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The Odyssey Movie - IMAX Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: The Odyssey follows Odysseus (Matt Damon), the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, on his perilous journey home after the Trojan War. Depicting encounters with mythical beings such as the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and the witch-goddess Circe, culminating in his long-awaited reunion with his wife, Penelope. The Odyssey is directed by the acclaimed, Oscar-winning British filmmaker Christopher Nolan
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00:01Tell me what you remember.
00:05Home.
00:07The Odyssey is definitely the biggest movie
00:09that I've ever done in my career.
00:11It was like making a movie the way we would have made it 100 years ago.
00:14Except for the fact that it's on IMAX.
00:21IMAX is a camera that doesn't lie.
00:23This is definitely the format or the window
00:26that this story wants to be seen in.
00:28And that has always been our first choice.
00:32Chris and Hoyter never cease to surprise me.
00:35If there's one thing they're gonna do,
00:37it's innovate and find new ways to create
00:40and do things that quite literally have never been done before.
00:43For me, it's been my long-held dream.
00:46I mean, really, since I was about 16 years old,
00:47to do an entire film on IMAX.
00:51The thing that was stopping us was always the sound.
00:54My first time working on IMAX was with Chris.
00:57And I remember thinking, gosh, it's loud.
01:01I've been thinking, like, is that what it's gonna sound like
01:04like when we shoot our scenes?
01:05Like, that's really distracting.
01:07And then they brought the blimp out.
01:22We had gone to IMAX and sort of challenged them
01:25to create new cameras that were quiet,
01:28or at the very least create a blimp
01:30that would baffle the noise of the camera.
01:32They came back to us with new cameras plus a blimp.
01:36It's a gigantic, super-heavy box.
01:39But we, as filmmakers, we're not supposed to be comfortable.
01:43We're supposed to present the audience
01:45with the best experience possible.
01:47So all our effort was all in service
01:50of making that work on set.
01:53The people that we were working with
01:54are so adaptable, resourceful.
01:58They figured out how to do it.
01:59Creating a mirror system
02:00so that the actors could see each other around the camera.
02:04It feels like you're shooting a scene with, like, an SUV.
02:09Like, even with the size of the camera,
02:11you just feel like the machine would move slower
02:14and it just moves faster
02:16than if you were shooting it on an iPhone.
02:20By sheer sort of will and excitement,
02:23before we knew it, we were up on cliffs with it
02:25and in boats, and every day of the shoot
02:29it became easier for us to work with.
02:31And so, for the first time ever,
02:32we've been able to do the entire film
02:34on the incredible IMAX film format.
02:36It's a long-held dream finally coming to fruition.
02:41Action!
02:43Chris really shoots on this massive scale,
02:47on this massive format,
02:48but he basically shoots independent films.
02:50And there's a lot of urgency to that.
02:53He goes the extra distance
02:54to make it feel authentic for us on set.
02:57And I think the IMAX is going to really allow the audience
03:00to feel like they are a part of this journey with us.
03:03You're really going to be immersed in this world.
03:07I'm like, as a fan, I'm so excited to see this film.
03:11Like, I cannot wait to sit in that IMAX theater
03:14and completely be lost in this world that he's created.
03:19I would say this movie is in your lifetime.
03:23If there is one movie that you go to the cinema,
03:26no matter what, this is the movie to do.
03:29Because this is pure cinema.
03:34No one could stand between my man...
03:37and home.
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