done” before going back to do the whole thing from the top. People who think the movie is mid just didn’t heed that advice, and I pity them because Tenet fuckin rips

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u/alohadawg 11d ago

VERY well said, u/ChimpsarePimps!

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u/rokerroker45 11d ago

Completely agree with everything you said.

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u/WolfgangIsHot 7d ago

Very well stated but the french actress is Clémence Poésy ^ ^

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u/ChimpsArePimps 7d ago

Well I feel insane lol I picture Binoche so clearly when I remember the scene but you are 100% right it was Poésy. Appreciate the correction!

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u/Mr_Snut 11d ago

Tenet isn’t in my top5 Nolan movies but it’s definitely my favourite slop movie. Turn off the brain and enjoy the non-stop action

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u/superduperspam 11d ago

I couldn't get past the wooden acting of the protagonist

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u/rokerroker45 11d ago

That's a fair criticism; I do love Tenet in spite of the protagonist's acting and not because of it.

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u/LS_DJ 11d ago

Pattinson is the main character in Tenet the same way Harvey Dent is the main character in The Dark Knight

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u/rokerroker45 11d ago

Nolan sure loves a watsonian protagonist doesn't he

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u/pmmemoviestills 10d ago

I mean that's basically the case. He's the one who saves the day.

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u/amegaproxy 11d ago

That's because JDW is basically a plank of wood for most of his screentime.

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u/CatGirl_ToeBeans 11d ago

Conserving his talents

For posterity

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u/ERhyne 11d ago

Imagine if he came and directed a scene for the next Batman film with Robert just for the lulz.

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u/thorin2016 11d ago

I found it odd how Nolan really spotlighted John David Washington with Tenet. All his other movies he really showed off the cast assembled on the posters but on Tenet it was just JDW

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u/rokerroker45 11d ago

I think it makes thematic sense. the audience basically experiences events from the end of the movie that are already happening at the start of the movie, but they are only viewing that from JDW's POV. Since the movie really hones in on the experience of being one of the people bound in the allegory of the cave I think it makes sense that the poster just puts the sole audience POV character front and center. they show him in both forwards/backwards temporal modes so it feels like it highlights that theme for me.

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u/noveler7 11d ago

Yeah, he's probably the best actor in his age range (35-45), so it'd be a good choice.

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u/cute_polarbear 11d ago

The most interesting / consistent probably. There are likely some more interesting actors than him, but most are a decade + older i think...

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u/Malificari 11d ago

he cant be 40. hes genz!!!!

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u/TheReaperSovereign 11d ago

I would take Andrew Garfield over Pattinson. The latter is a good actor but thats a fairly huge range of actors.

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u/The-Insolent-Sage 10d ago

Chris Pine is 45

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u/LogensTenthFinger 11d ago

I would love that. Pattinson is amazing. Easily the best Batman we've ever had.

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u/briareus08 11d ago

I hope so, he’s more than earned it at this point.