Nolan

Born on July 30, 1970, in London, England, Christopher Nolan started creating films as a child,
making his first short at the age of 7. Nolan travelled between Chicago and London while
growing up—his mother was from America and his father was from Britain—and eventually
went on to attend University College London, where he studied English literature and joined
the school's film society. He created shorts like Tarantula, Larceny and Doodlebug before
releasing longer-form work. He wanted to be a filmmaker since he was 11 y/o. Nolan has dual
citizenship within the United States and Great Britain, and is married to Emma Thomas, who
has worked as a producer on all of his feature films. The couple has four children
Christopher had his debut in 1998. Nolan shot a full-length movie "Following" , which tells the
story about the would-be writer, who looks for inspiration following people and taking photos
of the strangers.
In 2000 Christopher Nolan directed one more low-budget movie "Memento" with Guy Pearce
in the main part.
In 2002 Christopher Nolan finished the movie "Insomnia". The action of the movie takes place
in a small town in Alaska, where the girl was killed in mysterious circumstances. The
investigation was requested to the two experienced detectives from the continent. The major
parts in the detective are played by Al Pacino and Robin Williams.
Nolan’s Batman Begins (2005), starring Christian Bale, focused on the superhero’s origins and
featured settings and tone that were grimmer and more realistic than those of previous
Batman films.
Nolan’s next project was The Prestige (2006), a story of two warring illusionists in early 20thcentury London.
He then began work on a second Batman film, which he wrote with his brother Jonathan. The
Dark Knight (2008) leaned even more heavily on the moral and structural decay of its setting,
fictional Gotham City, and it revived such classic Batman villains as the Joker (played by Heath
Ledger). The Dark Knight became one of the highest-grossing movies of all time.
The release of Inception (2010) marked the realization of a script Nolan had begun a decade
prior. It starred Leonardo DiCaprio as a corporate spy who steals secrets via a technology that
allows him to enter people’s dreams.
His Batman series concluded with the grandiose The Dark Knight Rises (2012), in which the
superhero’s exploits were set against a backdrop of civil unrest. Nolan also helped develop the
story for the Superman reboot Man of Steel (2013).
Nolan then helmed Interstellar (2014), which he had written with Jonathan. The sci-fi drama
depicted the efforts of a group of scientists to relocate humanity from an Earth vitiated by war
and famine to another planet by way of a wormhole.
His next film, Dunkirk (2017 centres on the evacuation of Allied troops from France during
World War II. nominated for a number of Academy Awards, including best picture.
MEMENTO:
Memento is a physchological thriller directed by Christopher Nolan and based on his younger
brother's short story called 'Memento Mori'. Its release in 2000 gained a lot of recognition and
praise from several critics. Receiving several nominations including an Academy Award for Best
Original Screenplay and Best Editing. Starring Guy Pearce and Carrie-Anne Moss, this soon
became a iconic and referenced film for its clever and deceptive storyline.
Leonard (Guy Pearce) is a man who is struggling to put his life back together after the brutal
rape and murder of his wife. But Leonard was beaten severely by the same man who killed his
wife. The most significant manifestation of Leonard's injuries is that his short-term memory
has been destroyed , anterograde amnesia (memory disorder that is characterized by an
inability to secure new long term memories).; he is incapable of retaining any new information,
and must resort to copious note-taking and Polaroid photographs in order to keep track of
what happens to him over the course of a day (he's even tattooed himself with a few crucial
bits of information he can't get along without). Leonard retains awareness that his wife was
brutally murdered (John.G), however, and he's convinced that the culprit still walks the streets.
Leonard is obsessed with the notion of taking revenge against the man who has ruined his life,
and he sets out to find him, getting help from Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss), who appears to be a
sympathetic barmaid, and Teddy, who claims to be Leonard's friend, even though Leonard
senses that he cannot be trusted.
Memento adapts a chilling neo-noir reminiscent of the cynical film noirs of the 1940s with a
modern, neurological twist. The director and the characters are giving us hints that someone
(possibly everyone) is not going to have a happy ending. We can already see elements of this
just by the opening scene.
Though its reverse chronology may partially play into the noir style, the film’s structure is
primarily one of function. Through a somewhat poetic composition: Nolan creates a pattern of
color scenes in reverse chronological order interlaced with black and white scenes in
chronological order.
Not only does this make the visual style more appealing due to its innovation but makes an
already intriguing story-line extremely more juicy as the audience pieces together and
journeys through their memory in the same way Leonard does.
The black-and-white scenes mainly revolve around Leonard on the phone telling the story of
Sammy Jankis, a man he studied closely when he was a claims investigator for an insurance
company. Sammy developed a similar condition after a car accident, and Leonard was left to
assess whether the condition was genuine. For Leonard, the lesson of Sammy Jankis relates
mostly to the need for a smart system to block the sieve of his short-term memory, catching
the important information before it drains away. But Nolan has other things in mind, including
a twist that brings Leonard and Sammy’s stories into closer alignment as the black-and-white
and color scenes start to converge.