Legendary Hollywood Director

Nolan is a very interesting director.

He is English, but he is familiar with American culture and living habits.

Perhaps this is inseparable from his mother being a flight attendant or a family reason for flying between the UK and the US.

He graduated from Haileybury College, and then entered the University of London for further study. During the school, he organized a photography club called 16mm with some like-minded friends, and shot a lot of short films.

In 1996, their association partnered with $6,000 to film the first real feature film Follow.

This film is a bit rough, but it can roughly see the characteristics of Nolan's future directing.

For example, I really like the non-linear narrative method to break the structure of the story and create conflict and suspense. Following is only 70 minutes long, but it uses a structural method of parallel narrative and flashback, completely disrupting the time relationship between the two, and then splicing it together in a seemingly random and messy way, this is Nolan.

From the very first debut, he quickly revealed his directing talent and put it to use.

In his second work Memento, this narrative style was played to the extreme by him.

Another example is the realistic style.

Nolan has both British-style rigor and American-style boldness. The former makes him less fond of computer special effects, and believes that only the real image style can give the audience the greatest visual enjoyment. I love to break all conventions, and it is an incomparable subversion of the traditional concept of time in movies. It is difficult for you to imagine that all the plot events are displayed one by one in split segments, and they are constantly interspersed. The audience may need to put them together in their own minds. A complete storyline.

Let's talk about the image style.

His films are always on the cool side, lacking bright warm colors.

When Nolan was interviewed, he once said that his favorite director was Stanley Kubrick.

Coincidentally, the biggest feature of this film master's films is pessimism.

Perhaps this also has something to do with the time he was born, which was the Vietnam War and the Cold War.

With the unique anxiety and uncertainty of the times.

This can have a huge impact on a creator.

His career as a director has been smooth.

In addition to being too poor and not valued at the beginning, it took a while.

He was on holiday in the UK when Johnson contacted him.

He just finished filming The Chase in the White Night the year before last, a remake of the Norwegian film of the same name, a police and bandit genre.

Hearing that Director Lehman invited him to meet, although there were many doubts, it was because he had nothing to do.

As the so-called idle is idle, he agreed.

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Ryman and Christopher Nolan met at a private club.

You really don't think about coming by yourself?

Johnson has been busy looking for a suitable distribution company for a while. Even if he contacted Nolan through CAA's channels, he couldn't help but ask when he met at the clubhouse. In his opinion, for such a big project, except for Lehmann, it is hard to believe that other directors should take over - not even Wen Ziren, who has already succeeded.

I'm not interested. Besides, this kind of comic theme is not suitable for my video style.

This is what Lyman really thinks.

Contrary to Nolan, he likes to use warm tones to tell stories. Even in Bad Guy, he also has a warm side in the cold tones throughout, which is Eva's wife. That branch.

Furthermore, if the first Batman is successful, the development of a sequel is almost a certainty, and Lyman is reluctant to shoot the same subject and spend so much time.

He likes freshness.

Then, is this Nolan's British director suitable for such a theme?

Of course, his directing ability is not bad, and his image style is mature and suitable. If you have seen his works, you will find that Batman, a hero living in the dark, is a tailor-made theme for him.

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Christopher Nolan is punctual.

Wearing the iconic black suit - this guy is still British at heart, and he is very serious about dressing requirements. In public, it is rare to see a director with leather shoes in a suit that has not changed for a long time like him. It is solemn and terrible.

Hello, Director Nolan.

He is only 35 years old now, and his appearance is relatively good among directors.

Hello, Mr. Ryman.

The two greeted him and introduced Johnson to him.

After taking a seat at will, Lehman first touted: I've seen your Memento, it's a very good movie.

He smiled and said nothing.

Immediately, Lehman pretended to be chatting again and asked, Any shooting plans recently?

not yet.

OK, that's half done. Although he knew that Nolan had been idle to explore his own image style in recent years, but after hearing him really confirm that the schedule was sufficient, Lehmann was secretly delighted.

Then have you considered working with me?

Cooperation?

Yes, I have a film company. Recently, I have some ideas for new projects. I just need a director. I think you are a good fit.

Pull in, pull in naked.

But Nolan didn't have so many ideas. He was idle at home. After all, for a director, a good book or opportunity is hard to come by.

Can I know what project it is?

The adaptation of Batman.

what?

Nolan was surprised.

He knew Batman, and he also knew that because of the box office tragedy of Batman and Robin, Warner had not launched related movie works for many years. Unexpectedly, now, he has another idea. Isn't the copyright with Warner, though? And why would it be Lehmann to set up the project?

He was a little confused, and he asked the same.

If it goes well, they are willing to entrust my company to shoot, but the problem now is that I need a suitable director to give Warners greater confidence in cooperation. They are still considering it.

Nolan is a smart person. Hearing this, how can he not understand that Lehman is looking for cooperation with sincerity when meeting him.

But he thought about it and said, But I never thought of making a superhero movie.

For directors, especially those with great ideas, the fixed image represents the squeeze of the creative space, which is a kind of restraint, and it is normal to have concerns.

Lyman advised: No no no, this is not a movie about superheroes. Have you seen Frank Miller's 1986 comic book The Dark Knight Returns?

No.

You should see that in this Batman reboot, we plan to adapt this comic to create a Batman who is independent of the previous image. He is no longer a god, but a human and flesh-and-blood person. . A Nightbringer living in Gotham.