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Christopher Noland’s Movies Christopher Noland is a movie director known for producing complicated narratives that merely breaks the entire screenwriting rules and structure. His style demands that the reader intensively view and analyze the movies to understand them better. However, Noland's films can be broken down a story map, a template that is easily accessible and practical, making the classic techniques, as well as the advanced writing styles of the plots, reveal themselves. Typically, when we think of a successful movie, the first thing that comes in mind is the real story. This paper explores the ways he used to make his movie stories successful. His Consistency in Memory Usage Most of Christopher’s films talk about philosophical concepts and never give concrete answers. The reader is left to wonder if he makes science fiction, war movie or crime drama. However, the truth remains that Noland is consistent in his themes. His shows more interest in memory through-out his memento, Inception and Dark Knight Movies. He explores how the memory works, how it corrupts and how it shapes the reality in a human being. In Memento, the protagonist suffers from a form of amnesia. Therefore, he is left without a temporary memory. This makes the viewer and Noland himself perception of the reality be affected by the condition. This is also seen in the inception movie where the protagonist tries implanting into the subconscious of another person making the memory of nature drive the whole plot. Similarly, in Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne’s memory is haunted by the death of his parents. Noland pulled this invention from the Batman Lore and made emphasize on memory usage. Noland considers memory to be a tied tool to emotions. This is depicted when he released the Inception movie. He admits that he wanted to deal with the world and therefore, the only way he could this was through the build-up of the emotional narratives to the audience. He wanted to create something that can represent the mind of something in the emotional world. This means that both the story of the hero and the heist is based on the concept of emotions. Interest in Time Christopher Noland also uses time as an interest through-out his movies. In Inception and Memento, he feels great when he messes with the viewer’s conditioned way of understanding time. This is seen in the movies when the viewer particularly expects straightforward time progress which displays their real life which always starts at birth and progresses in order and ends at death. However, Christopher has no sequence of film requirements. He is not interested in the rules because to him; time is a tool which can be altered by a film-maker and not vice versa. So frequently, the viewer is made to believe that what they see in the film is chronological, but then they come to realize and experience the thrill or get annoyed at the knowledge that all the assumption they made about the movie were not true. Some scenes in Noland’s movies (The Dark Knight, the Inception and the Memento) are illogical whereas others are not sequential or do not happen at the same time. An example of Noland’s interest in time is seen in the Memento movie where the story is told in a parallel track, where one story flashbacks while the other story goes forward. The fun part of it is that the audience is left with the task to discover that because Noland does not explain it. At first, the story is gradually constructed as a twist between the producer and the viewer who is portrayed in a way that they try to find the meaning about the protagonist. The audience and the protagonist are temporarily disoriented which entices viewing. The fact that Noland likes to mess with time is not surprising because time goes hand-in-hand with memory. Memory is the primary principle that shapes the past and makes it real to us. However, in Noland’s world, memories seem to be faulty therefore the way the audience perceives time might be faulty as well. The audience easily loses track of how something happened or fail to recognize how the event can fit into real life. This makes the viewer re-examine the “facts” that they already took as the truth from the movies about the world and giving them a mini-lesson at the multiplex. Subversion of Familiar Genres to Challenge the Viewer’s Ideas Even though Noland started with smaller thrillers like in Memento, he rapidly became a known director. His evolution into a director who makes big plots in movies shows his interests in making his viewers to re-examine their views and expectations about popularity, success and the costly movie are all about. He effectively does this by employing popular genres such as thrillers, mysteries and reconsidering their role. Whenever he takes a new genre, the viewers are excited about it for the best reason. The track records that Noland lays in studios shows distinctive styles which tend to deviate from the norm but still please the audience through the drama and the mysteries. These stories are exciting and intriguing with popular genres. These interests take part in the larger and current quest of Noland making the audience to think of the movie as a sophisticated form of art. We all know that film give visual images. Even if the film era is always silent, movies still have sounds. Noland is known worldwide for making films with loud sounds that are characterized by big scores that tend to overwhelm dialogues in the movie. He says that when mixed sound effects are included in conversations to make viewers understand everything that happens in the movie instead of only fixing their minds on whatever the actors are saying in the film. Noland is also fascinated by the importance of ethical questions in blockbuster experiences. In Memento, the story is not all about the man with amnesia but also about how immoral revenge can be. The Dark Knight is not all about the Batman but also about the blurry line cutting through violence and vigilantism. In all the movies (the Inception, the Memento, and the Dark Knight), Noland shows an interest in entertaining his audience and also making them to critically think which helps to push them from the boundaries of what they believe in a movie. Whether the viewer will accept or deny the relevance of the movie, Noland's videos are favorite despite the controversies they get from some viewers as well as the risks he undergoes when making his films. Generally, Christopher Noland makes his movies as attractive to the viewer as possible. Reference Berardelli, P. (2015). Phil's Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime. Mountain Lake Press. Fish, S. (2015). Think again: Contrarian reflections on life, culture, politics, religion, law, and education. Princeton University Press.