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He is awesome, 15, nine movies, all missed, known as Hollywood's number one darling, the man who "kneels down" in the film company.

He's fine. A Star Trek directly earns $20 million, not including 20% of the box office commission. There is a group of powerful family members behind him.

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From 65438 to 0977, 7-year-old Nolan started his earliest film creation by shooting his toy soldiers with his father's super 8 camera. During college, Nolan and some like-minded friends organized the "16mm" club and filmed many short films. 1996, he and his friends from the "16mm" club filmed his first real movie "Follow", which only cost 6000 dollars. The subtle lines in the movie make people feel very cool:

The contents of these boxes, like the diaries of teenagers, are carefully hidden in unknown places. But hidden people subconsciously want others to see these things. That's what I did. I visited their exhibitions and became their loyal bosom friends.

Although what you do is cock crow and dog thief, you don't have to act like a cock crow and dog thief.

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▲ "follow"

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In 2000, Nolan came to Hollywood to develop, direct and write the film Memento, which was adapted from Nolan's younger brother jonathan nolan's short story The Symbol of Death. It only cost $5 million and finally got a box office of $40 million. It also won the Independent Spirit Award for "Best Screenplay" and "Best Director", Golden Globe Award and Oscar nomination for best screenplay. But the initial response was actually very poor. He said:

We held the premiere in Los Angeles. During the Independent Spirit Award, I hoped some filmmakers could see this work, but the response was very bad. No filmmaker wants to buy this film, and some viewers even left the cinema directly in the middle of it.

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In 200 1 year, Nolan filmed the police film "Chasing the Murder in the White Night" (also translated as "Insomnia"), which was a remake of the Norwegian film of the same name in 1997. The film was praised by critics as a rare success in reshaping European films. After two blockbusters, Nolan's greatest achievement is to learn to get along with Hollywood rules. He said:

Hollywood always needs two things: a good story and a good director.

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▲ "White Night Chasing Murder"

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Seven years after joel schumachumqcher's Batman and Robin was rated as "the fifth worst movie sequel in history", Nolan is determined to revive the Batman series. In 2003, Nolan volunteered to join Warner and invited British actor Christian Bale to play the leading role in the commercial comedy Batman: The Mystery of the blur. In June, 2005, the film was officially released, and it won a global box office of 352 million dollars and the 32nd Saturn Award for Best Screenplay, which was well received by comic fans and critics. From the beginning of this film, Nolan began to dig deep into Batman (Bruce Wayne) and described it in detail. He said:

My starting point and constant motivation for shaping Batman is that he is a superhero, and he has no super powers except wealth. His particularity is ultimately his extraordinary motivation and absolute dedication, which makes him great.

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▲ "Batman: The Mystery of the blur"

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In July, 2008, The Dark Knight was released, which finally earned $65.438+82 billion at the global box office, making it the fourth movie in the world with a box office of over $65.438+0 billion, and the first superhero movie with a box office of over $65.438+0 billion. This film officially put Nolan on the altar. Unfortunately, before the release of The Dark Knight, the talented Australian actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his apartment. The clown with scarlet smile and pale face in the film became the last and most profound screen image he left for fans. He also won 8 1 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. That year, countless fans gave the godfather 1 on IMDb, and put the dark knight on the throne, including many fans who lamented Heath Ledger.

On April 20 15, Nolan gave a speech at Lincoln center, sharing his own creation of "Batman" worldview and expressing his nostalgia for Heath Ledger:

Like most artists, Heath Ledger is not a traditional actor. You can't ask him to sit still and say, "well, you can be a clown." We haven't started shooting yet, but his wanton tone and crazy actions have shown the embryonic form of a classic clown. What he will say and where he will go is completely unpredictable. His performances are always full of surprises.

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The clown played by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight has become one of the most classic images in film history. The main inspiration for characterization comes from Alan Moore's novel A Fatal Joke. Alan Moore is famous for the comic novel The Watcher (selected as the best novel in the history of Time magazine 100). Fatal Joke, like The Dark Knight, describes a crazy clown: he fabricates many versions of the past and challenges the limits of Batman again and again. In an interview, Nolan pointed out the influence of Fatal Joke on the Heath Ledger version of The Clown. He said:

Clowns are anarchists. He devoted himself to creating chaos. He should have no specific goals. As Alan Moore said: In his subconscious, he just wants everyone to be as evil as he is, which shows that he is not a monster, and everyone can be as mean and corrupt as he is.

