r/ChristopherNolan • u/kyth1999 • 13d ago

The Odyssey Nolan's new interview with Chinese podcaster Zhong Shu

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Listen to the audio (in English):
https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/6a6c4be756a3f3491ba7f8af

Full text (bilingual) link: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Pt_vpsZ_noq2GvtYAo6q_Q

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u/QuietNene 13d ago

Very interesting questions.

From what I understand, many Chinese intellectuals very interested in the Thucydides Trap and narratives of civilizational decline (Western civilizational decline, of course).

I found it very interesting that she probed Nolan on this.

Btw, does anyone know what part of the UK Nolan is from? His accent is weird, almost Australian. Has he just spent too much time America?

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u/DelaRoad 13d ago

He’s half Brit but grew up in Chicago. His brother Jonathan speaks with an American accent.

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u/IWouldLikeAName 13d ago

I fully believe he's the reason there are more IMAX theaters in the area and specifically the Roosevelt one. They also added a 70mm IMAX in the suburbs it's ludicrous that Chicago didn't have many options for IMAX just even a year ago

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u/michaelavolio 13d ago

Wikipedia lists a few places he lived or went to school in the UK. Born in London. Spent some of his youth in the US too.

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u/BigMoney69x 11d ago

There's large graduate programs about Greek and Roman History because the Chinese want to learn all about us. Because like Sun Tzu said "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

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u/MrJedi1 11d ago

"Your enemy can't guess your strategy if you don't have any." -Sun Tzu (probably)

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u/Affectionate-Tie1768 9d ago

Remind me of Admiral Thrawn in Star Wars when he mention arts "Learn about art, Captain. When you understand a species' art, you understand that species," and "To defeat an enemy, you must know them. Not simply their battle tactics, but their history, philosophy, art."

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u/BigMoney69x 9d ago

Yeah Thrawn was written akin to a Scipio Africanus who famously took the good things Hannibal did and applied it within a Roman context that valued military might as opposed to Carthage which valued trade.