Christopher Nolan’s Impossible Script

but the question of whether that's a dream or whether it's real is the one I've been asked the most about any of the films I've made it all really started from just an interest in dreams I wrote exactly what I had access to I got to page 80 and I was stuck for about 10 years or so I'm going to write things that I I literally don't know how to film I have no idea how to film them and then we'll figure it out help but I came to you with those calculations Oppenheimer is a visual Masterpiece we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world I felt like this movie was really pushing the boundaries in so many different fields I remember it [Music] well now I am become deaf well have this I believe we did the destroyer of worlds it's a very very paradoxical tale is homesick Oppenheimer his most ambitious project today the relationship between science theory the intellect emotionally immature versus the Practical nature of actually bringing these abstract ideas of theory troubled by visions of a in Universe into the real world Chris is always pushing the boundaries and innovating with each film he does the real world is infinitely complex the real world has no limitations people will look at that and they think oh that's you know done in post when you do Christ's movies things that you normally would think would be visual facts but it's not it's Chris like spinning this thing that you see and it's all for real you know that you're going to be doing this stuff practically it's typical Chris he wills it into reality for me the process of choosing a project is all about story as a believer in the concept of inception as a believer in the idea that you can plant the seed of seed of an idea that will grow into something more substantial over time I like the idea of the mystery experience I had when I was a kid of just seeing something that's larger than life like the IDE of sitting in a mov not knowing what you're going to see takes you into a whole different world I think that's the most fun thing the following is my explanation and my first film was a film called following that I shot with friends who and why I wrote only what I exactly knew how I could film who are you and why are you following me sorry I don't know what you talking about don't piss me about who the [ __ ] are you we shot it on black and white 16 mm film I wrote to this apartment and this restaurant we would shoot one day a week on the weekends my name's cop we would shoot one day a week for about a year we put it together that way what's your name Bill well Bill what do you do actually I'm kind of between jobs right now you know we spent no money on the film we like the whole set with you know three or four lights I also was struck by how good the photography was in the film and Chris had in himself there's some burning ambition inside you isn't there something a starving artist in you know and do it very quickly and adopt a sort of documentary style right right no but you're right I think what following represents is kind of the uh the peak of what I was able to do on my own or just with [Music] friends you want to crash a plane but not from the air so dramatic every every film you're trying to challenge yourself you're not telling the TRU she dies yeah we got a 747 we crash you into a building audiences have never seen anything like this before tell me or I'll shoot her again leave her alone writing the plane crash I knew I wanted to try and do it in some ways in camera time to listen to me that's how we're achieving the 747 crashing into a building three I can help you two go Chris is really great in that he wants it for real he wants it in camera he doesn't want to do CG he had incredibly complex fight sequences the film deals with this concept of inversion which is the idea that the entropy of an object could be reversed there's no question that momento was a by far the biggest leap I ever had to take I'm very interested in the process of memory and the way it can be and the way it can be distorted and all the rest my brother told me the story verbally from the process of memory before he'd finished writing it I'm not a killer he said I'm working on the story and it's about I'm just someone who wanted to make things right this guy with this condition you don't remember me you can't make new memories I'm sorry I should have explained I have this you did explain Lenny he's uh looking for Revenge he's looking for the guy who killed his wife are you sure you want this have I told you what this man did for me the key was always to get people who ask the right questions at the end do I lie to myself to be happy my wife deserves Vengeance my approach to doing that was to effectively tell the story backwards but even if you get revenge you're not going to remember it just basically told as a series of flashbacks that go further and further back in time you're not even going to know that it happened I have to believe in a world outside my own mind the backwards running narrative and the forwards running narrative they actually meet at what is the the end of the movie you've gone from making a movie on weekends with your friends and I have to believe that when my eyes are closed the world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes does it to having name actors spending millions of dollars of somebody else's money the world's still here that's by far the biggest leap Christopher Nolan from moment how has momento the success of momento changed your life and your career thank you very much this is a tremendous honor what does it meant for you CHR vanan for momento I'm just uh trying to focus on the next film which I start shooting in about uh 4 weeks I wanted to tell a story with