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[TheVileOne]

The clickbait articles I'm seeing writing theories about this movie are almost as hilarious as the ones people come up with for Star Wars.

 

[Persona]

Nolan films typically have a fairly quick cutting pace since Lee Smith has been editing his films. Now that Nolan's working with Jennifer Lame on this one (Hereditary, Manchester by the Sea) and knowing some vague things about the ideas behind this one plus what we saw of that bullet-hole-in-glass shot, I am wondering if Tenet might have a bit more of a measured aesthetic with some long-takes in the mix.

I thought Nolan and Lee Smith did some wonderful stuff together, I especially thought Dunkirk was a really marvelous synergy of their directorial and editorial collaboration--but I will be very interested to see if there is a palpable difference in style with Tenet since it has an editor and composer that Nolan's never worked with before.

 

[jmc]

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.

Another alternative is two characters who begin their story in different positions, and end up where the other started from.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

I hope the teaser gets released online soon.

 

[Web-Head]

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

I didn't get to see it either

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Kane52630]

 

[DarkKnight88]

Pattinson’ sporting the Nolan hair.

 

[David H.]

Am I the only one seeing a bit of Val Kilmer in Heat there?

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

This looks so good...

 

[Guts]

Robert Pattinson would make a good Leon Kennedy in a Resident Evil movie.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Jeffrey Kurland's impeccable taste. Excellent costume work in Inception and Tenet looks just as great.

 

[TheVileOne]

I hope the action is better than Dark Knight Rises and that awful gun fire edit.

 

[Schlosser85]

Jeffrey Kurland's impeccable taste. Excellent costume work in Inception and Tenet looks just as great.

Everybody was stylin’ in Inception.

 

[Blade Hoarder]

I am surprised Eon never poached Jeffery Kurland. He would be perfect for Bond.

 

[DKDetective]

I am surprised Eon never poached Jeffery Kurland. He would be perfect for Bond.

That's what I was thinking a couple of pages back. Kurland does a much better job modernizing classic tailoring than most of the costume designers used on the Craig Bond films. The suit Washington is wearing in the teaser in the bullet hole in the glass scene looks excellent and Bondian, based on what little I can see of it. Similarly, Washington's casual attire with Debicki in the Italian scene is very stylish and Bondian.

It seems the problem with the Bond wardrobe since Skyfall is Craig himself. They have kept the horrible shrunken suits for Bond 25 despite changing costume designer, which along with a lot of interviews, suggests that Craig has had a lot of creative control over his wardrobe.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Just learned it's gonna have a combination of IMAX and 70mm cameras just like Dunkirk. Dunkirk looked stupidly gorgeous.

 

[Kane52630]

I mean it's kinda obvious.

 

[OutOfBoose]

It would be obvious if Nolan shot 5 movies in a row entirely with IMAX/70mm cameras. So far it was only Dunkirk.

 

[Kane52630]

You thought Nolan would regress back to 35mm after what he accomplished with Dunkirk?

 

[OutOfBoose]

You thought Nolan would regress back to 35mm after what he accomplished with Dunkirk?

I don't think that using 35mm or 70mm is a question of progress/regress. Technical limitations, artistic intent - a lot of stuff is considered when they choose tools. Dunkirk was a bit different from other films of Nolan. It had limited dialogue.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

The teaser should be dropping online any day now....

 

[Brother Jack]

Kind of shocked it hasn't yet. If this were any other director it would have dropped day-of.

 

[Blade Hoarder]

It's because of the mass shootings. Or that's what it being speculated.

Terrible reasoning. By the time the blood dries on this shooting, there will be another one in America.

If they waiting for a tasteful time, they will wait forever.

 

[Mysteryman]

I can understand the thirst for the trailer.
But, I am more excited to find out plot details.