Eliana Dockterman in Time Magazine:
Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse isn’t a towering colossus looming over the coast of Troy. It’s sinking. Half-submerged, it looks less like a monument than a mistake, an offering to the gods already being claimed by the sea. Inside, filthy soldiers press up against the wood. They breathe through straws as the water rises, waiting in silence for the Trojans to drag the horse through their city’s impenetrable walls. It’s an audacious image, even for Nolan, the filmmaker who has most successfully fused artistic vision with commercial appeal in the modern era.
“If the horse were sinking into the sand and about to be swept away by the tide, the Trojans would never believe there could be anybody in there,” says Nolan, pouring Earl Grey from a teapot wrapped in a geometric cozy at the bright but unassuming offices of his production company, Syncopy. “They would be rescuing this thing from the waves and dragging it into the city as a prize. It wouldn’t be on wheels, like a roller skate.”
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