Director Christopher Nolan didn’t need to maintain something again when adapting Homer’s The Odyssey for the large display.
Speaking to CBS News‘ Scott Pelley for a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday night time, Nolan was requested what he believes the “essential elements” of his movies are
“I always try to have a point of view on the story that’s from inside the film,” he mentioned. “So I’m not looking at the characters from 30,000 feet; I’m trying to be in the race, in the maze with them. Because I want to try and give the audience a sense of what a place would smell like, what it would feel like. But you’re also trying to make the most involving, the most extreme version of a story possible.”
He informed Pelley that he all the time approaches every movie as if it have been his final.
“I feel a real responsibility to try and get as much on screen for the audience as possible to give the audience the fullest flavor, the fullest set of images and events that we can give them for a given story,” Nolan mentioned.
Nolan additionally wrote the script, adapting it from the epic poem that students consider Homer wrote someday between 725 and 675 B.C.E. The director shared some perception into his writing course of.
“When I’m writing, I’m visualizing the film as an audience member, as somebody experiencing the story,” he mentioned. “Then, when I direct the story, I’m trying to take the audience there. So, in the case of The Odyssey, I’m trying to put the audience into that horse. I’m trying to put them on the deck of Odysseus’s ship.”
Nolan additionally mentioned that this was one of many hardest movies he’s ever made. “The harder the better right to the point of The Odyssey, and I think we pushed pretty hard on this one and maybe found some limits,” he mentioned.
For this movie, Nolan says he shot 2 million ft of IMAX movie.
“I think what separates him from other directors is the stories he wants to tell are incredibly ambitious,” Damon informed 60 Minutes. “And the way he wants to tell them is incredibly ambitious. In this case he wanted to do it 100 percent in IMAX, which had never been done.”
60 Minutes airs Sundays on CBS. The Odyssey hits theaters July 17.
