What I found most brilliant about this scene is that Nolan intentionally never let us hear the siren's song.
Because if the audience had heard it, they would've walked out of the theater and straight into the sea.
Christopher Nolan says he had the image of the Trojan Horse half-buried in the sand in his mind for 20 years.
“Very influenced by seeing the first ‘Planet of the Apes’ movie as a kid… the idea of a fallen monument approach to that.”
(Source: steppingthroughfilm/IG)
In the span of one year:
• A film shot entirely in IMAX.
• A film shot for $750K.
• A film shot on 65mm, the first ever to combine IMAX 15-perf and Ultra Panavision 70.
• A film shot on an iPhone.