r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/padfoony • 3h ago
Christopher Nolan avoided CGI and used 7ft stuntmen to portray Laestrygonians in The Odyssey. The giant leader, King Antiphates, is portrayed by actor Josh Stewart, while Matt Damon’s stunt double is Devyn Dalton, who is just under 5ft.
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u/brightdionysianeyes 3h ago
I believe Matt Damon said Devyn had the best arms he had ever seen
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u/padfoony 3h ago edited 1h ago
Yes, he did. “The greatest arms I’ve ever seen” were his exact words, haha.
ETA: Source for the content of the post (I made the collage).
Source for the “greatest arms I’ve ever seen” comment.
ETAA: The one pictured here behind Devyn is Stephen Adentan, who portrays one of the giant soldiers. They’re 2 feet apart in height.
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u/DoomGoober 2h ago
I wonder if that's the same stunt double who rope climbs down from the Trojan Horse without using legs...
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u/Deaffin 2h ago
Well, he's not wrong. Those are some fantastic arms.
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u/Wes_Warhammer666 1h ago
For real. I'm a sucker for a woman who could beat my ass without being like, grossly muscular, like "John Cena with fake tits" type muscular. Her arms are perfect for my rather specific tastes.
I haven't seen the film yet but if her stunt work is as good as her arms, I might fall in love lol.
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u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp 3h ago
The CGI people were on set at every scene taking notes to LATER enhance it, but Nolan went to great lengths for reality to start with, pre CGI phase. The boat is real too and they were really out in the ocean on it... very uncomfortable for actors and crew.
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u/SeeingEyeDug 2h ago
This is why those late 90’s and early 2000’s movies hold up so well in the earlier days of CGI. Like LoTR trilogy, Titanic, etc. They used practical effects and models and used CGI to enhance that.
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u/rentedtritium 2h ago
Also the fury road practicals that everyone loves are enhanced with oodles of cgi debris and smoke to add texture.
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u/twisty125 2h ago
Honestly the basis of the shots would still look great even without them - they're added in to enhance, not create the shot, which I think is what's missing from a lot of movies and shows.
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u/thekittysays 2h ago
The fact that they're shot in real life locations is a big part of it too, or at least real studio sets, rather than full green screen where all of the surroundings are CGI too.
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u/twisty125 1h ago
Yes! That's such a big part too! Like you could potentially have shot it in a way that looks like Road Warrior, just the simple desert background and cars, and it would look cool because it's in a real place or a crafted location.
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u/Salty_LaRue 1h ago
Right? I always compare it to salt - it's great to enhance flavour, but nobody wants to go to a restaurant and just order a whole bowl of it alone to eat.
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u/SparkyTheRunt 1h ago
This is spot on. Planning and prep is the secret sauce that can make or break VFX looking real
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u/thehelldoesthatmean 2h ago
And that's a fantastic use of CGI. Nolan should be praised more for effective CGI use than for not using it. He just has a really good eye for when to use it and when not to use it and what it's best at.
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u/VegaJuniper 2h ago
LotR used more and more CGI as it went along. My favorite is still FotR: the battle of Amon Hen just has this incredible physicality while the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in RotK just looks like a video game cutscene. Partly it's because the battles became more massive and difficult to do practically, but also because the CGI evolved and they became more comfortable making it visible.
In FotR, you only see the eyes of Gollum briefly, because that's all they could do, the Balrog looks amazing because it's wreathed in shadows, with flames and smoke hiding its shape, etc.
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u/MrFlow 1h ago
the Balrog looks amazing because it's wreathed in shadows, with flames and smoke hiding its shape, etc.
That's also why the CGI T-Rex in Jurassic Park looks so amazing, it was dark and rainy when we first encounter it.
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u/SDRPGLVR 1h ago
Yeah the ogre/troll (I forget which it is) in Fellowship is a strong example of the CGI not holding up. Doesn't ruin the movie in the slightest, but it's a funny thing to look back on when so much of the rest of the movie is timeless and gorgeous.
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u/VegaJuniper 1h ago
Cate Blanchett's "evil queen" speech is another. I know some people love it, but to me it's always been corny as hell, and a really janky special effect.
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u/WannabeHistorian1 2h ago
Can’t forget Jurassic Park. I still prefer the dinosaurs in the original than I do the new ones.
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u/stanfan114 1h ago
In the first JP when they show the first full CGI dinosaur, Sam Neil's reaction (where he rises, pulls off his sunglasses, his legs go rubbery and he's practically crying) did a lot of heavy lifting selling the scene.
