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Christopher Nolan Explains Why He Doesn’t Use CGI and Shoots on IMAX Robert Downey Jr.: Why Christopher Nolan doesn’t use CGI. Christopher Nolan: I find CGI, however versatile it is, but it always tends to feel a little safe to me. Christopher Nolan: I think if you want something to have a bit of bite, you’ve got the imagery to a better threat, even if it’s a miniature, even if it’s something very fake, but something real on camera. Christopher Nolan: I think it gives you a better result. Robert Downey Jr.: Why does Christopher Nolan shoot on film? Christopher Nolan: I shoot on film because it’s the highest quality imaging format ever devised, particularly IMAX film, large-format film. Christopher Nolan: Film shows you the world kind of the way your eye sees it. Robert Downey Jr.: Where does Christopher Nolan get his ideas? Christopher Nolan: All over the place. Different on every film. Christopher Nolan: Oppenheimer, I’d been interested in a long time, didn’t know that much about the specifics of his story, then came to the book American Prometheus, and that absolutely got me hooked. Christopher Nolan: So, in the case of Oppenheimer, the idea… I trace it right back to, like, as a kid in the eighties, and we all thought we were gonna die in nuclear Armageddon. Robert Downey Jr.: Absolutely. Me too.

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In 4 minutes, Kurt Vonnegut explained stories better than anyone I’ve ever heard. “The shape of the curve is what matters. Not their origins.” He plots stories on 2 axes: X: Time Y: Good fortune / ill fortune He goes on to say, “Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.” Point 1: Stories have defined patterns. In Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces, he makes the case for the Hero’s Journey. Since then, it’s become the most famous storytelling structure in the world. Vonnegut argued stories could be divided into 8 shapes. Each story, he said, fit one of the 8. Point 2: Vonnegut says, “Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — so the reader may see what they're made of.” To see who your characters really are, you have to make them suffer. Only then does your audience have someone worth cheering for. Point 3: End on a high note. Vonnegut says, “It’s not accidental that the line ends up higher than where it began. This is encouraging to readers.” The way a story makes people feel when they finish is how they remember it. It’s called recency bias. Lift people up and they will love you. *** “There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.” I wrote this with Robbie Crabtree. Follow him for lessons on storytelling + fundraising. And I talk about creative storytelling. Follow Nathan Baugh for more like that.

Nathan Baugh

6,248,462 views • 2 years ago

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In 4 minutes, Kurt Vonnegut explains stories better than anyone I’ve ever heard. “The shape of the curve is what matters. Not their origins.” He plots stories on 2 axes: X: Time Y: Good fortune / ill fortune He goes on to say, “Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.” Point 1: Stories have defined patterns. In Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces, he makes the case for the Hero’s Journey. Since then, it’s become the most famous storytelling structure in the world. Vonnegut argued stories could be divided into 8 shapes. Each story, he said, fit one of the 8. Point 2: Vonnegut says, “Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — so the reader may see what they're made of.” To see who your characters really are, you have to make them suffer. Only then does your audience have someone worth cheering for. Point 3: End on a high note. Vonnegut says, “It’s not accidental that the line ends up higher than where it began. This is encouraging to readers.” The way a story makes people feel when they finish is how they remember it. It’s called recency bias. Lift people up and they will love you. *** “There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.” Wrote this awhile ago with Nathan Baugh

Robbie Crabtree

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Christopher Nolan says The Odyssey is a promise he made to himself at 16, watching a volcano documentary in a dome-screen IMAX in Chicago. Christopher Nolan: "Going to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago when I was 16 years old, seeing a documentary about volcanoes in the OmniMax format, and thinking... why on earth isn't Hollywood using this format? I always wanted to be a director. If I ever got the chance, could I shoot a film in this way?" Christopher Nolan: "I called my friends at IMAX and said, look... if ever we're going to make a film entirely on IMAX, this is The Odyssey. This is the one. Can you find a way to alleviate the limiting factor? The cameras are extremely loud." Christopher Nolan: "What they did is they came up with a way of blimping the camera... a high-tech box that silences it. The thing weighed about 300 pounds. But it let us, for the first time ever, get the quiet scenes, the dramatic scenes, and therefore do the whole film."

