Director Christopher Nolan didn’t want to hold anything back when adapting Homer Odyssey For the big screen.
Talk to CBS News’ Scott Pelley 60 minutes In an interview that aired Sunday night, Nolan was asked what he believes are the essential elements of his films
“I always try to have a point of view on the story from within the film,” he said. “So I’m not looking at the characters from 30,000 feet; I’m trying to be with them in the race, in the maze. Because I want to try to give the audience an idea of what the place is going to smell like, what it’s going to feel like. But you’re also trying to make the most, the most extreme version of the story.”
He told Billy that he always treats every film as if it were his last.
“I feel a real responsibility to try to put as much on screen as possible to the audience to give the audience the full flavour, the widest range of images and events that we can give them in a given story,” Nolan said.
Nolan also wrote the screenplay, adapting it from the epic poem that scholars believe was written by Homer sometime between 725 and 675 B.C. The director shared some thoughts about his writing process.
“When I write, I imagine the film as an audience member, as someone experiencing the story,” he said. “Then, when I direct the story, I try to take the audience there. So, just in case odyssey, I try to put the audience on that horse. “I’m trying to get them on board Odysseus’ ship.”
Nolan also said that this was one of the most difficult films he has ever made. “The harder it is, the better.” odyssey, I think we pushed hard on this and perhaps found some limits.
For this film, Nolan says he shot two million feet of IMAX film.
“I think what sets him apart from other directors is that the stories he wants to tell are incredibly ambitious,” Damon said. 60 minutes. “And the way he wants to tell them is incredibly ambitious. In this case he wanted to do it 100% in IMAX, which has never been done before.”
60 minutes It airs Sundays on CBS. Odyssey It hits theaters on July 17.
