Nolan's narrative techniques

Narrative Techniques in Christopher Nolan's movies: 

• Begins his movies and introduces his main characters with a close-up of their hands performing an action.

           e.g: Memento opening sequence (2000, actor Guy Pearce)

• When shooting a dialogue scene, the actors are often framed in wide close-up with a shallow depth of field to blur out the background.

Bane (Tom Hardy) and Batman (Christian Bale) in The Dark Knight Rises

• Non-linear timelines
  e.g.: Memento

• Crosscutting several scenes of parallel action to build climax
  e.g.: the spectacular gravity fight in Inception

• His films usually revolve around characters that are afflicted with some kind of psychological disorder. (phobia, dual personality, insomnia etc.)

Joker (Heath Ledger) in Batman The Dark Knight 

• The storyline in his films usually involves a determined character seeking vengeance over the death of a loved one.

The hero of Inception punished himself for the suicide of his wife

• Frequently uses hard cuts when transitioning to the next scenes.
   This is most prominent in his films from 'Batman Begins' onward, especially in 'The Dark Knight', where, in some instances, the hard cuts he uses will go as far as to nearly cut off character's lines in order to quickly and efficiently get to the next scene.

• All of his films contain a major reference to the film prior to it.

Posters of Batman The Dark Knight (2008) and Inception (2010) 

• His protagonists will often resort to tactics of physical or psychological torture to gain information (ABJECT)
  e.g.:
  - in Batman Begins, Batman uses the hallucinagenic fear compound on Jonathan Crane in order to gain information about his "boss"- in The Prestige, Angier buries Borden's assistant alive in order to get Borden to talk;
  - in The Dark Knight, Batman throws Salvatore Maroni off a building, breaking his legs, in order to gain information about The Joker
  - in the same movie, Batman beats up Joker in prison (''good cop - bad cop routine")
  - in the same movie, Harvey Dent puts gun to one of the Joker's henchman and flips a coin for his life every second he doesn't talk to scare him into talking
  - in Insomnia, Dormer drives into oncoming traffic in order to scare victim's best friend into talking

Harvey Dent vs. Two-Face

• Employs non-linear storytelling techniques, often flipping around the three acts of a movie to tell the story in an interesting fashion
  e.g: Memento, Inception
• His endings have a recurring theme of justified dishonesty
  e.g.: in The Dark Knight, Batman decides to become the public enemy instead of Two-Face, in order to protect the image of Harvey Dent. Watch YouTube video here. 

• Films conclude with the two central characters discussing the preceding events and the results which have stemmed from said events.
  e.g.: in The Prestige (2006), where the ending reveals the truth behind the magic tricks

• Typically ends his films with a character giving a philosophical monologue
  e.g.: The Prestige ending monologue with Michael Caine

• Often ends his films with a jump cut to black and displays the title before the end credits
  e.g.: Batman, Inception hook-up

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