🎶🎶 *IT'S CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S* 🎶🎶 *IT'S CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S* 🎶🎶 *IT'S CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S WORLD OF PRACTICAL EFFECTS!* 🎶🎶 Which is your favorite Christopher Nolan scene pracitcal effect?
The fact that Nolan cares about how good the movie will look and sound years into the future tells you everything you need to know about him as director. He is the director of the people.
@@JohnconnoYeah movies with lots of cgi will eventually look aged as better cgi technology comes out. Practical effects eliminates that and the visuals can stay amazing forever.
@@__Est.her__ thats just you, the sudden blast of the bomb exploding is one of the best sound usage I have ever experienced, it simulates what it was like to them to feel the blast
Oppenheimer is gonna be a huge hit and it had a production budget of a little over a third of the new Indiana Jones movie's. I hope this will be a wake up call for Hollywood and push them to make more films of substance instead of braindead cashgrabs.
Well, it actually ended up coming in at a higher budget than originally reported. On the red carpet Nolan said it was actually $180 million. He could have misspoke though.
If it makes the same about of money Indy 4 has made, Oppenheimer would be a resounding success And it is already surpassing expectations even if Barbie is making more money (but keep in mind Oppenheimer has been delayed by up an entire month in various parts of the world)
Somehow building revolving corridors, flipping trucks, dropped aeroplane fuselages is "incredible" and yet the fact they grew 850 ACRES OF CORN for Interstellar is just as amazing. In Canada. Surrounded by cold mountains.
What's crazy is that they could have filmed that literally anywhere in the world and added the mountains digitally, or grown a small field of corn and extended it to the horizon with digital effects, and the end result would have looked exactly the same.
Everyone here is (rightfully) talking about Nolan... but the effort made to produce this video, especially the opening musical number, is just amazing to see!
Too bad, rn Tom is a bit.... pissy about the fact that Dead Reckoning is only playing for 1 week in IMAX. Not sure if this extends to Nolan, but for the time being, I wouldn't hold my breath for a collab between them.
@@joshuaj.chinda9873Cameron I think is pretty good. Terminator 1 and 2, Titanic and Aliens are awesome movies, but the Avatar franchise is kinda mid, minus the awesome cgi
What's more impressive about him is that he doesn't use a second unit director. That's unheard of for big action films. Most action films or big budget films are shot with second unit directors who shoot all of the action sequences and pick up shots. Not only does Nolan use extensive practical effects... he shoots everything himself! What a beast!
This is a wonderful analysis on Nolan’s practical effects usage. I do have to admit being a little disappointed that “The Prestige” was passed up as I’m sure that, much like magic, he had complexities that he made feel seamless.
Talked with one of the people that worked on it and they really didn't go into much detail on what they did for the prestige behind the scenes. So it was really hard to cover it
Nolan is absolutely in the top 3 best modern directors, maybe even the best. Doing things for real to mitigate tacky looking effects in future never really occurred to me but it's genius in itself really.
wow imagine growing corn instead of just using a green screen. well it fricking makes a huge difference with ambience and lighting. pretty fricking awsome.
Bravo! Excellent video! Nothing like watching a film and being treated to things done right in camera. Chris is helping to keep traditional filmmaking alive. Practical Effects FTW!
The only thing that keeps it from being that for me is the Maggie Gyllenhaal casting. Everything else was perfect but she was not a great fit at all for that role.
@@FrameVoyager I think I must be the only person in the world that Preferred Maggie over Katie. both actors in both films are overshadowed by some of the greatest casting of any film but Katie brought nothing to the character to me.
I think I'mma need to watch Tenet again... a few times. I just have to say that this video is a love letter to both Nolan and cinema. It's a phenomenal piece of work.
0:40 You interpreted his statement incorrectly. He is saying that there are no fully CGI shots in the movie and that every shot atleast has some practical stuff, not that he didn't use CGI at all.
Right, they probably still composited a lot of elements into the film, but it's likely very minimal. Nolan even said in an interview he told their VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson to try and recreate the nuclear explosion with no computer graphic elements. And considering Andrew Jackson worked on Mad Max, I would assume they achieved that. For other Nolan movies I would interpret that as they used mostly practical elements aided with CGI, but for this movie, beyond the nuclear explosion which they say they created for real, there really isn't much cgi work needed.
