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There's a movie. 
There's. 

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A movie. 
I heard it's coming soon. 

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One of us is lucky enough to 
have seen. 

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Hey, get a load of this guy. 
Are you are you guys excited for

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Christopher Nolan's odyssey? 
I am. 

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When's that come out? 
July 17th. 

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Oh, thanks for asking. 
I'd chance to see it last night.

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What day was yesterday? 
What? 

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What was last night for you, 
Zach? 

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Monday, July 13th What's your? 
Bitch. 

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Yeah, I I didn't get into the 
the cool influencer screening a 

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week earlier, but I did I did 
get into this one. 70mm. 

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Yeah, iMac 70mm the the screen, 
the Lincoln Center screen. 

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I showed up an hour early. 
It's. 

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Gonna be my first iMac 70 mil. 
Oh, really? 

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Awesome. 
Damn nice, is it a good for 70mm

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for Amanda? 
Oh yeah, I mean, especially 

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considering. 
Not 70mm. 70mm IMAX. 

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Sorry. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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Yeah, yeah. 
Especially considering that this

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is the first movie shot entirely
with IMAX cameras, then yeah, 

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it, it is. 
I mean that that frame is full 

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for the full almost 3 hours of 
that movie. 

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I'm really excited that I got a 
better seat. 

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I've just been refreshing that 
theaters page, wait for someone 

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to give up their ticket. 
And they did. 

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They fucking did. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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She murdered them. 
It's like get rid of your back 

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row center, get rid of it. 
Yeah, so Christopher Nolans 

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follow up to Oppenheimer a 
couple years in the making, the 

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adaptation of the epic tale from
Homer of Odysseus the the battle

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of Troy and his many year 
journey home to Ithaca. 

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I don't know how much you guys 
want to know. 

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How much you guys don't want to 
know. 

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I don't really. 
Want to know? 

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Anything. 
What would get you? 

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I don't really want to know 
anything, but what would you 

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want to hear before your 
screening to get people excited?

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You know, I think at least for 
me speak personally, The Odyssey

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was a book that I was assigned 
in high school. 

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I I read through it. 
I never really, I felt like I 

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had, I was engaged with the 
material because it is very 

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dense and very old English and 
not exactly not a breeze to get 

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through, at least for me. 
I think what's cool is that he's

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been able to distill that story 
into a really palatable and 

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exciting film that doesn't feel 
like it's truncating it. 

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It just feels like it's honing 
in on the things that are most 

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integral to the things he's 
trying to explore. 

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It's, you know, not necessarily 
like in telling you the full 

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breadth of the story from start 
to finish, but it it does have 

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all the moments that you want to
see. 

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And they are just stunningly 
realized in a way that 

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Christopher Nolan has become the
guy to do. 

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Like there are few people who 
are operating on his level when 

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it comes to making massive scale
IMAX action set pieces and it's 

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just cool to see him do that in 
a sword and sandal setting. 

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I'm, I don't know about you 
guys, I've never really been big

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on the whole like sword and 
sandal type of movie, The, you 

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know, the, the gladiator era or 
old Charlton Heston type of 

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movies. 
I I. 

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This one really worked for me 
despite all that like it, it's 

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maybe the best, at least in in 
my experience. 

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I felt like visibly that was the
thing. 

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I was like, it doesn't feel like
it's a movie of that era of just

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by the visuals. 
Like again, not in the ways 

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other people are complaining 
about it, just like I was like 

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this is a modern. 
Man. 

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Well. 
Nolan treats it like he treats 

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any of his films and there's 
certainly kind of like a modern 

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feel to the films. 
And also the the way that the 

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characters speak, like the the 
dialogue has been changed in a 

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way that feels very modern and 
feels very stripped down of some

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of the flowery details. 
I know why that potentially 

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might be. 
It's based. 

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It's the version of the Odyssey 
that he's adapting is a 

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different translation than most 
people would have read. 

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It's the Emily Wilson 
translation, which did away with

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a bunch of things that she felt 
were not actually present when 

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you read the original text that 
felt like, added, someone was 

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like, we're going to make this 
feel more grand and ornate. 

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Where is, like, originally it 
probably would have read very 

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similar to like an East of Eden 
type thing where it is like, 

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it's just a, you know, a very 
approachable, readable. 

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So she's changed that. 
She also changed like yeah. 

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These are stories in the oral 
tradition, right? 

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And these feel like characters 
were speaking the way that 

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people would speak, which for 
me, it really makes it a lot 

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easier to feel like you can get 
into the story and penetrate the

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ideas that it's about. 
There's some things in here that

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feel very classic Christopher 
Nolan in terms of the themes and

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the ideas that he's focused on. 
I think ultimately, while this 

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like exceeded my expectations as
an adaptation of Odyssey, maybe 

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like didn't quite meet all my 
expectations in in terms of a 

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new movie from Christopher 
Nolan, just because Nolan has 

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this history of making films 
that do things that, at least 

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for me, feel like I didn't know 
movies could do them. 

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I this is, you know, expanding 
my mind in a way or, or just 

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achieving things that I didn't 
think were cinematically 

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possible. 
And this didn't feel like that 

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in in the same way to me. 
It just felt extremely well 

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done. 
And perhaps with like repeat 

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viewings, I'll just appreciate 
how impeccable it is as a 

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production and it'll boost its 
way up my list. 

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But like I, I loved it, but I 
also didn't love it the same way

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that I did like Oppenheimer 
coming out of Oppenheimer. 

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Sure. 
I was about, yeah, that's 

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couldn't be my final question, I
felt. 

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Compared to that, fair fair. 
How do you compare it to Tenet? 

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You. 
Don't understand, you know. 

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I know he looks tenet, that's 
why I want to know, that's why. 

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Yeah, you know, Tenet, it's just
like there's some things, so 

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many things in Tenet that I feel
like I've never seen in a movie 

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before. 
So that's the really the thing 

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that separates. 
Fair, fair. 

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This is definitely a much more 
coherent story from A to B OK, 

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OK, give this movie that. 
And the acting is also 

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impeccable, you know like he is 
spoiled with how rich this cast 

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is and he has people who if they
aren't Oscar nominated yet, 

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likely will be at some point 
showing up to do like 2 scene 

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performances. 
Fair. 

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Travis Scott was that good. 
Man, he's got, he's got a much 

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more prominent role that I think
you're expecting. 

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What did he say in the the The 
Harmony Crib movie? 

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Remember, he just had like a 
Pokémon ad that he just kept 

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saying, you know what I'm about?
I know exactly what you're 

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talking about, I forgot. 
About that bullshit, no. 

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I forgot the phrase that that's 
all I keep imagining is it's 

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going to come out of the the the
horse and just say the ad Lib 

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bro. 
Who was your stand out though? 

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I thought that there's a really 
incredible scene with Samantha 

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Morton, who was an actress that 
I've loved for a long time, but 

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I think Nolan uses her and it 
really incredible I. 

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Have already seen her popping up
as people saying they're quite 

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good. 
Yeah. 

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Another person who really 
impressed me, I thought Elliott 

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Page's scenes were very, very 
good. 

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Fuck yeah. 
That's what we needed. 

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That's the energy Supergirl 
fucking needed. 

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It's some of the most like 
emotionally impactful stuff in 

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the in the film. 
It worked for me really well. 

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So I'll I'll throw that out 
there. 

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Really enjoyed all that. 
I really enjoyed the movie. 

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I am excited to talk to you in 
more detail about it for sure. 

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For sure, because I don't want 
to spoil your experiences of it,

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but I think you'll both really 
like it.