PrimeNic

47,984 views • 15 days ago

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Christopher Nolan’s next film is only 63 days away but the doubters are out in full force- you can hear them from miles away. I’d like to offer an olive branch to those questioning Nolan in this moment: there’s still time for you to reverse course & stop doubting Nolan. I’m truly surprised by how many have suggested that The Odyssey could be a full-blown failure. The “bust potential” conversations around this film are growing, albeit needlessly. Many have criticized Nolan’s casting decisions & creative decisions- without even seeing the film. This is all without mentioning that Nolan just won multiple Oscars- he just gave us an immediate classic with Oppenheimer. Doesn’t that mean he gets the benefit of the doubt? Shouldn’t people hold their reservations until they see Nolan’s vision through? It doesn’t make any sense to me. Let this be a line of demarcation. 63 days out from The Odyssey, if you’re one of those folks doubting/questioning Nolan, this might be one of your last chance to be on the right side of history when Nolan drops another classic.

Cinema Tweets

73,259 views • 2 months ago

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Christopher Nolan confirms The Odyssey was completed ahead of schedule and under budget. Christopher Nolan: So, you’re asking a lot of the studio, you’re asking a lot of the cast and everybody. Um, you know, I like to say it was a very hard movie, but hard for all the right reasons. You know, it’s The Odyssey, it should be hard. Um… Jon Stewart: It shows up on screen. I mean, all of it shows up on screen. Christopher Nolan: Thank you. Jon Stewart: And someone was telling me that you actually completed it ahead of schedule, as you have with all of your movies, and under budget. Christopher Nolan: Yes. Jon Stewart: Never happens! [Audience laughter and applause.] Never happens! I mean, it’s just… wow. Christopher Nolan: Well, I mean, the reality is, you know, we went in at a hundred days. Um, and by day ninety-one, we couldn’t have taken another step. So, we finished… we finished at the right time. Jon Stewart: You were done. Christopher Nolan: We were done. Everybody was done. I mean, people were just exhausted.

Ruzy.hl

159,873 views • 21 days ago

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The connection between Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" (2014) & Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" (2014): Christopher Nolan’s father died in 2009, after a year-long battle with cancer that was diagnosed just as he was finishing 'Inception' (2010), and as Jonathan Nolan was starting to write 'Interstellar' (2014). His father’s diagnosis was very much in his mind, Jonathan Nolan said, “the connection that you have with your parents. It was the background to much of it.” Christopher Nolan himself sees 'Interstellar' more in terms of his relationship with his own children – Rory, Magnus, Oliver and Flora – all of whom have given him the working titles for the last four of his movies. The Dark Knight was “Rory’s First Kiss”, Inception was “Oliver’s Arrow”, The Dark Knight Rises was “Magnus Rex”, and Interstellar was “Flora’s Letter”. The need to be away from them while filming eats at him. “There is a lot of guilt for that. A lot of guilt. The very sadness of saying goodbye to people is a massive expression of the love you feel for them. For me, 'Interstellar' is really about being a father. The sense of your life passing you by and your kids growing up before your eyes. Very much what I felt watching Richard Linklater’s 'Boyhood' (2014), an extraordinary film, which is weirdly doing the same thing in a completely different way. We are all engaged in the biggest mystery of all, which is just living through time.” ("Christopher Nolan: the man who rebooted the blockbuster", Tom Shone, The Guardian, 2014) P.S: 1) Happy 66th birthday Richard Linklater! 2) Happy 56th birthday, Christopher Nolan!

