"There's no big playback and no big monitor screen system," marvels his star, Leonardo DiCaprio. "It's just Chris with his handheld cameras, shooting and shooting and shooting. And if it looks great to him on his little monitor, to the naked eye, on film, he'll move on. It's very fast, very efficient, there aren't a lot of bells and whistles. HIm and the cameraman and the actors. Boom boom boom.
Always on the move...
He works on scripts with his brother Jonathan. At times I wonder if Jonathan serves as his alter ego. I sort of balance to help him dive into the intricate details of his thoughts. After all, both were from different worlds (per say) one was mostly raised in England (Christopher Nolan) and another raised in Chicago (Jonathan Nolan)....
Is Inception his progression, his eventual realization of works created from Insomnia and Memento?
Says Nolan: "Inception was born for me as a process of saying, 'I don't wanna make a film where we just pull the rug from under the audience.' That's been done so many times. What I want to do is look down the other end of the telescope and say to the audience, 'Be a part of this team, construct a reality, confuse these things for something else...."
So are our own subjective realities the clay in which Christopher Nolans molds his masterpeices? I have been told Perception is fluid and can be manipulated dynamically. How does one make a movie that invites people to create their own interpretation? It looks like Christopher Nolan created Inception with a gradual progression of his work as well as this in mind...
"It took me a long time to figure out why, but what I realized is incredibly simple: as soon as you say this film is about dreams, it has to be on the grandest scale possible or you're not addressing it correctly. Because what's fascinating about the potential of the human mind is that it's infinite and infinitesimal."
He has been between two worlds...
Born in London to an English father and American mother, the 39 year-old Nolan has dual UK/US citizenship, and spent part of his childhood in Chicago.
He studied English literature at University College London. His Brother Jonathan Nolan studied in Chicago at Wilmette and Georgetown.
None-the-less Christopher Nolan has and will always be noted as director that has infused his dynamic philsophical understanding of the world within our ever changing subjective perceptions. He has and I am sure will always be able to create a fluid context in which we can draw our own understanding of his world.
"You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't be sure. But it doesn't matter - because we'll be together." - Inception 2010.
So far that train has been a great ride...
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