Fun fact: The scenes on Miller's planet in Interstellar had to be filmed on Earth, even though Christopher Nolan was willing to shoot them on location, because it's billions of light years away and the trip exceeded the maximum budget.
It's impressive how far he's willing to go to do it practically and it usually turns out great as a result of it. Respect. Dunkirk is the one glaring exception though.
I love that Nolan uses practical effects!! Having said that, Dunkirk felt way too small. It should have been hundreds of boats, thousands of planes, and tens of thousands of people because that's how it actually hapoened. It felt like there might be 200 people on the beach.
Dunkirk totally failed to capture the scale and complexity of the evacuation. I’ve seen more people on Bondi beach. In that instance, Nolan’s refusal to use cgi really impacted the movie.
I will always admire Christopher Nolan's mastery and control as a filmmaker, his devotion to practical effects is a blessing in a world full of CGI (even though he sometimes requires it), this is why his movies never age in yars to come, they look fresh and modern, they look like they were shot yesterday, which is why I love about certain films. I always liked how Gotham looked in Batman Begins, the fact that most of Gotham's scenes were miniatures and sets make it have its own identity, it's like Gotham from the comics came to life. BTW, love the jingle at the beginning, now I can't get it out of my head.
DNEG - a worldwide CGI studio is literally credited on IMDb. There were around 200 visual effects working on this film. Sure, it's less than would be typical for a movie this size. But it's not "no CGI".
I work in a factory setting and unfortunately have seen two magnesium fires. They were able to be contained and nobody was hurt but they are a very different animal from “traditional” fires and need a special extinguisher to put out. Makes sense why he used it in Oppenheimer.
If you listen to The Cinematography Podcast the helicopter DP who shot the Explosion Scene tell the story of the Dark Knight explosion, the explosions did NOT fire on queue so Heath Ledger did adlib the detonator not working. Also the video tap on the I-Max camera stopped working so he basically had to frame mostly blind that shot. It was the most expensive shot of the movie so it was down to Ledger and the skill of a very experienced arial DP it came out so well.
In some scenes of Dunkirk you can see modern glass apartment buildings and houses with Velux roof windows, and factories in the harbour that are a bit too modern for WW1.
I legitimately thought that most of these scenes in Batman Begins were shot on locations, but to know that they pretty much built an entire city and freeway in a giant warehouse. That's dedication, and I shows that they wanted a completely unique look for Gotham that they wouldn't have gotten by shooting it in say, New York or Chicago, or another Gotham like city. Love this, and it's nearly impossible to notice. I love how the cave is even fake.
Speaking of THE Prestige, I would actually really love to know more about the process of having one actor play two different characters side by side from opposite ends of the production schedule and meeting in the middle, all while avoiding the usual doppelganger / time loop tropes. The film is easily one of his best and gets such little attention.
Nolan's Bat Tumbler is an iconic Batmobile, but goddamn. Bane's Tumblers in The Dark Knight Rises were amazing. Imagine three high-speed tanks barreling towards your convoy, two with dual-barreled heavy cannons and one with a multi-cell missile launcher
Now do one about all the amazing visual effects work super talented artists make for All of Nolan's films. It's great he does a lot of stuff practically, since it makes the vfx better by having all that reference but I really don't like the current trend of "practal good, CG bad". He uses vfx in all of his films. The example you give about the crowds in Dunkir, while it's true they used cardboards, they ALSO did a lot of CG crowds. It's always a great mix of both techniques that makes the most believable effects.
Oh, I agree. Lot of work in his movies by vfx artists. I do wonder though trying to do more practically to aid the vfx work, I don't mind how his movies look. I think there absolutely is a balance somewhere in the middle though, otherwise you get stuff like Indiana Jones 5
@@FrameVoyager Yeah, for me the best is a mix of techniques. They are tools, some work better for some things some work better for other things. And for the vfx artists, as much as reference as possible is always better, even if a lot of the time they end up replacing completely the real elements in the shot with cg because they have the reference of how it moves, how it interacts with the light, etc. Now, talking specifically did you feel the "nuclear bomb" as massive as it should? For me it felt kind of anti climatic. Not as big as we have seen in test footage. It was good for the movie marketing saying they were not gonna make the bomb in CG but maybe in this case it would have been better if they went with cg like they did on interstellar with the black hole. Scientifically accurate but super impactful (though in that case it was impossible to shoot for real). By the way your videos are great, it's nothing against you, it's just that there is a current trend to elevate movies just for being "practical" and hiding the truth and minimizing the great work of the vfx artists. Like all the marketing around top gun maverick.
