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    Knight is undoubtedly filled with entertaining complexity and performance. In its making, writers; Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Bob Kane, and David Goyer created situation and characters that happen to allow the actors to added their own spins on their roles. Small details of the scenes also contribute to a more realistic film compared to other comic book based productions. The Nolan brothers did an excellent job in creating the characters. Through the movie there is obvious development in

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    Memory is at the heart of the way most people think of personal identity. Memento, a film by Christopher Nolan, investigates this connection as it follows the main character Leonard Shelby, a man who is unable to make new memories. Leonard, a former insurance investigator, suffers from anterograde amnesia and is forced to make sense of his life with photographs, notes, and tattoos-mementos that he creates for himself. The film follows Leonard on his quest for vengeance of the murder of his wife,

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    as most of locations are fictional and they come from the Batman comic book fiction. Where in ‘The Dark Knight’ Nolan tries and makes Gotham more recognisable to its real world city of Chicago. A possible reason for this could be to make the movie more relatable to our real world than to the fictional world of the Batman comics. Hallucination vs Horror: Another noticeable change Nolan made when creating ‘The Dark Knight’ is the change from the hallucinations in ‘Batman Begins’ too more of a horror

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    In the film The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, he uses a philosophy or vision that is evident in not only this film, but in a multitude of his other films. Visual language features such as camera work and the concept of identity used in the Dark Knight to show this philosophy and his vision behind not only this film, but many of his other acclaimed film such as Memento, Batman Begins and Inception. When looking over Nolan’s films, one concept is prevalent throughout and that is the

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    Heath Ledger was the actor of Joker in Dark Night. But there are a few things people do not realize about Heath. He has a secret passion about photography. No one but his close family/friends now why. But his hobbies that are out in the open is art, reading, writing, surfing, skate boarding. Also he went Guildford grammar school when he was young. It is a boys only school from grade seven to grade twelve, and girls and boys kindergarten till grade six. When Heathy was 10 he played the role as peter

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    The Dark Knight (2008) directed by Christopher Nolan was a blockbuster hit movie. The primary settings of the movie takes place in Gotham city. In this analysis, I will be looking at the aspects of setting the use of the camera and how each of these notions influences the audience. Christopher Nolan's trends at the filmmaker is the way he handles complex storytelling there are lots of simultaneous threads running around and every shot is designed for maximum impact and information delivery let's

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    Grief In Inception

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    Christopher Nolan's Inception finishes in a way that will make any viewer want to become a mathematician to try to solve the equation of the ending . Specifically , an answer to whether the spinning top falls or not . The film ends with a close up of the spinning top a sudden cut , not giving the audience an answer as to whether the top fall or not . This is important as the audience is led to question whether Cobb is definitely in reality or not . When Cobb hugged and embraced his kids , he let

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    Dark Knight Vs Batman

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    Knight. Being a fan, I would like to say that everyone at some point in their life has heard at least one of these names, however; that is not always the case. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight Trilogy(2005-2013) is ranked as one of the best-rated trilogies of all time (www.IMDB.com). Nolan along with

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    Inception, the act of instilling an idea into someones’ mind by entering his or her dreams (dictionary.com). In the movie Inception Dom Cobbs’ goal is to plant an idea in Robert Fichers’ mind through way of his dreams. This is because they want him to find his dads’ “other will” so that Robert will not carry on in his dads’ footsteps but choose create his own destiny. However, Robert is not really choosing this on his own free will because the idea is being planted in his mind by someone else. Because

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    Memento is a mystery, thriller starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano. The 2000 film was written and directed by Christopher Nolan. The Memento was directed by Suzanne Todd and Jennifer Todd and distributed by Newmarket. Memento placed 100th on the Writers Guild of America 101 Greatest Screenplays ever written. (SOURCE: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/ http://www.wga.org/writers-room/101-best-lists/101-greatest-screenplays/list) PLOT SUMMARY In Memento, Leonard Shelby has short

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