Anyone who saw Memento upon release surely could never envisage the career path that its London-born director, Christopher Nolan, would take,moving from hugely impressive small, independent films to being the king of big budget and, along with Darren Aronofsky, surely Hollywood’s premier filmmaker.
The crescendo of this status will come this summer, with the opening of The Dark Knight Rises, perhaps one of the most hotly anticipated films of all time. This a film so craved that millions attended cinema screens purely to watch its first full length official trailer.
When Nolan was approached to helm a new take on the caped crusader, he was approaching a specialized genre with little of any background in the field. Rather than become a superhero film director, he took the central cores of Batman and approached them conventionally, with no interest in camp theatrics and cheapened sensibilities.
The result was Batman Begins,...
The crescendo of this status will come this summer, with the opening of The Dark Knight Rises, perhaps one of the most hotly anticipated films of all time. This a film so craved that millions attended cinema screens purely to watch its first full length official trailer.
When Nolan was approached to helm a new take on the caped crusader, he was approaching a specialized genre with little of any background in the field. Rather than become a superhero film director, he took the central cores of Batman and approached them conventionally, with no interest in camp theatrics and cheapened sensibilities.
The result was Batman Begins,...
- 1/7/2012
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
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