CHRISTOPHER NOLAN STUDYBy Kareem Lyew-sang

ABOUT CHRISTOPHER NOLANChristopher Nolan is a American – director, screenwriter and producer. He has made 14 movies And short films with his 15th coming up in 2017 called Dunkirk. He has grossed over U.S.$4.2 billion Worldwide and obtaining 26 Oscars. Some of his most well known films are those such as Batman begins, Dark knight, Dark knight rises, inception and Man of Steel.

SIMILARITIES BETWEEN HIS FILMS

• Christopher Nolan is known for making a lot of thriller based movies. Almost all of his movies are action, psychological or supernatural thrillers. Nolan uses music in his movies to create suspense. The music in his films is nearly always composed by Hans Zimmer who is a very famous composer and has made music for many films some of those include Christopher Nolan's Inception, Batman trilogy and Man of Steel. Besides that his movies tend to be very exciting and keep you interested at all times and they also seem to be very unique dealing with concepts never done before by other directors. Composer Hans Zimmer

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HIS MOVIES

• One key difference between his movies is the type of stories he Nolan tells. For example in the batam trilogy each movie shows batman taking on a different form of evil, for example in the dark knight it shows the joker who is more of a anarchist and in batman begins you have Ra's Al Ghul a man who believes what he is doing is for the better. Nolan's movies also contain different forms of morals. For example in the batman trilogy it's about batman's code of not being afraid and protecting Gotham and in interstellar it shows a man trying to cope not being with his family while trying to find a way to save the people he cares about. Nolan's movies seem to be designed to leave his viewers with some form of moral message to think about.

CAMERAWORK• Christopher Nolan's camera contains a lot of shots focused on the

characters. You often see a lot of close up shots which is most likely Nolan's way to letting focus on the character and their emotions and their thoughts. For example in the dark knight you see a lot of close up shots of the jokers face which makes you focus more on the psychotic look of the character has made for himself. Another example is the famous crying scene in interstellar in the camera is focused NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) crying as he watches a video of his kids while he is in space which showed the love the character has for his family.

SETTINGS• Christopher Nolan's settings are very different depending on the movie.

For example the bat trilogy is all based in the crime consumed city of Gotham, interstellar is mainly set in deep space and multiple planets and inception is based inside of the characters heads a dream world. Despite his settings being so different Nolan always makes sure to immerse his viewers into the world they are in. In the Bat trilogy Nolan makes the viewers know that Gotham is filled with crime and that it's a dark place, in inception Nolan makes the viewers aware that they are in dream world by showing bizarre occurrences such as floods or bizarre physics. No matter what Nolan makes sure that the view is aware of the world they are in.