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u/MobileJob1521 1h ago
They hired fucking Sam Neil, Richard Attenborough and Laura Dern.
They knew damn well that the dino effects would be sold by the actor’s reactions.
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u/RedManMatt11 2h ago
There’s cool BTS footage of dolphins showing up in one of the scenes which made it into the final cut
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u/OSUmiller5 2h ago
“You know where you don’t get that? Shooting in a tank!” Great line by that guy lol
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u/lameshirt 2h ago
"The CGI people were on set at every scene taking notes to LATER enhance it"... That’s just the literal job description of the on-set VFX supervisor. Happens on every movie set. Did they have actors acting and boom operators operating the boom too?
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u/thissexypoptart 2h ago
I just wish posts like these were honest. “No cgi” is bullshit.
The practical effects are incredible still, but lying about there being no cgi for the laestrygonians actually takes away from how cool the practical effects are once you learn it’s a lie. And that’s a shame.
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u/MikoWilson1 2h ago
There is SO MUCH CGI in this movie, it's ridiculous.
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u/Timely_Temperature54 2h ago
Yea it’s pissing me off seeing so many people go oooh Nolan used no CGI that’s why it’s so good. He used plenty. He’s just smart about it and gets as much in camera so the CG is just enhancing that
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u/arachnophilia 1h ago
He’s just smart about it
arguably not. there's a recent "no CGI is really just invisible CGI" video on it, and there's a pretty solid criticism against "dunkirk" for drastically reducing the scale, even as he used CGI to add people to the beach so that it would look like the stuff they filmed for real.
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u/siraolo 3h ago
Forced perspective really does a lot here.
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u/AmIWhatTheRockCooked 2h ago
Pretty strange exclusion from the title since it’s a classic technique that enhances the casting choice they are talking about
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u/Not-a-Bot_1968 2h ago
Nah, mate, hobbits are real
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u/Deaffin 2h ago
They were, and they fought dragons and giant birds.
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u/Not-a-Bot_1968 2h ago
Mega fauna in general is frightening, but the giant birds really freak me out
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u/PaintLicker745 1h ago
I mean I think it's pretty easy to assume. The title leaves out the fact that they use cameras and makeup too but I think we all understood.
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u/tayl0559 2h ago
that's not how forced perspective works. you can't use forced perspective to make something close to the camera look smaller than something far from the camera. it only works the other way around. if anything, the perspective is acting against the intended illusion here
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u/Ok-Gur-349 2h ago
Isn't this more of a focal length thing. Like the tilt shift zoom effect.
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u/tayl0559 2h ago edited 2h ago
yes, it's using a narrower focal length to make the farther away subject appear larger than they otherwise would due to foreshortening
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u/implode573 1h ago
If we want to get really perspective the compression achieved from the long focal length is moreso caused by the distance from the subjects. The long focal length just makes the frame smaller. The farther you are from the subjects, the closer they are together relative to you, which means they will appear closer to their actual relative sizes. So you can use this trick to make objects in the background appear larger than it would if you were closer, such as this actor or the mountains or the moon. But the limitation is that it just makes those two subjects more accurately proportioned; it's as if you're moving the two subjects to where they are standing next to each other. And that means with that alone, you can't make the further subject appear relatively larger than it already is, only closer to the actual relative size.
But combined with other techniques used, such as forced perspective, framing, and a little use of cgi, you could make it appear as if the further subject is actually even further than it is, which would trick your brain into thinking it's a bit larger than it is. This second paragraph is my best guess anyway.
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u/Paddy_Tanninger 2h ago
Not only that but forced perspective usually involves props and differently scaled parts of a set to make it so that the person in the background looks much smaller than they are.
ie: Bilbo sitting at the table with Gandalf where it looks like they're talking to each other, but really Ian Holm is 5ft down the table and working with a set of props that are 3x bigger than the ones Ian McKellen has.
As you said, you cannot do it the reverse where you somehow make the foreground person look smaller than the background person.
In fact to prove this point...in the scenes in Bree where the Hobbits go to the inn, to make them look tiny when they're in the foreground, they needed to use massive human-looking puppets walking by in the background.
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u/Porcupineemu 2h ago
Yeah, the best example of forced perspective I can remember is in Elf
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u/-InconspicuousMoose- 1h ago
can't talk about forced perspective without talking about Lord of the Rings imo
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u/SandpaperTeddyBear 1h ago edited 1h ago
You kinda can actually, and I think they did it here.
