# RICHARD NOLAN
# **INTRODUCTION**
We often meet some people who can really turn
our life upside down and completely change
it.
This video is for two of those people.
This is not a video essay.
This is my letter of love for two of my favorite
filmmakers Richard Linklater and Christopher
Nolan.
Both of them were born on 30th July and today
is 30th July 2020.
So Happy Birthday Richard Linklater and Christopher
Nolan.
But the story is not about them the story
is about me, about us and what we can learn
from thelives of these people not only as
a filmmaker but also as human beings.
# CHAPTER 1
I love to watch films I believe films have
the capability of transporting you in someone
else's life, into the mind of a filmmaker.
Films can teach us where we are as humans
and how far can we reach.
Films makes us laugh ,cry ,smile,sympathize,empathize,
think, introspect, learn...about life about
ourselves.
Films makes us self aware as an individual
and as a society.
But this was not the case in fact uptill 11th
standard whenever someone used to ask me about
movies I used give them same answer.
"That I don't like movies"
Maybe I never knew untill that time that movies
will become such a crucial part of my life.
In 12th standard I started watching some of
the Hindi Bollywood films.
They say your mind enlightens when you discover
a new piece of art and that art has the capabilities
of changing your life.
Those Zoya Akhtar films gave me the answers
that I was trying to find in life.
Those Imtyaz Ali films taught me that it's
okay to break the queue but it's not okay
to follow the same old path which everyone
follows after all it's your story write as
you wish.
Learnt from those Ayaan Mukherjee film that
it is important to fly, run , sprint but it's
okay to stop, breathe.
It's important to stay alive.
But there's no option to stay alive in 12th
boards exams.
Somehow after managing to pass my 12th standard
one day while scrolling the phone's scree
this popped up on my screen.( Dunkirk trailer).
Okay who made this film.
Christopher Nolan.
Ohh he made Dark Knight, although never seen
that film.
Ohh he made Inception..I know my brother used
to talk about this film . Interstellar..that
released a few years back.
Let's see what the fuss was all about.
Lets see the film.
( Clicks Inception thumbnail)
Inception montage....
Have I already told you that your mind enlightens
when you discover new piece of art.
I could't believe my eyes.
I was questioning myself about what i just
saw.
How can someone think like this?
Is he human who thought a story like this
. But the answer was in front of me.
Christopher Nolan
And that's how I met my first Guru.
Then what I watched each and every films named
by my master.
Every film was great but one of the hook of
that Chain was BOYHOOD.
Without reading any reviews, without watching
any trailer and without taking about the film
with anyone I just jumped into the film Little
did I knew what I was jumping into, a Whole
new world.
After the film ended I asked just one question
to myself.
"What I saw was real or all fugazee
Have I seen someone growing throughout twelve
years?
Have I experienced someone's life for about
twelve years."
And again the answer was in front of me.(Written
and Directed by Richard Linklater)
And that's how I met my second Guru Richard
Linklater.
# CHAPTER 2
There are only a few filmmakers who plays
with the notion of time like Christopher Nolan,
Richard Linklater, Dennis Villeneuve and each
one percieves time in their own way.
Now you must be thinnking what's so special
about them that you are so mad about them.
So let me tell you.
Nolan Sir's and Linklater Sir's style is quite
different from each other but still there
are many similarities.
Let's talk about Linklater Sir
Linklater Sir's films are about ourselves
and shows our stories.
The way human relations are captured by Linklater
Sir on Camera...I don't think anyone else
can capture those moments.
The one who can find aesthetic in the mundane
life and mundane routine is Richard Linklater.
Linklater sir is too much self motivated and
there's a reason for that the type of films
he makes it requires a lot of self motivation
and patience otherwise you cannot even think
about the story.
Linklater Sir made a film called Before Sunrise
in 1995 even though the film was great and
he got a lot of awards but still it failed
at the collections but still after nine years
he made Before Sunset showing a time gap of
nine years in the story.
