It’s just so obviously a vacuformed plastic shell that doesn’t fit the actor that’s wearing it. Has no visual relation to any of the other armor styles in the film, despite supposedly being from the same culture, time period, and status level.
He looks like a futurized, Coppola’s Megalopolis interpretation of classical armor.
Without knowing any details on the movie other than “Christopher Nolans next movie is The Odyssey” and that appearing early in the trailer, I thought, Oh ok, cool, kinda doing something visually here, not historically accurate but an artistic adaptation like the 300 or something. Then the rest of the trailer is just, nope, normal Greece. So out of place.
Doesn’t even look like Greece. The lighting (or lack of) makes it look like they were going for the Scandinavia aesthetic or something, not the Mediterranean.
I read an interview with Nolan where he said that because he’s red / green colorblind, he deliberately color grades his films to desaturate those colors and make the final result more accurate to what he sees.
Doesn’t change the fact that bronze/ heavily pigmented ancient Greece is a horrible choice for such a treatment, but still interesting why he does it.
It’s just so obviously a vacuformed plastic shell that doesn’t fit the actor that’s wearing it. Has no visual relation to any of the other armor styles in the film, despite supposedly being from the same culture, time period, and status level.
He looks like a futurized, Coppola’s Megalopolis interpretation of classical armor.
The odyssey is a fantasy epic which features a Cyclops, it was never historically accurate.
How about stylistically and thematically consistent? Surely, Nolan could have at least tried for that?
Again, multiple other characters in the trailer who are of the same status level, time period, and culture, but no consistency.
Egger’s The Northman was an equally mythologically interlaced tale, but you don’t see any vacuformed plastic there, do you?
Without knowing any details on the movie other than “Christopher Nolans next movie is The Odyssey” and that appearing early in the trailer, I thought, Oh ok, cool, kinda doing something visually here, not historically accurate but an artistic adaptation like the 300 or something. Then the rest of the trailer is just, nope, normal Greece. So out of place.
Doesn’t even look like Greece. The lighting (or lack of) makes it look like they were going for the Scandinavia aesthetic or something, not the Mediterranean.
I read an interview with Nolan where he said that because he’s red / green colorblind, he deliberately color grades his films to desaturate those colors and make the final result more accurate to what he sees.
Doesn’t change the fact that bronze/ heavily pigmented ancient Greece is a horrible choice for such a treatment, but still interesting why he does it.