Christopher Nolan convinced IMAX engineers to completely redesign their cameras just so he could film The Odyssey. "I called my friends at IMAX and I said, 'If ever we're going to make a film entirely in IMAX, this is The Odyssey. So, can you find a way to alleviate... the limiting factor?'" "The limiting factor being the cameras are extremely loud." "We've never been able to capture dramatic scenes with an IMAX camera." "What they did is they came up with a way of blimping the camera." "Essentially a high-tech box that you put the camera into and it silences it." "It let us, for the first time ever, get the quiet scenes... and therefore be able to do the whole film."show more

How bout calling your friends at imax and telling them to make the 70mm screens more accessible

Owner said they haven't made any in years

turning a camera into a giant muffler just to get quiet scenes is absurdly perfect for nolan

That's literally a rubbery soundproofing box

Gimmick maxxing

The noise is a massive design flaw. So is the 2.5-minute limit on film length.

This is just so bizarre to me that they are able to build such a high end tech, but can't make silent motors and have to put it in sound proof box instead.

Wait so that’s why there’s always a deafening audio above all dialogs?

I find it really suspicious when 100% of posts about Odyssey is about IMAX cameras and none about the movie itself.

Digital cameras make NO noise at all. Nolan is a tool.

Can’t wait to watch this movie on my phone

Ft. @BBCR1 Christopher Nolan

How is this a complete redesign?

Now they need to make new projectors not overheating

That's insane

They mean an isolation box They do this all the time in the music industry

IMAX cameras are ancient obsolete tech.

Nobody can see what you were filming, except a bunch, that is bullshit

My friends at IMAX would not be nearly as helpful

What are you in about? Nolan literally explains how the didnt redesign the camera at all, but built a box around the camera to muffle the noise. Do you think a guitarist redesigns his guitar every time he switches cases for it?

Or, how about using an iPhone

They completely put them in a box filled with turkey stuffing.

Why not make a silent movie then?

Getting fed up of all this Christopher Nolan adulation with everyone living up his arse like hes a good director

Lot of trouble to make a film only 0.0001% of viewers will ever see in the original IMAX format.

Cinematic genius he is 🫡

"Can you make a box with sound proofing? I wanna make a movie in a cave with a giant marionette Cyclops and the camera is just too darn loud."

guy blimping his girlfriend

We spent 500 trillion on cameras so we could show crap in a widescreen IMAX format. Only 500 trillion!!!

I guess Nolan bought/asociated with IMAX.

No he didn't

A box with sound dampening is high tech?

Didn’t Coogler do this for sinners?

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