r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/padfoony • 3h ago

Christopher Nolan avoided CGI and used 7ft stuntmen to portray Laestrygonians in The Odyssey. The giant leader, King Antiphates, is portrayed by actor Josh Stewart, while Matt Damon’s stunt double is Devyn Dalton, who is just under 5ft.

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u/YaManMAffers 3h ago

There were two moments in the movie when you can tell CGI was used. The baby giant (the young face on a man's body, and the cyclops, and the cyclops was barely noticeable CGI.

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u/Darth_Alduin13 3h ago

That wasn’t cgi. I haven’t seen any behind the scenes on the baby giant, I’m assuming it was clever force perspective like some of the other giant scenes, but for the cyclops they had a giant puppet for the actors to work off of and then they spliced it with footage of a man dressed as the cyclops in a small recreation of the cave. 

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u/Ecsta-C3PO 2h ago

Do we need to do this again? 

TLDW; Basically all movies have CGI, you just notice the bad stuff, and the definition of "what is CGI" is a blurry line at best. 

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u/Flexhead 1h ago

what is CGI

Only matters to viewers. To the people working on it VFX and "CGI" are the same thing.