Legendary Hollywood Director

Another new day.

Nolan got up from the bed early in the morning, cleaned up, and sat in the study to start work.

He is a very rational director.

Those producers who have worked with him are very emotional that he does not spend money indiscriminately because of his rational planning.

He always thinks very comprehensively about what he is going to shoot.

So many people call him accountant.

He also really likes to concentrate on one thing at a time.

In the future, Empire magazine asked a very interesting question, and then asked a group of Hollywood directors to ask questions. The magazine side probably felt that the director's job had some kind of ambiguous connection with arithmetic, and wanted to know if it was the director's mathematical calculation. The abilities are excellent.

As a result, many directors' answers slapped the magazine in the face, and all liked to distance themselves from the numbers.

George Clooney said, I'm very bad at math.

Spielberg also said that when I was in school, I always got a D in math.

Li Press also replied that compared to accounting, making movies is really a piece of cake.

Only Nolan answered this question seriously.

He said that in the process of making a movie, you need to be a little sensitive to numbers in the planning of shooting scenes and even the budget expenditure. Otherwise, you will find that the shooting budget can easily disappear in the shooting process. , and your movie hasn't finished shooting according to regulations. Well, the master here is Cameron, who always doesn't have enough budget.

If anyone counts the investment ratio of Nolan's career as a director, he will find that he is definitely not an adventurous person.

His shooting is very purposeful and full of calculated results. From Follow to Dunkirk in later generations, his investment budget and total box office can be brought into a relatively safe formula, and the safe solution can be solved smoothly. s answer.

From him, there is no news of a box office fiasco.

Even if he is successful, the filmmakers are happy to allocate a lot of money, and he rarely goes over budget.

for example.

After the Batman trilogy, Paramount approached him to shoot Interstellar, and after the filming, he saved Paramount a large budget.

Obviously, he doesn't like to do things beyond the plan, and he is not the kind of film director who is very self-conscious about the lack of funds and the freedom to shoot with investors.

It’s true to make a movie according to your own wishes, but after finishing a work and then leaving without paying any attention to the market and making no compromises, not only does it not allow the capital to make money, but it also makes people lose money. This is definitely not a qualified director.

Between creators, audiences, and investors, how to coordinate everything requires calculation.

He is like a commercial artist, selling the most suitable paintings and reaping the most suitable results.

Just like he always likes to wear very formal suits.

Someone asked him why he was always dressed like this.

He said, I'm used to wearing uniforms, and this combination is suitable, convenient and fast.

Probably it is this kind of thinking that makes him like to arrange the figures and data of the works properly.

Possibly, he will never be a businessman director who can exchange a huge box office for a small cost; nor is he the kind of artist who makes his investors lose money.

Between the two, he said to reporters asking about the jump in production scale: I don't know if anyone else has the same experience as me, but for me, it's my own money from 'Following'. , when it comes to making movies with other people's money, I only learned one thing, control. It's like learning to swim, it doesn't matter if the water is two feet deep or two hundred feet deep, the key is that you either swim ashore or drown .

This is based on the balance between the market and creation, in the case of the investor's satisfaction, the pursuit of their own creative ideas.

So even if he is thinking about the scene splitting of the script, he is used to the coherence of the scene.

In a small summer room, the windows are open and light comes in.

The sun today is not as big as it was yesterday, but it is still warm.

call......

As soon as he draws a draft, he compares the scene and classifies it well.

Before you know it, it's already thick.

This week's storyboard creations are all here.

The lines of the characters are actually very simple, and the color is more prominent.

Thick darkness surrounded a child, he fell into a pothole, and the wanton and flamboyant bat was alerted, whistling and flying...

This is a scene split at the beginning, and it is also where the turning point begins.

After you finish this draft, check the time.

Nolan put away the storyboard, put on his leather shoes, and went straight to Firefly Pictures.

There is still a lot to be established in the preparations for Batman.

Let's establish the style of the film first.

In the huge conference room, Warner's people, Lehman's people, and several of his own confidants were all seated.

Nolan stood up, took out the prepared storyboard and pasted it on the board.

Om.

In an instant, there was a commotion in the house.

Everyone knows the goods, and so are the people at Warner.

On the one-meter-long and half-meter-wide drawing board, there is a very strong style of work.

The main color is still dark, and the richness seems to overflow, but the character inside is a man wearing an iconic bat suit.

He looked at another crime that happened in the dark night.

At this time, it doesn't feel like that kind of anger or a sense of justice, but it shows a kind of sadness and unhappiness.

Suffering in the dark, firm in silence.

...

Everyone's attention was attracted, obviously because of the mask, the man's facial features could not be seen, but it seemed that he was watching all this with a pair of eyes, watching Gotham gradually go to destruction.

This feeling is very clear, wrapped in the visual impact of the figurative sketches, and presented in front of everyone without reservation.

The layman watches the fun, the layman watches the doorway.

This undoubtedly inherits the comic style of The Dark Knight Returns.

But it is more classical and realistic style treatment.

Nolan went on to say: This is the whole tone of the work, especially in the dark night scene. How to make it dark and not let the audience get tired of the eyes is the first thing the light and camera team have to solve.

For a movie, the imaging effect must be understood by all departments.

And what Nolan wants is to incorporate his own realistic style based on comics.

The Warners were the first to nod their approval.

They have also read the comics several times, and they all agree with the visual experience of the lens presented by this drawing.

Well.

Lehman knocked on the table and said, The camera team will come up with a specific lens plan as soon as possible.

No problem. The head of the camera crew stood up and replied.

Afterwards, everyone left the conference room and continued to work on their own affairs.

But the atmosphere was different.

The crew obviously had some attitude changes towards Nolan, the director.

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legendary hollywood director

legendary hollywood director