If you use a longer focal length to generally compress things, get yourself further back, and put the thing you want to be larger closer to "smaller thing" and the camera than one would "expect" from the other visual cues (such as having the actors look over each other's heads), it works fine. I'd guess they can probably move their props around mid-shot and between shots, which I can't really do when it's just me messing around with my camera.
There used to be "Mystery Spot" tourist traps that would use tilted floors and weirdly shaped rooms to do similar things, and I imagine Nolan's production designer knows all those tricks.
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u/jamincan 1h ago
Maybe forced perspective is a very specific technique though? But you're right that you can trick the eye using cues. All of the men in this image are the same height: https://therealweeklyshow.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/walking-men-size-illusion.jpg
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u/Sardoodledome 2h ago
It really show the genius of the production - no cgi can beat the real thing.
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u/tunesmiff 2h ago edited 2h ago
No cgi is really just invisible cgi. I guarantee there was CGI deployed in those scenes in addition to what was captured in camera.
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u/RedHawk_94 2h ago
CGI and VFX are not the same thing
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u/DShepard 1h ago
Idk, they're pretty interchangeable in a lot of contexts. I've heard "could we make that with CG" and "could we do that with VFX" about the same exact tasks pretty often.
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u/TheWatersOfMars 2h ago
Absolutely, but the more you capture in camera, on set, the easier it is down the line so you don't have to David Fincher your budget on CGI.
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u/CorrectPeanut5 2h ago
Eh, the Atomic bomb blast in Oppenheimer wasn't anything like the real thing. It's the key scene to the whole movie and he should have used CGI.
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 1h ago
Completely agree. That scene was so anticlimactic. Should've just aimed for making the best CGI recreations with consultation from physicists that was as accurate as possible.
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u/Flimsy_Category_9369 2h ago
I love this sort of stuff, Peter Jackson used similar tricks in Lord of the Rings to make the hobbits look small
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u/YaManMAffers 3h ago
There were two moments in the movie when you can tell CGI was used. The baby giant (the young face on a man's body, and the cyclops, and the cyclops was barely noticeable CGI.
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u/SoapyDoodle 2h ago
The cyclops was legitimately terrifying. His fucking face freaked me out
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u/dat_oracle 2h ago
yeman, I was craving for more terrifying cyclops scenes.
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u/thissexypoptart 2h ago
I just don’t get why they cut the famous “nobody” conversation
I guess it would make the cyclops seem less monstrous and scary if it speaks coherently, but it’s like getting rid of Scylla and only having Charybdis or something. Or doing a rehashing of OT starwars and excluding the “No, I am your father” from the Vader-Luke confrontation.
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u/peon2 2h ago
What I dislike about that change is Odysseus is tricky with the "Nobody" thing so the Cyclops couldn't get Poseidon to curse them. But when he's escaping Odysseus gets all cocky and yells out to the cyclops his real name and then the Cyclops asks Poseidon to fuck Odysseus' shit up.
The whole crew being unable to get home for years and slowly getting killed off entirely because of Odysseus' ego and desire to brag and taunt the Cyclops about how smart he is is a pretty big part to his character.
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u/solo_dol0 1h ago
Also Odysseus randomly shooting the (blinded) Cyclops becomes very out of character for how Nolan otherwise presents him
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u/SoapyDoodle 1h ago edited 1h ago
Agreed but also in a way it was needed. He was scared, he had just seen several of his men be eaten, and he probably went overkill. That’s why his men said ‘you didn’t have to do that.’. Otherwise Poseidon’s rage would’ve felt less earned.
My main issue is that his men didn’t give him enough shit about it. It was only mentioned as a plot point which felt cheap. My only major criticism with the film
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u/djc6535 Interested 2h ago
Nolan suggested that the pun didn't really fit with his movie.
There's a few layers to this.
First: the pun doesn't work in English. The word Odysseus uses is "Outis" which is very much like a short version of his own name. You can imagine the poet playing on this during the verbal telling of the story. Imagine if in English the characters name was "Norman" and they used "NoMan"
Second: The verbal trap doesn't really fit with the tone of the movie Nolan created here. The original Odysseus is a brilliant trickster who revels in his games. Avoiding spoilers, this Odysseus is not. In Nolan's movie Odysseus is haunted by the trick he performed at Troy, and blames himself for performing it. He isn't going to happily engage in sparring with the Cyclops, he's a sad man full of shame trying to get home, not show off
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u/thissexypoptart 2h ago
That all makes sense for the direction Nolan was taking things but it’s pretty much my main criticism of the movie. It’s an incredibly minor point as well, I was just hyped for the “nobody” scene and didn’t get it lol
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u/XtendedImpact 1h ago
That was me when he acknowledged Argus. I didn't remember much of the Odyssey but that was the one scene I did specifically remember and I was a bit disappointed that they basically flipped it.
