This is… Sparta?
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I'm guessing they bought this "armor" off of a female comicon attendee.
So the most beautiful woman in the world picked a gay man to be her husband.
Also, plate mail armor? In the Bronze Age? I'm not a hardliner, I'll give movies set in the early or high middle ages a pass, but this is retarded.
I think it’s trying to look like studded leather but it definitely has high fantasy plate armor design. This is like a lotr elven armor but black…
Except that the LotR movies had actual armorers work on the armor, and it was functional. This armor looks like it was designed by someone that played lots of fantasy video games, but doesn't know how armor is supposed to work in real life. As an example from the picture, look at the articulation points on the breast plate. That's not how armor articulates for the breast plate and abdomen. The only reason to do that there would be to layer the plates for "style", but doing so would just open up the wearer to weak points for the enemy to stab through. Ancient peoples were very smart and pragmatic in their warfare. They had to be, because their lives were hard. Warfare immediately cuts through the bullshit and gets rid of frivolous things, failures in design, and bad plans.
This is what irks me the most about Hollywood. It's all flash and no substance, with the implicit or explicit intent to shit on our White ancestors, history, and stories. It's designed by idiots catering to idiots. It's an insult to the audience, because they think people don't know any better, when even cursory knowledge of the subject would show how stupid it is. It also shows they have zero reverence and knowledge of history, and instead opt for this garbage.
Not uncommon for medieval armor to be segmented because they could not afford a single piece of fitted steel, only scraps, such things were expensive, and brigandines weren't invented yet. Some funeral effigies show scraps of steel just sort of tacked on to chain mail in strategic places. Heck late renaissance jackoplates were just scraps of steel sewn into a jacket. But this is the bronze age(which means it can be cast into a piece as big as you want), and a king.
Yes, there was brigandine, which consists of overlapping plates bound together in cloth or leather, and there was certainly cheaper armor in the past, but that's not what's shown in the pic. The pic is showing articulating plate armor, which does not and has never articulated so high up on the breastplate, nor has it ever had "styled" articulation points like that, which serve no purpose, and actually hinders the purpose and functionality of the armor and articulation points. If this is supposed to be some kind of articulating leather or lamellar armor, it's even more laughable.
[edit] It looks like this pic isn't from Nolan's new movie, but from a 2023 movie called "Knights of the Zodiac".
I thought it was going for fantasy lorica segmentata.
This has nothing to do with nolans movie, this is from Saint seiya movie
The Greeks had the infamous nipple-and-ab plate guards, to which this getup bears a passing resemblance. The pauldrons are pure fantasy bs, though.
Cheap Temu costume screams kikeflix skimping
Menelaus’s armor is noted for its high-value materials, often emphasizing gold and polished bronze to reflect his status as the King of Sparta.
The Cuirass (Thorax): A two-piece bronze breastplate (front and back) that was highly decorated. In the Iliad, it is specifically mentioned that his armor was "double" at the point where his belt fastened, providing extra protection.
The War-Belt (Zoster): A critical piece of his kit, this belt was made of leather and reinforced with golden buckles and bronze plates. It was designed to overlap the bottom of his cuirass.
The "Mitra": Beneath the belt, he wore a mitra, a specialized bronze-reinforced band or "apron" that protected the lower abdomen and groin—a common feature for high-ranking Achaean warriors.
The Helmet (Korus): A bronze helmet with a horsehair crest. While not as famous as Odysseus's boar-tusk helmet, Menelaus’s helmet was polished to a high "gleaming" shine to strike fear on the battlefield.
Greaves (Knēmides): Bronze leg guards fitted with silver ankle-clasps to secure them to his shins.
You know, if they just stuck to the book, it would have looked even better.
She looks like she's about to fight the Power Rangers.
Lol it's live action saint seiya
This is Saint Gay-a.
This is a retarded attempt at Frieza Force armor.
Nolan crashed to rock bottom after Interstellar so I'm not sure why are you surprised.
After?
Oppenheimer was really overrated and lost me after 15 minutes. Also, I'm not sure if he's capable of making a movie that doesn't have jarring pacing with high-tension music permanently playing anymore.
Interstellar is overrated. Change my mind.
Interstellar was a potentially great movie that was brought down by retarded obnoxious girlboss characters and its even more retarded "love is the only thing that covers all of space and time" message.
Jessica Chastain's smug face makes me want to punch a hole in a wall every time I see it.
Seems like they were going to cast a woman, changed their mind but still had the costume made for her.
None of that matches with what I imagined while reading about Odysseus' journey home.
This is what the elites dress their underage twinks in when they do those rituals
Why does he have Batman ears?
Because Nolan wants to get back to when he made good movies.
Great troll, I guess. Since it'll get anyone who doesn't read the first reply.
Or just retarded.
it looks like LARP armor
Looks like a kid wearing his dad's suit.