Here’s why the right is so upset about The Odyssey:
It was fucking awesome & everyone who isn’t automatically enraged at the sight of black & trans people almost unanimously agree it’s an absolute masterpiece.
Go watch it! It’s great!
Truly the most important part about The Odyssey is just that we continually get more reasons to talk about and reflect on the many prescient themes and ideas that it evokes.
Matt Damon breakdown exactly how The Odyssey crew pulled off the massive Laestrygonian giants without relying on standard CGI.
Tom Holland: How tall are the Laestrygonians?
Matt Damon: Pretty damn tall, and the way we shot that was also amazing, everything in camera.
We had a seven-foot stuntman and a whole team of doubles who were under 5-foot, doubling all of us and it was thrilling to watch those stunt performance working.
And this whole idea force perspective again do a little CGS possible.
Tom Holland: I also think that has to be one of the hardest thing to pronounce in the whole of this experience.