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Nolan and his movies referenced in this NPR article.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-53 ... rvey-finds
GORDEMER: Adding to the problem? Directors who create soundtracks that stack layers of sound on layers of ambience and music and sound effects. That can really smother the audio.

SINGER: One director whose name tends to come up when this conversation comes up is Christopher Nolan.

GORDEMER: He directed the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises." It features the super hard to understand supervillain Bane.

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE DARK KNIGHT RISES")

TOM HARDY: (As Bane) Like shipwrecked men turning to seawater, I will let them believe that they can survive.

GORDEMER: Nolan has repeatedly defended what he calls impressionistic soundtracks.

SINGER: It's a choice to use dialogue almost as a sound effect.

GORDEMER: Where you watch a movie also makes a difference. If you're at home, chances are you're using a streaming service like Netflix or Disney+. They compress the audio to prevent buffering. But sound engineer Karen Baker Landers says the streamers all use different compression standards, and that can mess with intelligibility.

LANDERS: If you're mixing for a theatrical release, the different streamers take that master session. And what they do with it is something that we need to standardize.

GORDEMER: So for now, a clear solution is nowhere in sight or sound.

Barry Gordemer, NPR News.

(SOUNDBITE OF HANS ZIMMER'S "CORNFIELD CHASE")
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Wow, this is basically unheard of to have such a big-name director at the height of their career elected president. I only hope this doesn't keep Nolan so busy he struggles to find time to write and director, lol.
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A wonderfully important position. Fitting given some of the comments he's made in the past, plus the events of the strike coinciding with Oppenheimer's release. He seems right for it, though I don't know about the intricacies of the Union, it does seem important and helpful especially against what can happen with studios.

The big question is, will this make him finally need a phone or an email address........
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DHOPW42 wrote: ↑
September 28th, 2025, 4:25 pm
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September 28th, 2025, 4:12 pm
 Do you think Chris can do something about this nonsense?
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ai-a ... 236533454/
He doesn't have to, because this will fade away in a few years and we will look back at crap like this as we do on all VR techs that have ever emerged.
scratch a few years, people already hate AI generated content, its tacky, has no artistic value or merit, im actually surprised that it took this little time for the masses to cringe at AI generated content, text based stuff is more on the acceptable part of the overton window, but AI "art" ?? massive cringe.
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