TENET Director Christopher Nolan Says Other Filmmakers Called Him To Complain About His Inaudible Dialogue

Nolan thinks his shit don't stink.

I am a pretty big fan of Nolan's, but there are plenty of moments in his, mostly recent, movies where the dialogue is drowned out by the score and or sound effects.

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He's wrong about people not caring about the look of a movie. The difference is that we know full well going into the film how it looks due to stills, trailers and promotional materials. We already have a good idea if not 100% prepared to know how a final film will look like before seeing the whole thing. We have no idea how a final film will sound until we get into a theater since promotional teams add music, etc to the trailers and commercials. Not to mention some people aren't watching trailers on optimal devices.

You'd think someone as accomplished and experienced as Nolan would know how to... Oh idk... TURN UP THE DIALOGUE AUDIO.

I’ve really enjoyed every Nolan film, in fact Interstellar was my favourite since the Dark Knight, Dunkirk was incredible too. And Inception is a [frick]ing masterpiece. But Tenet was just a flat out bad movie for me. It eccentuated all of his flaws as a filmmaker (dull, humourless characters, poor sound mixing, poor action). And it didn’t bring any of his strengths. The trippy set pieces would have been cool if I knew what the [frick] was going on. And I would have cared enough to look into it, rewatch and undertstand it better if there were characters or a plot I actually cared about. It commited the worst movie sin, being completely boring.

"But if you mix the sound a certain way, or if you use certain sub-frequencies, people get up in arms."

No, Nolan. The people told you what the issue was, and it wasn't "sub-frequencies". They are getting "up in arms" because they can't hear the dialogue. It's one of those things that people have been trying to do since infancy. That is, to "hear" what people are saying.

I don't understand why Nolan is ignoring people on this (like he ignored that issue with people being afraid of getting COVID-19 if they go to a movie). They tell him it's deadly virus, but he thinks people will risk their lives to see his film. So, what, he either doesn't believe the virus or the people? And they tell him they want to hear the dialogue (which is 100% normal), and he interprets it as them as "getting up in arms" about "sub-frequencies".

Does he have a hearing problem? Or is he so out-of-touch with normal people, that he thinks people are willing do die to watch his films and they don't care about hearing dialogue.

I don't get it (I don't get him), and he doesn't get it, either (he doesn't get normal people).

I suspect he is even weirder than I am. And that is saying a lot.

I wait until his shit comes out on Blu-ray before I watch any of it, so I can use the close-caption feature.

Imagine if Nolan hired cinematographer Fabian Wagner(GOT Battle of Winterfell episode) to do one of his movies. If someone asked you afterward how was the movie you'd say"I..I dunno."

Particularly if the film is convoluted, you need to be able to understand the exposition and the dialogue.