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/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 3h 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/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