Also I thought the cyclops just going to sleep when he knew there was a bunch of walking snacks in his home was a bit odd tbh but those were really my only gripes with the story.3
u/Michauxonfire 1h ago
It's weird cuz the cyclops should've definitely gone out immediately and open the cave. But Nolan had to had that silly scene where he says the name which is such an obvious "nod". No subtlety there.
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u/thissexypoptart 1h ago
This deep into the thread I really think the spoiler tags are a bit silly lol
Going to sleep with a bunch of walking snacks makes complete sense though. The cyclops’ daily life includes locking the sheep that he eats in his cave with him every night.
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u/bertboxer 1h ago
to your last point, the biggest out of character thing he did in the movie to keep true to the original story was tying himself to the mast with the sirens. they hadn't really played up his curiosity much until that point and it stood out compared to the rest of how he was written
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u/SandpaperTeddyBear 1h ago
In Nolan's movie Odysseus is haunted by the trick he performed at Troy, and blames himself for performing it.
There's shades of this in the poem too. If I remember Odysseus "unaccountably" cries a couple times when the Trojan War is discussed.
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u/SoapyDoodle 2h ago
I think they still made him seem gentle with the ‘ants’ line. And if you notice, he held no regard for Odysseus’s men at all, he would just snack on one and go to sleep, like we would a chicken wing.
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u/MechanicalTurkish 1h ago
Yeah, I wasn’t expecting that (I avoided previews). And the way it moved was creepy as hell
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u/johnnyredleg 3h ago
And the weird shapeless sea creature…
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u/Darth_Alduin13 3h ago
They haven’t gone in depth on every detail of how they made the movie so I don’t know exactly how they made Scylla, but there is a difference between cgi and visual effects. The only info I can find on that scene is this quote from Matt Damon. “A racket system was rigged and pulled stunt guys up out of the deck of the boat”
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u/ListenBoth434 2h ago
I guess them being yeeted into the air was practical but the monster mostly wasn't.
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u/TbddRzn 2h ago
Did you know that Nolan had s a team of scientists create the monster because he wanted it to be as practical effects as possible.
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u/Dracko705 3h ago
Apparently that was also somewhat real - a background actor (and former NHLer) Sean Avery was on a hockey pod called Spitting Chiclets and mentioned something actually grabbed people at took them 20 ft up into the air
Like the other things listed though, there is small CGI added all over the place - Sean said the whirlpool for example was simulated with boats moving the waves, but greatly enhanced on the screen ofc
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u/therealkami 2h ago
Fuck Sean Avery.
But that's cool info.
Still, fuck Sean Avery.
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u/Dracko705 2h ago
Yeah he's controversial both on and off the ice - but has managed quite the relationship with Nolan starting with Tenet, growing in Oppenheimer & now The Odyssey
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u/OlasNah 2h ago
You can also see some of the practical effects rigging in the film. In the scene with the giants, you can tell that some of the trees are being physically moved around because the actors and the trees are on some sort of platform(s) that tweaks their angle or pov for the forced perspective. It mostly works, but you can tell what's going on.
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u/DarkDonut75 2h ago
Wait the cyclops wasn't real?
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u/1ndori 1h ago
It actually was real, my Uncle Jed played him, but they did use CGI to remove his copious body hair
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u/PyronicAssassin 3h ago
I could have sworn there's a specific shot of the giants moving that looked super cgi
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u/Darth_Alduin13 3h ago
That wasn’t cgi. I haven’t seen any behind the scenes on the baby giant, I’m assuming it was clever force perspective like some of the other giant scenes, but for the cyclops they had a giant puppet for the actors to work off of and then they spliced it with footage of a man dressed as the cyclops in a small recreation of the cave.
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u/IIIIllllIIIlIIIIlllI 2h ago edited 2h ago
Ugh, not his narrative again. No, having a physical puppet or prop on set does not mean no CGI was used. Nolan, throughout his entire career, has always used a mix of miniatures, physical props, CGI and visual effects on a scene-by-scene basis. That goes for the cyclops as well.
