Christopher Nolan, the greatest auteur of all time, the genius story weaver, directed this scene, filmed it, watched it back in post, and decided it was good.
Christopher Nolan tried to give Al Pacino an acting note on INSOMNIA (2002) set.
Pacino replied, “I’ve already done that. You can’t see it to the eye, but I’ve done it in the dailies.”
Nolan went back to check the footage & realized Pacino was right
Robbie Williams singing in a sparkly tracksuit, the World Cup trophy being delivered in a Louis Vuitton luggage case by tennis player Carlos Alcaraz, and now Tom Cruise is delivering a heartfelt speech to a crowd of foreign fans that probably can’t understand him.
Utter Yank nonsense.
Master and Commander (2003) ends by promising more adventures, and it’s still hard to believe they never came. Crowe & Bettany were perfect, and Patrick O’Brian left behind more than 20 novels that could’ve sustained one of cinema’s great franchises.