We talked about this, and listened to the Scriptnotes episode. Anyone who is "just" and is grumbling sort of needs to take a seat 'cause Nolan is the one auteur whose films have grossed multiple billions of dollars. That fact alone affords him so leeway.
But, just like Dan Gilroy's NIGHTCRAWLER (written without sluglines), sometimes you can succeed by breaking all the guidelines.
I'm curious to read DUNKIRK after hearing him speak about how many actors turned it down because of the atypical nature of the characters.
While Christopher Nolan was focusing on point of view when writing Oppenheimer, he left out all the science! That movie missed a huge opportunity to explain the basics of the science behind nuclear weapons and the horrors that they unleash on the world.
It reduced the story to a character drama. I’m tired of stories about scientists that leave out all the science and dumb everything down. We’ve seen naked women before. Understanding how a bomb works is more entertaining.
Most people don’t know what nuclear weapons did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They don’t know about all the cancer clusters near the testing sites. And they don’t know about the nuclear power plant accidents at 3-Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima or how terrorists could bomb nuclear power plants with simple bombs to cause meltdowns.
Even the Scriot for A Quiet Place broke some script format rules but it was justified because of the premise of the film n it added to the suspense too but great read again as usual - thanks Cole
We talked about this, and listened to the Scriptnotes episode. Anyone who is "just" and is grumbling sort of needs to take a seat 'cause Nolan is the one auteur whose films have grossed multiple billions of dollars. That fact alone affords him so leeway.
But, just like Dan Gilroy's NIGHTCRAWLER (written without sluglines), sometimes you can succeed by breaking all the guidelines.
I'm curious to read DUNKIRK after hearing him speak about how many actors turned it down because of the atypical nature of the characters.
While Christopher Nolan was focusing on point of view when writing Oppenheimer, he left out all the science! That movie missed a huge opportunity to explain the basics of the science behind nuclear weapons and the horrors that they unleash on the world.
It reduced the story to a character drama. I’m tired of stories about scientists that leave out all the science and dumb everything down. We’ve seen naked women before. Understanding how a bomb works is more entertaining.
Most people don’t know what nuclear weapons did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They don’t know about all the cancer clusters near the testing sites. And they don’t know about the nuclear power plant accidents at 3-Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima or how terrorists could bomb nuclear power plants with simple bombs to cause meltdowns.
Even the Scriot for A Quiet Place broke some script format rules but it was justified because of the premise of the film n it added to the suspense too but great read again as usual - thanks Cole