Musk continued to criticize director Nolan's new film "The Odyssey" on social media. He criticized Nolan for desecrating "Odyssey" for the Oscar statuette. According to feedback from netizens, Nolan's "Odyssey" featured a black Helen, a transgender Achilles, and a mixed-race Athena. Such a casting lineup was obviously intended to win Oscars.
Musk posted on social platforms: "Nolan desecrated 'The Odyssey' just to make the movie eligible for Oscars."
Later, he further questioned: "Which bastard added the DEI lie to the Oscar selection? The only thing that should be considered for a movie is its quality."
Musk also named David Rubin, who served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2019 to 2022, pointing out that it was under his leadership that the Academy launched the "Best Film Inclusion Standards" in 2020. He said: "What Rubin did is so shameful. The only thing that matters should be the quality of the movie itself."
The core of this controversy comes from netizens' dissatisfaction with the suspected "modern diverse casting" of "Odyssey". Musk forwarded a long article that was widely circulated on social platforms, in which Dr. Sydney Watson criticized Hollywood’s frequent “racial replacement” of European history and mythology in recent years:
The media Variety has already confronted Musk from afar:
Some media also criticized Nolan's "Odyssey": there is not a single Greek in the movie
