Creative Pagal

2024: "RIGHT" is mostly wrong, and the "LEFT" are mostly not right!

Christopher Nolan asked IMAX to build him a new camera. They did. Then he and Matt Damon spent four months filming The Odyssey on the open ocean, on the largest modern Viking longship in the world, with no green screens at all. The shoot ran 91 days, from late February to August 2025. Seven countries: Morocco, Greece, Italy, Iceland, Scotland, Western Sahara, and Malta. Aside from one indoor studio in Los Angeles, every shot was filmed on real ground. In Italy, the cast and crew climbed 900 feet up a mountain every morning. Imagine walking up a 60-story building before breakfast. In Iceland, they filmed the underworld scenes by lantern light while rain came at them sideways. The four months at sea actually happened at sea. Damon and the actors playing his crew sailed on a real ship called the Draken Harald Hårfagre, used here as a Greek warship. Nolan called the experience "primal." He said the cast and crew were exhausted in a way he had never seen before. The cameras were the other big problem. IMAX cameras have always been too loud to record clean dialogue, which is why directors mostly save them for big action scenes. Nolan asked IMAX to fix this. They engineered a new soundproof case for the camera, a kind of quiet jacket, that lets the lens get within a foot of an actor's face while they whisper and still pick up clean audio. The new cameras also came out lighter and about 30% quieter than the old ones. To prove it worked, the lead cameraman Hoyte van Hoytema filmed a tight close-up of a child reciting a David Bowie song, "Sound and Vision." Nolan watched the test and called it "electrifying." Damon went all-in on the role. He dropped to 167 pounds on a strict no-gluten diet. He grew a real beard for a full year because Nolan refused to allow a fake one. The crew built a full-scale wooden Trojan Horse and shot the attack scene at an ancient walled town in Morocco called Aït Benhaddou. Nolan himself climbed inside the horse with the cast and his cameraman to get the shot. Across the whole shoot they used 2 million feet of film. That comes out to around 380 miles of it, longer than the drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco. At about $1.50 a foot, they spent roughly $3 million just on the film itself. The full budget was $250 million, the biggest of Nolan's career. They wrapped nine days ahead of schedule. Tickets went on sale on July 17, 2025, exactly one year before the movie's release. That had never been done before in cinema history. Half of the 22 US theaters offering IMAX 70mm sold out within 12 hours, bringing in around $1.5 million in a single morning. Nolan called the shoot "an absolute nightmare to film, but in all the right ways." He did not destroy a single IMAX camera. He has wrecked several over his career.

The Odyssey | Official New Trailer | Shot Entirely With IMAX® Film Cameras youtu.be/K7bI5T-Yl-o?si… via @YouTube

the best 3 minutes of video I've watched this year

@_priya9 she spent some time in Miller’s Planet 😅

It looks impossible… but it’s not. Can you solve?

@CryptooIndia We thought the same during the 2024 US election—that if Trump came in, it would be one of the best bull runs, but that never happened. I don’t think much will change if hypocritical leaders continue to lead the country

Raghav Chadda joins BJP. Can India now expect a better crypto environment?🇮🇳 Chadda has been one of the few Indian politicians who has consistently spoken in favor of crypto regulation and tokenization. Here’s what he has said in the past 👇

The only best browser in today's time is @comet 🤘

This year’s FIFA seems quite driven by money and power. Would love to see some upsets from underdog teams to balance things out #FIFAWorldCup

BEEF Season 2 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 Literally Beautiful

@letsblinkit You’ll have sent us a product where the expiry date print is washed out

#Cannes2026 competition lineup: • ‘Minotaur’ dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev • ‘The Beloved’ dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen • ‘1949’ dir. Paweł Pawlikowski • ‘The Man I Love’ dir. Ira Sachs • ‘Moulin’ dir. Laszlo Nemes • ‘Histoire de la nuit’ dir. Léa Mysius • ‘Fjord’ dir. Cristin Mungiu • ‘Notre Salut’ dir. Emmanuel Marre • ‘Gentle Monster’ dir. Marie Kreutzer • ‘Nagi Notes’ dir. Koji Fukada • ‘Hope’ dir. Na Hong-jin • ‘Sheep in the Box’ dir. Hirokazu Koreeda • ‘The Unknown’ dir. Arthur Harari • ‘Coward’ dir. Lukas Dhont • ‘The Dreamed Adventure’ dir. Valeska Grisebach • ‘Sudden’ dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi • ‘The Black Ball’ dir. Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo • ‘A Woman’s Life’ dir. Charline Bourgeois-Taquet • ‘Bitter Christmas’ dir. Pedro Almodóvar • ‘Parallel Tales’ dir. Asghar Farhadi 🔗: hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

WTF 😱

@TheDogeVampire bhai joh bhi bolo Chai toh chayiye

Another reason why we say, india is not for beginners 💀

@ShrivastavAni Great timing

Between Khar and Bandra … Mumbai does that ✨ (Have seen it many times but could never take a video .. )

@abhishek OTT should not win as Theatre exp is far better then OTT but yes PVR can go to HELL 🤣

PVR is a scam! After so many years I went to watch a movie. Hostile environment, food is sold like gold and water like silver. Too many ads, the movie started 30 minutes late, also many ads were there without any certificate. High printed MRP for water bottle, cans and other packaged food - showed a clear nexus in between companies, everyone making some money. OTT should win and PVR should die a slow death!

People say ChatGPT gets smarter the more we use it, but honestly? It's getting worse - especially on simple formulas. Claude is way ahead right now

@VishalBhargava5 but already metro is build in BKC then why this? 🤔

Ladies and gentlemen: India’s most moronic infrastructure project is happening. The pod-taxi in Mumbai - from Kurla to BKC. ₹1000 cr project. Service of 8.85km. Fare per passenger: ₹21/km. We need to rid ourselves of the delusion that it has anything to do with infrastructure

When Trump pussies out tonight, his message will go something like this: "I am pleased to announce that Iran has agreed to save the lives of its great and wonderful people and make a deal! Therefore, I am postponing the Total and Complete Devastation of their bridges and nuclear powerplants for one week. There is still a chance for Iran to become a respected country, the likes of which the world has never seen, if they do the right thing. We have already won this war, Totally and Completely. Do the right thing! Thank you for your attention to this matter!" What do you think? Did I miss anything? 😏

Lionel Messi's iconic free-kick goal against Liverpool. It’s from the 2019 UEFA Champions League quarter-final (his 600th goal for Barcelona). It is so perfect👏

@charliebcurran Art film ? 😅

If you think AI film can’t be art then explain this.

Silenced, not defeated My message to the ‘aam aadmi’ — खामोश करवाया गया हूँ, हारा नहीं हूँ 'आम आदमी’ को मेरे संदेश