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Tenet was a fun film to watch, but I thought it could have been great. One of the biggest issues I had with the film was how Christopher Nolan uses exposition in the film. In this video, I focus on Inception, Interstellar, and Tenet to show how I think Nolan's reliance on exposition is a growing problem for him as a storyteller.
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00:00 The Duality of Nolan
02:08 The Trap
03:36 Problem #4 - Noticeable Exposition
08:03 Problem #3 - Explaining the Incomprehensible
08:29 (Interstellar Spoilers)
11:23 Click Here To Skip Interstellar Spoilers
12:23 Problem #2 - Explaining Character Development
15:09 Problem #1 - Plot Explained
Views : 749,407
Genre: Film & Animation
Date of upload: Dec 15, 2020 ^^
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Michael Caine is now officially typecast by Nolan as ârefined exposition gentlemanâ
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Tenet is seriously flawed but the "that would be bad, right" response to the particles colliding-annhilation was definitely humour not a failed exposition and the delivery made it clear.
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TENET: 90% thinking
THE ARRIVAL: 90% feeling
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"I want to focus on three films: Inception (shows Michael Caine), Interstellar (shows Michael Caine) and Tenet (shows Michael Caine),"
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"TENET" made me truly appreciate how well "Inception" laid out its rules without drowning us in them.
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Many years ago, when The Dark Knight came out, I had a conversation with a friend about how almost every single character in every Nolan film is an exposition machine. I love his filmmaking style, but nearly all of his characters explain what's happening in the movie whenever they're on screen. Which is wild to me, because he's clearly a film buff who gets how film works, and as such should trust his audience to interpret what's happening on screen in the way he intends, without having to have some character explain it. It's at its most egregious in the films he writes himself. I don't think a great deal of him as a writer. His dialogue is bland, too wordy, loaded with exposition, but the man directs a scene and commands the screen like few others. He's great at showing, but so so bad at undermining that with telling, as you say. I'm glad this exists. It chimes with a feeling I've had for a while.
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I think the Arthur âparadoxâ line is just supposed to be a fun callback, not really delivering exposition. But I agree with all of your other points.
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The "including my son" line actually made me chuckle in the cinema
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It's also getting silly how they often change the scenery to something more exotic when deliver exposition. Like mid sentence a character goes "hey, let's go downtown to the opera house and continue our discussion there".
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This is why Dunkirk is my favourite Nolan film. I don't know whether it's his best, but it's the one most suited to his skills (and which - perhaps more importantly - avoids his weaknesses).
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By far the best example of 'pope in the pool' exposition is The Terminator. Reece explaining to Sarah what a terminator is and how it works, as well as huge concepts like time travel and the end of the world, during a tense car chase. It all works SO well.
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Thinking about the exposition in Memento. The main character literally has to explain his condition to every person he encounters just so they know what to expect from him, and he often starts explaining it to people he doesn't know he's already met, only to be interrupted. The exposition turns into a running gag, it's great.
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the
-"annihilation"
-"that would be bad, right?" line is obviously a joke
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"That would be bad, right?" is so obviously NOT exposition... It's totally in character for TP in Tenet.
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I agree, but can we please acknowledge that there has never been a more efficient, sharp, and standalone masterclass in script economy than the line "I ordered my hot sauce an hour ago"
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The "annihilation" thing is definitely him joking because that's just how he is throughout the movie
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"Everyone who has ever lived will be destroyed instantly"
"including my son?"
I actually laughed out loud at that line
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Inception had an emotional connect, while Tenet seemed cold , even the actors hardly anyone seem to captivate you unlike the cast in Inception.
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Ariadne as the audience surrogate is a great way to give exposition without feeling clunky. Youâre absolutely right that when characters are discussing things that they should already know, I immediately notice it and it takes me right out of the movie.
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@TheZequitube
3 years ago
The exposition in tenet wasn't an issue for me because I couldn't understand a word they were saying.
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