Recurring Character Observation

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I remember reading an interview where someone asked him about this pattern. He explained it by saying he grapples with his worst fears by facing them in his writing. I can't remember his exact words, but one of his worst fears is clearly losing his wife. I wish I could remember where I read this, but it escapes me.

In his movies he also often references his previous movie:

- Interstellar: Dr. Mann talks about the fear of death which was also mentioned in The Dark Knight Rises and the original mission was called the Lazarus mission and many people see a connection between the prison pit in The Dark Knight Rises and the Lazarus Pit from the comics

- The Dark Knight Rises: Marion Cotillard's character stabs someone just like she did in Inception and also in both Inception and The Dark Knight Rises a character locks something away in a symbolic safe (however in The Dark Knight Rises the safe is actually real).

- Inception: Part of Cobb's plan is to blow up a hospital which was also part of the Joker's plan in The Dark Knight

- The Dark Knight: The Joker says "how about a magic trick" and the Prestige was about magic tricks. Also in both The Dark Knight and The Prestige a character breaks his leg by falling and has to go through the rest of the movie with a cane (Angier and Salvatore Maroni)

- The Prestige: Christian Bale's character is unjustly locked away in a prison much like he was in Batman Begins. Also a character (Bruce Wayne and Angier) travels a great distance and climbs up a hill/mountain to another characters house (Ra's al Ghul and Tesla) who he wants to meet.

- Batman Begins: Well I never really got into Insomnia so I can't go much further but it's established that Bruce doesn't get a lot of sleep because he can't sleep until 3 in the afternoon or people will start asking questions about what he does in his free time, lack of sleep was a major plot point in Insomnia

Also his movies often feature a character in a hospital bed (Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, Maurice Fischer in Inception, Gordon in The Dark Knight Rises, Dr. Brand and Murph in Interstellar).

"I really wish Gia and Claire had became Tanner" - Honeybeefine

I had also noticed that Nolan loves to present some themes from the different angles in the different movies. There's some very tricky about that. Like he presented the fear of death as something good in The Dark Knight Rises, and as something completely opposite to good in Interstellar; love as something wonderful in Inception, and love as something dark in The Dark Knight Rises (interestingly, both interpretations includes Marion Cotillard: Dominic/Mal relationship represents bright love, and Bane/Talia represents the dark one, not in terms of depravity, but in terms of connection with the goal to harm the others). And they were all next-after-next movies, like Inception -> The Dark Knight Rises and The Dark Knight Rises -> Interstellar.

That's one of my favorite things about Chris's filmography, that he looks at many things from a different points of view.

Nolan, I love you forever!

Michael Caine looking after other people's children

Batman Begins/Dark Knight/Dark Knight Rises - Looking after Thomas and Martha Wayne's son.

The Prestige - Looks after Borden's daughter

Interstellar - looks after Cooper's kids

Inception - looks after Cobb's kids.


Given decmbersun's post about Nolan facing his fears in his writing, do you think he's scared to leave his kids with Michael Caine?

"You'll find it's a very small universe when I'm angry with you"