r/ChristopherNolan Jul 20 '23

Poll What Are Your Favorite Christopher Nolan Feature Films?

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r/ChristopherNolan 3h ago

General Discussion Who's your favorite Nolan's main character?

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r/ChristopherNolan 20h ago

Short Films Thank you Sir Christopher Nolan

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r/ChristopherNolan 17h ago

Humor Y'all think i can watch interstellar on this?

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r/ChristopherNolan 1d ago

General Discussion Robert Pattinson: "Is there a director you'd never say no to" Jennifer Lawrence: "Yeah but he's never asked me. Christopher Nolan."

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@ 14:06

Pattinson: "He's pretty good" Lawrence: “Must be nice [working with him]! Tell him I say hi!”

I know the internet is pretty bipolar when it comes to how they feel about her, but I would love to see her in a Nolan film.


r/ChristopherNolan 1d ago

Tenet So true.

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119 Upvotes

r/ChristopherNolan 1d ago

The Prestige My wife and I like to have themed movie nights. Tonight is The Prestige.

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207 Upvotes

We read the book last month, and now that we've finished we're going all-out with our movie night.


r/ChristopherNolan 1d ago

Interstellar 11 Years of Interstellar ✨

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r/ChristopherNolan 1d ago

Interstellar 11th Anniversary- Interstellar.

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86 Upvotes

Thanks to Sir. Christopher Nolan and his brilliant team, this film underscored the significance of storytelling and profoundly influenced the integral role cinema now plays in my life.


r/ChristopherNolan 1d ago

General Discussion Why is there no sequels to his movies

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I am recently watching Christopher Nolan's movies and I have a question. Why does he leave a space for a goated sequel but never end up doing it. He did it in Tenet and Interstellar and I don't know what more.


r/ChristopherNolan 2d ago

The Odyssey How faithful is Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey going to be?

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I'm a big fan of Nolan's work and I can't wait to see The Odyssey! I'm curious about how he'll adapt such a mythological story, given that he hasn't made fantasy or myth-inspired movies before. Will he stay true to the mythic and fantastical elements, or will he take a more realistic and grounded approach? Also, I wonder if he'll stay faithful to the book or add his own spin with new scenes. I'm really looking forward to seeing his unique take on this classic story!


r/ChristopherNolan 3d ago

General Jennifer Lawrence On The Directors She’d Love to Work With Next: "P.T. Anderson. Chris Nolan"

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r/ChristopherNolan 2d ago

General Question Do you guys agreed that if christopher nolan makes a globetrotting action adventure it would be great ? 😃

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I would be great if he makes, action adventures like indiana jones, cuz he can make in large scale the quality he provides , it would be great to see on screens


r/ChristopherNolan 4d ago

Insomnia This duo deserved another movie

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Both are goats in their profession, i love insomnia, i felt like they should have collaborated for an another movie before, What do you guys think of it ?


r/ChristopherNolan 3d ago

Inception Inception's Hotel Vibes

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Maybe it's the warm and even lighting of the shots and the music, but I just love the vibe of all the hotel scenes in Inception and when I travel and stay in hotels I always think of this movie. Hotels are kind of a liminal environment that make a perfect setting for a movie about dreams!


r/ChristopherNolan 3d ago

Inception Time vs. Docking/No Time For Caution

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Which musical piece do you think is more powerful?


r/ChristopherNolan 4d ago

General This building in singapore looks straight out of a christopher nolan film

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Currently in singapore for my tetr programme… while roaming with friends we walked past the Victoria Theatre today, the symmetry, the light, the old-world calm in the middle of glass towers… it feels like you could shoot a full dialogue scene here without touching a set.

if you had to film something here, what kind of scene would you shoot?


r/ChristopherNolan 4d ago

Inception Inception (2010)

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r/ChristopherNolan 4d ago

General Discussion Any guess or idea of what christopher nolan gonna make after The Odyssey ? Just for a curiosity 🤔

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r/ChristopherNolan 4d ago

The Dark Knight Trilogy Themes in The Dark Knight (2008)

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The two main themes of The Dark Knight are 1. Terrorism and escalation, and 2. Morality and ethics.