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▲ Heath Ledger

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20 10 directed Inception, a sci-fi movie about dreams. This is Nolan's new attempt in the commercial field. This film tells the story of a dreamer, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who leads a team of agents into other people's dreams, stealing secrets and dreaming again. The production cost of $654.38+600 million earned a global box office of $830 million and won the "Best Visual Effect" of the 83rd Oscar. When talking about this original masterpiece, Nolan said:

I started to conceive this story when I was 16 years old. I want to make it into a horror movie. But I have always been attracted by dreams and want to make a movie about dreams. Because I think there is a connection between the way imagination works on dreams and your own story. Watching movies is similar to experiencing a dream. Appreciating and accepting all this in the cinema should be an unknown experience.

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▲ Inception space

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20 12 July, Batman Prequel 3: The Rise of the Dark Knight was released. The total box office of the film reached $65.438+05 billion, making it the 654.38+03 film with a box office of $65.438+00 billion in film history. At the premiere of the film, a doctoral student shot at the audience with a gun, killing 12 people. When he was arrested, he called himself a clown. Nolan's trilogy "The Dark Knight" is superior to others in overall quality and theme depth, which has promoted superhero movies to an unprecedented height, and its rich dark realism style has also influenced many subsequent superhero movies. But after this incident, Nolan wrote a "farewell letter" to formally bid farewell to the Batman movie:

Michael, Morgan, Gary, Srian, Liam, Heath, Christian Bale ... those names mean a lot to me. During my stay in Gotham, I have dealt with one of the greatest and most powerful images in popular culture, which is the biggest challenge and reward a filmmaker can expect. I will miss Batman. I think he will miss me, too, but he is not so sad.

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▲ "Batman Prequel 3: The Rise of the Dark Knight"

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Nolan has made many films with open endings and lots of room for interpretation, such as Memento and Inception. In Memento's director's commentary, Nolan recorded three different but specious endings, which were randomly played to the audience on DVD. But he insisted that he had the most decisive explanation for the ending. He said:

The only way to realize the ambiguity of the plot efficiently is to know the answer by yourself.

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August 20 13, Nolan directed the play Interstellar written by his younger brother jonathan nolan. The film lasts 165 minutes and costs $970,000 per minute. It tells the story of a group of explorers using their newly discovered wormholes to start interstellar voyage in the vast universe, which involves the "fifth dimension". 20 14,110/0 was released in October, which earned 550 million global box office. There are many sentences in dylan thomas's famous poem "Don't walk into that night lightly". Nolan said that the appeal of familiar sentences "gives us courage to resist the fear of death and the hesitation of time passing":

Don't walk gently into that beautiful night, old people should burn and roar at sunset.

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▲ Interstellar

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Nolan acknowledged that Interstellar was influenced by stanley kubrick's great "200 1: A Space Odyssey" and paid tribute to Blackstone. He said:

I can't avoid talking about 200 1: A Space Odyssey, and I can't pretend that it doesn't exist when I conceive the movie. It is really a great work, which has great inspiration for me and many directors. One of my earliest memories of movies is that my father took me to see "200 1: A Space Odyssey". When I saw human beings marching to the farthest place in the universe, I thought, if there is an opportunity, I must make a film about space exploration.

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Interstellar's background is based on the scientific theory of astrophysicist Kip Thorne. He is also the executive producer of the film, and also wrote a supporting book "Science in Interstellar" for the film. The North American premiere of the film even invited Hawking to watch it, which also proved Nolan's confidence in using scientific research. Nolan hopes that "don't be scared away by big words like Hawking, Thorne or the universe". The audience said that the movie was too brain-burning. He said:

The audience doesn't need to know scientific knowledge, that's my responsibility, they just have to follow the plot. Just like watching 007 bomb disposal, you don't need to understand the missile principle and mechanical structure, as long as you understand that it will explode if you don't dismantle the bomb.

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▲ Interstellar

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Nolan got the full support of his younger brother jonathan nolan. Nolan Jr. started writing for his brother from Memento, and they collaborated on Batman Trilogy and Interstellar. Little Nolan not only works for his brother, but also participates in directing production. 20 1 1 The American drama Suspect Tracking, directed by the director, broke the whole schedule, with a total score of over 9 points in five seasons. In 20 15, Star Wars 7 co-produced with J.J.Abrams sold 2 billion dollars. 20 16 The HBO drama "westworld" directed by him has been sought after by fans all over the world. Talking about his younger brother, he said at the beginning of 20 15:

Our relationship is quite close. At different times, we separate, get together and so on. I courted him early because I could see what a great writer he was. I let him work and dragged him to Hollywood, and he did surprisingly well. However, we have always had differences-brothers are like this, perhaps it is also a brotherhood. However, our differences in creativity always stem from great sincerity, so this difference is also easy to solve. When you work with talented people, if you don't agree, in the end, you either find what you really want, or realize that they are right, and then change yourself. This will make you do things better. So this is a very, very effective thing. But he is very busy-I can't reach him on the phone now!

