It takes many factors to make a good director: a director must be calm, he must be articulate, and most of all he should be inspiring. However, Christopher Nolan is not simply a good director, he is one of the greatest directors of all time. Not to mention his impeccable writing, his directing expertise is beyond comparison: he skillfully draws the best performances out of the renowned actors in his cast, his imaginative stories can bogle even the most ingenious of minds, and his movies, while mostly fictitious, feel very real, which lets you slip into the deep storytelling going on in his films. He also holds a rare skill, even among renowned directors, where he can both write and direct movies with a wide range of themes; from the sci-fi
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The movies suck you in and make you truly feel a part of the story with true to life dialogue and a lack of computer animated shots that would make you say “that wasn’t CGI?!”. A great example of the lengths Nolan is willing to go to create realism in his movies is the scene from Inception where Joseph Gordon Levitt's character has to fight in a hallway that, for extensive plot purposes that cannot easily be explained, is rotating gravity in various directions. Making it seem like the actors were actually fighting in a hallway that was subject to random gravity changes without CGI is no easy task, “Crews built the 100-foot-long hotel hallway… With eight enormous rings encircling the outside of the hallway set -- rings that were suspended from and, in turn, powered by two giant electric motors --the room was capable of rotating 360 degrees... a remote-controlled camera was installed along a floor-mounted track… With the camera matching the speed of the spinning room, the audience feels anchored as the actors appear to defy gravity,” (Scott). No sane director would go to these lengths to create a shot such as this in their films just for realism, but it is something like this that makes Nolan so …show more content…
This need not deter you from respecting him as one of the greatest directors of all time, for this resembles the careers of renowned filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock. Two directors with no academy award wins for best director who, without question, are labeled as some of the greatest directors of all time. Kubrick most notably similar to Nolan in the way that he lets his vision drive his work and strives to create a perfect film for his audience. Kubrick and Hitchcock had the misfortune of directing before the age of social media. Like Leonardo DiCaprio before him, the public pressure for a Christopher Nolan best director award may be around the corner, despite how much the academy may detest him. Oscar or no oscar there is no questioning the validity of Christopher Nolan's success as a director and writer. Nolan’s career only took off quite a short time ago and within that short time he has skyrocketed to unimaginable heights. Having only just begun, it is thrilling to imagine what is to come from such a remarkable director in the future, and the potential for Nolan to constantly create world class movies in the future could easily lead to him being remembered as the greatest director of all
The movies suck you in and make you truly feel a part of the story with true to life dialogue and a lack of computer animated shots that would make you say “that wasn’t CGI?!”. A great example of the lengths Nolan is willing to go to create realism in his movies is the scene from Inception where Joseph Gordon Levitt's character has to fight in a hallway that, for extensive plot purposes that cannot easily be explained, is rotating gravity in various directions. Making it seem like the actors were actually fighting in a hallway that was subject to random gravity changes without CGI is no easy task, “Crews built the 100-foot-long hotel hallway… With eight enormous rings encircling the outside of the hallway set -- rings that were suspended from and, in turn, powered by two giant electric motors --the room was capable of rotating 360 degrees... a remote-controlled camera was installed along a floor-mounted track… With the camera matching the speed of the spinning room, the audience feels anchored as the actors appear to defy gravity,” (Scott). No sane director would go to these lengths to create a shot such as this in their films just for realism, but it is something like this that makes Nolan so …show more content…
This need not deter you from respecting him as one of the greatest directors of all time, for this resembles the careers of renowned filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock. Two directors with no academy award wins for best director who, without question, are labeled as some of the greatest directors of all time. Kubrick most notably similar to Nolan in the way that he lets his vision drive his work and strives to create a perfect film for his audience. Kubrick and Hitchcock had the misfortune of directing before the age of social media. Like Leonardo DiCaprio before him, the public pressure for a Christopher Nolan best director award may be around the corner, despite how much the academy may detest him. Oscar or no oscar there is no questioning the validity of Christopher Nolan's success as a director and writer. Nolan’s career only took off quite a short time ago and within that short time he has skyrocketed to unimaginable heights. Having only just begun, it is thrilling to imagine what is to come from such a remarkable director in the future, and the potential for Nolan to constantly create world class movies in the future could easily lead to him being remembered as the greatest director of all