Inspirational Practitioners:

Christopher Nolan
Director/Producer
Early Career

Born July 30th 1970 in Westminster, London

First film was stop motion animation
inspired by star wars called Space wars at 8
First Breakthrough film Called Following
in 1995, 3000, took a year to produce, but
won many awards at film festivals.
Next film was memento, which had a 4m
budget and had an Academy Award
nomination and Golden Globe nomination
for best screenplay
Use of Time

Across all of Nolans Films, one extremely important element is the use and
perspective of time. In all of his major films, Nolan uses non-linear story telling
to tell the story from different perspectives, adding more layers of depth to
characters and situations than if it were a chronological story.
Memento - The opening sequence is the last scene played backwards
Insomnia, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises - Flashbacks
The Prestige - The first scene in the film is also the last one
Inception - Flashforward to end of film
Interstellar - Flash forward to clips of an interview, then clip of
flashback/dream.
Dunkirk three different perspectives shown at three different times, all
converge at the third act
Protagonists

Many of the protagonists that feature in Nolans films end up

turning into an Anti-hero or a straight Antagonist by the third act.
In The Prestige, Borden causes the death of Angiers wife and gives
Angier the victims role, however by the end of the film Angiers
need for revenge makes him as much as a villain as Borden. The
most well known example is in The Dark Night, in which the
charismatic politician who wants to make Gotham better, Harvey
Dent (who utters the line You either die a hero, or you live long
enough to see yourself become the villain early in the film)
Suffers a fatal accident which turns him into the villain twoface.