10 Most Diverse Directors In Hollywood

Every single film this man has released is at least very good. If it's not very good, it's excellent, and if it's not excellent it's a masterpiece. That's how consistent Christopher Nolan has been for almost 20 years now. No matter what the genre, what ties all his films together are his immense attention to detail and practical effects, with an emphasis on exploring concepts like time, psychology and memory.

Memento was his big break and it still remains one of the most mind bending things ever put to film. There are diagrams on the internet solely dedicated to deconstructing the narrative structure of the film. And this isn't just a fancy stylistic choice either, it serves the actual plot so well that the film would collapse without it.

He then went on to completely reinvent the superhero genre as we know it with The Dark Knight Trilogy. Still to this day directors try and fail to merge comic book source material with gritty and grounded film making to the same level Christopher Nolan managed.

Inception and Interstellar had him try his hand at the science fiction genre to immense success as well. Again, both films focus on the concepts of time and the human psyche, only this time in the context of dreams and inter dimensional travel. That may just be the strongest aspect to his films. He is able to tell stories on the grandest of scales and make it deeply intimate and personal. Just look at the endings to Inception and Interstellar for proof.

So he'd mastered the superhero and sci fi genres. He decides to try his hand at the war film now with Dunkirk. But this is a Christopher Nolan war film, so something will be unique about it. The first thing people took note of is the run time. Usually big budget war epics run well over 2 and a half hours, as do most of Christopher Nolan's films. Well, Dunkirk only runs just over 100 minutes, by far his shortest film since his first feature, Following.

The narrative structure of the film is nowhere near as complex as something like Memento, but it's just as inventive and arguably even more necessary to the film. The film does not let up for a single second, just like how the soldiers depicted in the film would have felt.

From a technical standpoint Dunkirk may just be his greatest achievement yet. His dedication to historical accuracy and practical effects is unparalleled.

2020 will see the release of Tenet, a film basically nobody knows the plot to aside from a very select few. And yet the excitement for the film is immense. That's testament to just how much Christopher Nolan has contributed to film in the 21st century. Regardless of genre, people get excited to see a Christopher Nolan film simply because it is a Christopher Nolan film.

Whichever genre he gets his hands on next, expect him to reinvent it once again.