Writing a Nolan Paper

[bumblefoot89]

Hello, i've been a long time board reader, just hadn't gotten round to registering, however i wanted to ask the opinion of both film fans and Nolan fans. So obviously i thought this would be the best place to ask.

I am currently in my final year studying for a degree in Computer Graphics and Special Effects in the UK, a couple of months ago i started researching for my dissertation/thesis. I could have gone the typical route like my peers and talk about Pixar in the industry and such, but i thought that was just rehashing whats allready been said. My first love, and what made me get into Special Effects is to work on feature films. I dont have to tell you guys that Nolan's films are the most intriguing that i have ever seen, therefor i decided to write about Nolan being an Auteur and the themes surrounding his work.

Ive started reading, various books, such as the Inception shooting script (to get a basis on how he constructs his ideas) and the making of memento by James Mottram. After reading these books and viewing the films nemerous times ive settled on discussing these themes.

1. Identity, dual identities and such.
2. the collabrative effort of the crew, the team of the Nolan brothers and Pfistor, and that together they are auteurs.
3. Ambiguity.

The dissertation/thesis part of my degree is rather short, only 6000 words, so i cant get to deep into psycology and such, but i have decided to split the work up into the following:

Abstract, Introduction, Chapter 1: The Auteur Theory, Chapter 2: Christopher Nolan, the rise of an Auteur, Chapter 3: A Discussion of the common themes between his work and finally the conclusion.

I was just wondering if anyone here has maybe touched on any of these subjects themselves, whether it be academic essays and such, i am just trying to present the best piece of written work that i can and if anyone has any suggestions or advice i would greatly appreciate it. I look forward to posting here also. Thanks

[Liron]

I wrote an academic essay on Nolan generally and now I'm writing one on Memento, actually due next week. The Nolan one was only two pages, Memento one should be 4. Thing is my essays have to go a little deeper into themes less visible to the naked eye, you could say. Not the stuff of the actual plot, rather stuff a few layers deep - symbolism and such. We studied a few themes that appear in many feature films but sometimes vaguely, and now we need to write about a film and mention which of the themes we leant is in there.

[Bacon]

I wanted to do a research paper on Nolan, but the person I had to do had to be dead...
I wrote a poem about Nolan though. lol If I post it here, I'd be embarrassed forever.

[Mason]

I wanted to do a research paper on Nolan, but the person I had to do had to be dead...
I wrote a poem about Nolan though. lol If I post it here, I'd be embarrassed forever.

You should post it.

[Liron]

I wanted to do a research paper on Nolan, but the person I had to do had to be dead...
I wrote a poem about Nolan though. lol If I post it here, I'd be embarrassed forever.

Now you gotta Honestly though I'd be really interesting to see it, I used to write poems too, never wrote a Nolan one :p

I'd write an essay on Kubrick but as difficult as it was to write bout Nolan in just 2 pages, Kubrick'd have been worse.
Who did you end up writing on?

[BlairCo]

I wrote a biography report on an inspiration of mine and I decided to write about Christopher Nolan. I got an A.

[Liron]

Got a 100 on my Memento essay it's 80% of my final grade in this course. Which means my final grade is 99! Fuck yeah!

[essjai]

Hopefully some of you will find this interetsing

http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.ph ... is/view/11

[Vader182]

I'll take a look at it if I have the time, I'm always looking for an interesting academic analysis of Chris' work that isn't talking about marxism, lol.

-Vader