Investigation Presentation - Auteur

Christopher Nolan -

How does Nolan portray a flawed protagonist within his productions? 


Item 1
Batman Begins from the Batman Trilogy 
Bruce Waynes parents are shot when he gets scared from an opera. Thus gives him a motive to fight crime as the Batman for justice and for that to not happen to anyone else in the future. Nolan gives this character a troubling backstory therefore, conforming to the common feature through-out his films. His dead parents are the recurring feature in the this film compared to his others.

Item 2
Inception
The main character called Cobb as played by Leonardo DiCaprio is troubled by his dead wife. The only way to see his wife is to live in the different variations and layers of his dreams. He's not happy in the real world. Therefore, this is a really useful narrative as the main character is damaged. This relates to my question.

Item 3
Interstellar
In this film the recurring stand point is that the mother is dead and the father goes on to do the huge job so that his family has a better quality of life. But he end up taking too long and doesn't see his children until they're on their death beds. This creates a very emotional atmosphere as the father missed out on his children growing up. This film follows the narrative of the main character being troubled, which applies to the way Nolan directs his films and what he tries to achieve.

Item 4
Film Studies by Andrew M. Butler.
As I am completing an Auteur study I am going to apply this theory to Christopher Nolan.

Item 5
Known by journalists as the Blockbuster Auteur.
I find this important to my reaseach as this is his own opinion on himself and what he tries to achieve in his movies.
I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today’s movies. They believe everything they’re hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.” – Christopher Nolan.

Item 6
https://impossiblevsreality.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/authorship-in-film-christopher-nolan-auteur/
This website is valuable as it talks about how he became a director and why he's good at what he does. Therefore, leading on to how he was able to tackle this films effectively making a name for himself.

Item 7
https://youtu.be/nQqZNZE9ByE
this clip discusses Memento - an interview with C. Nolan himself - he answers questions that reiterates that short term memory loss affects people in real life as well. Therefore, this character is flawed; which links back to my question of how Nolan creates a flawed protagonist.

Item 8
Book - The Fictional Christopher Nolan by Todd McGowan. Summarised, the blurb discusses Nolan's films and how his protagonists are deceived and lied to by others, causing them to be trapped in their own mind with no clear escape. This links back to my questions and I am able to quote this book on multiple occasions.

Item 9
http://movierdo.com/the-flawed-heroes-of-christopher-nolans-films-the-evil-in-the-good/
With the title of 'The "Flawed Heroes" - The Evil in The Good'. This website specifically discusses Nolan's use of flawed heroes making particular reference to my focus films.

Item 10
http://the-role-of-females-in-christopher-nolans-films.wikia.com/wiki/Grappling_With_Gender_Roles_in_Christopher_Nolan%27s_Films
Focussing on the Inception section part of this article it discuss how the female roles can also be flawed. In this case it is Mal Cobb. This 'beautiful, depressed woman' finds it hard to trust her husband and is conflicted on what side she is on.

Item 11
http://www.gradesaver.com/interstellar/study-guide/character-list
Talking about Interstellar, this article goes into depth talking about character analysis and why the character do what they do.

item 12
https://narrativefirst.com/articles/meaningful-storytelling-an-analysis-of-inception
discusses the narrative and why the characters in Inception do what they do. This piece is able to give an extra understanding on what is going on during the film.

Rejected Items
https://filmschoolrejects.com/culture-warrior-christopher-nolans-asshole-protagonists-7ff7416c579c/
I rejected this as it did not give me enough research in order to quote and add into my presentation script.

http://movierdo.com/the-flawed-heroes-of-christopher-nolans-films-the-evil-in-the-good/
I found this unhelpful as it states why they are flawed I. the movies. However I take interest in the title of the article "the evil in the good".

https://www.slideshare.net/kieranfalzon123/christopher-nolan-auteur
This is an unreliable source.

Dunkirk. I have rejected this as it doesn't focus on one protagonist. Reinforcing that they're all in the war together snd they all have to do their own part. Everyone is equally flawed and at the same time not at all but no one is portrayed in the same way that other characters are in Nolan's other productions are.