Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Christopher Nolan / Jonathan Nolan
Starring: Guy Pierce / Kerry Ann Moss / Joe Pantoriano / Marc Boone Jr. / Rush Fega...
Genre: Drama / Suspense / Thriller / Crime
Country of Production: United States
Language: English
Release: 2000-10-20
Runtime: 113 minutes
The 1905 Film Network Special Edition Fragment of Memory was a suspense film directed by Christopher Nolan and co-starring Guy Pierce and Kerry Ann Moss. The film tells the story of Lenny, who suffers from anterograde amnesia, through fragmentary memory to find his wife's killer.
# Timewalkers who build narrative labyrinths #
When you think of Nolan, which movie comes to mind first? Is it "Creed" that actually blew up a plane in the movie?
Or is it in the movie that Nolan and the staff deliberately planted a cornfield for "Interstellar"?
Or would you rather replace real people with paper than special effects?
In fact, in addition to being a "real-time magic" who does not like to use special effects in movies, Nolan is also a veritable "time magician".
Fragments of Memory opens with flashback film clips
This director who majored in English literature in college and did not come from a science class, from the first feature work "Follow", he firmly imprinted the film style of "non-linear narrative" in each of his works, breaking the narrative chapter and deconstructing the vein of time, Nolan's work is the repeated expansion and deepening of the concept of time.
Follow movie poster
Nolan's film journey began at a very young age, when he began to use his father's small camera for initial film creation, perhaps a lot of fun from shooting, Nolan said that when he was 10 years old, he made up his mind to make movies in the future. When he was in college, he co-founded the "16mm" club with a friend.
Christopher Nolan in his youth
He and a group of like-minded friends worked on how to make a movie, and it was from here that his feature-length debut "Follow", a self-funded $6,000 work that brought Nolan a lot of attention, and although the budget for the second work, "Fragments of Memory", rose directly to four million US dollars, it fell into the dilemma that no one wanted to release after filming.
Nolan and "Fragments of Memory" starring Guy Pierce
As the saying goes, a good man has three gangs, the protagonist in "Memory Fragments" relies on photos and words to help him find clues, and the director outside the play, Nolan, also has his own powerful left arm. It is precisely because of their help that "Fragments of Memory" can smoothly meet the audience under several ups and downs.
# The most powerful creative partner #
Fragments of Memory is based on a short story by his brother, Jonathan Nolan.
Starting from "Fragments of Memory", Jonathan, as a screenwriter and Nolan partner, has completed five films including "Deadly Magic", "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Interstellar", and "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises".
But just as Nolan used his left hand and his brother used his right hand, it was inevitable that there would be creative differences between the two brothers. For example, in the previous "Inception", which had a double harvest at the box office, the brothers had a conflict of opinion.
Nolan with younger brother Jonathan Nolan
"Inception" is Nolan's first independent screenplay, and he has just begun to write a more typical Hollywood theft film, in which the biggest villain was originally designed to be the character played by Joseph, telling the story of a friend's betrayal.
Inception movie poster
As a result, his brother said after listening to it, this is also too vulgar, why do you want to make such a film! Then Nolan began to change, this change is ten years, after the filming he first showed it to his brother, and wanted to say whether to delete the last top spiral scene in the film.
Inception gyro clip
The idea was blocked by Jonathan, who felt that it was also interesting to let the audience challenge the process itself. Of course, it turns out that the audience is much smarter than they thought. Nolan feels that their creative differences are all based on sincerity, which is not difficult to resolve. So "Fragments of Memory" as their first film together, the brothers were nominated for the American Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Stills from the Fragments of Memory movie
# Closest partners and confidants #
Fragments of Memory, a four-million-dollar film that cost to produce, grossed $25 million in the United States.
This data can be said to be a resounding slap in the face of the mainstream US market in 2000. Why, because after the film had just been made, almost no distribution company in the whole of the United States was willing to take over, even if the film had already won awards at several international film festivals such as Venice and Toronto, and more than 20 foreign distributors were willing to join, because they felt that the film itself was too chaotic to attract a large audience.
Fragments of Memory movie clips
Finally, the film's production company, a private film company called Newmarket, took financial risks and undertook the film's release. The key figure in this is Nolan's closest confidant, his wife Emma Thomas.
Nolan with his wife Emma Thomas
Speaking of the relationship between Nolan and Emma, it is really envious of others. The two met on the first day of college, living in the same dormitory building, and later Nolan, who pulled Emma along to join the school's film club. He studies technology and Emma is in charge of operations. In Nolan's words, although Emma's work is not glamorous or remarkable, she has participated in every aspect of his later film production and is his closest confidant.
After graduation, Emma joined Newmarket Pictures, where she became one of the producers of Fragments of Memory and the first audience member of Nolan's films.
With the help of his brothers and wives, Nolan's "Fragments of Memory" made the "Fragment of Memory" that condensed Nolan's painstaking efforts to the big screen smoothly and earned $25 million at the box office in the United States. This week, let's step into the movie "Fragments of Memory" and look at this time labyrinth that Nolan built 21 years ago.
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Fragments of Memory 22:24
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Fragments of Memory 13:28
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