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Post by franklin on Mar 14, 2022 0:37:52 GMT
He literally cast a black actor as the lead in his previous movie.
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Post by stephen on Mar 14, 2022 0:39:08 GMT
Can someone let Nolan know that POC exist? Shooting him a text right now. Please. Christopher Nolan doesn't communicate digitally. Man uses carrier pigeon like any self-respecting auteur.
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Post by finniussnrub on Mar 14, 2022 0:45:34 GMT
Can someone let Nolan know that POC exist? Truly sad that in 2022 some directors still refuse to have any diversity in their films. Not really a fair criticism for this film when he's casting roles that are real people.
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Post by flasuss on Mar 14, 2022 12:06:38 GMT
How dare real people be white?
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Post by Barbie on Mar 14, 2022 14:11:51 GMT
Can someone let Nolan know that POC exist? Truly sad that in 2022 some directors still refuse to have any diversity in their films. As a poc, I appreciate this sentiment, BUT this isn’t a movie where diversity is important especially since it’s based on a true story involving white people. I don’t want token poc characters just to have representation for representation’s sake This person on TikTok summed up how I feel about diversity vm.tiktok.com/ZMLPDsvqY/Also, Nolan gets criticism for poor writing when it comes to female characters. He’s probably gonna fuck up just as bad for characters who are poc. He’s a straight white guy from Europe. I’d rather he just stay in his lane and leave it to others to write good characters
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Post by wattsnew on Mar 14, 2022 19:41:01 GMT
Can someone let Nolan know that POC exist? Truly sad that in 2022 some directors still refuse to have any diversity in their films. ...You do know what the movie is about right??? Do you?
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 14, 2022 20:17:57 GMT
...You do know what the movie is about right??? Do you? From what I understand, POC worked on the Manhattan Project, but not specifically at Los Alamos, which is what the film is focusing on.
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Post by tastytomatoes on Mar 15, 2022 1:07:24 GMT
Also, Nolan gets criticism for poor writing when it comes to female characters. The online criticism of "Nolan can't write female characters" seems to extend only from the Nolan dead wife trope . Rather than poor "writing" it's more often "inadequate" female characters in comparison to the male protagonist character (The supporting female characters who serve to further characterise the male lead, I'm thinking Leonard's wife in Memento, Mal in Inception, Rachel in TDK trilogy and the two wives/ assistants in The Prestige). But this is in comparison within the film. Pick any female character from a Nolan film and they are far better written than many female (or male) supporting characters! Not to mention memorable ones with their own purpose and arc: Natalie in Memento, Ellie in Insomnia, Murph and Dr Brand in Interstellar and most recently Kat in Tenet. He’s probably gonna fuck up just as bad for characters who are poc. He’s a straight white guy from Europe. I’d rather he just stay in his lane and leave it to others to write good characters As another person has pointed out earlier, Nolan literally cast a black actor as the lead in Tenet. The role was not defined by race and it was simply cast for the best actor. POC characters in movies can play roles that aren't about the colour of the skin.... As to whether Nolan wants to write and/or direct a particular story about the racial experience of a black or asian or biracial character that is entirely his choice and there is no reason to pre-judge him.
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Post by Barbie on Mar 15, 2022 3:40:15 GMT
Also, Nolan gets criticism for poor writing when it comes to female characters. The online criticism of "Nolan can't write female characters" seems to extend only from the Nolan dead wife trope . Rather than poor "writing" it's more often "inadequate" female characters in comparison to the male protagonist character (The supporting female characters who serve to further characterise the male lead, I'm thinking Leonard's wife in Memento, Mal in Inception, Rachel in TDK trilogy and the two wives/ assistants in The Prestige). But this is in comparison within the film. Pick any female character from a Nolan film and they are far better written than many female (or male) supporting characters! Not to mention memorable ones with their own purpose and arc: Natalie in Memento, Ellie in Insomnia, Murph and Dr Brand in Interstellar and most recently Kat in Tenet. He’s probably gonna fuck up just as bad for characters who are poc. He’s a straight white guy from Europe. I’d rather he just stay in his lane and leave it to others to write good characters As another person has pointed out earlier, Nolan literally cast a black actor as the lead in Tenet. The role was not defined by race and it was simply cast for the best actor. POC characters in movies can play roles that aren't about the colour of the skin.... As to whether Nolan wants to write and/or direct a particular story about the racial experience of a black or asian or biracial character that is entirely his choice and there is no reason to pre-judge him. I don’t feel strongly about this either way. Personally, I never had a problem with his female characters, but I know a lot of people seem to dislike the way he writes them. I even met someone irl who said she hated Nolan for that As for the poc thing, sure he can make a story about the racial experience of a poc but that doesn’t mean he should? If he does, he’s rightfully going to get criticized if the output is gonna be the same as previous white creators who’ve failed bc they simply have never lived that experience and never will
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 15, 2022 19:34:04 GMT
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 16, 2022 4:44:38 GMT
Murphy and Damon. Looks like they're filming this:
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 17, 2022 6:14:23 GMT
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Post by Pasquale on Mar 17, 2022 10:10:45 GMT
I thought that's a weird jacket, lol. Attachments:
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Post by DeepArcher on Mar 22, 2022 21:09:25 GMT
Alex Wolff now, apparently.
At this rate they will still be casting after the movie is released.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 30, 2022 6:42:05 GMT
I’m currently reading the chapter on Dunkirk in the book The Nolan Variations, and thought this was an interesting excerpt where Nolan talks about deciding to cut down on dialogue for the screenplay to that film. Based on what he says about Dunkirk here, and writing a screenplay based on a true story/real event more generally, I wonder if he might be approaching Oppenheimer with a similar mindset:
It’s obviously unlikely that Nolan would eschew dialogue to the extent he did for Dunkirk since Oppenheimer is the type of story that inherently requires more exposition and verbal interaction among the characters... but the excerpt above suggests to me that Nolan might be somewhat self-conscious about writing fictional dialogue to portray real events and true stories in particular. If he’s concerned about the use of dialogue as an “artificial” way to tell a true story, and not wanting to insert too much of “himself” into it by putting his own dialogue into the mouths of characters based on real people, I wonder if we might at least get a more measured approach to dialogue writing here than what we’ve seen in Tenet/Inception/Interstellar, etc.
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Post by mhynson27 on Apr 1, 2022 14:23:13 GMT
Gary Oldman is filming like 1 scene for this.
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Post by stephen on Apr 1, 2022 14:36:45 GMT
This is Christopher Nolan's The Thin Red Line. How hilarious would it be if he went full Malick and cut like half these people.
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Post by cherry68 on Apr 1, 2022 19:29:14 GMT
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Apr 13, 2022 4:15:05 GMT
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Post by mhynson27 on Apr 13, 2022 5:42:33 GMT
Am I tripping, or does that kinda look like Oldman as Einstein??
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Post by stephen on Apr 13, 2022 16:00:43 GMT
I'm more focused on what appears to be Old-Ass David Strathairn wearing Robert De Niro's face behind him.
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 13, 2022 17:13:09 GMT
Einstein actor looks like Dustin Hoffman to me.......
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Apr 13, 2022 18:05:03 GMT
I don't care what Jim says, that's Kevin Kline. I'm 99% sure.
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Post by DeepArcher on Apr 13, 2022 18:25:37 GMT
I love how every white man in Hollywood was announced for this and yet there's still some mystery white men in this.
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Post by JangoB on Apr 13, 2022 19:08:02 GMT
I love how every white man in Hollywood was announced for this and yet there's still some mystery white men in this. It's David Lynch!!1
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