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MEMENTO AND FOLLOWING PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Christopher Nolan | 240 pages | 15 Jun 2001 | FABER & FABER | 9780571210473 | English | London, United Kingdom Unlimited acces Film: Memento and Following Book - video Dailymotion Leonard has created an entirely new identity built on a lie, and because his creation is based on a lie, it ultimately leads to a destructive conclusion, which is that he becomes nothing more than Teddy's hitman. Like The Young Man from Following or Robert Angier from The Prestige or Mal from Inception , Leonard has provided himself a comforting lie, and that lie has proven to be his downfall until he finally decides to pursue something that's true—Teddy is using him and so Teddy must be stopped. The cautionary tale in Memento is that Leonard Shelby, despite his unique condition, is universal in how he lies to himself. Nolan isn't opposed to the concept of a lie—he's a storyteller after all. But he's fascinated by how lies are implemented. For Nolan, lies are tools, and sometimes they can be used to benevolent purposes like a magic show in The Prestige or the mind heist in Inception. In Memento , Leonard finds a new lie—that Teddy is responsible for the rape and murder of Leonard's wife—but like all good art, it's a lie that tells the truth. Teddy may not be responsible for Leonard's condition, but his desire to use Leonard as a weapon makes him at least partially responsible for Leonard's predicament. Leonard lies to himself on a tapestry of good intentions; he tells himself he's not a killer. But it's his actions that have meaning even if he can't remember them. Through its ingenious plotting and characterization, Christopher Nolan made a movie where the lie itself became the protagonist. The central irony of Leonard Shelby is that his motives are based on the search for truth, but he consumes nothing but lies. He even conditions himself to believe more lies because the truth can be too painful. But to quote a later Nolan film, "Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people need something more. Sometimes they need their faith rewarded. That conditioning himself into a vengeful detective isn't the truth he needs. Whether his lie leads him to a better truth is a question for before the opening credits roll. For all of our retrospective pieces on Christopher Nolan's filmography, click here. Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since He resides in Atlanta with his wife and their dog Jack. C hristopher Nolan's first film, Following, was an elusive thriller which for all its faults effected a strange tentacular growth in the mind. Even now, I find myself selling it to people in conversation - particularly Nolan's philosopher-burglar, a connoisseur of London's empty spaces, addicted to the transgressive thrill of trespassing on other people's intimate lives. In time, I'm sure Following will come to be seen as an occult classic about the capital city, to be compared with work by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair. It is a film to induce exhilaration along with a tiny, acute stab of regret. The regret is that, while the melancholy search for a British movie renaissance continues, the most natural young movie talent this country has produced in ages evidently finds American to be his natural cinematic language. But the exhilaration is that his film is terrific: exciting, demanding, agile, sly, witty and fun. Bobbing and weaving for minutes, it is a film which somehow manages to keep you off balance and on your toes. If Oliver Sacks wanted to write something in the style of Raymond Chandler, maybe Memento would be it: a complex thriller about time, memory and identity. Pearce plays Leonard Shelby, a guy who wakes up every morning without knowing where he is, or why he's there. This is because of a mental condition caused by being hit on the head by an intruder. It was this film that established Christopher Nolan. With Guy Pearce and Carrie-Anne Moss in the lead roles, the film was widely praised for its themes of memory and self-deception. A war film made by Nolan and he did not delve deep into the usual war movie tropes like excessive violence, non-stop machine-gun fire, and character depths. Instead, he chose the Dunkirk evacuation itself as his main protagonist, and characters were simply minor players making a big whole. The film also had some of the best cinematography in any war movie. Dunkirk is a high-quality war movie. The film which began easily the greatest superhero trilogy, Batman Begins centred upon the theme of fear. It also marked the grand reentry of the Caped Crusader whose previous big-screen appearances had been disastrous. Inception was a film that was mind-bogglingly complex with its time-jumps, unreliable protagonist and, well, dreams. Not just dreams, sharing of dreams. Interstellar was the first time Nolan went into outer space. Memento - Film/Cinema Studies bibliographies - Cite This For Me Memento Fuck you: I gave you a reason to live, you were more than happy to help. Sep 28, Ms. D rated it it was amazing Shelves: mystery- thrillers , plays-scripts. Following is a pretty interesting script, but Memento is amazing. If you want to take the book out from our library you can just skip to that script if you prefer. It tells the story of a man who is determined to avenge his wife's death, but who has lost all short-term memory. The movie goes backwards in time, scene by scene. It is suspenseful, shocking, and very original. The movies are written by the same man who did Inception and The Dark Knight. Mar 19, Alexander Curran rated it it was amazing. A review of memento and the story It stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia which renders his brain unable to store new memories. During the opening credits, which portrays the end of the story it is shown that Leonard kills Teddy Joe Pantoliano for the rape and murder of his wife based on information provided by Natalie Carrie-Anne Moss. Memento is often used to show the distinction between plot and story. The film's events unfold in two separate, alternating narratives — one in colour, and the other in black and white. The black and white sections are told in chronological order, showing Leonard conversing with an anonymous phone caller in a motel room. Leonard's investigation is depicted in colour sequences that are in reverse chronological order. As each sequence begins, the audience is unaware of the preceding events, just like Leonard, thereby giving the viewer a sense of his confusion. By the film's end when the two narratives converge we understand the investigation and the events that lead up to Teddy's death. The film's fabula and sujet are very important with regards to understanding the story's narrative. The sujet or the presentation of the film is structured with two timelines: one in colour and one in black-and-white. The colour sequences are alternated with black-and-white sequences. The black-and-white sequences are put together in the chronological order. The colour ones, though shown forward except for the very first one, which is shown in reverse are ordered in reverse chronological order. Jonathan Nolan's short story, titled Memento Mori, is radically different from Christopher's film, although it maintains the same essential elements. In Jonathan's version, Leonard is instead named Earl and is a patient at a mental institution. As in the film, his wife was killed by an anonymous man, and during the attack on his wife, Earl lost his short-term memory. Like Leonard, Earl leaves notes to himself and has tattoos with information about the killer. However, in the short story, Earl convinces himself through his own written notes to escape the mental institution and murder his wife's killer. Unlike the film, there is no ambiguity that Earl finds and kills the anonymous man. David Julyan composed the film's synthesized score. While composing the score, Julyan created different, distinct sounds to differentiate between the colour and black-and-white scenes: "brooding and classical" themes in the former, and "oppressive and rumbly noise" in the latter. Since he describes the entire score as Leonard's theme, Julyan says, "The emotion I was aiming at with my music was yearning and loss. But a sense of loss you feel but at the same time you don't know what it is you have lost, a sense of being adrift. Instead, David Bowie's "Something in the Air" is used, although another of Radiohead's songs, an extended version of "Treefingers" , is included on the film's soundtrack. The main role went to Guy Pearce, whom impressed Christopher Nolan the most. Pearce was chosen partly for his "lack of celebrity" after Brad Pitt passed on the film, the budget could not afford A-list stars , and his enthusiasm for the role, evidenced by a personal phone call Pearce made to Nolan to discuss the part. While Mary McCormack lobbied for the role, Nolan decided to cast Moss as Natalie, saying, "She added an enormous amount to the role of Natalie that wasn't on the page". Although there was a concern that Pantoliano might be too villainous for the part, he was still cast, and Nolan said he was pleasantly surprised by the actor's subtlety in his performance.

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