Here’s an hour long video on Nolan’s movies specifically and how much CGI was used:
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u/thissexypoptart 2h ago
Thank you. Holy shit.
I get it’s a clickbait tactic, but god damn, how hard is it to just not lie about there being “no cgi” in posts extolling the amazing practical effects in a particular movie? It’s a blatant lie on its face.
It’s like someone telling you “no makeup was used in this movie” but really they just went super light with the makeup compared to most movies.
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u/Ecsta-C3PO 2h ago
Do we need to do this again?
TLDW; Basically all movies have CGI, you just notice the bad stuff, and the definition of "what is CGI" is a blurry line at best.
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u/Arisen925 2h ago
Oh no she’s hot
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u/MobileJob1521 1h ago
I’ve only ever gooned harder to Matt Damon like three times.
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u/_HIST 2h ago
Nolan and "avoid using cgi" tale as old as time and not nearly as true as people paint it
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u/Neddiggis 2h ago
There is a great series on Youtube about "No CGI" is just invisible CGI and breaks down a lot of movies showing the extent of CGI regularly used and he's just released a "Nolan" cut, which is great.
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u/Timely_Temperature54 2h ago
You. 3 of his films have won Oscars for VFX. And the effects company that were used on those films was also used for the Odyssey
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u/darthvall 2h ago
I was confused when Matt Damon said one of his stuntman was a woman with the best arm biceps. Like, why would be needs a mix of male and female stuntman. This picture answers perspectively why
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u/Benjaphar 3h ago
Josh Stewart (who played Antiphates, king of the giants) is 5’9”.
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u/Tetchord 1h ago
I misread that as Jon Stewart who is also famously short (5'7")
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u/TJ_Will 3h ago
Well, this certainly won't set off certain people.
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u/yanmagno 3h ago
A black guy AND a woman? That’s just too much woke
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u/Phearwyn 2h ago
Not just any black guy. Big, tall, strong black man. Not just a woman, a BUFF woman. MehGUH hates those
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u/gd4x 3h ago
Chuds losing their minds over trans Odysseus and black Laestrygonians
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u/clothanger 3h ago
And this is why miserable folks don't enjoy things, they find more things to hate about instead of doing anything meaningful.
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u/djc6535 Interested 2h ago
I saw an interview with a professor of Ancient Greece say "Lets look deeper into this for a moment, let's discuss the parentage of Helen. She was born of a swan. That's the accuracy you're fighting with here"
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u/LWLAvaline 2h ago
King Antiphates: You idiots! These are not them! You’ve captured their stunt doubles!
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u/Pawtuckaway 3h ago
This is the latest of a great video series about "No CGI" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLcP-t0-kI
All the directors that claim to use only practical effects or no CGI are all lying. They extensively use CGI.
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u/Yargon_Kerman 2h ago
Infuriating seeing the artistry behind this get completely thrown away as "no CGI used" lies.
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u/Moreaccurateway 2h ago
People who loved film used to want to know how films were made but now they want to be lied to. It’s so weird
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u/capscreen 2h ago
I don't even think Nolan lied about no CGI, he even credits the VFX workers. People mostly just made up that lie by themselves to glaze Nolan
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u/QueenOfQuok 3h ago
I was wondering how they did it without CGI and the answer was "just hire really tall guys"
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u/bolanrox 2h ago
when asked what the trick was to make Reacher look so big, Alan goes, there is no trick. I am 6 2(?) and they only hired actors 5 5 (or whatever) or shorter for the other roles.
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u/Yargon_Kerman 2h ago
The answer is "the no CGI used stuff is complete nonsense"
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u/albinobluesheep 1h ago
The answer is also "Compositing to enhance forced perspective/small and big doubles is also VFX, but makes the VFX job easier"
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u/Moreaccurateway 2h ago
The best thing about Christopher Nolan is that he never uses CGI or VFX but they’re always hundreds of CGI and VFX artists credited in his films so I guess he’s just paying them to sit and do nothing.
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u/bdubwilliams22 1h ago
Nolan will always try to get it in camera where he can. Unfortunately, the only known living cyclops passed a few years ago, so he had to cheat in that scene.
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u/USeaMoose 1h ago
I've been a little out of the loop on this whole thing, but it is funny to see how much the vibe has changed around this movie.
Ever since initial casting, and early images from on set, I have been flooded with nothing but negative sentiment towards the film. Bad casting, poor costume design, pointless project, historically inaccurate. And on and on and on. The Internet seemed to really want to convince me that Nolan had somehow lost his mind and was about to break his amazing streak by pushing out an absolute turd. And it never made sense to me given his track record.
