Christopher Nolan Studies

Christopher Nolan is a great director who uses most of the same actors in his films, he has different ways to shoots his films as any director but I like his films the best as they have this sense of difference to them. Christopher Nolan has typical trademarks such as: using the same actors, dark storylines, and he leaves people guessing about his films. Here I’m going to talk about three of his films and explain about the structure.
The Prestige
The narrative structure of The Prestige is non-linear meaning that the storyline is mixed up and also very hard for the audience to try and figure out the twists. The prestige has that many twists that you confuse yourself, such as when Angier’s transported man is finally finished and he starts using it, does he kill himself in the process? Yes, he does he kills himself first while his duplicate finishes the magic on stage.
The discussion we had about The Prestige we talked about different points of the film such as: * Who is the villain of the film? It is defiantly Angier as he lies about his life and other things. * What are the three stages? Friends, Enemies, Angier dies * How is misdirection used? * Does Telsa’s Machine work? Yes, but the twist was it duplicated the person/thing in it. * There are enough clues within the film? I thought it was very fast the way Borden Came out of his ‘Transported Man’ so I thought he might have had a double but you don’t really notice until the end when Borden goes to the prison and you only notice when he bends down to catch the ball and look at his eyes. Also there is other clues like the chopped off fingers ‘they should have stopped bleeding by now’ even though they had just freshly been cut off. * What device is used for the narrative structure? Non – Linear * Who did worse things? They both did but I simply thing Angier did the worst, just by the way he was in the film, his character, and how he presents himself. * Is Angier killing himself