Nolan was actually given an award by the Visual Effects Society in 2018 and remarked that it was ironic considering his reputation, but he said that he loves CGI and visual effects, and that he couldn't make his movies without them. However, this trend of downplaying the visual effects and saying everything was done "for real" is older than you think. For 1993's _The Fugitive,_ the promotions made a lot of noise about how they crashed a real train into a real bus, and that no models were used. And while they did crash a train for real, only a few shots actually appear in the movie, and the majority of the sequence was done with models. But according to the the marketing hype, it was all completely real. They've been lying to us for years.
My only problem with Nolans methods for Dunkirk he just wasn't able to capture the sense of size at all for the beaches and It just didn't feel right, there should have been 500,000 soldiers alone on that beach not to mentions thousands of trucks and tanks instead it looked like there was 500 people it really took away from just how dire the real situation really was.
the crazy thing is if you look at the reported budget of Nolan's films made with practical effects they aren't that different from movies that are full of CGI eye sores
Nope haha! But, he can probably use that budget in other ways because his CGI budget is lower. He seems to put way more money into sets and props. That would actually be a fascinating financial dive. "Which director spends the most on CGI"
@@FrameVoyager Liz Olsen the other day criticise acting against nothing on a green screen Tho she probably said sth we already knew out loud she came across as a tad unprofessional so I think she's gone from the MCU
@@FrameVoyager the story with interstellar was an interesting one Kipp Thorne (the science consultant and theoretical physicist) basically told Nolan that ok we have a bunch of equations of a what a super massive black hole would look like but we don't the budget to run the simulation And Nolan was like OK fold into the budget of a Hollywood production we would use whatever comes out in the movie I think Kip published some scientific paper based on the results and some time later when we got an image of a black hole it looked like just as the movie portray It was pragmatism and ingenuity
@ 8:00, it wasnt that he improvised the delay. it was that the last part of the building was suppposed to explode and it didnt. Which people assume was improvised
Wow. When I watched his (Mr. Nolan's) Batman, I felt that I was looking at NYC! Now I know why. While I am no movie buff, Mr. Nolan is (perhaps this is too soon) now up there in my mind with Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock
I ABSOTLUTELY LOVE THAT IDEA. Although I'd say Christopher would have more in common with Jackie Chan as both goes to extreme lengths to nearly risking everything too.
@@FrameVoyager Lowkey this the best one and longest video on the subject matter too which I highly appreciate, you threw in stuff I haven’t even seen or heard about yet!
I agree the cardboard cutouts thing for crowd is neat but I don't think it really worked well enough. I mean it worked to portray a certain amount, but I think it failed to really portray the scale of the actual event. The evacuation of dunkirk involved hundreds of thousands of people, watching the movie it feels big but not THAT big
Dunkirk is the only example of Nolan's avoiding CGI was actually a detriment. the scale of the evacuation was pretty underwhelming compared to real life, and even underwhelming compared to other films. Atonement's dunkirk beach scene does a much better job of showing the scale of chaos and confusion on the beach.
' oppenheimer' the phycological and biographical movie ever made by nonal that will really inspire the next generation for an innovative approach of visualization and critical thinking❤hats off to the whole team🎉🛐
The cornfield they sew. it would have been so cool, that on the premier day of Interstellar, they would have had harvested the field and make popcorn from all of it and give it out free to the moviegoers.
