Mihir Kulkarni

Films, and the questions they leave behind. Classical Hatha Yoga teacher writing about cinema, myth & the inner journey. Currently: The Odyssey.

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12/12- From a $6,000 debut to the most-IMAX film ever made, one rule the whole way: never fake what you can build. Now settle it. Which Nolan film is the masterpiece?🧵

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1/ n Christopher Nolan once bought a real Boeing 747 and crashed it into a building, because CGI was too expensive. And that isn't even his craziest move. A thread on every Nolan film and the obsessive, borderline-insane thing that makes each one unforgettable. 🧵#Thread

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11/n - Now #THEODYSSEY: the first film in HISTORY shot entirely on IMAX cameras. 2.1 million feet of film, Toronto to New York laid end to end. A 2,800-year-old story on the biggest canvas cinema has ever had. I saw it this week. It's the endpoint of everything above.Source:Insta

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That's the thread through both: this isn't a hero's highlight reel, it's a man auditing the cost of survival. Keep that ache and the spectacle earns itself. Nolan kept the ache. See it as big as you can. Which moment wrecked you? #TheOdyssey

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Book vs Film: #TheOdyssey. Mild spoilers ahead for a 2,800-year-old poem nothing that ruins the film. A thread on the two moments where Nolan stopped being a director and became Homer. 🧵

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Then the underworld. Odysseus among his own dead men - the crew he led out and couldn't bring home. Nolan stages it so the horror isn't monsters, it's accountability. Every ghost is a name he knows. Grief filmed as a reckoning, not a jump scare

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Nolan's #Odyssey in #IMAX . The man who made memory a puzzle (Memento), sacrifice a tesseract (Interstellar), and survival a clock (Dunkirk) gets the story that invented all three. If anyone can film "the man of twists and turns," it's him. Review after. 🎬

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8/ Odysseus: takes 10 years to finish a 3-week project, still gets the epic written about him. Aspirational.

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1/ #TheOdyssey but it's your workplace, a thread- Just for fun! 🧵

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7/ Penelope: quietly unpicking the roadmap every night so leadership can't ship the bad idea.