Lately, there has been a recurring thought the writer have been stuck with that what if the brilliant mind behind memento has started to become overhyped. Before, any reader births the thought that the writer is eating shady green leaves in their meals no, their thought actually emerged after the Odyssey released, a spectacle for the world to witness.
From the marketing to the ensemble star cast to the just everything—it genuinely felt like every soul and every leaf out there is chanting the four or a five-star song. The writer clarifies that the article is definitely not a review as it attempts to recall a version of young British man whose storytelling and direction was nothing short of something that reflected this ephemeral feeling, that the writer longs for. The thought has shapeshifted into this feeling of fear that Director Christopher Nolan and his name is enough to chink chink chink—-collect over $1 billion.
The visual spectacle and the expensive star cast was not once this British man had. Years ago, he made projects like Memento, Inception, Dunkirk but he received the prestigious Oscar for the Oppenheimer. The controversies surrounding Nolan ‘Chettan’ (brother) and his Odyssey mainly started after his choice of casting for some of the characters in the film. Let’s talk about the elephant in the room, the netizens and also the writers had some resembling thoughts over the casting of the film. However, fugace’s take on the matter is the controversy indirectly turned around the film’s marketing. Ofcourse there was the “the way Nolan intended meme” but the writer had sniffed some hardcore negative marketing that was being used to let everyone talk about it. Touche.
The entire fiasco made me remember Sammy Jankins and how Sir Nolan had made a film about a guy who suffers from retrograde amnesia and twisted it a little bit like how Brad Pitt said in one of his old interviews talking about, cough cough the F**** C***! Sometimes, the constant wonder hits whether the young Nolan would have used marketing on its maximum level, a flawless star cast, a perfect music score dot dot dot.
Memento had its flaws but somewhere out there the storytelling element of Leonard Shelby and the whole twisted bit is something that the writer yearns in the present version of that filmmaker. Or, maybe the author is just reminiscing a past that applauded for imperfections, that accepted the films flaws and did not just expectthe magic b**lion number from it. The writer no longer feels time due to which its getting hard to accept the fact that every Nolan film must be sqweaky clean with a sparkle. But again, like Shelby said in a blue tinted dark room, “how can I move on if I cant feel time?”