FYI - For 2001 the rotating ‘giant hamster wheel’ represents the interior of the Discovery spaceship on its doomed mission to Jupiter and not a space station…
🎶🎶 *IT'S CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S* 🎶🎶 *IT'S CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S* 🎶🎶 *IT'S CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S WORLD OF PRACTICAL EFFECTS!* 🎶🎶 Which is your favorite Christopher Nolan scene pracitcal effect?
hi
I liked when he crashed an airplane
@@jonahplayscello Must have been a fun day
@@ISOGQD 👋👋👋
Hope that jingle makes a an appearance in a future video. It's too good to be a one-off. lol
You know you have a legendary status in the industry when people start questioning if you made an atomic bomb explode for real just for the shot.
hahaha mostly just a joke because he always is so serious about doing everything practically. All good fun
LOL what if he did
What if I told you that all real atomic bomb shots were just cinematic practical effects. Lookout Mountain USAF.
@DashzRight . Good to hear. Its just more scary" nuke" propaganda
@@DashzRightthe explosion was underwhelming yes, but the rest of the movie was brilliant imo
it still astounds me that he didnt get an oscar for flipping france upside down in inception. craziest practical effect ive ever heard.
Sir that was CGI
@@paulrozario5516 nah
@@orenparis it was CGI. i've seen the breakdown once
@@paulrozario5516 nah he flipped france upside down
@@paulrozario5516r/woooosh
The fact that Nolan cares about how good the movie will look and sound years into the future tells you everything you need to know about him as director. He is the director of the people.
The Future? 😂
@@JohnconnoYeah movies with lots of cgi will eventually look aged as better cgi technology comes out. Practical effects eliminates that and the visuals can stay amazing forever.
I hated the sound in Oppenheimer. I think it made my tinnitus worse. His style choice of making the music blast to 100000999 is annoying at best.
@@__Est.her__ thats just you, the sudden blast of the bomb exploding is one of the best sound usage I have ever experienced, it simulates what it was like to them to feel the blast
@@__Est.her__tbh, whole openheimer was crap
The craziest thing Nolan sent actors to a black hole just to film interstellar.
It was reported he sold 17.8% of his soul to do so
@@FrameVoyagerthats crazy 🥶
@@FrameVoyagerWould you give the devil 5 million dollars for a 1% stake in Christopher Nolan's soul?
@@jaysefgames1155you would probably profit haha
Even crazier... He got you to comment.
He isn't against vfx he understands that for certain projects practical effects are more suitable, just depends on the project he is working on.
Oh, for sure! He uses vfx in every film haha. Honestly, doing things practically like that probably makes the VFX teams job harder.
Yep, Nolan has stated so many times he’s A fan of CGI. He just doesn’t that that much.
Vfx and cgi are two different things
Yea he don't hate CGI just that he prefers to do it for real as long as it's possible.
And just when it came to Oppenheimer he went completely retarded and refused to do cgi when he needed it most.
Oppenheimer is gonna be a huge hit and it had a production budget of a little over a third of the new Indiana Jones movie's. I hope this will be a wake up call for Hollywood and push them to make more films of substance instead of braindead cashgrabs.
Well, it actually ended up coming in at a higher budget than originally reported. On the red carpet Nolan said it was actually $180 million. He could have misspoke though.
@@FrameVoyagerstudio confirmed 100M after the fact, Nolan misspoke. He meant it was a 180 page script.
If it makes the same about of money Indy 4 has made, Oppenheimer would be a resounding success
And it is already surpassing expectations even if Barbie is making more money (but keep in mind Oppenheimer has been delayed by up an entire month in various parts of the world)
i hope generalisations are all ever not necessary anymore.
They are not cash grabs😡
Somehow building revolving corridors, flipping trucks, dropped aeroplane fuselages is "incredible" and yet the fact they grew 850 ACRES OF CORN for Interstellar is just as amazing. In Canada. Surrounded by cold mountains.
What's crazy is that they could have filmed that literally anywhere in the world and added the mountains digitally, or grown a small field of corn and extended it to the horizon with digital effects, and the end result would have looked exactly the same.
Everyone here is (rightfully) talking about Nolan... but the effort made to produce this video, especially the opening musical number, is just amazing to see!
Nolan x Cruise colab will be lit!!!
It would be interesting for sure! Maybe they would both go to space together
Include Hans Zimmer
Throw Jackie Chan in the mix
Too bad, rn Tom is a bit.... pissy about the fact that Dead Reckoning is only playing for 1 week in IMAX. Not sure if this extends to Nolan, but for the time being, I wouldn't hold my breath for a collab between them.
