This may have been mentioned up thread but I learned today that the armor clad giants that attack was a practical effect using seven foot tall actors in armor playing the giants and five foot tall stunt people playing the Greeks along with in camera perspective tricks. That is pretty amazing.
Yeah, Nolan never uses CGI when he can do a practical effect. And with the budgets he can command, he can do almost anything. Like crash a real 747 into a building.
Women stunt people, many of them, being shorter. So sez the internet anyway.
And the Cyclops is a human actor (Bill Irwin) or a giant puppet. Filmed in an actual cave in Greece, not a soundstage.
And yet, he denied the role to an actual cyclops. I understand that their interest group is protesting the lack of representation.
That lobby has lost a lot of their cachet since the deaths of Sandy Duncan and Peter Falk.
Forgot to mention that I would have liked to have more armor clanging and armor stripping in the battle scenes. Homer is always mentioning how this or that fallen warrior’s armor clanged around him (not surprising when you’re wearing multiple bronze protective items) and how enemy warriors are always swarming to strip slain adversaries’ armor and weapons.