Wow, that actually looks like shit. The gold pops too hard and looks like a shitty photoshop, and the mane thing on the helmet clearly has machine pressed bristles that are in an obvious grid pattern like a fucking cleaning brush…
Who ever greenlit those props, let alone that cover, needs to be fired.
Saw a tiktok (grain of salt) saying Nolan originally hired experts in ancient Greek armor and fired them to go with a different look. We’re about to see the most generic looking “greek” armor of all time.
I’m not a historian of ancient Greek armature, but if I were to fasten a bunch of horse hair to stand up like a Mohawk on top of a helmet chances are I would drill a bunch of holes of roughly .5 cm diameter systematically throughout hardwood base and stuff each hole as full of hairs as I possibly could. It would probably come out looking something like a shoe brush.
Of course, I have no idea how they were made; again, I’m not a historian. I just don’t see what is so obviously machine made here. On the contrary, I would be surprised if this helmet wasn’t in fact custom made by hand by the costume department. It would be very unlike Nolan to buy a mass produced Halloween costume from China.
No, it really wouldn’t. Many, many, many craftsmen try to produce consistent, even products by hand. Every single time, when they don’t use a jig and measure a hundred times over, it comes out far, far less even than modern machines.
In addition, I seriously doubt horse hairs/etc would across hundreds of them all be perfectly straight and consistent to the point where the binding pattern would be clearly visible at the tips. Even if they were, I’d bet crafting it by hand would disturb them enough to floof it out a bit by the end of production.
In either case, it’s very silly to make something look so obviously modern, even if it were possible to make back then. They’re selling an image, and this image screams “modern production”.
Yeah, fair point about the horse hairs at least. But I also can’t help but feel like people might have had all kinds of strange ideas about how they want things to look in the past, and a lot of it would probably surprise us if we had the chance to go back and check. So I still struggle to see things like this as genuinely upsetting. Had it been a proper blunder like imitating a roman armour or something I would have agreed much more, but taking some creative license with what ancient Greece looked like I feel should be expected.
Wow, that actually looks like shit. The gold pops too hard and looks like a shitty photoshop, and the mane thing on the helmet clearly has machine pressed bristles that are in an obvious grid pattern like a fucking cleaning brush…
Who ever greenlit those props, let alone that cover, needs to be fired.
Saw a tiktok (grain of salt) saying Nolan originally hired experts in ancient Greek armor and fired them to go with a different look. We’re about to see the most generic looking “greek” armor of all time.
The most generic looking Greek armour *with dangling golden spines attached
I’m not a historian of ancient Greek armature, but if I were to fasten a bunch of horse hair to stand up like a Mohawk on top of a helmet chances are I would drill a bunch of holes of roughly .5 cm diameter systematically throughout hardwood base and stuff each hole as full of hairs as I possibly could. It would probably come out looking something like a shoe brush.
Of course, I have no idea how they were made; again, I’m not a historian. I just don’t see what is so obviously machine made here. On the contrary, I would be surprised if this helmet wasn’t in fact custom made by hand by the costume department. It would be very unlike Nolan to buy a mass produced Halloween costume from China.
No, it really wouldn’t. Many, many, many craftsmen try to produce consistent, even products by hand. Every single time, when they don’t use a jig and measure a hundred times over, it comes out far, far less even than modern machines.
In addition, I seriously doubt horse hairs/etc would across hundreds of them all be perfectly straight and consistent to the point where the binding pattern would be clearly visible at the tips. Even if they were, I’d bet crafting it by hand would disturb them enough to floof it out a bit by the end of production.
In either case, it’s very silly to make something look so obviously modern, even if it were possible to make back then. They’re selling an image, and this image screams “modern production”.
Yeah, fair point about the horse hairs at least. But I also can’t help but feel like people might have had all kinds of strange ideas about how they want things to look in the past, and a lot of it would probably surprise us if we had the chance to go back and check. So I still struggle to see things like this as genuinely upsetting. Had it been a proper blunder like imitating a roman armour or something I would have agreed much more, but taking some creative license with what ancient Greece looked like I feel should be expected.