Not everyone can be Spider-Manbut whoever achieves it, acquires a series of superpowers that go far beyond being able to climb walls or throw cobwebs. Tom Holland He knows this very well and since he first put on the superhero suit he has not stopped demonstrating why it was the ideal choice. The latest test has led him to get none other than the studio boss himself sony lend him his private screening room. So that? Well, to take the entire team of his latest film to see a classic in film history.
This is what Matt Damon confessed in his interview with Empire, in which he revealed some first details of The Odysseythe film he has been filming with Christopher Nolan and Tom Holland himself. Damon plays Odysseus, protagonist of Homer’s classic work and one of the most famous heroes of Greek mythology. However, it has been his son in fiction, Telemachus, who has become a true leader by promoting this activity among the members of the team and getting the president of Sony, Tony Rothman, to lend them his private cinema. And not for just a few hours.
“We were at Sony, and Tom Rothman has one of the original 70mm prints. And Tom Holland, since he is Spider-Man and everyone’s favorite at that studio, called Rothman and organized a screening for us on a Sunday, the whole four hours,” explained Damon, alluding to a film that was not only important to Holland, but an inspiration for director Christopher Nolan and that has undoubtedly played a fundamental role in the construction of The Odyssey. But what movie are they talking about?
Well, it is about Lawrence of Arabia1962 film directed by David Leanone of the most influential filmmakers of classical cinema and author of other great masterpieces such as Brief encounter, The Bridge over the River Kwai either Doctor Zhivago. The British director was one of the best of his time for his ability to put together great stories and mix his epic with the intimacy of his characters, often fallen heroes like those in Nolan’s films.
The filmmaker and author of Origin either The dark knight has never hidden his predilection for Lean in general and for Lawrence of Arabia in particular, to the point that it was one of the films that the protagonist of his previous film sent to see, Cillian Murphy with Oppenheimer. Nolan himself attended a screening of the film starring Peter O’Toole and inspired by the adventures of diplomat TS Lawrence through the desert in his day, pointing out the advantages of having been able to see it in 70mm: “Sometimes it is difficult to put into words what is lost in digital projection compared to film projection. It can be the most subtle details of the shadows, the particular tonality of the skies. Here you can see them on the camel when it leaves the desert much earlier than what can be seen in Blu-ray”. Holland seems to have taken good note of this.
