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“I’m often quoted in the press talking about visual effects like an actress talks about her use of botox… I know visual effects people pride themselves on doing the impossible. I’d just like to encourage you to say no to the unreasonable,” Chris Nolan receiving the inaugural Visual Effects Society’s Visionary Award last night.
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I’m all for Chris Nolan’s limitation of vfx in his films, but doesn’t this society think that someone like George Lucas, Sam Raimi, James Cameron, or Steven Spielberg deserves the first Visionary Award?
Lucas, Cameron and Spielberg have already received special VES Awards honors.
Nolan hasn’t been around long enough for a Lifetime Achievement Award especially relative to visual effects, so I think the Visionary Award was designed to fill this gap.
Chris is certainly a visionary, and so the honor is well placed.
But, then again, the most respected influence on contemporary visual effects storytelling is Ray Harryhausen, and it took nine years for VES to recognize Ray…go figure?
I see, thanks for the info. I must have been getting confused with another award.
The Nolans are brilliant, no doubt. But he’s only done 3 movies with any Vis FX!
well said Mr. Nolan…although the “unreasonable” most likely comprises a good amount of VFX requests/shots in blockbusters.
Alas too cool for an Oscar nom?
My thoughts exactly. What is this man supposed to do to get Oscar recognition?
1) Find his own Val Lewton who could help his writing match the quality of his visuals.
2) Calm down; stop trying to out-twist and out-pace the audience; and put more effort, heart, and clarity into his storylines.
Nice to hear. Sounds like he understands that almost all SFX age after a while, and can’t carry a film. I’m often surprised filmmakers don’t still use a lot of ‘real’ effects these days though. Alien and Jurassic Park (most of it at least) still look great.
Yes, but some directors find more creative ways that using bad CGI. Look at Aronofsky’s use of dye in water for nebula in “The Fountain.”
I loved True Grit, but those damn awful CGI snakes are an unnecessary blemish on a great film and took away all the tension in that scene for me.. I can’t believe the Coens (usually so detail oriented) signed off on that. Practical effects and puppeteers would have been so much better.
Christopher Nolan is the undisputed best and greatest director in the world. The Dark Knight Rises will be the biggest movie of 2012. Watch out Avatar!
Although I heartily appreciate Chris Nolan’s work and think he is an amazingly talented film director, I think it’s a bit of a stretch to claim he is the “undisputed best and greatest director in the world”.
How is it that anyone is actually that impressed with this guy? Everything he makes is derivative and he has no business making a movie or even a short story about dreams. Insomnia is the only thing worth watching
and that was a remake.
Amen, brother.
@JonnDoe Chris Nolan can make a great film using VFX while telling a great story. Cameron and Lucas couldn’t do that to save their lives.
Interesting. Good thing you’re in the minority on that one. I would strongly advise you to watch films such as Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back, American Graffiti, Aliens, The Terminator, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Get back to me when you’ve completed your task, and have wallowed in your own self-doubt long enough.
Okay, then go watch STAR WARS 1-3, INDY 4, THE ABYSS, TITANIC and AVATAR. Success is not a measure of quality. Lucas and Cameron need to work with writers.
Spielberg did get an Award from the VES lifetime achievement award in 2008.
Why do people insist on comparing Nolan to Cameron or Speilberg? Why can fans of Nolan praise his work without downing the work of two visionaries who have been around for a long time? When you do things like that, it does nothing to help your argument.
Cameron even recently took to Twitter to praise Nolan and “Inception” to say it blew his mind.
Stop with the “Greatest Director of All Time” nonsense because it’s foolish. Nolan is a good director who makes good movies. But he still needs to work on his action direction.
I completely agree. I have never understood the need for die-hard Nolan fans especially to get so defensive and bad-mouth other directors, especially people like Spielberg, or Cameron. I think Chris Nolan is a great filmmaker, along with the men I previously mentioned.
Why do people insist on comparing Nolan to Cameron or Speilberg?
Duh, he’s cooler than everyone.
Please stop using the term CGI – just call it CG or anything other then CGI – for us who work on VFX movies the term CGI is a dead ringer for someone who has no inside knowledge of the VFX biz
Why is that?
In computer terms, CGI is Common Gateway Interface, or the method any web page uses to talk to a server-side application.
So VFX folks call computer graphics work CG. What’s the I for, anyway? Imagery? If you really want to be redundant, call it CGIP: Computer Generated Image Pictures.
You don’t know what the I stands for? Really?
Nolan blends practical effects with computer effects seamlessley. Inception will still look great in 40 years time. Films like Avatar will look dated very soon.
Anyone that can’t appreciate the level of films this guy is producing is either jealous, has no taste, is an idiot, or a combination of all three.
Amen!
Nolan is cool because he shoots on 65mm film. Down with 3D! Large format cinema forever!
Chris Nolan deserves all the accolade he gets and he should have been nominated in the Best Director category for sure.
I admit his recent films contain some downright silly if not ridiculous moments, but he also knows when to throw in scenes that are absolutely spectacular and sublime. With Nolan’s films I always feel I get my money’s worth and then some.
He’s addressing the wrong crowd with that comment.
That’s a comment for producers and directors, not vfx artists. Say that at the DGA.
We do what we are told or the client takes his work elsewhere.
I think Nolan’s message will reach the right ears and makes some noise dont worry.
I think he meant that if something obviously look’s like shit, dont just accept it going into a movie. The ” Just do it in the computer ” mind-set has fucked up more movie’s than was necessary. How many times can you mess up someone’s immersion in a story before they lose their connection with it ?
Nolan’s INCEPTION took him 10 years to write, yet has plot holes you could drive a tank through.
Keep the Kool-Aid flowing.
If Leo’s character wanted to see his kids so bad, and that was driving the whole movie, why not have Michael Caine or other contacts smuggle them to Europe and live happily ever after?
The rules of that script…a mess. It was a game of screenwriting 3-card Monte– confuse the audience with rule after rule and dense exposition, then say that if you can’t follow it, you are just not smart.
If anyone other than Nolan passed that script around, it would’ve been panned.
Ditto for AVATAR.
so you didn’t like the movie?
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Got any open slots for your intro to screen writing class at SMCC?
Um, THE ABYSS put effects ahead of story and poorly written? You sir, are an idiot.
ABYSS won an Oscar for best VFX in ’89, but of course the effects are cheesy and dated by today’s standards. Luckily the story is captivating and well-written so that one can overlook the effects and enjoy the story.
And if you think the script to TITANIC is bad, you are most definitely an idiot.
The dialogue was terrible, but the story was pretty good.
Not going to argue on here as near all of the “Nolan fanatics” I have come across are dicks who have put the man on a worship alter and refuse to hear a counter argument.
So in other words you just popped in to comment that you wont be commenting?
Hmmm, I’d hate to say Nolan fans are as unreasonably pigheaded as Yankee ones, but they are sure heading in that general direction.
Nothing of the reality of the ‘Titanic’ disaster was lost by focusing on Rose and Jack. Just the opposite was the result. No script is perfect, but I think the ‘Titanic’ script was very good.
ah, nikki, takes one to know one.
thanks, the headline alone should get me through this oscar season with less gnashing of teeth…
Make a less draggy movie than inception and make a movie that lives up to the hype instead of the dark knight. There is a reason it was not nominated for best picture or director. Get over it people! Some of the most confusing and simply covered action scenes I’ve seen in my life exist in those new batman movies.
I Think your totally right, they only gave to him because he directed The Dark Knight which I thought was a bad Movie