No, his comments outside of his work have already told us that. People can interpret the movies however they want. He and Emma Thomas also have only made political contributions to Obama and Gavin Newsom.
I'd argue they're not that much left wing. Only Sanders really wants to attack finance and change the economy radically. It's not because the republicans have turned to the far right that the democrats have become socialists. Clinton remains one of the president that pushed most to diminish laws around the big banks.
America is so crazy, like being against the right for people to carry rifles doesn't make you left wing, it makes you empathetic, and able to read reports about the difference between the number of school attacks between the US and democracies that control guns.
Clearly not, but there is still an ocean between the Sanders/Warren boat and the Tories economically and socially.
Yes, I think he's a soft democrat as most big names in Hollywood. He's obviously too smart to vote for a party that supports the right to carry gun, the restriction of abortion (to name a few). But too afraid of change to be a socialist.
His movies Tenet and TDKR show the high level of inequality in society, and how disconnected the richs are, but a socialist wouldn't have ended TDKR without dealing with the social consequences of all that happened during the film. And the orphanage being only for boys and not girls feels also quite traditional.
Obama was consider more left wing in 2008
-wanted public option for Obamacare
-against the Iraq war.
More so than Clinton.
Nolan seems classic democrat.
Nolan is an independent. I don't think he identifies with any ideology except film making is an art
He definitely don't want to be put in either right or left wing.
People are doing it, though.
For example, based on Oppenheimer reactions, some leftists are happy, and some right wingers too.
Humans are weird creatures.
Nolan is an independent. I don't think he identifies with any ideology except film making is an art
He definitely don't want to be put in either right or left wing.
People are doing it, though.
For example, based on Oppenheimer reactions, some leftists are happy, and some right wingers too.
Humans are weird creatures.
If only he wasn't on the record saying he disagreed with right wing interpretation of his work, and wasn't at a demonstration with all his family right after Trump became president.
Nolan is an independent. I don't think he identifies with any ideology except film making is an art
He definitely don't want to be put in either right or left wing.
People are doing it, though.
For example, based on Oppenheimer reactions, some leftists are happy, and some right wingers too.
Humans are weird creatures.
If only he wasn't on the record saying he disagreed with right wing interpretation of his work, and wasn't at a demonstration with all his family right after Trump became president.
Don't know about record, but he was on a anti-Trump demonstration about women rights, not exactly economic or international politics. Later he wasn't even mentioning Trump at all.
I’ve always walked away from his films feeling they’re generally apolitical or neoliberal at most
Maybe the closest he gets into a “right wing” mentality is with TDKR and mirroring the 99% rallies by villainizing the working class but even then I don’t think he ridicules or makes them into a caricature like the MCU routinely does.
Always funny how Nolan is perceived by certain people.
His political alignment is not at all ambiguous.
Nolan is a Democrat by all accounts.
yeah, he privately probably is.
But his movies are more ambiguous.
Even Oppenheimer. Commies and leftists elite are shown in such grotesque way, that McCarthy's age isn't shown as half bad, as it is in today times.
I had no idea this was even a discussion, haha. But that's the Internet for you. Nolan would probably be mortified to see anyone making an argument suggesting he's left or right. He's not a politician, political activist or a political commentator. He's a filmmaker. His "agenda" is making movies. If he has a political affiliation, it hasn't been explicitly or subliminally stated in any of his work; he's been writing stories with characters who aren't him, who have their own viewpoints that serve the stories he's telling, that might explore themes and motifs that suggest conservative or liberal ideologies, but he's never shown a personal stance for either on film or has tried to persuade audiences to either.
I don't understand America's constant obsession with needing to know where every single person stands on every topic. Stop trying to get into everyone's business. He's allowed to have whatever feelings and opinions he chooses outside of his profession as long as he doesn't push it in his craft, and I have never seen evidence of him doing that. If anything, he stays purposely ambiguous because he wants his films to stand the test of time through discussion and debate, and they are. Inception has been around for 13 years now and people are still talking about it. The Dark Knight has been 15. How many movies do you remember from 2008 or 2010 with "political intent" at this point? Do you remember Green Zone with Matt Damon? Do you remember Wall Street 2? Fair Game? No. Movies that are more politically ambiguous tend to stick around longer, like The Social Network. Oppenheimer will be another one.
