Christopher Nolan and Matt Damon discuss the technical and artistic breakthroughs of filming The Odyssey entirely in IMAX 65mm 15-perf format, enabled by the quieter 'Keldyn' camera and blimp system. The conversation highlights innovative practical solutions like the mirror eyeline system for intimate dialogue and the use of real animals and locations to enhance emotional authenticity and immersion.
“We're framing within the grounds we're protecting everything for the widest aspect ratios. But we're really not looking at the two-dimensional framing as much as we're positioning the camera in three-dimensional space.”
“One of the things that's really horrifying about it... is that the blankness of the expression, that this is not a monster. This is nobody thinks they're a monster. And that's what actually makes it most frightening is that from the monsters point of view, they're not monsters. We're irrelevant to them.”
“Chris devised this mirror system whereby I could be the actor off camera for you, but I would look into a mirror that was here that would come back to a mirror that was here and you would see my full face right there. So you'd still feel the actor and know that they were in the room with you and feel them breathing.”
“I spent a couple months... I wanted to learn how to speed load the bow. So where Chris wanted me to learn, I should say. So they gave me a bow... I would just sit there and speed load the bow. So I get like, thousands and thousands of times to just start to get that that feeling.”
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