Brandon+W.+Christopher+Nolan

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__ ﻿﻿Introduction __
====Christopher Nolan is a marvelous movie director. In the past five years he has directed many great movies. His full name is Christopher Jonathan James Nolan. He was born on July 30, 1970. Let's learn more about this spectacular director.====

References: Retrieved on 5/4/11 from [|www.wikipedia.com]

__﻿How He Started__
====﻿Christopher Nolan was born in London England. His father was an advertising copywriter, and his mother was a flight attendant. Nolan also has a younger brother Jonathan and a older brother Matthew. Christopher moved to Chicago early in his childhood. At age seven, Nolan started making videos with his father's Super 8 camera. He used toy action figures as his actors. When Christopher got a little older he made better quality short films with future director and producer Roko Belic. Nolan went to Haileybury and Imperial Service College, an indep==== ====endent school at Hertford Heath in Hertfordshire, England. He then later studied English literature at University College London. During his college years, Christopher made a couple of short films. Some of those are //Tarantella//, //Larceny//, and //Doodlebug//. After Nolan finished college he made his first movie called //Following//. Then after that movie he married Emma Thomas, his longtime film producer, in 1997. And that's when Christopher Nolan began his great movie career.====

References: Retrieved on 5/10/11 from [|www.wikipedia.com]

__﻿Professional Career__
====After //Following's// success, Christopher came out with a new movie in 2000 called //Memento.// The movie is based on a short story Nolan's brother Jonathan wrote. Anyway, the movie is about a man named Leonard Shelby, who suffers from a head injury and he can't from new memories anymore.Ther is also a lot of flashback sequences in this film.====

In 2002, Nolan directed //Insomnia.// This movie was an american remake of the 1997 Norwegion film. The film is about two detectives who investigate a local teenager murder.


====When Joel Schumauchar's Batman&Robin hit theatres in 1997, it did not do well in the box office. So there wasn't anymore Batman movies for a while. But Christopher wanted to make a new Batman movie. So Nolan made a dark and more intense Batman movie. This movie is called //Batman Begins//.media type="youtube" key="yQ-5NbUzV5E" height="349" width="560"====

In 2006 Christopher made a movie called //The Prestige//. It's based off a book he wrote in high school. The main plot in the movie is two magicians having a rivalry. It stars Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, and Micheal Caine. media type="youtube" key="LC1n4HKQzlw" height="349" width="560" align="center"

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====﻿After the success of Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan decided to make a sequel of the movie. This movie is called The Dark Knight, which did extremly well. The movie also has Heath Ledger playing the Joker. Heath did an excellent job playing his character. This action adventure movie won many Oscars.====

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====﻿In 2010, Nolan released the mind-boggling science fiction film //Inception.// The movie has a very interesting plot and story to it. It's about five on the run dream specialist agents who get a job from a chinese buisness man. The mission is to incept a buisness rival's son. That means they have to plant an idea in his dream, which is extremly difficult. This movie stars Leonardo Dicaprio.====

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References: Retrieved on 5/31/11 from [|www.wikipedia.com].

__﻿Upcoming Projects__
====﻿In 2012, Christiopher is plannin to make two movies. One is the a Superman film. Nolan says he wants to approach the production in a different way than the other Superman films. Also Zack Snyder is directing the movie, but Christopher is very much involved in the film.====

====﻿The other movie Nolan is releasing in 2012 is the final installation of his Batman trilogy. This is titled //The Dark Knight Rises.// The villains in this film are Catwoman and Bane. Ann Hathaway plays Catwoman and Tom Hardy plays Bane. This movie releases July 2012.====



References: Retrieved on 5/31/11 from [|www.wikipedia.com]

Filmography

 * Year || Film || Studio || Worldwide Gross ||
 * 1998 || Following || Momentum Pictures || $48,482 ||
 * 2000 || Memento || Momentum Pictures || $39,723,096 ||
 * 2002 || Insomnia || Warner Bros. || $113,714,830 ||
 * 2005 || Batman Begins || Warner Bros. || $372,710,015 ||
 * 2006 || The Prestige || Touchstone Pictures Warner Bros. || $109,676,311 ||
 * 2008 || The Dark Knight || Warner Bros. || $1,001,921,825 ||
 * 2010 || Inception || Warner Bros. || $825,532,764 ||

References: Retrieved on 6/6/11 from [|www.wikipedia.com]