an intense subjectivity dkirk is a survival story out from the hell that is Dunkirk I think it's one of the great stories of of human history history and it hasn't been addressed in modern films until now different perspectives of land sea and air we really triy to do as much in camera as possible you're weaving together those timelines and yet creating a sense of urgency real planes real boats there's a thing called The Shepherd tone it's an audio illusion putting the actors into as close to the reality of the situation as we could safely do sense of continuing momentum the eras Against Time in each one the audience feels that they're there so that you braid together the three story lines and they're continually rising in anxiety as a group of people we can achieve so much more than we can individually that was great let's bring you back in from the director of momento insomnia is a thriller which Cent us around around a Los Angeles cop who goes to a small town in Alaska to help the local police with a murder investigation it takes place in Alaska and it it's so far north that they have what's called White Knights alucino Robin Williams lary Swank insomnia wied art why didn't you come forward with this information when she died she swore me to secrecy you're nervous about working with such big stars like Al Pacino and Robin Williams I was certainly nervous going to meet Al for the first time body dumped on a pile of garbage I was her friend you AR a friend more than anything just excited I mean I think I'm going to learn a lot J six she was 17 17 she was attractive see them approach their tasks from completely different direction and is when we put the camera right there in your space you have sex with her no I was her mentor you bother things the performance is then exactly appropriate to somebody being that close you give her this yes why this character you want to see the whole story through this guy's eyes you bought a dresses this what's wrong with that no nothing wrong I'm just trying to figure out what kind of Mentor you were and that you can't as a filmmaker just just wrap things up neatly gave her things she couldn't help you just want to [Music] fire the initial impetus for the the project have been to say why not examine and real possibilities what are the possibilities of of real physics why not actually look at the real science there cuz those possibilities are they're quite extraordinary beyond anything that you could just dream up as a screenwriter the point of 2001 is the thing itself is the experience itself I first saw 2001 as a child and it became this sort of seminal introduction to the the power of Cinema what Cinema can be I feel that with every film I do I want to be uh pushing the V Orizon pushing myself neither wormholes nor black holes have been depicted in any Hollywood movie in the way that they actually would appear it's all black Char do you read me so we really tried to build on what's been done before but uh add our own techniques to it FS losing control stick the visual effects Department under Paul Franklin and everybody at double negative took Kip's mathematical [Music] data there are quite a few things in the film that have never been done before the collaboration has produced visualization of things which nobody had ever managed to do before Jazz I'm glad you're here updates on mission status no go Commander thrusters at 5% and all navigation systems down I'm sorry sir you have visited 130,000 planets on your journey loading 40,000 music tracks and 90,000 sound effects Jazz what's the huh this was Kepler 452b Mission epidemic sound was a success you have collected tens of thousands of tracks for creators home to use restriction free K29 B yeah I had a good time there yeah look at all these tracks I heard some creators on Earth only use epidemic sound music navigation systems coming back online send it to Str Beacon this is a message to Universal creators epidemic sounds high quality original music and sound effects curated across light years of searching are available to use real stories for Earth's storytellers soundtrack your content now and get 7 days free by accessing the link in the [Music] description I need to fix this before I go I'll keep it broken so you have to stay there's a special relationship between movies and time we're just here to be memories for our kids for those of us who just turned 50 yes time feels like it's accelerating very fast I figured out the message hey N word what you know what it is Stay Stay it says stay D for me the main attraction of the project really uh as a father myself you once told me that when you came back we might be the same age make him stay MV uh I think I really strongly responded to that element of the script and today I'm the age you were when you left the core idea at the heart of the script which is a father who has to leave his children you might have to decide between seeing your children again don't mind don't make me leave like this don't let me leave M and future of the human race this would be a real good time for you to come [Music] back it was [Music] you I've always found dreams to be a very uh inspiring part of my life I got to page 80 or Al so you know had two acts of it and I was stuck for about I mean 10 years or so the Adventures of Batman with Rob I heard that Warner Brothers was looking to reinvent the franchise millionaire philanthropist Bruce W what did you feel was your obligation to the franchise it's a great privilege to work with characters like that but it comes with a big responsibility too the Vigilante is just a man lost and the Scramble for his own gratification your first action film Batman huge movie huge budget you were intimidated going into Batman M oh yeah very much