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Oh I so agree. No actual complete remakes, period.
Agree too. No scene by scene remakes or reuse of titles.
Sorry to get this further offtrack. I think it would be interesting to see what Nolan would do but i doubt it would happen but you never know.
The only remake I can legitimately think of is NSNA. Not only did it dive into the same source material as TB, but it actually also borrowed concepts that were first introduced by TB the film, not the novel. E.g.: the wicket vixen (Fiona, Fatima).
Yes. Also, isn't the gassing of the gangsters a little like the killing of the miners?
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/24145/nolan-says-no-to-more-batman
While 'Rises' caps off the Bat-trilogy for the 41-year-old, the British filmmaker shows no signs of slowing down. Last week came word that he's abandoned his plans for a Howard Hughes biopic but would be open to having a go at the long-running James Bond franchise. In that case however, he told Empire that "it would have to be the right situation and the right time in their cycle of things" and thus has lead to speculation that the earliest opportunity would be when Daniel Craig eventually steps down from the role.
Craig won't be Bond forever. I think Nolan would be the perfect guy to introduce a new actor when DC retires.
Be interesting to see if he will wait that long? Could he be another Spielberg? A missed opportunity? Then again ofcourse Mendes could stay on?
INCEPTION isn't depressing? It's about a man whose dead wife haunts his subconscious, sabotaging his job.
The problem with Nolan's films is they're almost entirely humourless, colourless, pretentious, and literal minded. Antitheses of Bond.
I couldn't agree more.
The Idea of Nolan directing a Bond film doesn't excite me at all. I'm not saying he'd be a bad choice, just that the announcement wouldn't have me jumping for joy.
I don't mind. No, i'm not a Batman fan. I did like Keaton's two films, Kilmer's film was ok and the least said about B&R the better. But I prefer The Shadow, even if he's not had the cinematic luck that Batman has had.
Couldn't have said it better myself. It would almost kill Bond having Nolan at the helm. I say no to Nolan.
And what your supposed to take from completion of the film is him overcoming her. Embracing her death, realizing he was at fault, and moving on to more important things in life like his family.
The film is about a man who haunts himself with memories of his dead wife, and embraces and fights through an opportunity to overcome his guilt and reunite with loved ones.
It starts depressing, and ends enlightening. You were probably too busy marking down derogatory opinions of the film when it ended to catch Nolan's point.
It's an extremely dry humor, yes, and is rarely used. But all of his films don't really strive to be comedies. And I could see his films as the antitheses of FilmBond, but book Bond is extremely literal minded, and every Bond comes off as pretentious, constantly trying to impress M and others in his presence with his habit of knowing something about everything.
Nolan has stated that he almost didn't want to put the ending scene in the film, with the spinning top. He did it to confuse those who didn't catch on or weren't paying attention. But other notes in the film guarantee Cobb is in fact based in reality, like him meeting his father, who was in Paris, in the airport in America, and finally seeing his children's faces when they turn.
It wasn't all in his head unless you want to read it that way. Nolan intended the film to end with a happy note. ^see previous comment on the ending enlightenment one is supposed to acknowledge at the end^
If Nolan truly wanted the film to end on a happy note, we would have watched the spinning top fall.
Bingo.
And this is the essence of my problem with Nolan. He leads his audience into a trite "Is it a dream or is it real?" debate instead of providing an actual cathartic (or alternately, dreary) ending. Nolan takes the cold, intellectual approach over the emotional one every time.
With endings like this, it just makes me expect a sequel I'm sure I'll never receive.
It was definitely put in for speculation, but I think it's wobble is proof enough. It definitely wobbles, and doesn't budge when he's dreaming. I'm confident I've read from either him, or a film reviewer that it's likely there just to keep you questioning.
But look people:
Cobb goes to see his Dad in Paris to get an architect. He's in reality at this point. There he meets Page's character after telling his dad his plan for going back to America. When the plane lands at the end, Cobb's Dad is there waiting for him. That's the first sign he's not dreaming.
Then, the entire film Nolan hinges on the fact, and at one point even has Cobb say that he can't see his children's faces in the dream. Yet, when he gets home, they turn and shout 'daddy!'. The second sign he's in reality.
The most obvious and overplayed one is the final scene -the wobble. The damn thing wobbles. It didn't wobble in the opeing scene on the table, nor in the Mel's safe, and it falls every time he's in reality. It wouldn't wobble in a dream unless someone had interfered with it's balance, which the film plays no sign of. HE WASN'T DREAMING. It's not up to debate.
AND even if he was dreaming, you know the film ends with Cobb in a better state of mind, dream or reality. Either way he's gotten over his guilt and reunited with his family -so its not an intellectual unemotional ending.
Dream or no dream, he's still happy at the end. Can we move on..
Nolan is a big name, and would guarantee revenue. He'd be the Halle Berry in DAD to Bond 24. 'Look, we got the Batman Mind-F**k guy to direct!'.
His films are all critically successful, and are known for good writing. Whether or not you like the elements of the story, you can't deny the stories are properly structured and the characters are well developed. People always assume directors are only good at one style, whether its Tarantino, Fincher, Nolan, Spielberg, etc, and that's exactly what directors hate. No one wants to be known for one thing, especially when they have the capacity to expand their creativity.
But, in my own world, he made it out. I do enjoy speculation of a film I liked in some way, the most recent one being Prometheus.
Nolan for Bond __. I would pay to see it.
Yes but do you not agree the film has an emotional ending? Either dream or reality he's in a happy state of mind..