This is… Sparta?
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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.