![]() Call me old fashioned or something, but Interstellar’s cinematic actors is what drew me to the film. I’ve seen Gravity advertise and a couple trailers of it with George Clooney floating around in space, and that wasn’t enough for me to buy a ticket. Not at all. I wanted to see a sophisticated sci-fi big budget flick that had a story, and wasn’t all visuals. As I had high expectations for Interstellar after seeing Nolan’s gripping trailers, I could get a sense of the movies appeal to an audience long overdue for such a film. The sci-fi genre hasn’t had a loss of awe inspiring flicks to come out as of late, yet many failed to deliver on acting prowess.
With Christopher Nolan’s utilizing some of the ‘live set’ methods that he learned on his Batman trilogy in shooting, Nolan realizes the critical importance of physically real settings for his actors to really distance themselves from reality and escape into the role of their character due to the sense of a foreboding setting. Nolan’s less modern approach in filming has made quite the statement in Hollywood due to his no-expenses spared macho man gait in producing any film of his, simply because he will not use a green screen like his competitors. He has become the next Howard Hughes of filmmaking. Not so as Ben Sachs says from the Chicago Reader: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/interstellar-christopher-nolan-jonathan-nolan-matthew-mcconaughey-anne-hathaway/Content?oid=15546954 Sony practically gave the man all the needed materials and resources from their departments and said show us how to make a sci-fi blockbuster; Nolan delivered and some more. That is a rare occurrence for today’s movie making standards; by Sony transferring their complete power of control to Nolan with all of the expenses and production elements, their entire faith rests in gambling Nolan to the public. This gamble should illustrate Nolan’s power as a filmmaker, and with the film falling below budget-Nolan should be given an Academy Award.
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