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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.

Michael Jackson: “I am not going do anything sexual to a child, it’s not where my heart is. I’d slit my wrist first. I would never do anything like that, That’s not Michael Jackson. I’m sorry.”

I remember reading a story that 9/11 caused a divorce. A woman’s husband worked in the twin towers, and he was having an affair. He took that day off and spent it with his affair partner in a hotel. He didn’t know what happened yet, so when his wife called him freaking out asking if he’s okay and asking where he is, he casually just told her “yeah, I’m just heading into a meeting right now.” 💀

Richa. You. Don’t. Fucking. Matter.

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📍Bakhtiyarpur Railway Station, Bihar: Two women lost their lives after being hit by the Farakka Express while attempting to cross the railway tracks instead of using the foot overbridge. CCTV footage shows a man assisting them across; he escaped, but both women were caught in the path of the high-speed train.

Amitabh in KBC: "Oh no, you lost. Thank you for playing." SRK in KBC: "Tum achha khel rahe the, main chahta tha tum zyada jeet kar jaao, bura mat feel kar yaar, ye le meri ghadi (which cost more than the entire prize money at that time), you played very well" 😭😭

A classic I found in my old archives..... How did we survive 4 years with this man?

A lion can stand three feet from your face on a safari and not even register that you exist. To its brain, you and the jeep are the same animal. One big weird shape that doesn't smell like food. Stand up though, and you go from invisible to dinner in under a second. For the lion, you and the other tourists never register as separate people. The whole jeep looks like one giant creature made of metal and fabric and humans all smushed together. That shape has no scent of any prey animal, and it moves nothing like one. The brain searches its mental file of every animal it's ever hunted, finds no match, and moves on. Lions learn this from their mothers. In places like the Serengeti or Maasai Mara, they see more than 100 of these jeeps a day. Cubs grow up watching mom ignore every truck. They copy what mom does. After a few generations, an entire population of lions has decided that safari vehicles are boring background noise, no different from trees or rocks. Hunting is expensive. A lion that picks the wrong target won't have enough energy left to catch the right one tomorrow. So when the brain sees a weird shape that doesn't fit anything in its hunting memory, it just skips it. But the whole truce hangs on one rule. The shape has to stay the same. The second someone stands up or leans out the window, the big creature breaks apart. Suddenly there's a person-sized snack standing where a big boring shape used to be. The lion's brain registers the change in under a second. In June 2015, a 29-year-old American filmmaker rolled down her window at a park near Johannesburg to take a photo. A lioness was already a meter from the truck, just watching. It lunged through the open window and bit her in the neck. She died at the scene. Ten years later, in September 2025, a zookeeper at Safari World in Bangkok stepped out of his vehicle in the lion section. One lion charged. The rest of the pride joined within seconds. The park had run these tours for over 40 years and nobody had ever died like that. Craig Packer has spent over 40 years studying lions and started the world's first lion research center back in 1986. He's said it plainly more than once. Lions don't have much patience for humans acting weird. Sit still and you're part of the furniture; move suddenly and you're a target. The truce works because every lion in those parks grew up watching its mom ignore the trucks. Break the pattern, and the whole thing falls apart in about as long as it takes to stand up.

When he zoomed in 100× he spotted the leopard only to realize it had been watching him the whole time.

Most BJP & Modi supporters make this mistake. They keep hoping that the party and the man will use their dominant position to progress India. They don't realize that they have been conned and their objective is not to progress the nation or do anything for the citizens. If that was the case we won't be where we are today.

From working in a boutique to the Met Gala red carpet. Men are good people, they've taken so many women out of poverty

Bob Moran: "The mass injecting of more than half the world's population with that drug[the Covid vaccine] is the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of our species." The Telegraph fired him after he said this.

I do it for free every day

Population of 1.4b+ people btw

No one realizes how dangerous trampolines are.

Obama ran the most powerful country on earth for 8 years.. deployed drones across 7 nations.. expanded the surveillance state.. bailed out Wall Street while families lost homes.. and the thing that's breaking his marriage isn't the wars.. isn't the kill list.. isn't the whistleblowers he prosecuted.. it's that he can't stop thinking about Trump the presidency doesn't haunt you.. the guy who undid your legacy does

What a brilliant debut by TVK ! By the way, TVK was the only party in Tamil Nadu that gave tickets to two Brahmin candidates, despite the risks of caste politics.

I have received legal notice from Delhi Police regarding certain posts where they have invoked SC/ST Act. The matter was taken up suo motu by National Commission for Scheduled Castes. I am sure an FIR is coming soon. Long live democracy!

Most major regional leaders that played a key role in restricting the BJP to 240 in LS 2024 have been politically annihilated and neutralized in assembly elections. It's being executed with surgical precision. Goal is to break their morale, and make their followers lose faith. Only these leaders' internal strength and self-belief, and mutual unity of all, will now keep them in the game. And of course, a new master plan for 2029. Very interesting times ahead. A total churn. Remember: the BJP now has no competency other than controlling and winning elections. They have nothing solid to give the citizens, and not even their followers. Only harder economic & financial times (and social too) exist in the near future for everyone.