James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look at the online backlash to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” over its inclusion of black characters and consider the extent to which it is driven by people are trying to “own the past” in the Orwellian sense, people who are just ignorant as far as the history of the Mediterranean, or just general malcontents.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/07/15/critics-rave-about-the-odyssey-and-slam-elon-musks-anti-woke-campaign/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/22/the-odyssey-elon-musk-campaign
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/odyssey-race/688058/
https://collider.com/the-odyssey-biggest-r-rated-movie-box-office-history/
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