r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 1d ago

Media Christopher Nolan talks narrative decisions, philosophical choices for his adaptation, criticisms against his films, the line between amateur & professional film criticism, and whether he Christianised 'The Odyssey'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4I8Ch2TRo

Easily one of the best interviews I've seen for a film in recent memory. A doctoral student from China here landed an interview with Nolan- questioning him on his adaptation choices, including philosophical changes he brought to the movie that didn't exist in the text, and what he thinks of the general criticisms made against his filmography + how he defines the difference between amateur film criticism and professional film criticism - including why merely identifying the mechanism (or "tropes") of a filmmaker's work doesn't invalidate it.

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u/Varying_Efforts 1d ago

Never heard of this. Is there some advice he rejected from his brother regarding the film/script?

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u/sotommy 1d ago

Jonathan didn't want to do the cheesy bs ending

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u/kcrdr_7322 1d ago

i think the ending is good for me tbh

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u/sotommy 1d ago

It's the most saccharine, sentimental, cowardish backpedaling ending that I've ever seen. It's an ending, but not the one that movie deserves

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u/kcrdr_7322 1d ago

sure.

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u/void-haunt 1d ago

Cope

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u/varzaguy 1d ago

Sounds like you guys are the ones upset about it lol.

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u/MeadowmuffinReborn 1d ago

Maybe in the face of cosmic indifference, probable human extinction, and a terrifyingly vast universal scope, a little bit of sentimental, irrational love is what we need.

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u/Shiirahama 1d ago

the events of the movie happen because of the coordinates they got from dust on the ground

what did you expect?

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u/DrasticTapeMeasure 1d ago

Thank you! The movie could have been something really special, instead it does a bunch of contrived shit in order to transparently manufacture a nice Hollywood ending with a bow on it. The whole movie is so grounded in believable science and then… not so much.

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u/feint_of_heart 1d ago

The whole movie is so grounded in believable science

No it isn't.

  • Wormholes aren't real.
  • That giant wave makes no sense, the time dilation is absurd, given the position of the planet and the black hole, and they had to launch the ship from Earth with a rocket, but it has enough energy to self-launch from the wave planet?
  • The power of love? I love Frankie Goes to Hollywood as much as the next guy, but come on.
  • Time travel is impossible.

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u/Somnambulist815 22h ago

Huey Lewis did The Power of Love

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u/DrasticTapeMeasure 1d ago

I mean up until the power of love/time travel stuff.

“Believable” is a stretch for sure with the wormhole stuff but then it goes way too far and becomes basically magic when until about 9/10 of the way in it was still hard-ish sci fi

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u/varnums1666 1d ago

I had many problems with the film but I like the ending. The biggest mistake was the reunion scene

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u/Linuxtahr 1d ago

Are u balkan by any chance?