DepressedBergman

24,062 views • 5 days ago

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Christopher Nolan says the music in “The Odyssey” gets faster and faster and was done intentionally to make you feel anxious Tom Holland: “I wanted to ask you about the music in that sequence.” “That kind of repetitive…” “I don’t even know how to describe it.” Christopher Nolan: “It’s a rhythm.” “The rhythm just goes faster and faster and faster.” “So it gives you this sort of feeling of anxiety.” “This kind of tension.” “It’s a wonderful musical structure.” “Ludwig Göransson did music for this film.” “He fully embraced it.” “The siege of Troy being one of these sequences where…” “You just want the audience on the edge of their seats.” “You just want to continually put them in the heads of the guys who were running through that city at night.” “I really wanted the music to just try and continually…” “Have the tension.”

agim𓍯

55,623 views • 18 days ago

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Nolan’s Odyssey is so close to being great. Here’s my spoiler review after just having reread Homer’s Odyssey. First off, the good: the look and feel of the film is incredible. But the greatest accomplishment must be the pacing. Nolan managed to follow the in media res structure, include (most) of the big episodes, without any of it feeling rushed. I particularly like how he combined many scenes (e.g. Calypso, lotus eaters, and Phaeacians) into one. If he had just avoided these three mistakes this would’ve been legendary: 1. Odysseus is Overly Moralized 2. Deception is Underutilized 3. Racially-Mixed Ithacans Breaks Immersion (it’s not just black Helen of Troy but the mixed White/Black/Indian/Chinese crew of Odysseus that subverts a key premise of the story) Each of these contributes to a lack of mystery in the film. I elaborate on each of the points below (spoilers).

Johnathan Bi

29,042 views • 18 days ago

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A 23-person company now runs on 1 founder and a team of AI agents that never ask for a raise. He gave them names. Meet Nolan, head of content. 1 human types a task into a chatbot. Nolan reads it. He hands it to 1 of his 7 sub-agents to finish. That’s the whole team. Above Nolan sits a chief agent. The executives prompt the chief. He splits the job across every department head, then merges the answers into 1 reply. Employees skip the chief. They talk straight to their department head by chatbot, or by voice. You can call Nolan and he answers like a person. The onboarding doc shows 7 example use cases. A new hire is running the whole system in 1 afternoon. No salaries. No PTO. No 1:1s. No Slack drama. The entire company fits on 1 screen. This is what an org chart looks like when the staff never sleep.

Spike 1%

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Matt Damon says Christopher Nolan was the only exception to the acting break he promised his wife Stephen: "you and your wife agreed that you wouldn’t act for a while. So what gives? Matt: “We had a very specific arrangement. I had a feeling Chris Nolan might have a movie coming up. I had no idea if there was a part for me, but I left that one door open. I said, ‘If Chris Nolan were to call me...’” “Our marriage is the second most important thing. No, that’s not true. To be fair, she’s a massive fan of his movies too. She was like, ‘If he calls, then you can do that.’ Then he did, which was great”

Yonan

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Christopher Nolan explains why the Cyclops in the Odyssey is more horrifying than any monster "One of the first things that i showed him was a painting by Goya, one of the black paintings of Saturn eating his children and it's a it's a horrific image" "But one of the things is really horrifying about it we talked about a lot is that the blankness of the expression, that this is not a monster, nobody thinks they're a monster" "And that's what action makes it most frightening is that if from the monster's point of view they're not monster" "We're irrelevant to them and that's what's really scary we've got a lot out of the films of my friend Guillermo Del Toro" "One of the things he's taught me in his film is that the monster is never just a monster"

le.hl

1,596,980 views • 18 days ago

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Christopher Nolan on Robert Pattinson being one of the busiest actors working today “Rob and I, we’re old friends at this point... He’s an incredible actor and anytime I get a chance to work with him is great... he’s one of the busiest actors working and so for Rob, it’s like ‘alright, let’s take a look at the part and see if I can squeeze it in between The Batman and this and everything’, there’s a lot of that going on.” (via Access Hollywood)

