Inception -The Shooting Script by Christopher Nolan, who has enchanted us recently with Oppenheimer http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/oppenheimer-by-christopher-nolan.html and other gems - 9 out of 10

Inception -The Shooting Script by Christopher Nolan, who has enchanted us recently with Oppenheimer http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/oppenheimer-by-christopher-nolan.html and other gems

9 out of 10

 

 

Christopher Nolan is the man of the day for the Screen Trade – there is a classic called Adventures in The Screen Trade http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/02/adventures-in-screen-trade-by-william.html by William Goldman, that will explain this phenomenon and so much more, it is a scripture for the thespian arts

 

He has recently bewitched audiences with his Oppenheimer – but before I plunge into a different subject, and abandon altogether, or for the most part Inception, let me say that the latter is fascinating, bewildering, dazzling, but often incomprehensible for yours truly, so, with that out of the way, this would be a disclaimer, spoiler alert, warning, you name it, thus maybe there is no complaint or retaliation

Christopher Nolan is the favorite to win at the next Academy Awards Best Motion Picture and Best Director for Oppenheimer – so far, Variety appears to be correct in its prediction, this looks like the most spectacular, elating movie, even if The Killer https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/11/one-of-best-films-of-2023-killer.html is also a favorite for yours truly, enchanted by the performance of Michael Fassbender

 

I have just started May December, who was on the list of memorable productions for this year, and indeed, thirty minutes or so into it, we can see that this could well be a contender, especially for Natalie Portman (who spoke recently about her luck in not being affected by her being in the movies at a tender age, she was prominent in Leon The Professional, working with Jean Reno and Gary Oldman)

It is interesting that Cillian Murphy is expected to get an Oscar nomination for his role as Robert Oppenheimer (he was also present in Inception, where he plays a young man who might give access to the team who wants a code, stolen in sleep) but the one expected to win is Bradley Cooper, impressive and wondrous

 

Bradley Cooper directs and stars in Maestro, where he is Leonard Bernstein, the famed concert director and composer – he is the one who wrote the music for West Side Story https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/11/one-of-best-films-of-2023-killer.html based on Romeo and Juliet, the original won Ten Academy Awards, and the more recent yarn, directed by Steven Spielberg was also one of the best films in recent years

Inception has sleep and dreams at the core, and that is a hard subject to grasp, I have trouble remembering what I have just dreamt, never mind penetrating into the minds of others, to steal secrets from them while they sleep, which is what those characters do in the narrative that is somewhat surreal.

 

On the other hand, what happens is enticing, audiences are hypnotized by the magic of the filmed story, there are car chases, and the sets are superb, due to Ariadne aka Elliot Page, at the time going by the name Ellen Page, she seems to have changed her sex in the meantime, something we understand better if we read Girl, Woman, Other, Co-Winner of The Booker Prize in 2021 by Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, Woman, Other http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/06/girl-woman-other-by-bernardine-evaristo.html talks about the fact that ‘gender is the big lie of civilization’ (or perhaps something like that) we have Two Spirits, gender fluid, and the notion that gender can (maybe does) change from one minute to the next

 

Christopher Nolan is known for his insistence that we see his films (and maybe all the others that are worthy) in the cinema theater, most of all in IMAX – we could not do that, but watching Oppenheimer on the big screen was an enrapturing experience – it is also an inflexion point and it marks a key moment

About twenty years ago, I went to see Cold Mountain http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/01/cold-mountain.html which was filmed in the area and right next to my house, which was then in the mountains, at Rasnov, the tents where Jude Law meets with Nicole Kidman were a few hundred meters from my abode

 

We drove to the places where they had the village in the movie and the rest of it, seeing as they had all that firepower, Ray Winstone, Philip Seymour Hoffman and others were part of the same project directed by Anthony Minghella, so we had there all the necessary ingredients for a superb motion picture

Alas, it was a huge let down, and I remember being bored at the Vitan Mall, where I went on my own -I guess the spouse was with our daughter, Hannah, who was just a toddler back then, now it would be out of the question for the same wife to come along, for we live in the same house, since we could not get anything near the same standard, if divorced, but we are often worse than strangers, we are foes

 

Indeed, studies show that married people live longer, happier lives, then come the divorced, but worst of all are the ones that stay married, in marital situations where they fight, and these contexts are exactly as if one is in a car crash every single day – to avoid it, one should read the classic of psychology The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-seven-principles-of-making-marriage.html by the ultimate expert on couples, John Gottman, one Magister that has an accuracy rate of over 90%, he just hears a few minutes of interaction and is able to say which couples will separate, and which will stay together…he is included in another classic, Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell…

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world  – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

Some favorite quotes from To The Heritage and other works

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”


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