What kind of existence is Christopher Nolan in the film industry? If you investigate a hundred people who know Nolan, the answer may be close to 100 such descriptions: "This is a director destined to become a legend."
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Nolan was born in London, England in 1970. In 1989, the 19-year-old Nolan made the first short film "Tarantella" in his life that appeared on TV. Due to resource problems, he has never seen "Talan". .
In 1996, the 26-year-old Nolan made the short film "Theft" and the movie "Follow". The "Follow", which only spent $6,000, became the starting point for Nolan's success in the film industry.
In the 21 years that followed, Nolan made 9 more movies, including immortal works such as " interstellar " and "Inception", but there will still be people who will follow the 26-year-old Virgo. "I was obsessed with it. There were more than 120,000 scoring points on a single Douban. The final score was 8.9, ranking among the Top 250. This score ranked fourth among Nolan’s 10 works.
(A total of 10 movies in Nolan’s career so far, in chronological order are "Follow", "Memory Fragment", "Insomnia", "Batman" series, "Fatal Magic", "Inception", " "Interstellar", "Dunkirk".)
No matter whether it is science fiction, suspense, war, or heroic themes, Nolan can easily grasp it. For him, it is far more difficult to make a bad film than to shoot. A good film.
In 2020, Nolan is 50 years old. It has been three years since the last movie "Dunkirk" was released. For fans who like Nolan, 3 years is a good time. It is enough for Nolan to carve out A film that is good enough to not make people wait too long and become anxious.
This three-year-old film, which happened to be released when Nolan was 50 years old, is "Creed" (tentative translation).
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"Creed" (English name "TENET", Chinese "creed" is a temporary translation) is still Nolan's brokerage company Warner Pictures. In the past ten years, Nolan has made great contributions to Warner, whether it is " "Batman", "Inception" or "Interstellar" will all have a high weight in the selection of the world's top 100 films in the last 20 years.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Nolan used his own power to carry Warner Bros. half of the sky for nearly 20 years.
Warner’s 2020 upcoming movies, "Creed", "Steel Bones", and "Green Lantern" are the three most watched, and as the last of these three films, "Creed" is the blessing of Nolan Next, choosing a golden period like the summer file (July 17 in North America) must be the highlight of Warner’s betting.
And can Nolan create a movie again as the best birthday gift for 50 years old?
Through the trailer on December 19, 2019, we may be able to get a glimpse.
Let us first say a word: "time".
In Nolan’s past films, in addition to the non-linear narrative of time interrupted by accidents (such as "Dunkirk" and "Memory Fragments"), Nolan's super use and interpretation of the element of time should be current One of the best people on the planet.
The superposition of dreams in "Inception" has accelerated the flow of time, and the flow of time caused by the use of gravitational tearing in "Interstellar" is different, which makes time, an invisible and intangible element, the essence of the movie And one of the biggest attractions.
went back to the trailer of "Creed". In the official trailer of the Chinese version at 2:07, we saw a lot of content, but after reading it carefully, it seemed that nothing was obtained. This is Nolan. If
is directly interpreted through the first story of the trailer, the story of "Creed" is like this.
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John David Washington is an "secret agent". He was performing a mission with his colleagues because he showed that he would rather die than give up his partnerThe excellent quality of the company was selected by an organization.
After John David Washington woke up, someone told him, "Not everyone can pass the test you passed. Welcome to the afterlife."
here tells us: first, there are many people taking part in the test, and second, the name of this organization is the afterlife.
can pass the test taken by many people to show that John is excellent, and what is the afterlife, perhaps a synonym for "afterlife", is to tell John that his identity in the world has disappeared, and he is now another identity, like rebirth. .
John, with a bewildered face, asked the man in front of him who was a little bit nagging: "If you want me to do things well, at least tell me what I am going to face?"
The answer is: "As far as I know, we What we will face is trying to stop World War III!"
"Is it nuclear destruction?"
"No, it's worse than that!"
"..."
"I can only tell you one word: TENET, it It will open the right door, and also open some wrong doors. You have to look at the world in a new way, don’t try to understand it or feel it." The above passage is the most important core of the whole trailer. , And how much can be seen?
According to Nolan’s habit, when we are ecstatic and feel that we have seen through the essence, when the film is officially released, we will find ourselves in a mess. Let’s interpret it literally.
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First of all: John was selected to solve and prevent the third world war, that is, the number of wars on the earth at this time still stays at 1/2 twice, indicating that the time in the movie will not leave us now The time gap is too far (after all, the possibility of the third occurrence in a hundred years is still very large).
Second: The cause of the third world war is not nuclear weapons, but something called "TENET", and this thing has helped mankind benefit, because it opened some correct things, but in the end it will give mankind Brings the disaster of extinction, and what is TENET? Don't know.
Finally: Nolan said that you must see the world from a new perspective, don't try to understand him or feel it. In theory, this sentence is a sick sentence, because Nolan tells you that you can see the world from a new perspective, but tells you not to try to understand it, that is, this thing can be seen but not understood, why? There is actually a slight leak of this reason in the trailer.
John and his colleagues drove the car on the road. Some of the chasing cars were driving backwards, some were driving, and some suddenly flying. In addition, John found some people in the hotel crawling backwards or backwards. Run, is it understandable? Can't! But can you see it? can!
So this passage of Nolan may be telling us that this world has been changed by TENET, and then there have been many phenomena that we cannot understand (such as crawling backwards, running backwards), you only need to accept it, recognize it, And stop it!
As for what is TENET?
Nolan did not give a clear answer, but the word itself is very interesting. In addition to its literal meaning with "principles, creeds, doctrines" which are quite religious and religious, this word also belongs to "palindromic words", namely The order is the same! If we correspond to the things John saw earlier (climbing backwards, driving backwards), maybe TENET is more like a time box, it can put time in an infinite loop, then if such a weapon In the hands of terrorism, innocent people will fall into the infinite loop of time.
For Nolan who loves time, it is not a difficult thing to shape a concept of time that we have never thought about and seen before, but the past "lessons" are still there to tell us that all attempts to guess Nolan The person who is going to be slapped to the face by Nolan will be exhausted.
So on July 17, 2020, what kind of surprise will "TENET" bring? We only have to wait for the moment to open.