The Batman Saga News

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🖤 WOW! Another amazing friend of Nolan Wells speaks: Tracestin Shepherd. I’ll call him T. With Brandon Tatum Part 5: 🖤 Mom said this wasn’t one of Nolan’s close friends (yet again), yet he parked cars at Nolan’s house for weeks, spent Spring Break with him, and traveled with him. 🖤 The beach fight. T got into a fight after a man inserted himself into him and his girlfriend’s discussion, took a swing at T, and the 2 fought. Later, Warren’s younger brother, Carter, got into a separate one-on-one fight with that SAME man. Nolan was not part of the fight. 🖤 It makes me wonder if Nolan was targeted later because he was with this friend group—or if that same man later inserted himself into Nolan’s conversation with Katie. 🖤 No obvious signs of a fight, THOUGH, per ME. Only the red discoloration on the back of Nolan’s neck, and part of his neck is still being retained by the first medical examiner. There could be medical explanations, but a couple of my guy friends wondered if maybe Nolan had been choked out. 🖤 Last sighting by T: Nolan and Katie were walking toward Wyatt’s boat while T headed to his uncle’s boat. T didn’t say Nolan was getting on the boat or leaving. Katie remains part of the timeline. 🖤 T says the “Give me my effing phone” voice is his, not Nolan’s. Nolan’s coach also said it wasn’t Nolan’s voice. 🖤 T said they searched with Wyatt the next day. I wish he’d said which boat. I’m assuming the 18-foot Palm Beach, since the 22-footer reportedly had water issues—but that’s only my assumption. Lastly, why aren’t we considering that Nolan may have gotten onto someone else’s boat and something happened there? Or that he simply got himself into trouble in the water? What if, under the influence of alcohol, he was injured and tried swimming to shore? Is that why he was found face down? Maybe he drank too much and suffered alcohol poisoning. Maybe someone put something in his drink. Maybe that’s why we’re not seeing clearer answers yet, and why toxicology could be so important. 🔗Link

Shana_X_

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From my conversation with Will Storr: I was watching the latest Mission Impossible movie and realized the plot was so convoluted it made no sense. And yet, the theater was packed. Everyone was glued to their seats. Part of the appeal is the spectacle—Tom Cruise, in his 60s, doing wild stunts. But what stood out to me is that, at this point, we don’t care much about the plot. We care about Ethan Hunt—and about Tom Cruise playing him. We like him, and we’re just following him through these escalating challenges. Afterward, I thought of something from your book, Will. You argue that character is more important than plot. Can you say more about that? Will Storr: Yeah, that’s central to The Science of Storytelling. It’s about how we can tell better stories by understanding the brain as a storytelling machine. Most traditional guides—like those inspired by Joseph Campbell—focus on plot structure. They break stories into templates: this happens, then that happens. That’s where you get things like the Hero’s Journey. But I wanted to begin with how the mind works. We’re deeply social creatures. Our greatest threats and opportunities are other people, so we’ve evolved to be fascinated by the inner lives of others. That’s why character matters. We’re endlessly curious about what’s really going on inside people. It’s why gossip is universal—one study found it makes up 60% of our conversations, across genders. So I’m not saying character instead of plot, but that great plots often grow out of great characters. Who someone is shapes what they want, the problems they face, and how they respond. Just like in real life.

Rob Henderson

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Ben Affleck says the best work of his career is the commentary he recorded for Armageddon Ben Affleck: So this disc, um, the... the Criterion. I was surprised when I heard Criterion was doing Armageddon, 'cause I didn't think of it as that kind of movie when we did it. Um, and in retrospect now, I feel like maybe my best work in my career is the commentary on this disc. People approach me to talk about the commentary on this disc as much as they do like movies that I've been in. And it's because, um, I didn't know any better than to be really honest. But I won't spoil it for those of you who are interested. It... it... it is a... it is an... as an achievement that I'm proud of and didn't intend to be as good as I now think it is at the time. Criterion, when is the 4K coming out?"

