{"id":13490,"date":"2011-11-16T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13490"},"modified":"2011-11-16T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T18:40:12","slug":"del-toro-and-nolan-on-memento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/16\/del-toro-and-nolan-on-memento\/","title":{"rendered":"Del Toro and Nolan on Memento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Del-Toro-and-Nolan-discuss-Memento.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13491\" title=\"Del Toro and Nolan discuss Memento\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Del-Toro-and-Nolan-discuss-Memento.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guillermo_Del_Toro\">Guillermo Del Toro<\/a> sat down with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Nolan\">Christopher Nolan<\/a> to discuss Memento in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>It was after a screening at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grauman%27s_Egyptian_Theatre\">Egyptian Theater<\/a> to promote <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/tdNVUY\">the restored Blu-ray release of the film<\/a> and was a fascinating discussion between two of the best directors currently working in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Although it looks like it was officially filmed for future release, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MappingMidnight\">Michael Midnight<\/a> was in the audience and managed to capture edited highlights of the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the things they discussed were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The influence of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jorge_Luis_Borges\">Jorge Luis Borges<\/a> on Nolan&#8217;s writing<\/li>\n<li>Why Nolan has never watched the &#8216;chronologically correct&#8217; version<\/li>\n<li>Distribution chief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0076733\/\">Bob Berney<\/a> (who masterminded the release of Memento and Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth)<\/li>\n<li>Why seeing Memento connect with audiences inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/07\/10\/inception-review\/\">Inception<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The importance of &#8216;restless&#8217; actors like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_Pearce\">Guy Pearce<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The mix of emotion and genre<\/li>\n<li>How Nolan&#8217;s brother Jonathan persuaded him to never reveal the truth about the ending<\/li>\n<li>Nolan&#8217;s stripped down approach to dialogue<\/li>\n<li>Casting Guy Pearce and Carrie Anne Moss<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMAX\">IMAX<\/a> film camera<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/43xb1_GlbWs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yePRzeTK79k\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m-PJebqoGWY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Nolan\">Christopher Nolan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guillermo_Del_Toro\">Guillermo Del Toro<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/11\/18\/memento-visualisations-christopher-nolan\/\">Visual representations of Memento<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Guillermo Del Toro sat down with Christopher Nolan to discuss Memento in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[360,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}