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As we beforehand reported, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is shattering field workplace data and wowing critics and audiences all over the world.
However the world’s wealthiest man just isn’t impressed.
After all, it’s arduous to take that opinion severely, as it seems that Elon Musk has not but bothered to truly watch the film.
No, like 1000’s of annoying hyper-online chuds, Musk way back determined that the film was irredeemably “woke” as a result of it featured Black and trans actors.
He wrongly predicted that the movie would bomb (it’s probably the most profitable of Nolan’s profession) and that viewers would share his disdain for the casting choices (it at the moment holds a 97 p.c viewers approval score on Rotten Tomatoes).
You would possibly suppose that after being so loudly improper about each side of The Odyssey’s reception, Musk would search to simply quietly transfer on.
However that’s by no means been Elon’s fashion. As an alternative, he’s determined to double down by selling his personal adaptation of Homer’s epic poem, one constructed totally together with his Grok AI software.
“Dialogue scene from Homer’s Odyssey constructed on Grok Think about,” reads a tweet reposted by Musk on Tuesday.
“Earlier than this yr ends, Grok Think about will make a full-length film of The Odyssey that’s traditionally correct and true to the artwork of Homer,” Elon added.
Now, except for the truth that the footage offered appears to be like like crap and options dialogue that isn’t even near being an correct translation of Homer, The Odyssey is pure fiction that’s populated by gods and monsters, and due to this fact, no “traditionally correct” model has ever existed.
Fortunately, quite a few customers on Elon’s X platform have been fast to level this out.
“How are you going to make a ‘traditionally correct’ model a few f–king pretend story?” wrote one commenter.
“‘Traditionally correct.’ There’s a cyclops,” one other added.
Now, factual accuracy would possibly nonetheless be of concern to an creator of historic fiction, however it didn’t appear to matter a lot to Homer (who was writing about 500 years after the occasions described in The Odyssey). So why ought to it matter a lot to fashionable interpreters of the poem?
The actual fact is, it shouldn’t, and Elon wouldn’t care both, have been it not for the truth that his trans daughter desires nothing to do with him, and due to this fact he’s all butthurt {that a} trans actor was forged in a film.
Regardless of the case, the actual query just isn’t whether or not the Grok-yssey shall be correct, however whether or not it is going to be any good. It’s essential to notice that Elon didn’t make any guarantees concerning the high quality of the completed product.
Perhaps he’s lastly getting sick of being improper.
