June 6th, 2012
Courtesy of Galley Reader J.O., we have this very interesting interview of Chris Nolan.
He comes across as both impressive, emotionally well-adjusted, and self-aware–more architect than artiste. He seems like a real grown-up.
It’s filled with lots of good stuff on the crafting side of movie-making. For instance: Nolan only uses a single camera and doesn’t use zoom lenses–he repositions his camera and switches to a different lens. Also, he doesn’t use a second unit, because, “If I don’t need to be directing the shots that go in the movie, why do I need to be there at all? The screen is the same size for every shot.”
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That was awesome. One of my favorite things in life is to read about people who are truly passionate about what they do, regardless of what it is that they do. Nolan strikes me as someone who has a true passion for film-making, but I suspect that he would be just as passionate, bring the same quality of work, to whatever he chose to do. The dude is awesome, and his movies are fantastic. He hasn’t made a single bad movie (shut your mouth, Insomnia was good!)
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H0ly crap. What tripe. Blade runner was an awful movie. Alien was so bad the lampooning by Mel Brooks was better. Insomnia? Insipid? Now for the fanboys of Batman. we have the 1,000th remake so we must lick the boots of the latest director? Please.
Oh my stars: an overrated Hollywood director has idiosyncrasies!
Details at 11.
Jason O. June 7, 2012 at 9:14 am
Nolan’s point about being inspired by Ridley Scott’s ability to create a world outside the confines of what is being filmed was spectacular. That has to be one acid test of a what makes a good movie, like Red Letter Media’s now famous question of “tell me about the main characters without describing a) what they look like or b) their actions within the plot.