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Christopher Nolan
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because… I've listed this article for peer review hoping I will get some feedback and maybe even solicit copyedits from other editors. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks, Sammyjankis88 (talk) 01:02, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Sammyjankis! I put a few minutes into this article, and I came up with a few things to work on. Some of them might be kind of nit-picky, but I hope it gives you lots to work with. I have to run now (real life is calling), so I was only able to make it through the "2000s" section, but I really hope I can give this a little more time later on today or maybe tomorrow.

While we're at it, I've recently listed a PR request for Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism. If you get the chance, would you pop on over there and PR it also? Thanks!

In summary section:
 * Explain to the reader just WHY he's considered so innovative (cinematography, storytelling, what?)


 * Closely related to this, tell us about his signature style - what sets him apart from the rest and/or why he's been so successful commercially.


 * "...and with his long-time film producer Emma Thomas, he would screen 35 mm feature films during the school year and use the money earned from ticket sales to produce 16 mm films during the summers.[13]" - I don't think this contributes much to the strength of the article. Interesting, yes, but not encyclopedic.


 * "Larceny was funded by Nolan himself, but shot using the society's equipment. " Same issue as above.


 * "The film is a remake of the 1997 Norwegian film of the same name, but features a different backstory for the protagonist, giving the film a different way of presenting the moral paradox of the character, which also leads to a different set of interpretations and answers than what the original film offers." This is a long and unweidly sentence and I'm not quite sure how to break it up and still preserve the author's original meaning.


 * "Nolan also worked on The Keys to the Street, based on a novel by Ruth Rendell. He adapted the book into a screenplay, which he originally planned to direct for Fox Searchlight, but decided to make Batman Begins instead..." This doesn't really flow well.


 * "The film revived the franchise." How?


 * "Batman Begins also heralded a trend of darker genre films..." what does this mean? Did it start the trend, or was it simply a part of an already growing trend?

Overall:


 * Only one picture? This article needs two or three pictures of Nolan, plus screenshots under his "directoral style" of his signature stuff (action shots would be best). Fair-use them if you have to.

—Trevdna (talk) 17:11, 26 July 2013 (UTC)