Action-Adventure TENET

[Guts]

Tenet is also the center of the sator square.

 

[jmc]

Surely he couldn’t possibly make a palindromic film.....right?

 

[samsnee]

Surely he couldn’t possibly make a palindromic film.....right?

It’s memento with a twist?

 

[jmc]

Memento is played in reverse. A palindromic film's beginning would simultaneously also be its ending. At some point during the film the story would start moving backwards. I'm not saying this is what Nolan is doing, but if time is playing a part in the story, and the title is using a word from an old palindromic text, and given his history with playing with structure, I wouldn't put it past Nolan to be attempting something like this. I just have trouble envisioning how that would actually work.

 

[BatLobster]

Well...Pattinson did say he invented something new here.

The title treatment is clearly drawing attention to the fact that it's a palindrome so they want our minds pondering that kind of stuff now at the very least.

 

[jmc]

It's interesting to speculate. I'm just not sure how you do it. How can you make the opening of a movie also be its own climax?

 

[Guts]

There is that set video of cars going in reverse on a freeway.

 

[titansupes]

There is that set video of cars going in reverse on a freeway.

There's two ways to think about this-- It's either actually part of the scene... Or it's just the stunt drivers reversing to there original starting points after a take.

Both seem pretty possible, honestly.

 

[jmc]

It seems a bit too choreographed for it to simply them resetting their position.

 

[terry78]

Did anybody get this with Hobbs ad Shaw?

 

[Lasirius]

Nolan's teasers and trailers go online on the monday after theyve been in theaters for one weekend. We'll get an HD release Monday.

But there are cam versions online. Reddits been uploading it and providing links every time its pulled down.

I think TENET is an acronym, and I dont think its random that it spells the same thing forward and backwards. Maybe mirrors will be part of the concept. Mirror universes perhaps?

Yeah, I figured that's how it was going to play out but read a couple of article headlines that led me to believe it was out. Instead of watching it on my phone, I jumped on my TV to search for it and didn't find it.

I've seen bootleg versions of most Nolan teasers upon release, today was sort of nostalgic in that way.

I searched for a good half hour until I found one, it's great. It's funny though cause the one I saw had a mirror version of the trailer playing backwards.

 

[Marvolo]

There is that set video of cars going in reverse on a freeway.

Memento is played in reverse. A palindromic film's beginning would simultaneously also be its ending. At some point during the film the story would start moving backwards. I'm not saying this is what Nolan is doing, but if time is playing a part in the story, and the title is using a word from an old palindromic text, and given his history with playing with structure, I wouldn't put it past Nolan to be attempting something like this. I just have trouble envisioning how that would actually work.

Audiences watching this film:

I think Nolan's going to assemble the film so it makes narrative sense going forward or backwards. Or so that going forward it tells part of the story and then going backwards it tells the other part of the story. I have no clue how he'd edit that. The second half would essentially be the first half of the film in rewind but the dialogue and everything would have to make sense in reverse somehow.

If he and an editor could make it work itd probably be a "Rosebud" type of thing in cinematic history.

 

[FunkMiller]

I think Nolan's going to assemble the film so it makes narrative sense going forward or backwards. Or so that going forward it tells part of the story and then going backwards it tells the other part of the story. I have no clue how he'd edit that. The second half would essentially be the first half of the film in rewind but the dialogue and everything would have to make sense in reverse somehow.

If he and an editor could make it work itd probably be a "Rosebud" type of thing in cinematic history.

The key to creating a narrative like that is ‘perspective’.

...and we don’t see anything of Robert Pattinson in this trailer.

 

[titansupes]

The key to creating a narrative like that is ‘perspective’.

...and we don’t see anything of Robert Pattinson in this trailer.

I think that's him in the swat uniform. We can only see him for a second, and it's blurry, and it's only his eyes thanks to the helmet... But we've all spent so much time analysing his eyes over the last couple of months that it immediately jumped out at me.

 

[Dr.]

Tenet is also the center of the sator square.

I wasn’t familiar with this. Neat.

Also, articles about the square are a bit more in-depth with the translations. I.e.: in vernacular usage, “tenet” just means principle or rule. But in the original Latin (from the verb “tenere”), it’s more like hold, possess, keep, grasp, guard or (perhaps) remember. And those sound like Nolan themes.

 

[jmc]

Audiences watching this film:

I think Nolan's going to assemble the film so it makes narrative sense going forward or backwards. Or so that going forward it tells part of the story and then going backwards it tells the other part of the story. I have no clue how he'd edit that. The second half would essentially be the first half of the film in rewind but the dialogue and everything would have to make sense in reverse somehow.

If he and an editor could make it work itd probably be a "Rosebud" type of thing in cinematic history.

What if the story is the characters play out whatever the story is but then at the mid-way point they have to travel backwards in time in order to solve what ever the puzzle is? Essentially, the film would switch midway to being like Memento. That’s as best as I can figure out how to do a palindromic film. I don’t know if it’s what he’s doing, but doing a crazy idea like have a film play the same way forwards as it does backwards in something only Chris Nolan would attempt.

 

[Gothamsknight]

There is that set video of cars going in reverse on a freeway.

This is some mind bending **** and I love it

 

[3rdstone]

It will be interesting to watch this teaser trailer when it comes up, that's for sure. Just hope everyone's right when saying it'll be up tomorrow lol.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

This is some mind bending **** and I love it

Preach.

 

[Web-Head]

I better get the trailer tomorrow

 

[BarryLyndon]

 

[Da-Scribe]

I think people might be thinking too literally about a palindromic film. Like I don't think the film will play in reverse or anything like that. It'll probably be along the lines of Netflix's Dark. This idea that the end is the beginning and the beginning is the end.

I could imagine Nolan forming this film around the Bootstrap Paradox. Imagine you have to build some great piece of tech, but you don't know how. The tech exists in the future though and your future self goes back in time to give your present self the text. And then it turns out this text is written by you. So you build the tech based on instructions you as you know yourself never wrote and inevitably return the text to your past self. And so you have this object that has no discernible origin in time. You receive it in the past, carry it into the future, then return it to the past. The cycle repeats endlessly. The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end. A palindrome.

Nolan being Nolan, I wouldn't be shocked if he made film about trying to find the origin of an object like that. All wild speculation on my part of course.

 

[BatSpider]

I remember the Avengers: Endgame trailer was delayed because of George H.W. Bush's funeral last year.

Perhaps WB is delaying the official release of the Tenet teaser because of the attacks this past weekend. The main shot of the teaser is JDW inspecting a bullet hole through a pane of glass.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

I remember the Avengers: Endgame trailer was delayed because of George H.W. Bush's funeral last year.

Perhaps WB is delaying the official release of the Tenet teaser because of the attacks this past weekend. The main shot of the teaser is JDW inspecting a bullet hole through a pane of glass.

That's kinda stretching it. There's no guns being fired in the preview, so WTF?

 

[Kane52630]

I didn't get to see it during Hobbs & Shaw but I did saw the leak... it's such a Nolan teaser.