Before sunset did well and then again after
nine years Linklater Sir made a film called
Before Midnight showing further nine years
gap in the film.
Today we all know how Before Series changed
our life and how it changed his life as well.
To make BOYHOOD Richard Linklater captured
the life of a boy and a couple of other actors
for around twelve years . Wait what I just
said?
For around twelve years.
Now no common human can do something like
this.
Linklater Sir himself was born with Hustler
Mentality .He was not like other people that
knew what they want to do since the age of
five.
He himself got to know about his interests
when he was seventeen to eighteen years old
and then he spent next ten years educating
himself about cinema.
Although he never went to film school but
still educated himself about cinema by reading
books, watching films and making short films.
This tells a lot about his patience.
Just imagine For the first eighteen years
of your life you never knew what you wanted
in life.
After eighteen years you get to know about
you interests and dreams and you educate yourself
about your interest for next ten years .
Just imagine how much anger would be present
inside you that you are gonna do miracles
and wonders.
There comes another person who took the same
time as you but he says I'm gonna do this
project and I will take twelve years to make
it.
I'm not saying that Richard Linklater never
did another films within these twelve and
twenty one years gap, he made films but what
important is that he still sticked to his
vision.
This can be only done by a person who loves
his craft more then anything in this world.
## CHAPTER 3
Now we'll come to Nolan Sir.
And what should I say about him
Is he human?
I don't even know that.
I mean I just want to see and observe how
he thinks..
His films deals with big and complex scientific
ideas.
He like to work with time and he uses time
by turning it, twisting it and even reversing
it.
But even if his films deals with complex scientific
concepts but wait ...
If this is our brain and right side operates
on calculations and analytics and Left side
operates on Emotions and feelings then Christopher
Nolan's films operate on both the sides of
the brain.
Nolan Sir's films are like Russian Dolls as
it goes layers within layers.
Before knowing anything about Nolan Sir you
need to know one simple thing about him that
he is in love with perfection.
ab chahe wo asli world war plane udana ho
ya asli plane udana ho.
Ab chahe kisi insaan ko udana ho ya kisi hotel
ko jhukana ho. Nolan sir ko sab kuch perfect
or real chahiye isilie inki films kaafi hi
zyada bade scale pare banti hain.
Maybe that's the reason why he is not called
a Visionary director rather he is called Revolutionary
Director.
Nolan Sir loves to break the rules and a clear
example can be seen in Memento where the whole
narrative runs in reverse or in Inception
where we go from a dream within a dream and
further..Long Live Christopher Nolan.
In retrospect Nolan and Linklater Sir are
quite different in style as Linklater sir
works on a very small budget and Nolan sir
works on big big budgets films.
One makes high concept films and other makes
mundane films but with love embroidery.
Nolan sir knew from the age of five that he
wanted to make films while Linklater sir realized
his interest at the age of seventeen eighteen
age.
But there are many similarities between them
like there is not a word like Impossible in
their dictionaries.
After watching both Nolan and Linklater Sir's
films you just asks one question to yourselves
"How is this possible?How can this happen?"
but these are the people who turns impossible
to possible.
Both of them never went to film schools but
educated themselves through reading, writing,
watching and making.
And both have a clear vision about their films.
I mean you need a clear vision ecause that's
the only way you can slow time or show the
last day of high school before summer break.
That's how you can reverse time and that's
how you can show the conversations of two
strangers in a different country . That's
how you can fast forward time and that's how
you can capture life for twelve years.
But why today I am telling you all of this
Because someone said that you can learn anything
from anyone in this world but all you need
for that is a different perspective to look
at regular things.
Maybe most of you are not even filmmakers
but what you are is humans.
And humans need to look out for new things
maybe some of the new things you learn you
can use them in your own life.
Maybe these things like analysing others lives.
Looking at someone's good qualities or someone's
mistakes maybe that's the thing that keeps
us alive.
And have i told you that our mind expands
whenever we 
discover some new piece of art.
So keep discovering.
Happy Birthday Christopher Nolan and Richard
Linklater.