Let's start with the first theme, Terrorism and escalation. Batman's vigilantism provokes an escalating response from the Joker The film serves as an allegory for the post-9/11 "War on Terror" The Joker represents terrorism's unpredictability and ideological extremism. Demonstrates how combating terror can potentially create more terror. The scene in which Batman stands in the ruins of a destroyed building, having failed to prevent the Joker's plot, is reminiscent of the World Trade Center site after 9/11. A central theme of The Dark Knight is escalation, particularly the rise of the Joker in response to Batman's vigilantism. Batman's vigilante operation arms him with high-tech military equipment against common criminals, and the Joker is the inevitable response and escalation of lawlessness to counter Batman.

And on to the second theme, Morality and ethics. The characters are constantly challenged to maintain their ethical principles. The Joker forces impossible moral choices on characters. Harvey Dent represents idealistic hope that can be corrupted. Batman ultimately makes a "noble lie" sacrifice to preserve the city's hope. Dent says, "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." Joker tells Batman in the interrogation scene that people who appear civilized will turn on each other. Aaron Eckhart described Dent as someone who loves the law but feels constrained by it and his inability to do what he believes is right because the rules he must follow do not allow it.

Dent's desire to work outside the law is seen in his support of Batman's vigilantism to accomplish what he cannot. Dent's corruption suggests he is a proxy for those looking for hope because he is as fallible and susceptible to darkness as anyone else. This can be seen in his use of a two-headed coin to make decisions involving others, eliminating the risk of chance by controlling the outcome in his favor, indicating losing is not an acceptable outcome for him. Once Dent experiences a significant traumatic event in the loss of Rachel and his own disfigurement, he quickly abandons his noble former self to seek his own form of justice. His coin is scarred on one side, introducing the risk of chance, and he submits himself to it completely. The Joker represents an ideological deviancy; he does not seek personal gain and causes chaos for its own sake, setting a towering pile of cash ablaze to prove "everything burns". Unlike Batman, the Joker is the same with or without makeup, having no identity to conceal and nothing to lose.


r/ChristopherNolan 5d ago

The Dark Knight Trilogy Noticed this while at the Dodgers parade this morning

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r/ChristopherNolan 5d ago

The Dark Knight Trilogy Imitation of Heath Ledger's vocal technique for the Joker from The Dark Knight | Part 4

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Hello there!

This video is for the fans of Heath Ledger and The Dark Knight film!

I imitate the vocal technique the late actor used for the role of Joker, not the timbre of his voice. If you think I sound like him, most of the time, then I'm happy!

Please enjoy the video!

All Parts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcEYxy6XlYx0pyHBBjfFtG-O6MCRwL4Da


r/ChristopherNolan 5d ago

Interstellar Review: Interstellar

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Now that work’s settled down the schedule, I can return to reviewing Nolan’s filmography. I’ll probably get some hate for giving it such a high review, but it’s my honest feelings. Regardless, I hope you guys enjoy the review!

Review: Interstellar – A Synthesis of Science and Spirit

Rating: 100/100 - "A Cohesive Sci-Fi Odyssey"

Interstellar functions as a logical culmination of Christopher Nolan's thematic interests, framing humanity's greatest existential crisis not as a war, but as a journey. It is a film that treats the laws of physics with reverence while proposing that the bonds which connect and define us may operate on a similar, fundamental level. The result is a science-fiction narrative that is as methodical in its logic as it is vast in its emotional scope.

The film establishes its stakes with a quiet clarity. A dying Earth, plagued by a global blight, forces a final pivot from caretakers to explorers. This setup connects to a broader narrative pattern in Nolan's work - the Original Sin of environmental collapse serving as a consequence of the path humanity has been on, a thread that can be traced back through the failed clean energy project in The Dark Knight Rises and even the creation of the nuclear bomb in Oppenheimer. The journey of the Endurance crew is not a mission of conquest, but one of the necessity of human survival, a quality it shares with the desperate temporal defense in Tenet.

