Throughout the film industry Christoper Nolan stands as a widely celebrated masterful director. The director has achieved widespread recognition through his brilliant direction work in multiple blockbuster films of the Hollywood market. The prestigious film awards recognize Christopher Nolan with five Academy Awards nominations along with nominations for five British Academy Film Awards and six Golden Globe Awards.
Nolan achieved worldwide fame with his trio of The Dark Knight movies (2005 to 2012) and two more award-winning films The Prestige (2006) and Inception (2010) which earned 8 Oscar nominations and contributed Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay honors to Nolan’s name. His filmography continued with Interstellar (2014) before reaching Dunkirk (2017) and then Tenet in 2020. His work on Dunkirk won him his first Best Director nomination along with another Academy Award nomination at the event.
Twitter user Trung Phan recently uncovered this puzzling discovery. Christopher Nolan chooses practical effects over Computer-Generated Imagery for creating the most chaotic scene setups in his films according to Twitter user Trung Phan. An examination follows of these particular examples.
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Let’s explore the top 5 incredible shots taken by Christoper Nolan using practical effects as he hates CGI:
Interstellar
Christopher Nolan invested $100,000 in planting 500 genuine acres of corn in Alberta. Following the filming process, he subsequently sold the crop to generate a profit.
Inception
The spinning hallway where Joseph-Gordon Levitt was fighting some bad guys. Yeah, Nolan built a giant rotating centrifuge and put a hallway in it along with ridiculously expensive cameras.
The Dark Knight
Batman flipped Joker’s 18-wheeler truck. To get the FX, a piston was put under the trailer with TNT. When the TNT blows, the piston hits the ground so hard, that it flips the truck. The only CGI used was to remove the piston from the shot.
Tenet
Christoper Nolan crashed a real 747 into an airport hangar. It turns out that it was cheaper to buy a 747 and crash it instead of doing CGI.
The Dark Knight Rises
Christoper Nolan filmed this scene in the Scottish Highlands and got the government sign-off to drop an aeroplane fuselage into the mountain range. The stunt crew was legit on the outside of the plane (jumped from a helicopter and wore parachutes).
Oppenheimer
Christoper Nolan’s latest movie, which will be released in July 2023, is about the Manhattan Project and the making of the atomic bomb. The film apparently recreates a nuclear bomb with practical effects.
Dunkirk
There were around 400,000 people evacuated from Dunkirk in WWII. With only a few 1000 extras, the crew created “fences” made of cardboard cutouts of actors posing as soldiers. Instead of CGI, tens of thousands of cutouts were made and put up for far-off beach shots.
Who invested $100,000 in planting 500 genuine acres of corn in Alberta?
Christopher Nolan
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