Nolan actually has a legendary brother. In 2009, Nolan's brother Matthew was arrested and imprisoned by the Chicago police for a $700,000 bank fraud case, and was suspected of murdering a Puerto Rican in 2005 for failing to collect debts. At the end of the same year, Matthew made a 3 1 foot-long rope out of bed sheets in an attempt to escape from prison in Batman style, but was caught by prison guards. In prison, he always claimed to be a secret service member. Due to long-term underwater and skydiving training, he suffered from otitis media and rhinitis ... Now, Matthew Nolan's whereabouts are unknown, and Nolan never talks about his brother.

▲ Christopher Nolan (right) and his younger brother jonathan nolan (left)

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Besides his brother Jonathan, Nolan's success depends on his wife emma thomas. They are all studying at the University of London. After graduation, Thomas worked as a live producer in a film company for five years. Thomas has been the producer of almost all his films since Nolan's first work, Follow. Later, Nolan and his wife also set up their own studio: Sinkpi Film Production Company, and all the Batman films were completed by their family. In Interstellar, Nolan is the director, Emma is the producer and Jonathan is the screenwriter. For this kind of family cooperation, Nolan said:

Cooperation with family means a very close and creative "alliance". They will tell you what they think clearly, without any timetable or politics, so they will have the most authentic feedback. I like working with them.

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▲ Christopher Nolan (left) and his wife (right)

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Nolan is known as Hollywood's number one darling and a "kneeling" man in the film company. Inception is completely original by him, and the script is also written by him, but the investor is willing to give an investment of 65.438+0.6 billion US dollars and an all-star lineup led by Xiao Lizi; Interstellar was started by Paramount, but Warner Bros. did not hesitate to exchange the franchise rights of two famous dramas in order to join this project, which fully proved Nolan's value in the eyes of the studio. Inception was nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and Interstellar was the only original film in the global box office before 20 14. He has his own understanding of remake, adaptation and originality:

Movies are business, and someone must pay for them-they are expensive collective efforts. Original, series, I have filmed them all, and I am very happy. I think making original movies has always been a challenge. Today's blockbusters are often well-known intellectual property rights. This trend will change over time, but now it attracts the most investment. Film companies have the responsibility to reach a wider audience and pay for the film. No one knows better than the manager of a film company that people want to see new and original entertainment in movies. They have a full understanding of this and want to find the right thing to combine at the right time. Being original just for the sake of "originality" can never please anyone anywhere.

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Every graduation season, many celebrities will come to the graduation ceremony and say something encouraging to their siblings. 20 15 Princeton university invited Nolan to give a speech to graduates:

In the fine tradition of graduation speech, everyone is usually encouraged to "pursue their dreams", but I don't believe this myself, and I won't encourage you to do so. I hope everyone can "pursue truth".

With the rotation of the wheel of time, we have always regarded reality as a poor relative of dreams. But what I want to tell you is that dreams or virtual reality, these abstract and beautiful concepts around our lives, are actually only a subset of reality.

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Non-linear narrative is a kind of formalism narrative, which highlights the most clear theme through the director's deliberate disruption of time order or reorganization of events. Nolan is known as "the great promoter and excellent conductor of film nonlinear narrative style". He brought a fresh and refined artistic atmosphere to the audience, and also "let the decadent Hollywood genre film finally win the opportunity to turn over." How to control a complicated plot? Nolan has a way:

I read the script in the order of watching the movie. I hope it can have a traditional pillar or a fairly regular rhythm under the complex structure. When I finish writing, I will go back and disrupt the script in the order I saw it in the movie and check the logic of the script. Then others joined in, especially the actors, who provided very strict logic.

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Inevitably, the film industry is rapidly digitizing. In 20 14, Paramount announced that it would no longer release movies. Many cinemas have also been fully digitized. Mainly for economic benefits. In the film era, the six major manufacturers spent $8.5 billion on film copies every year, and there were $4.5 billion in transportation costs. In Nolan's view, this change is extremely dangerous-if 35mm film dies, the gold standard of how to make movies will disappear, and movies will no longer be movies. Therefore, he insisted on filming with film, disliked 3D, rarely used CG technology, and also filmed Batman the hero and the sci-fi movie Interstellar. Most people seldom notice the difference between film and digital images, but Nolan can see it at a glance. He said:

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Many people say that the key to Nolan's young success is to stick to his own maverick. In his view, as a filmmaker, you can't please everyone. He said:

No matter how positive things seem, you will always see bad comments and notice that some people like things that some people hate, so you can't take corresponding measures. I want to do what you believe.

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Nolan missed all nine films from 1999' s Follow to 20 14 and 15' s Interstellar. Therefore, it is also called "Nuoshen" by fans. This is Nolan's evaluation of himself:

I am Christopher Nolan, a typical Englishman. Like my predecessor Hitchcock, I am not only a director, but also a person with fantastic ideas.