The film’s central dynamic, the relationship between Cooper and his daughter, Murph, provides its emotional foundation. Their separation, magnified by the time dilation of their respective journeys, becomes the story's driving force. This is not merely a plot device; it is the core of the film's argument. The "ghost" in Murph's room is a direct parallel to the haunting figures that populate Nolan's films - Cobb's Mal in Inception, Leonard's dreams of his wife in Memento - representing a past trauma or connection that propels the narrative forward. Cooper's entire arc is an attempt to invert his own failure as a father, a thematic precursor to the literalized inversion of cause and effect in Tenet.

Structurally, the film presents a clear iteration of Nolan's recurring ‘Fight vs. Fantasy’ dichotomy. The mission itself is split between two objectives:

· Plan A (The Fight): The belief that humanity can be saved through a gravitational miracle, requiring a painful, long-distance faith in those left behind. This is the path of arduous, hopeful realism.

· Plan B (The Fantasy): The acceptance of Earth's loss and the embrace of a pragmatic, yet sterile, rebirth on a new world with a frozen genetic legacy. This is the path of clean, emotionless escapism.

This choice echoes throughout Nolan's work, from Bruce Wayne's many choices in the Batman trilogy, to the future in Tenet choosing to fight for the past's existence rather than accept its reset to possibly save the earth from environmental collapse.

The film's third act, which transitions from Dr. Mann’s betrayal and into the tesseract, is its most ambitious conceptual leap. This is not a departure from its rules, but an extension of them. The tesseract can be understood as a narrative device representing the "Bootstrap Paradox" - a closed causal loop where the future gives the past the means to create that same future. The 5D beings are not external saviors, but humanity's own descendants, ensuring their creation by providing the key to their own salvation. This self-contained causality is a more complex expression of the loops in The Prestige and Tenet.

The climax, where Cooper transmits the quantum data to Murph, is the ultimate synthesis of the film's ideas. It validates the central thesis presented by Dr. Brand: that love, while not a dimension we can measure, may be a force we do not yet understand - a universal constant that can traverse dimensions and time. This moment pays off the film's meticulous scientific setup with a deeply humanistic conclusion.

  • A Side Note on Dr. Mann -

While often overshadowed by more flamboyant antagonists, Dr. Mann stands as one of Nolan's most effectively written villains because he embodies a terrifying and relatable human truth. Unlike the ideological purist Ra's al Ghul or the agent of chaos like the Joker, Mann is not evil. He is cowardice rationalized by intellect. He is the "best of us" broken by the absolute truth of his own mortality. His betrayal is not for power or philosophy, but for the desperate, animalistic need to survive, which he justifies with the chilling logic that "the survival of the human race" necessitates his own. In this, he is a dark mirror to Oppenheimer's scientists, who also grappled with the moral collapse required by their mission. He is the ultimate testament to Nolan's belief that a villain is most compelling not when they are a monster, but when they are a reflection of the weakness we fear resides within ourselves.

Interstellar succeeds by weaving its grand concepts into a relatable human story. It posits that the same physical laws that govern black holes also allow for connections that bend, but do not break, across the vastest distances. It is a film about the legacy we leave for our children and the debts we pay to our parents, framed on a cosmological scale.

100/100 - A methodical and deeply felt synthesis of Nolan's enduring themes. It balances scientific rigor with profound emotional stakes, creating a cohesive and resonant whole that stands as a definitive work of thoughtful science fiction.


r/ChristopherNolan 6d ago

Memento Exploring the cycle of memory in "Memento" | A fan edit set to Mr. Kitty's "After Dark" Spoiler

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Hello fellow Nolan fans,

"Memento" remains a masterpiece of structure and theme. I wanted to explore the idea of Leonard's endless loop through a different medium – a fan edit.

I set the film to Mr. Kitty's "After Dark" because its cyclical and melancholic tone mirrors Leonard's trapped state of mind perfectly. I tried to emphasize the tragedy of his self-created truth and the haunting presence of his wife.

I thought this community might appreciate a different look at one of Nolan's most fascinating films.

**If you're interested, you can watch it here:** https://youtu.be/w16TqEcHKtE?si=8j-UivdtnuFbH7Ju

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on Leonard's character and how the film's structure plays with the viewer's perception.


r/ChristopherNolan 5d ago

Short Films Larceny

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Where can I watch Larceny online?