It will smash box office
No other director is on Nolan's level. Nolan is the one of the best directors. His movies are timeless
However, I would like to add that Denis Villeneuve works at a very similar high level.
@@robderich8533 100% agree that Villenueve is up there. Maybe not to Nolan's level but quite high for sure!
One of my favorite directors is Steven Speilberg
@@wellthissucks112Cameron is easily better than Nolan.
@@joshuaj.chinda9873Cameron I think is pretty good. Terminator 1 and 2, Titanic and Aliens are awesome movies, but the Avatar franchise is kinda mid, minus the awesome cgi
What's more impressive about him is that he doesn't use a second unit director. That's unheard of for big action films. Most action films or big budget films are shot with second unit directors who shoot all of the action sequences and pick up shots. Not only does Nolan use extensive practical effects... he shoots everything himself! What a beast!
This is a wonderful analysis on Nolan’s practical effects usage. I do have to admit being a little disappointed that “The Prestige” was passed up as I’m sure that, much like magic, he had complexities that he made feel seamless.
Talked with one of the people that worked on it and they really didn't go into much detail on what they did for the prestige behind the scenes. So it was really hard to cover it
Nolan is absolutely in the top 3 best modern directors, maybe even the best. Doing things for real to mitigate tacky looking effects in future never really occurred to me but it's genius in itself really.
" Doing things for real to mitigate tacky looking effects "
You've never actually seen a CGI breakdown of his movies, ammiright?
Apparently watching Nolan's movies and working as a crew in his movies is an experience in itself.
Must be a blast to work as a crew in his movies.
wow imagine growing corn instead of just using a green screen. well it fricking makes a huge difference with ambience and lighting. pretty fricking awsome.
That musical number at the intro was freaking amazing.
😅😅😅 appreciate it!
Bravo! Excellent video! Nothing like watching a film and being treated to things done right in camera. Chris is helping to keep traditional filmmaking alive. Practical Effects FTW!
Appreciate it! Yeah, really looking forward to Oppenheimer.
The Dark Knight isn't just one of the best superhero movies. I think it's one of the best movies ever made full stop.
The only thing that keeps it from being that for me is the Maggie Gyllenhaal casting. Everything else was perfect but she was not a great fit at all for that role.
@@FrameVoyager I think I must be the only person in the world that Preferred Maggie over Katie. both actors in both films are overshadowed by some of the greatest casting of any film but Katie brought nothing to the character to me.
Ehh, I find myself rewatching Raimi's spider-man 1 and 2 more than the Dark Knight trilogy
@@FrameVoyagerame opinion here. I would have preferred if Katie would have continued that role in Dark Knight as well.
I think I'mma need to watch Tenet again... a few times. I just have to say that this video is a love letter to both Nolan and cinema. It's a phenomenal piece of work.
Off all the practical effects featured here, I think growing entire corn fields was the most impressive
Wait, you're telling me I was staring at cardboard cutouts in Dunkirk? Man I need to watch that movie again
haha yep!
0:40 You interpreted his statement incorrectly. He is saying that there are no fully CGI shots in the movie and that every shot atleast has some practical stuff, not that he didn't use CGI at all.
Right, they probably still composited a lot of elements into the film, but it's likely very minimal. Nolan even said in an interview he told their VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson to try and recreate the nuclear explosion with no computer graphic elements. And considering Andrew Jackson worked on Mad Max, I would assume they achieved that. For other Nolan movies I would interpret that as they used mostly practical elements aided with CGI, but for this movie, beyond the nuclear explosion which they say they created for real, there really isn't much cgi work needed.
Interstellar is also Nolan’s first movie where he collaborates with Hoyte Van Hoytema
Fun fact: The scenes on Miller's planet in Interstellar had to be filmed on Earth, even though Christopher Nolan was willing to shoot them on location, because it's billions of light years away and the trip exceeded the maximum budget.
It's impressive how far he's willing to go to do it practically and it usually turns out great as a result of it. Respect. Dunkirk is the one glaring exception though.
