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Post by Kirk-Picard on Mar 7, 2017 22:39:47 GMT
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Post by Dougie Jones on Mar 8, 2017 17:33:22 GMT
Winning an Oscar isn´t exactly going to discourage him from doing crowd-pleasers. And it´s like he was ever art-house, Indie sure, but never art-house. Unconventional narrative choices doesn´t really make a film art-house. Though, yes I agree, a return to his earlier style would be nice.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 19:50:40 GMT
Please do not compare Nolan in any way, shape, or form to David Lynch.
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Post by cornnetto on Mar 8, 2017 20:25:06 GMT
I'm not sure how being pleasing is really a negative, but is he particularly guilty of this ? He is one of the very few working at that level to never test is movie in front of regular audience I think (probably something he can do because he does not rely on humor much).
Not sure what you mean by Nolan needing (I don't think he need anything at this point he is set for life in every way), but if you are talking about the audience, I would say the other way around, he need to continue to do the very few movie non-franchise at that production level, we get 2,3 movie like that a year, we have 10 art-house movie released in theater every week, one more will not change much what is available for us to see.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 8, 2017 20:28:35 GMT
He's become the fast food of art film.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Mar 8, 2017 20:48:07 GMT
No, he needs to continue doing exactly what he's doing: make tentpole films with big ideas at the major at the studio level. People love to give Nolan shit over how he tries to keep his films accessible to wide audiences as though that's a bad thing when it's exactly what film needs right now. The indie art house production that becomes a top 10 grosser and redefines audience expectations back towards auteur-driven filmmaking a la The Graduate or Easy Rider is not happening in the foreseeable future given the current trajectory of the industry, so in light of that the only thing that stands to shift studio thinking away from franchises even just a tad and towards filmmakers who can hit the middle ground between high critical respect and massive profits is a guy like Christopher Nolan showing them how it's done. He is knocking on a door that nobody else is right now and if he can bust that door down for everyone else then it could really help cinema.
This isn't to say that it's mandatory that Christopher Nolan be praised (hell I'm quite critical of Interstellar), but any changes he needs to make have to do with the execution of his films than his ambition. His ambition is what sets him apart right now.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Mar 8, 2017 22:22:34 GMT
Why? He's clearly having success. I say he should keep doing it until the "well" dries up.
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Post by no on Mar 8, 2017 23:17:02 GMT
And get back to his root as an art-house filmmaker like David Lynch. I hope Dunkirk will win Oscar for him and Being his last crowd-pleaser entertainment. most great directors ruined himself for doing so hard to please the audiences I miss the 90s... "Nolan needs to stop pleasing the crowd . . . I hope Dunkirk will win Oscar for him" |
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Post by nic-dreadwolf-marling on Mar 8, 2017 23:42:36 GMT
Yeah, for real stop doing things that people like, make a ton of money, and are things that you presumably enjoy. Nolan, you piece of shit.
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Post by Sharbs on Mar 9, 2017 0:35:35 GMT
God forbid you're pleased after watching a film
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Post by mizzaphoenix on Mar 9, 2017 19:27:10 GMT
The only good film he's ever made was Memento. Everything else is populist anyway. It's his fans that need to go away to be honest, they're really insufferable.
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