Since his first film called next, Christopher Nolan he quickly proved to have a unique style that gives his films a distinct look. Whether he plays with space-time, with perspective, or creates breathtaking action scenes, the director always does so with a very clear vision that fans have come to love over the years.
Nolan is one of the highest-grossing directors in film history (over $5 billion) and is best known for directing the Dark Knight trilogy of films. Batman Begins, The Dark Knight AND Rise of the dark knight, Origin, Interstellar, Dunkirk AND Prestige. In connection with the release Oppenheimerwe decided to explore some of the most iconic scenes from the visionary British director’s films, starting with I remember until his penultimate film, enigmatic and mysterious the keeper.
1. Memento is an inverted polaroid
In 2000 Nolan did it I remember, a film starring Guy Pearce as a man suffering from severe short-term memory loss that prevents him from making new memories. Due to his disorder, he can’t even remember people’s faces or know if he knows them, and in order to decide who he can trust, he always carries with him Polaroid photographs with the names of the objects depicted and the impression they make on them.
The scene that stands out the most is by far the first scene with a polaroid image of a corpse shown upside down. Not only does this immediately make it clear to viewers that violence will be a predominant feature of the rest of the film, but it also introduces the director’s trademark or time change, which we will also find in many of his later works. projects.
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2. The Dark Knight 2 – Gotham City Stadium Destruction
Rise of the dark knight is a film that has many iconic scenes, but none of them is as epic and memorable as Bane (Tom Hardy)’s destruction of Gotham City Stadium at the beginning of his occupation of the city.
Panoramic views of Gotham City, the huge size of the stadium and the spectacle of the explosion and collapse of the football field during the first impact amazingly start the second half of the 2012 film. This legendary and expressive scene of the stadium, the destruction makes us understand a very important point that applies to all films of the trilogy : The public must witness the evil that threatens them and choose which side to take.
3. Beginning – Fight in the hallway
Originperhaps one of Nolan’s most famous and beloved films, see below. Leonardo DiCaprio like a thief who enters people’s dreams to steal their most valuable information. The film, thanks to many iconic scenes, received various awards, including 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Sound Editing and Best Special Effects; it was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, and Best Soundtrack.
However, the scene that best represents Nolan’s visual creativity is the one in which Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) makes his way through a hallway while in one of the deepest dimensions of sleep while still being subjected to level one gravity. The scene plays with time and space, cause and effect and action, all the characteristic elements of a director’s work.
4. “Interstellar” – an adventure in a black hole
Interstellar this is a film about science, human emotion and the determination to save those we love, no matter the cost, no matter how many years it takes us to reach our goals. Nolan best illustrates this in the scene where Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is launched into Gargantua’s black hole so that Brand (Anne Hathaway) can reach Edmunds’ habitable planet.
The act of sacrifice itself, extraordinary, never-before-seen images of how terrifying a black hole can be, and the epic crescendo of Hans Zimmer’s music create a dizzying, emotionally charged scene that leads to the most important revelation of what is by far the director’s most touching film.
5. Dunkirk – Final Sequence
A characteristic element of the filmography of Christopher Nolan, of course, is his ability to end his films by starting a new chapter. He did it masterfully from the end The Dark Knight and from Interstellar and again in his 2017 World War II epic, Dunkirk.
The final sequence of this title shows the completion of all three major storylines and timelines of the film, leaving audiences wondering what the next steps will be for the main characters, both on a micro level and on a micro level as far as Farrier is concerned (Tom Hardy), and at the macro level with the continuation of World War II. The ending plays nice with our emotions and leaves us wanting more, which is by far the best ending to a movie.
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6. Tenet – The protagonist fights with himself
There is probably no other Christopher Nolan film that plays with the concept of spacetime as much as the keeper, a science fiction action film starring John David Washington as a character known simply as “The Protagonist”. At some point in the 2020 movie, the future version of the character returns to an earlier scene and clashes with his past version, resulting in an epic and incredibly creative battle.
The film received mixed reviews from critics, who, while praising the performance and visuals, expressed doubts about the clarity of the plot: to put it bluntly, there are undoubtedly some sequences that seem like an unsolvable puzzle that must be viewed several times to be fully understood. However, this scene is one of those exceptional moments that only Nolan is able to give his fans.