Matt Damon explains how Christopher Nolan fixed IMAX cameras’ biggest flaw for his latest film, The Odyssey. Christopher Nolan is undoubtedly one of the greatest directors ever in the history of cinema and may be even the history of storytelling. He has stunned and bewitched us with the spectacular ways he tells his stories, movie after movie.

However, it has not been easy to make the type of films he wants to make, especially with the scale and the finesse with which he wants to tell his stories. His latest movie, The Odyssey, is no different as far as challenges in production are concerned. But the director overcame all of that to present the world with the live adaptation of the 3000-year-old epic.

Matt Damon has revealed in a recent interview the loudest IMAX issue that the director fixed to give his audience the best possible experience for the film.

In a recent sitting with 60 Minutes Overtime, actor Matt Damon, who plays the main lead, Odysseus, explained how the Academy Award-winning director, Christopher Nolan, fixed one of the biggest issues with the IMAX camera for The Odyssey, and how it was a game-changer for the quality of the movie.

The Odyssey is the first film to be entirely shot with an IMAX camera. The upside of shooting with an IMAX camera is that each frame gets three times more resolution than the digitally, which is a significant jump in image quality. However, the main challenge with these cameras is that they are too loud, and it becomes almost impossible to shoot an intimate or close-proximity scene with them.

“Camera's just much too loud. The audio would never work,” Damon said.

But the director had a solution for this. He asked the IMAX company to make a soundproof enclosure for the camera. This way, the camera sound would not interfere with the scenes, but it did make the whole camera setup a bit “cumbersome.” The thing works, though, and that is what the director was gunning for.

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The interview also features Christopher Nolan taking the host on a quick tour of the place where the magic happens.

Director Christopher Nolan and correspondent Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes went to FotoKem in Burbank, California, the world's only motion picture facility that produces 70mm prints, to watch The Odyssey's final touches. There, they saw a negative assembly technician splicing the negatives manually.

The scene changes, being cut and glued together by hand and with a little help from a machine that felt like a relic from the ‘40s, astonished the host. The incredible skills and precision it took to put together The Odyssey film really blew everyone away, and established once again that there are no limits to what Christopher Nolan will do to raise the bar for the movie-going experience.

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