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Christopher Nolan - Fanboy

posted 9 years ago by Goatlips
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Nolan really embarrassed himself on this doc. Came across as an ignorant, luddite, fanboy to film.
You know when you've got a blinkered, bigotted fanboy when they do not conceed a single argument to their opponent. He wouldn't even admit that digital having the option to film for longer than 10 minutes was a plus point! LOL, what an arse.
He seems to have bullied a 'yes man' colleague into sharing his views too (His DP or whoever it was - noticed they'd worked on the same films).
2 years on he's going to have to eat humble pie soon - but he's such a bigotted fanboy he'd probably rather just plod on with film and live in denial.
Clearly, according to this doc, the only technical drawback to digital was contrast issues with bright or dark shots and they seemed to have been sorted by the cameras shown at the end (although the doc failed to say if it was better or worse than film). Anyway, any technical superiority of film will eventually be surpassed by digital, if not already.
I guess filmmakers on a lower budget would definitely be better off using film now though, as I'm guessing the HD cameras that are better than film ones are probably twice as expensive - with all the old film stock stuff getting cheaper every day (and still producing images that the human eye can't really fault).

Nolan though - his budget is huge - he's just a fanboy who seems like the type of person who's never said, "Sorry, I was wrong." Total hypocrite too, seeing as Inception is all about the CGI and, therefore, all the best scenes are digital.
Plus he just looks like a horrible snide.

[–] Don_Cheech 9 years ago

Is there really a need for a scene longer than 10 minutes? Example, Goodfellas, there is a scene where it follows Henry and Karen on their first date, where he gets to walk through the kitchen, etc. that scene is shot on film and definitely long enough. In other words, if digital can record longer than 10 minutes but that's kind of unnecessary anyway.

[–] nocakeforyou 9 years ago

Digital is actually much better for the low budget filmmaker, especially with advancing DSLR technology you can now get a cinema-quality camera for only a couple thousand dollars (compared to the multiple-hundred-thousand-dollar Arri Alexa or whatnot)