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Why Christopher Nolan Fell in Love With Bulky, Expensive, Way-Too-Loud Film

Imax used to be considered odd. The Oppenheimer director can’t resist it.

Impressed, Nolan decided to shoot one effects sequence in Imax for his subsequent feature The Prestige, during the scene where Christian Bale, playing identical twins, sacrifices one of his fingers to ensure that nobody will be able to tell him and his brother apart. Knowing that Nolan wanted to shoot car chases in Imax, Pfister put the camera on a tripod in the back of a pickup truck and sped down Sunset Boulevard to see what the footage would look like. Pay close attention to the scenes in action movies shot on Imax film; very often, they hide the spoken dialogue in clever ways — as in The Dark Knight ’s opening bank heist, during which most of the characters are wearing masks.

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