Christopher Batman Film Analysis

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Christopher Edward Nolan is an English film director, screenwriter and producer. He is one of the highest-grossing directors in history, and among the most acclaimed and influential filmmakers of the 21st century. The acclaim garnered by his independent films gave Nolan the opportunity to make the mystery drama, The Prestige (2006). He found further popularity and critical success with The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012) and Inception (2010). His ten films have grossed over 4.7 billion U.S. dollars worldwide and was awarded a total of 34 Oscar nominations and ten wins. Nolan has also co-written several of his films with his brother, Jonathan, and runs the production company Syncopy Inc. with his wife, Emma Thomas. Christopher Nolan is regarded…show more content…
This film has influenced nearly all of Nolan’s movies. He considers Blade Runner as benchmark of science fiction. The film’s production design and style were key to establishing the foundation of Nolan’s Batman universe. Nolan even casted Blade Runner star Rutger Hauer in Batman Begins. On Batman Begins, unlike The Dark Knight, Nolan and his crew found themselves having to build the streets of Gotham in large part. He immediately gravitated toward the visual treatment that Ridley Scott had come up with, in terms of how you shoot these massive sets to make them feel real, rather than impressive sets. Nolan, his production designer Nathan Crowley, and his cinematographer Wally Pfister, started to throw all of that into the mix of how to help the look of something, how to create texture, as Ridley Scott has always been the absolute master of. Creating a texture to a shooting style that maximizes the impact of the set, and minimizes the feeling that this world has edges to it. Blade Runner is one of the examples of how you can take a camera and really envelop your audience in the atmosphere of the world you’re trying to create. Nolan definitely tried to emulate that style, and in doing so he actually created homage. Although he did use the inspiration he got from Blade Runner, he also used some of his own creative elements to put his spin on his…show more content…
Although writing good stories is his forte, he also pays close attention to the way in which his scenes are shot. In particular, Nolan is very particular with where he puts his camera, and what it shows the audience. This is especially true when a scene is focusing on a character or dialogue. Nolan’s favorite shot is to place the camera behind his actor at eye level. This is to allow the audience to “see” from the character’s perspective without actually being that character. It is a clever way to create a first-person like experience for the audience without giving up a third-person storytelling perspective. In The Prestige, the camera follows behind Angier as he performs on stage, showing his perspective as he looks out at the crowd. Likewise, in Inception, the vertigo-inducing fight sequence in the twisting hotel room is shot from behind Arthur. Character’s perspective, important as it may be, is not as important as the tremendous lighting techniques of Nolan in all of his

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