"On a vast beach in Morocco last year, waves were pummeling one of humanity’s oldest plot devices.
Christopher Nolan’s version of the Trojan Horse—35 feet tall and rearing on hind legs—was half buried in sand on the Atlantic coast. In the filmmaker’s imagination, the trick of hiding Greek warriors inside a wood contraption was more believable if it looked like a waterlogged offering to a god left by a departed army.
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On the beach, however, it wasn’t clear if the horse would survive its scenes. Nolan’s crew watched anxiously as the surf tore pieces off their colossal prop of fiberglass, wood and steel. Later it took further beatings as they worked out how the 8,000-pound horse could be dragged over dunes and log rollers by actors with ropes."
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