He needs to grow a pair. I would definitely watch a proper Bronze Age version of The Odyssey. As it stands I'm undecided. The casting has put me off.
(Achaeans at the gates of Troy by Giuseppe Rava)
Maybe Nolan thinks it would be box office poison to go for a proper Bronze Age vision. With LotR-level attention to detail and care though it would be watched for 100 years.
And he wouldn't cast former Disney kid Ms. Coleman or Matt Damon. Win-Win!
I'd be down for his tone/style with this epic.
At least there'd be no Tom Holland and Zendaya, Hollywood's conjoined.Now I want Eggers to direct instead of Nolan
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Keep my boy Pattinson in though!
Leave them alone they're in a relationship
At least in 300's case, it's mostly faithful to Frank Miller's mythological retelling of the story -- where the heroes were all naked in the graphic novel rather than realistically armored -- which I assume was a callback to the heroic nude artistic representations from antiquity.Like it or not, here is the design aesthetic the suits THINK we want...
So you will get your silly fantasy armor AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!!!!
Yes, that's my understanding as well. You can see the same thing in action in Ancient Greek art, like this red Attic cup showing Odysseus with a Corinthian era helmet:
So the story does get reinterpreted through the ages, both in the process of being codified through Homer and after as well. But we can roughly place its origins and we have archaeological evidence for the events of the Iliad et al. And even without that and only going by Homer's descriptions, it's quite clear that our heroes had gleaming golden bronze armor. The elaborate bronze armor sets are very striking in The Iliad especially, with the armies fighting over possession of them after a legendary warrior falls in battle.
Same thing with meteoric iron being used to make 'mythic' weapons in an era of bronze.
The helmet made of boar tusks Odysseus wore in the Iliad (type recently discovered by archaeologists):
Some examples of more period accurate Mycenaean Greek armor
Artistic impression of Odysseus in light gear
Original Mycenaean Dendra armor:
See, that's what that 100 mollion dollar marketing budget is for. Educate the audience that they are about to see the most accurate vision into the past EVER.
I think it's possible to meet it part of the way and push into new cinematic territory, using bronze aesthetically to capture the essence of the time. Throw a glimmering golden bronze breastplate in there and fabric as secondary. Lose the leather, especially the leather bracers. Doesn't have to be the Michelin man Dendra armor.
If that is a "grown man sized" ladder there for scale (proportionally or actual size) then it must be. Interesting to get away from the 'practical' wagon wheeled effigy representation we've gotten for the past.....long while. This film may be a lot more fantastical in aesthetic than I was expecting from Nolan.
Sure, for now. But that shit is 2026, who knows what will happen. Any hiccup filming Doomsday and "oh noes, we gotta compete with Nolan!"
While I don't like interstellar and am ambivalent about tenet, they were shot well. The audio on tenet, that's the issue.That cinematography sure made Tenet and Interstellar good films
To me he peaked with Inception and The Dark Knight Rises. I hope he reaches those highs again. It might require him getting to finally make a Bond movie, but personally I'd love to see one Star Wars movie from him(never gonna happen).
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Y'all don't act like it wasn't already looking dubious with pouty face Ms. Coleman, Matt Damon and John Leguizamo
She may just be VO and Athena is abstractly represented. She did good VO in The Wild Ronot.