not pressure little bit of nerves happening going in when you first started a lot of the nature of the experience making big movie is confidence that's if you make yourself more than just a man for me the most important thing is the tone of the film if you devote yourself to an ideal the movie is about the origin story of how Bruce Wayne and why Bruce Wayne becomes Batman then you become something else entirely the idea that we were going to tell this story in a realistic fashion is and that's a story that it's never been dealt with on screen Legend Ain and here we go there's no going back you've changed things forever P the donor Rises is certainly the biggest film that I've undertaken then why do you want to kill me shooting on real locations you're able to get some of that scope and scale very naturally let's not stand on ceremonies here Mr Wayne I don't want to kill you what would I do without you no you complete me where are you here oh you think darkness is your ally you're garbage you kills for money don't talk like one of them you're not you merely adopted the dark even if you'd like to be I was born in it molded by it to them you're just a freak like me I didn't see the light until I was already a man what the hell are you see I'm not a monster then it was nothing to me but I'm just ahead of the curve I'm Batman the hero is forced to abandon his his kingdom stay it says stay down as a father myself are we going to Vis see this no no no no and I remember Daddy has been Min I'm a father myself of of four children you were alwh around the world we started the shoot in India then would move to the UK and discover himself the Paradox the tension that's there that we all relate to but you promis I promise did I you spent abort the guilt is of a particular kind because he has a massive Duty after that we went to Pittsburgh Los Angeles Manhattan and then returns change you got to get your hand stury if you're going to achieve the impossible nothing think it's impossible Mr angia you're about to witness it's not magic what you want is simply expensive is purely science forget this thing I can recognize an obsession no good will come of it it's a very clever trick Mr draman let's get on to we the audience knows the truth the world is simple turn on gentlemen if you understand an obsession then you know you won't change my mind but if you could fool even for a [Music] second that's it cutter he simply disappears then you can make them one that's not a trick but he has to come back I grew up able to go to Leicester Square and look at you know these amazing images projected on on a huge screen has to be a Prestige exactly and you got to see something very special pardon me it's very rare to see real magic it was incredibly important to me as a kid hands reach SE his imagination and I really want my kids to have have the same experience it seemed so simple till I started writing it the longest I was stuck was on Inception I you know I got to page 80 or so you know I had two acts of it and I was stuck for about I mean 10 years or so yes hello hi Daddy hi Dad hey guys hey how are you how you doing huh when are you coming coming home Dad well I can't sweetheart I can't not for a while remember why I told you I'm I'm I'm away because I'm working right create and perceive our world simultaneously you're waiting for a train oh God damn it don't do this Inception I remember it was a film I'd worked on for many years it's my son James he's digging for something maybe a worm how could I ever acquire enough detail to make them think that it's reality that's philipo Inception is a script that took me a very long time to write train that will take you far away James and Philipa well dreams they feel real while we're in them right you know where you hope this train will take you let me ask you a question you never really remember the beginning of a dream do you at its heart I think Inception is a love story they're waiting for us for sure W look at me I think it's a story about a man trying to get home to his family to his children so how did we end up here you can't know for sure but it doesn't matter oh God damn it once I'd realized that I was able to finish the film because I was able to sort of connect with it emotionally don't tell me why retrieving it's a together you see any kind of a spiritual connection between all of your films well I think with every film if I've done my job right you're left with interesting questions to the end of it and so as filmmakers we're we're always thinking about what are we [Music] leaving it needs to just wash over over you and inform you through the immersion into this extraordinary [Music] [Applause] world the audience gets to the end and then you take about 5 minutes to decide okay what was all that your brain really looks at everything in a different way I think it is primarily uh an emotional experience something you feel you mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger darling and that's why endings are so important Cinema particularly it's a great it's a great medium for exploring the way you can get lost in your own perception of of the world and your your place in the world don't try to understand it you really have to get to the end of a movie before you know what it is don't try to understand it just feel it Leonardo DiCaprio's character Cobb the camera moves over to the spinning top if it falls or doesn't fall is the key idea is it a dream is it reality look who's here he was off with his kids he was in his own subjective reality and didn't really care anymore [Music] reality matters it won't be transcended

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Length: 24min 8sec (1448 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 26 2024