Wednesday 4 January 2012

Director Inspiration - Christoper Nolan

Born in London in 1970, Christopher Nolan began making films at the age of seven. Chris studied English Literature at University College London while starting to make 16mm films at the college film society. His short film 'larceny' was shown at the Cambridge Film Festival in 1996, and his other 16mm shorts include a three- minute surreal film called 'doodlebug'.

He is famous for his works in the Batman remakes such as 'Batman Begins' and 'The Dark Knight' both of which have been give good reviews by critics and rallied many loyal fans who awaits the release of 'The Dark Knight Rises' this summer. He is also famous for the award winning science fiction, action, heist film written by Christoper Nolan personally for eight years. Because of his recent sucess in 'The Dark Knight' he managed to secure $100 million in advertising expenditure alone. He also directed the psychological thriller Memento that is well known for its disruption of time flow and and slowly extendind the story for each flashbacks of the main character most viewers found it as a masterpiece and a genius work and use of time in the thriller genre.

He is known for ending the film where the narrative starts he usually do this by using a flashback or a scene from the end of the movie. The way he constructs his film narrative by using a unique story telling technique is mostly used in his films; he often flips around the three acts of a movie to tell the story in an interesting fashion and engages the audience. And he often ends his film with a sometimes startling jump cut to black screen he did this in Memento, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Prestige, and most significantly in Inception when he created a controversial cliffhanger on whether or not the main character is still dreaming.

He has influenced our storyline by his use of non linear technique which is used in our film by having  2 different settings in the opening credits and the way we ended our opening credits with a black screen to let a different setting and narrative into the story and actually starts the main body of the film.
  
 

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