Then it comes out. Predictably it quickly breaks records, makes back its budget in a couple days, set's its sights on $1 billion. And now for the first time, favorable posts have started surfacing on my feed.
No doubt that some of that is the marketing push. But the flood of negative sentiment beforehand felt like some other coordinated effort. The number of people who apparently cared deeply that the characters wear period-accurate helmets was unreasonably high.
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u/Kasern77 3h ago
That's 2.13m and 1.52m in non-primitive measurements.
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u/Budget-Project803 2h ago
Thanks for putting it out there for the Europeans. It really sucks that Americans are forced to use the shitty Canadian system for measuring height
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u/Competitive-Elk-5077 2h ago
That guy would be terrifying to go up against in a fight
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u/YogurtOtherwise2106 1h ago
It drives me insane how much misinformation is being spread regarding the usage of CGI in productions these days. No one appreciates practical effects more than the VFX artists who elevate these scenes by taking the on-set reference and enhancing them. Nolan himself has voiced his reliance on CG, having won many awards for his involvement with them. It's honestly so disappointing to see big name actors and producers spread the rhetoric that everything seen in camera has no post-production. Of course, months after the film releases, you can find the wonderful breakdowns and wire frames that took hundreds of artists to create, invisible to the human eye because of how well it was pulled off. Yes practical is great, but I don't know why studios are trying to deceive audiences regarding how much VFX is used. Really sucks to see a lot of great artists and work get covered up and badmouthed. Really exited to see the work done on the incredible Circe scene. Practical can only get so far; the success of that can only be done digitally. Said it in another sub , and I really hope people realize there’s an art form to combining these mediums.
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u/HeroXeroV 1h ago
I heard they used a woman double for Damon, but assumed she was the same size as him. But this makes sense to get a sense of scale.
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u/WangIee 2h ago
I found that scene so disappointing.
The just walk into a Forrest for 10 seconds, immediately get attacked by those guys and just dip. And that’s the scene
There was 0 tension emotionally for me
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u/CHERNO-B1LL Interested 3h ago
This is why we all still watch Lord of the Rings. You can talk shote about how they achieved the perspective tricks in camera to make the Hobbits look tiny all fucking Christmas. No one talks about anyrhing made with greenscreen or AI ever again if they can avoid it.
There's no magic to it. Movies are supposed to be magic. If the answer to "How the fuck did they do that" is CGI or AI it's just disappointing.
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u/Yargon_Kerman 2h ago
Lord of the rings was majorly influencial with the CGI tools they made for the films, because of how much they used.
People remember them because they're timeless classics, fantastically written, acted and directed, not because they didn't use CGI... Because, they used it all the time.
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u/Worthyness 2h ago
All of the massive armies in those movies are vfx. In fact the vfx tool was so good that they're effectively using the exact same tech for all faceless mass armies in every movie. Gollum is full vfx and very clearly set the base for future performance capture. You can't disparage cgi and vfx while complimenting a movie series that literally created some of the base forms of some of the best vfx technologies that the industry continues to use and improve on. So much disrespect to vfx artists in these threads.
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u/TSP-FriendlyFire 1h ago
Next up people will claim Davy Jones was made all practically or something.
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u/Yargon_Kerman 1h ago
People claim the end of interstellar was practical so... It could be anything
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u/Neddiggis 2h ago
LOTR used copious green screen and CGI, so much so Weta Digital was born out of the tools they developed for it.
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u/alienproxy 2h ago
Elon's probably pissed about this casting. You mean to tell me you couldn't find any REAL giant cannibalistic Laestrygonians?
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u/Familiar-Fix-5849 1h ago
still doesnt change the fact that the armor looks like crap. Good for the stunt doubles though
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u/clgoodson 1h ago
Cool effect. NIcely done. But is it really virtuous to avoid CGI?
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u/Ticats905 1h ago
I wish they wouldn't release this info until like a year after release. I havnt seen it yet and when i do im gonna be sucked out of the immersion and just see that it's her.
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u/LuckyDistrict1 1h ago
I heard they went to a random island in the Mediterranean and just started filming.
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u/MetalliMunk 1h ago
Makes so much sense now! I watched it last night in awe of how real they looked moving through, I'm like, they must have found real giants, but super smart of forced perspective and stunt doubles being shorter like Hobbits, loved it!!
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u/TheLongTailGuy 3h ago
Wow she looks just like him