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Christopher Nolan: The Director and his Work
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This chapter presents a brief biography of Christopher Nolan, outlining his life so far. From his earliest short films, it is clear that Nolan has been interested in strange states of mind, illusions of various kinds, and the borderlines between fantasy and reality. Even his first experiments with his father's Super 8 camera were made using toy action figures. By the time he made Inception (2010), he was forcing his audience to understand not only the actual temporal sequence of juxtaposed events but also various events occurring contemporaneously but at different speeds (at different dream levels) and, further, to identify whether any given sequence was in the 'real' (diegetic) world as presented in the film or in one of the dream worlds. The chapter then looks at Nolan's other works, including Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), The Prestige (2006), the Batman trilogy, Interstellar (2014), and Dunkirk (2017).
Title: Christopher Nolan: The Director and his Work
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This chapter presents a brief biography of Christopher Nolan, outlining his life so far.
From his earliest short films, it is clear that Nolan has been interested in strange states of mind, illusions of various kinds, and the borderlines between fantasy and reality.
Even his first experiments with his father's Super 8 camera were made using toy action figures.
By the time he made Inception (2010), he was forcing his audience to understand not only the actual temporal sequence of juxtaposed events but also various events occurring contemporaneously but at different speeds (at different dream levels) and, further, to identify whether any given sequence was in the 'real' (diegetic) world as presented in the film or in one of the dream worlds.
The chapter then looks at Nolan's other works, including Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), The Prestige (2006), the Batman trilogy, Interstellar (2014), and Dunkirk (2017).
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