{"id":761751,"date":"2026-07-14T05:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761751\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T05:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:05:11","slug":"christopher-nolan-slams-ai-says-matt-damons-odyssey-take-is-defeatist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761751\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan Slams AI, Says Matt Damon’s ‘Odyssey’ Take Is Defeatist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChristopher Nolan<\/a> does not agree with his \u201cThe Odyssey<\/a>\u201d leading man Matt Damon<\/a> when it comes to their new epic being the last of its kind in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

\n\tDamon has stated repeatedly during the movie\u2019s press tour that filming \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d felt like his \u201clast chance\u201d to make an old school Hollywood epic given Nolan\u2019s commitment to practical, large format filmmaking and shooting on location. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was a really weird movie for me personally in the sense that I had almost a nostalgic feeling the entire time I was making it, because it felt like the movies when I started working. And I know that that\u2019s going away,\u201d Damon in an interview with\u00a0GQ<\/a> earlier this year. \u201cI knew that this was the last chance I was going to have to do something like this\u2026 I don\u2019t think people are going to be given the resources to shoot movies that way for much longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t In a recent\u00a0interview with The Telegraph<\/a>, Nolan said that he can understand where Damon is coming from but he does not agree.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think I know what [Damon] was driving at, because it does seem like a long time since somebody made a film like this in this type of way, where you travel the world, get together a cast of thousands and so on,\u201d Nolan said. \u201cBut there\u2019s a defeatist aspect of viewing it that way that I don\u2019t agree with. I think cinema is vital and essential and continues to transform itself \u2014 we\u2019ve got all these great new young voices in movies, making the medium their own and moving it forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNolan cited two of the summer\u2019s unexpected hits, \u201cBackrooms\u201d and \u201cObsession,\u201d as proof that you can\u2019t write off cinema just yet, explaining: \u201cThis is why I never bought into the arguments that young audiences\u2019 attention spans are too fried to enjoy a three-hour Greek epic. Those films are so mysterious and ruminative. I mean, parts of\u00a0\u2018Backrooms\u2019\u00a0are like David Lynch at his most obscure. And yet young people can\u2019t get enough of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOscar winner Nolan is also encouraged by how younger audiences seem to be rejecting \u201cAI<\/a> slop\u201d in favor of handcrafted movies like \u201cBackrooms.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime,\u201d Nolan said about AI. \u201cSo much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation\u2019s reaction, they\u2019re utterly rejecting it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tNolan said that his own children\u2019s \u201cjudgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh. They see it for what it is very quickly \u2013 and it\u2019s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn\u2019t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in filmmaking it\u2019s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we\u2019re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a separate interview with the AFP (via The Guardian<\/a>), Nolan doubled down on his criticism of AI, saying: \u201cThe interesting thing with AI is I\u2019ve never seen a technology that\u2019s been so successfully adopted by Wall Street and by investors and by tech companies that the public has so thoroughly rejected. It\u2019s just sort of an odd thing. Young people in particular, they coined this term \u2018AI slop.\u2019 There\u2019s a sort of disdain for things AI\u2026 I think the idea that it replaces human beings wholesale and human creativity, to me it\u2019s a nonsense.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Odyssey\u201d opens in theaters July 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan does not agree with his \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d leading man Matt Damon when it comes to their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,15279,15281,74,12720],"class_list":["post-761751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-matt-damon","tag-technology","tag-the-odyssey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}