Everyone's (justifiably) shitting on Nolan but I don't think I've seen anyone call out his accomplice, Hoyte van Hoytema (Director of Photography). I knew Odyssey was gonna be yet another monotone, muted movie the moment I read Hoytema was involved.Seriously, just look at each film they've worked on together.>From Interstellar to OppenheimerThey're essentially all the same picture. Identical gray palettes. Lifelessly sterile sets that look conspicuously staged. UGLY exterior shots w/ atrociously artificial-looking sunlight. Just dull visual storytelling. None of these movies are actually pleasing to look at.And now you have Odyssey. The current drama involves a still of Odysseus being washed ashore a gray beach (the top of picrel).>Muh fog!>"Athena shrouds Ithaca in mist so Odysseus does not recognize it upon his return">See? Did ya read that?? It's been community noted, chud!>Muh mist!Nolanfags are currently coping about Odyssey's lifelessly dull color grading—which is visibly evident in every other scene from the trailers—by arguing it's just that beach scene. Hoytema is just as much of a hack as Nolan is. They're both wrong choices for this job.
>no one shits on nolan for using the same incompetent people over and over againNPD alert!
>>220566007Hoytema is incompetent, but it's director that's responsible for grading. They're using large format film, capable of stunning resolution and colour, but they're so bad at it that they will kill the format. Ron Fricke is so much better at large format film that it's not even funny.Play on 4k:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szzJ4wMrUm8
>>220566708>Hoytema is incompetent, but it's director that's responsible for gradingRemember that Nolan is daltonic. Also people talks about colour, but what about emotion? His movies got none. Sex, passion, anger, there is so little in Nolan movies, everyone is always wearing a suit and whispering their lines.
>>220566007Dunkirk looked pretty good even though there were only 4 people on the beach.
Why did Nolan stop working with Wally Pfister?
>>220566921Pfister quit feature cinematography, tried to become a director himself, but his movie flopped, so he went on to direct commercials.
>>220566893Yes, Dunkird did look good. But there really was no large difference between 35mm scenes and large format, even when watched on high fidelity screens.
