Director Christopher Nolan has been made infamous for his secrecy. It’s quite normal to see Nolan work on a film for years and barely release more than a sentence to the public. Dark Knight Rises composer Hans Zimmer has an explanation for what some would describe as Nolan’s press-phobic behavior.
Autors like Nolan are normally secretive, and often for good reason. Check out what Zimmer has to say about Nolan’s trademark tight-lippedness and how it helps protect the cinematic experience.
“There’s always this thing [that people say], ‘Oh, Chris is so secretive.’ Well, I think that there are two elements to this. One is, I think, to be able to do really good work, you have to have the chance to fail in privacy. And if everybody’s watching you on the Internet, I think it stifles creativity. And I think ‘Dark Knight’ is the perfect example of this idea. Everybody knew we were making a Batman movie. But until it came out they didn’t know it was going to be that sort of a Batman movie.
And isn’t that what we’re supposed to do? We’re supposed to go and surprise you. And part of the experience has to be a surprise. It feels a little bit like we’re working very hard at protecting part of what is great about movies -— the surprise. Because it seems like the world doesn’t want you to do that anymore. They want to know everything, they want to know about the stars and [this and that] immediately. And it’s not important to us. To us, really, the thing is the writing and the script and the ideas and the journey, and making it into something really good.”
Makes perfect sense to us! We enjoy finding every scrap of information we can find mostly because…well…we just can’t help ourselves! What do you think? Is secrecy Nolan’s secret to success?
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