𝖬𝖸𝖪𝖤𝖫 ♰

322,999 views • 4 days ago

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Christopher Nolan on Robin Williams's creepy performance in "Insomnia" (2002): "Nolan: You wouldn't notice him sitting next to you on the bus. To me that's why he's so creepy, because he's a very ordinary guy who's crossed this line and he's trying to figure out where that's going to take him, I've seen his performance in this movie, one way or another, thousands of times at this point, and it's totally real. It absolutely stands up to multiple viewings. Most performances don't. Most performances, after you've watched them and watched them and watched them, you start to see the tricks. It starts to get stale. Interviewer: What isn't ordinary about the character is that his mind is so meticulous. Watching Williams, you get the sense that everything he does is premeditated, even when he's winging it. Nolan: Right. but if you watch the film again, if you step outside Pacino's perception of the situation, he's not as sharp as you think he is. Al is progressively strung out. He's missing things. Interviewer: So was it hard to get such a reserved performance out of the famously hyperactive Williams? Nolan: I didn't find it so, to be quite honest. What I found was that all of the control he has as a performer- that allows him to create these various characters be they manic or whatever -- it's exactly the same control that allows him to reign it in." (Christopher Nolan's interview with Rob Blackwelder, Splicedwire, 2002) P.S: On this day, 24 years ago, "Insomnia" (2002) was released in the USA and Canada.

DepressedBergman

45,737 views • 2 months ago

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Tom Holland choses “Oppenheimer” as his GOAT sir Christopher Nolan movie… switching his choice from “The Odyssey” cause it’s not out yet Matt Damon: “GOAT sir Christopher Nolan movie?” Tom Holland: “it’s The Odyssey” Matt Damon: “are we allowed to say that?” “i think everybody watching hasn’t seen it yet, so let’s go through the filmography… it’s a very tough question” Tom Holland: “i thought Oppenheimer, was remarkable!” “i found Oppenheimer so fascinating, i found all the performances like so amazing” “and i thought i was going to go into that movie and be intimidated by science… and he did such a good job of like bringing you with Cillian’s character” “i just thought it was amazing… i saw it in IMAX, and i loved every minute of it”

5sta reze

69,063 views • 19 days ago

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Why Christopher Nolan chose everyday American accents and Travis Scott over traditional cinema voices, and why he says the old way has absolutely no logic. Interviewer: I’m curious about the use of American accents. It felt like an intentional choice. Christopher Nolan: To me, I didn't want to look back to the Hollywood of the 50s and 60s where everyone spoke with an elevated Mid-Atlantic or British accent. There's no logic to that. We're trying to be what I find in the poem, which is earthy, grounded, accessible, and stunningly relevant. Academics talk about how Homer's story was passed down as oral formulaic poetry, but they'll talk about Yugoslav folk poets instead of looking at rap or a guy like Travis Scott. That's why I've got Travis in the movie. He got it immediately, this is how this story has been handed down, and we have that in our culture today.

Fola

65,668 views • 24 days ago

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the camera being in a tight close up on both ilya and shane for the entirety of this scene, except for the moment when ilya is working up the courage to say he’s in love. it’s like for the whole conversation it’s just the two of them, there’s nobody else who matters, and then for a brief moment the shot widens as ilya considers the implications of the fact he’s in love with shane. the fact that the rest of the world DOES matter and will always be a presence in their relationship. we’ve been held in this moment between the two of them and by widening the shot, that intimacy is broken just for a second as we’re reminded that there is a world beyond the two of them and ilya is still in russia. what he’s doing is incredibly dangerous. then the camera tightens back into a close up as he realises he needs to say it anyway because all that matters is that he’s on the phone with shane and he’s in love with him. it really is just the two of them in this moment and he doesn’t want to let anyone else in.

frances 🏒

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