The SFX crew for the truck flip on Batman deserve massive kudos, the piston popping out and flipping it effortlessly took some serious RnD
Yes but u see it in the movie lol
@@plopplop1984vfx could’ve painted that out with minimal effort either it got missed by the editors/nolan or they didn’t wanna pay for it
I wasn't certain about this video at first, but the theme song sold me.
I'ts a bop!
Stuntman is like "yeah im half gone, let me drive that truck."
I love that Nolan uses practical effects!! Having said that, Dunkirk felt way too small. It should have been hundreds of boats, thousands of planes, and tens of thousands of people because that's how it actually hapoened. It felt like there might be 200 people on the beach.
Maybe that’s the reason i am not completely satisfied with the film. Same with the scaling of the Nuke from Oppenheimer.
Dunkirk totally failed to capture the scale and complexity of the evacuation. I’ve seen more people on Bondi beach. In that instance, Nolan’s refusal to use cgi really impacted the movie.
I will always admire Christopher Nolan's mastery and control as a filmmaker, his devotion to practical effects is a blessing in a world full of CGI (even though he sometimes requires it), this is why his movies never age in yars to come, they look fresh and modern, they look like they were shot yesterday, which is why I love about certain films. I always liked how Gotham looked in Batman Begins, the fact that most of Gotham's scenes were miniatures and sets make it have its own identity, it's like Gotham from the comics came to life. BTW, love the jingle at the beginning, now I can't get it out of my head.
DNEG - a worldwide CGI studio is literally credited on IMDb. There were around 200 visual effects working on this film. Sure, it's less than would be typical for a movie this size. But it's not "no CGI".
..which film are you referring to?
I work in a factory setting and unfortunately have seen two magnesium fires. They were able to be contained and nobody was hurt but they are a very different animal from “traditional” fires and need a special extinguisher to put out. Makes sense why he used it in Oppenheimer.
If you listen to The Cinematography Podcast the helicopter DP who shot the Explosion Scene tell the story of the Dark Knight explosion, the explosions did NOT fire on queue so Heath Ledger did adlib the detonator not working. Also the video tap on the I-Max camera stopped working so he basically had to frame mostly blind that shot. It was the most expensive shot of the movie so it was down to Ledger and the skill of a very experienced arial DP it came out so well.
In some scenes of Dunkirk you can see modern glass apartment buildings and houses with Velux roof windows, and factories in the harbour that are a bit too modern for WW1.
Truly inspiration work, not just your camera nerdiness but being a great host as well! Cheers
Appreciate it! 😅😅😅
Something I like about Nolan movies is that his movies question your mind/mindset.
And now that it's won an oscar, all the hard work paid off to the fullest
I legitimately thought that most of these scenes in Batman Begins were shot on locations, but to know that they pretty much built an entire city and freeway in a giant warehouse. That's dedication, and I shows that they wanted a completely unique look for Gotham that they wouldn't have gotten by shooting it in say, New York or Chicago, or another Gotham like city. Love this, and it's nearly impossible to notice. I love how the cave is even fake.
Speaking of THE Prestige, I would actually really love to know more about the process of having one actor play two different characters side by side from opposite ends of the production schedule and meeting in the middle, all while avoiding the usual doppelganger / time loop tropes. The film is easily one of his best and gets such little attention.
My favorite movie director of all time
The theme song perfect down to the last detail
hahaha couldn't help myself on this one
I love practical effects still being used instead of full vfx or CGI or greenscreen movies
Please stop hating CGI I'm getting really sick and tired of people
@@assassin8636 I dont hate cgi but what i hate is BAD looking cgi in movies . It clear that there still uses of cgi in movies .
@@nezunish-898 if handled well
@@assassin8636Agreed!
22:26 “Crossing That Bridge”! 😀 Love that music. It fits perfectly.
Nolan's Bat Tumbler is an iconic Batmobile, but goddamn. Bane's Tumblers in The Dark Knight Rises were amazing.
Imagine three high-speed tanks barreling towards your convoy, two with dual-barreled heavy cannons and one with a multi-cell missile launcher
For anyone wondering:
no CGI shots ≠ no CGI used
Now do one about all the amazing visual effects work super talented artists make for All of Nolan's films. It's great he does a lot of stuff practically, since it makes the vfx better by having all that reference but I really don't like the current trend of "practal good, CG bad". He uses vfx in all of his films. The example you give about the crowds in Dunkir, while it's true they used cardboards, they ALSO did a lot of CG crowds. It's always a great mix of both techniques that makes the most believable effects.
