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Case study: Christopher Nolan

Case study: Christopher Nolan. By Lara Stack.

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Case study: Christopher Nolan

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  1. Case study: Christopher Nolan By Lara Stack

  2. Although he’s only Made 6 (and counting) big, international films, he has a net worth of 90 million dollars. His six main films include; memento with Guy Pearce in 2000, which was nominated for 2 Oscars. The 2nd film insomnia was with Al Pacino in 2002. Then a massive TURNING POINT in 2005, Nolan had the chance of taking part in the batman franchise. Directed Batman Begins with Christian bale, the start of the trilogy of films. This had a budget of 150 million dollars. It was the eights highest grossing film of 2005 in the United States. The year after in 2006 he did the Prestige, once again starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman. Films:

  3. Furthermore in 2008 Nolan continued the batman trilogy by directing, co-writing and producing the dark knight with Heath Ledger. It received 8 academy award nominations and won 2 Oscars. It grossed a massive billion dollar worldwide. • He then went onto Inception, a film everyone has heard about; it turned out to be one of the most talked about and debated films of 2010. It starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the breakthrough performance from Tom Hardy. Both two actors he never used before but later went onto use them in the dark knight rises. Inception acquired 800 million dollars worldwide. It also outdid the dark knight by winning 4 Oscars and is rated 14 out of the top 250 films on IMDB Films:

  4. 2012 was another big year for Nolan when he finally concluded the batman trilogy with the Dark Knight Rises using Tom Hardy as Bane.Thiswas once again a tremendous movie from Nolan. However it was only nominated for one BAFTA. • 2013 he co-wrote and produced another comic film; man of Steele. • Nolan is now working on his new sci-fi film called INTERSTELLAR which he’s directing and co-writing. It is expected in late 2014, and stars Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain whom he has never used before in any of his films, including Anne Hathaway and Michael Caine. Films:

  5. Now the trailer for Interstella has been released, its expected in November of this year. Its still very under wraps as not much information is available on it, however the trailer does really give us a good insight as I found the description for the film a bit broadminded and didn’t know what to expect. • Critics think it will be highly accepted as Matthew McConaughy is a really popular actor at the moment, making lots of big debuts and features in big budget films. Interstella:

  6. He has received three Academy Award nominations, two of which are for Best Original Screenplay. In July 2012, Nolan became the youngest director to be honoured with a hand-and-footprint ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Not to mention all his film nominations. Awards:

  7. His top ten favourite movies are: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Black Hole (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Chinatown (1974), The Hitcher (1986), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)), Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Topkapi (1964), as well as anything by Stanley Kubrick. Top 10 favourite films:

  8. 1.Most of his Films start with flashback or scene from the end of the movie. • 2.He concludes flim’s by using two central characters that are discussing preceding events and results which have steamed from said events. • 3.Crosscuts scenes of parallel action to build climax eg Dark knight and Inception. • 4.Nolan’s protagonist are usually seeking vengeance over death of a loved one eg Bruce and Rachel in all 3 batman films. • 5.Some of his characters have a sort of psychological disorder like Bruce Wayne being scared of bats. • 6.Endings are recurring themes of justified dishonesty Trademarks:

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