#directed by christopher nolan

[viesanterieures]

remember when oppenheimer was announced and film critics were like "who‘s gonna watch a 3 hour biopic about the creator of the atomic bomb in the middle of summer"

dude, people would go to the cinema to watch cillian murphy painting a brick wall for 3 hours and i‘m one of these people

[rivercloak]

so, you're telling me that big-time millionaire director christopher nolan knew löded diper but not one direction??? that's a win for music in my eyes

[multifxndomedits]

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[super-lupus]

Bring back Christian Bale to play Thomas Wayne Flashpoint Batman I'm not fucking kidding

[scarecrowismybabygirl]

Forget everything I ever said about not shipping real people. They’re boyfriends.

By the way, this is taken from an actual interview from Entertainment Weekly: "Not at all," says Nolan, with a laugh. "If I could cast Cillian in every film I ever do, and just lean on him for the rest of my career, I'd be a happy man.""Well, I'm here for you Chris," says Murphy. "Just call me up!”

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)

03/11/2024

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

This is poll is just part one, and is exclusively focusing on film adaptations (the one exception being the 60s Batman series, which has also been included because of the Batman 1966 film). A second part, featuring non-film adaptations, will be coming shortly. A combined poll with the favorite options from each may also be made some time in the future

*obviously with comics there's lots and lots of different runs that can have wildly different qualities and everything which kind of complicates things, but as the source material it does need to be included on the poll- you can just think of this option as indicating a general preference for the comics stories instead of being attached to a specific Batman run in the comics

There are some further notes in the tags of the original post

[i-didnt-hate-it]

I just realized that Kenny Ortega did the spinning hallway thing in High School Musical 3: Senior Year before Christopher Nolan did it in Inception.

2008:

and 2010:

[femme-foucault]

I just made my own post instead of dumping this on a reblog bc it's not a big deal but....when did Martin Scorcese become a stand-in for "guy who makes gangster movies" or "film-bro pretentious?"

Most of Scorcese's films are not about gangsters. Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Cape Fear, New York New York, The King of Comedy, The Age of Innocence, and in fact pretty much every major Scorcese film that most people have seen that isn't Goodfellas or The Departed...is not a film about gangsters. (Mean Streets is great but it's a deeper cut). Gangs of New York, I think you could put in that category, but it's also a historical period piece and not the Goncharov'd/Godfather'd aesthetic that you would associate with a "gangster movie." Oh, I forgot The Irishman, but come on, that one only came out a few years ago and I know none of y'all watched it or remembered it unless you were a huge film nerd. I didn't even get into it.

When did Scorcese, of all people, become the stand-in for "filmmaker people assume is pretentious?" Was it when he said everything correctly wrong with Marvel films? Or on this site maybe Goncharov effect?

EDIT: I also totally forgot about The Departed, which I guess from one point of view is a "gangster film" (or really, a crime film). I distinguish between films like Goodfellas or The Godfather which are what most people think of as "gangster films" in that they focus on the perspective of people in organized crime vs "cops vs robber" films like Heat which usually include the perspective of law enforcement and The Departed is the later, but that's splitting hairs. It's a crime film, sure, and also a thriller.

[weirdworldofwinnie]

Thinking about various portrayals of J. Robert Oppenheimer in media over the years... I have watched some documentaries with reenactments, the Fat Man and Little Boy movie, and the Manhattan series, but none of those actors as him have captivated me (and a lot of the world) as much as the Oppenheimer film has. This shows you the absolute sheer power of Cillian Murphy alone

[pinkeoni]

I think the party would all be team Oppenheimer because they all love science. Personally

[watchmenanon]

STRANGER THINGS 4'S INSPIRATION BOARD.

[refridgerators]

i watched oppenheimer today and it was kinda good actually

[chinchillasorchildren]

Films of 2023: Oppenheimer (dir. Christopher Nolan)

Grade: A-

Emily Blunt in those depositions

[thissliceofnonsense]

Oppenheimer is a direct response to Tenant, here's why.

[ID; Just a gif of Oppenheimer protagonist being traumatized]

SO. I have decided to ride the Oppenheimer hype train.

And say that this movie is Christopher Nolan experimenting with what elements truly matter in telling a story. In essence, Oppenheimer is a direct response to the Tenant movie.

How?

Well most Christopher Nolan movies have some really insane sci-fi element, and an emotional story (read: fleshed-out protagonist) where the protagonist's misbelief and character are put to the test with the insane sci-fi plot. This creates a story where you don't need to understand the plot to enjoy the movie.

In Inception or Interstellar, each of those has a protagonist that's internal conflict hinges on how they interact with the plot. Even if you don't know what is going on, whether the protagonist will achieve their goal/ move on past misbelief, THAT is what hooks you first and foremost.

Now take Tenant. This movie - like the others - had an absolutely insane sci-fi plot, again - like the other movies. There was nothing about it that was inherently more confusing than the others.

And yet. No one understood it.

Why?

Because the protagonist wasn't a protagonist. He didn't have a name, no motivation, or backstory. A protagonist is how we measure what the plot means, and how much we should care. And if you don't understand the plot, you understand the character, and that is what keeps you hooked.

This, I think, was intentional. Christopher Nolan has made the most art with his movies, and now he can experiment. The Tenant movie was a hypothetical on if a story could still work without a protagonist.

No one understood Tenant without a protagonist.

The next movie? Oppenheimer. And what is this one about? A. PERSON. There is no sci-fi plot or insane shenanigans, it is about a person and his struggles with the danger he has created. This is the opposing experiment, to see if the movie does well without a sci-fi plot, but more focus on the protagonist.

And time will tell if this movie proves the point that its characters that matter most in a story, and not necessarily the plot.

(Although the plot is important, only when it drives the characters further in internal conflict, that's what makes even slice-of-life shows interesting.)

[ID: that one building-folding scene from inception]

Anywho. There are my thoughts. Does anyone have any extra info/tea on this movie? I haven't been keeping up with anything other than rottmnt and GotG 3.