00:00Nolan knew how to use his references and pay homage to the cinema he loves while imposing his own style.
00:05In his debut film Following, the very first dialogue scene between the protagonist and the antagonist takes place in a cafe.
00:11A scene reminiscent of the famous dialogue between Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Michael Mann's Hit.
00:16Nolan is a great admirer of this filmmaker.
00:19He will draw on his cinema on numerous occasions, notably in Memento where he will bathe his protagonist several times in blue nights,
00:26in Insomnia where he chose Al Pacino for his role as the old cop full of doubts, which is reminiscent of his role as Vincent Hanna in Hit.
00:33A film which will largely influence The Dark Knight, where Nolan will give a specific identity to the environment of the film,
00:39making Gotham a character in its own right like the city of Los Angeles in Hit.
00:44The two cities have in common the fact that they confine their characters to a grim reality.
00:48Not to mention, of course, this introduction, which is clearly a declaration of love to Michael Mann's cinema.
00:53and to these action scenes that he manages to compose in a brutal and ultra-realistic way.
00:57It is partly thanks to the work of Michael Mann that filmmakers like Christopher Nolan were able to emerge.
01:02We also find a bit of Hitchcock in his early works,
01:05especially in his first film and in his way of handling the tension, the final twist,
01:09and the influence on Interstellar of 2001: A Space Odyssey, among others, is more than obvious, he himself admitted it.
01:15He will also draw inspiration from the work of Albert Einstein, under the expertise of astrophysicist Kip Thorne for Interstellar,
01:20stories by Nietzsche, illustrations by Maurice Cornelis Hatcher and various films such as Paprika for Inception,
01:26and Greco-Roman mythology for Tenet, using the Sator square as a reference,
01:31found in the ruins of Pompeii and which represent a palindrome,
01:34an element that reproduces the same thing right side up as upside down.
01:38Tenet can also be seen as an obvious homage to the James Bond saga, which is his favorite saga.
01:43The entire first part of Tenet is constructed like a James Bond film,
01:46with the introduction of the hero during an action scene followed by the title,
01:49the information given to the hero concerning the threat hanging over the entire Earth,
01:53the protagonist Girl who will help the hero in his mission,
01:56the Russian villain, the different sequences around the world, etc., etc.
02:01The film even has an original song performed by Travis Scott,
02:04as in every opus of the 007 saga.
02:07But the James Bond tributes aren't limited to Tenet for Nolan.
02:10In Inception, the final ski chase is inspired by the 1969 James Bond film,
02:14on Her Majesty's Secret Service,
02:16just like the introduction of the Dark Knight Rises,
02:18which is reminiscent of a similar scene in Licence to Kill in 1989.
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