Oh, I agree. Lot of work in his movies by vfx artists. I do wonder though trying to do more practically to aid the vfx work, I don't mind how his movies look. I think there absolutely is a balance somewhere in the middle though, otherwise you get stuff like Indiana Jones 5
@@FrameVoyager Yeah, for me the best is a mix of techniques. They are tools, some work better for some things some work better for other things. And for the vfx artists, as much as reference as possible is always better, even if a lot of the time they end up replacing completely the real elements in the shot with cg because they have the reference of how it moves, how it interacts with the light, etc. Now, talking specifically did you feel the "nuclear bomb" as massive as it should? For me it felt kind of anti climatic. Not as big as we have seen in test footage. It was good for the movie marketing saying they were not gonna make the bomb in CG but maybe in this case it would have been better if they went with cg like they did on interstellar with the black hole. Scientifically accurate but super impactful (though in that case it was impossible to shoot for real). By the way your videos are great, it's nothing against you, it's just that there is a current trend to elevate movies just for being "practical" and hiding the truth and minimizing the great work of the vfx artists. Like all the marketing around top gun maverick.
Nolan was actually given an award by the Visual Effects Society in 2018 and remarked that it was ironic considering his reputation, but he said that he loves CGI and visual effects, and that he couldn't make his movies without them.
However, this trend of downplaying the visual effects and saying everything was done "for real" is older than you think. For 1993's _The Fugitive,_ the promotions made a lot of noise about how they crashed a real train into a real bus, and that no models were used. And while they did crash a train for real, only a few shots actually appear in the movie, and the majority of the sequence was done with models. But according to the the marketing hype, it was all completely real. They've been lying to us for years.
You missed the blowing up of the huge miniature building in inception
Nolan never disappoints
Agree
I got off work and randomly watched this. Now I wanna direct films.
Incredible. The magic of film has been a bit lost these days. Hoping it will find a comeback in the future.
My only problem with Nolans methods for Dunkirk he just wasn't able to capture the sense of size at all for the beaches and It just didn't feel right, there should have been 500,000 soldiers alone on that beach not to mentions thousands of trucks and tanks instead it looked like there was 500 people it really took away from just how dire the real situation really was.
The matrix films had alot of practical FX, thats what made the film look so good.
@FrameVoyeger - wishing that Nolan and Cruise would/could collaborate, equals.. one in front and one behind the camera in the true sense
Disney, Marvel, and DC should take notes!
the crazy thing is if you look at the reported budget of Nolan's films made with practical effects they aren't that different from movies that are full of CGI eye sores
Nope haha! But, he can probably use that budget in other ways because his CGI budget is lower. He seems to put way more money into sets and props. That would actually be a fascinating financial dive. "Which director spends the most on CGI"
@@FrameVoyagerDavid fincher but more like vfx and not exactly cgi
@@FrameVoyager Liz Olsen the other day criticise acting against nothing on a green screen
Tho she probably said sth we already knew out loud she came across as a tad unprofessional so I think she's gone from the MCU
@@FrameVoyager the story with interstellar was an interesting one
Kipp Thorne (the science consultant and theoretical physicist) basically told Nolan that ok we have a bunch of equations of a what a super massive black hole would look like but we don't the budget to run the simulation
And Nolan was like OK fold into the budget of a Hollywood production we would use whatever comes out in the movie
I think Kip published some scientific paper based on the results and some time later when we got an image of a black hole it looked like just as the movie portray
It was pragmatism and ingenuity
I'm sick and tired of people complaining about CGI stop this bullshit
thats a fire intro ngl
high school musical 3 also did that rotating scene before inception. sh*t wild 😂
That technique originated from the 1960s it was first used in 2001 a space odyssey
Gotta love the Norway cameo in Tenet :)
it's nice to see your home country show up on the big screen.
As he said IMAX is 3D without Glasses. Absolutely true🎉🎉😮😮❤❤
@ 8:00, it wasnt that he improvised the delay. it was that the last part of the building was suppposed to explode and it didnt. Which people assume was improvised
So so good at tying these videos together, loved this
Appreciate it! Was fun to walk down memory lane and remember when I went to see them all in theaters haha
My favourite story teller ever !
"This is either madness or brilliance
It's remarkable how often those two traits cohincide"
In photography too, getting thinga done in camera than in editing is the satisfying way....
That rolling set was done around a 100 years before by Buster Keaton. I think 🤔
Worked on several NOLAN films, he’s a brilliant film maker!
This must be so much more fun for an actor than standing in an empty room with green walls.
Wow. When I watched his (Mr. Nolan's) Batman, I felt that I was looking at NYC! Now I know why.
While I am no movie buff, Mr. Nolan is (perhaps this is too soon) now up there in my mind with Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock
So, when are we going to see Chris Nolan and Tom Cruise together? Practical effects man meets best stunt guy in the industry.
I ABSOTLUTELY LOVE THAT IDEA. Although I'd say Christopher would have more in common with Jackie Chan as both goes to extreme lengths to nearly risking everything too.
Nolan's Gotham definition: "New York on steroids"
Excellent video, thank you!
Christopher Nolan is a genius mad man
Been looking up Nolan Bts practical effects for weeksb leading up to Oppenheimer, perfect video . What’s a true master of spectacle.
I figured everyone would be haha! That's why I made a little refresher lol
@@FrameVoyager Lowkey this the best one and longest video on the subject matter too which I highly appreciate, you threw in stuff I haven’t even seen or heard about yet!
Amazing video!
Appreciate it!
Marvel should definetly hire this man, the recent movies have been trash they need this man
Nah, I'd rather have more unique and interesting projects from this man over more comic book movies. Besides, Nolan has said he's done with them.
I agree the cardboard cutouts thing for crowd is neat but I don't think it really worked well enough. I mean it worked to portray a certain amount, but I think it failed to really portray the scale of the actual event. The evacuation of dunkirk involved hundreds of thousands of people, watching the movie it feels big but not THAT big
the smile that grew on my face when you said Interstellar is your favorite Nolan film.
Dunkirk is the only example of Nolan's avoiding CGI was actually a detriment. the scale of the evacuation was pretty underwhelming compared to real life, and even underwhelming compared to other films. Atonement's dunkirk beach scene does a much better job of showing the scale of chaos and confusion on the beach.
Best intro jingle I've ever heard
My favorite director
Actor: Who is the director?
It's Christopher Nolan!!
Actor: LET'S GOOOO!!
Petition to Christopher Nolan to create a Apollo 11 Movie, but making the rocket for real
The theme song is incredible lol
haha thanks!
Just found your channel. After watching this well researched video I subbed hit all the bells and whistles.
Appreciate it!
I think Nolan and Tom Cruise would have a great synergy on set as their are both proponents of practical effects and real stunts.
I love how they cast shade on a whole industry (VFX) that they use.
' oppenheimer' the phycological and biographical movie ever made by nonal that will really inspire the next generation for an innovative approach of visualization and critical thinking❤hats off to the whole team🎉🛐
The cornfield they sew. it would have been so cool, that on the premier day of Interstellar, they would have had harvested the field and make popcorn from all of it and give it out free to the moviegoers.
10:30...... Oh no, You're not gonna tell me Nolan bended a city....
Heard he sold 12% of his soul for that shot 👀
I could see this playing at the alamo drafthouse before the movie starts lol
Love the Alamo draft house! That would be pretty fun haha
Its interesting hearing four different people describe how 'an entire city' fit into an airplane hanger.
Love this guy movies
Happily, I just subscribed to your channel.
I found your channel and this report is AWESOME!
Thank you for making and sharing it.
Appreciate it!
I really wanted to know how he did the shots of the earth burning practically
I can’t be the only one thinking C. Nolan needs to direct a new The Punisher Movie - Starring J. Bernthal of course…
its officially Nolan Szn 🤩
What a comprehensive and enjoyable video
FYI - For 2001 the rotating ‘giant hamster wheel’ represents the interior of the Discovery spaceship on its doomed mission to Jupiter and not a space station…
Ah, you're right. My bad on that one.
Cillian Murphy is such a good actor