Christopher Nolan is one of the most successful and acclaimed directors of the 21st century. He has gone from making films on the tiny budget of $6,000 which make only $48,000 to handling one of the biggest franchises of all time (Batman) and making films that would draw in over $1,000,000,000 worldwide.
His second film Memento was a much bigger success than his first film (following) it tells the story of an amnesiac trying to find the killer of his wife and avenge her murder. The film's main selling point and most interesting feature was the way in which the narrative was presented/ film was presented: viewers are shown the story backwards. Nolan creates a narrative that is presented in one a reverse chronological order, with each scene leading more and more into the past as opposed to the future. Critics loved the film with it achieving 4 and 5 stars from most reviewers and audiences were also enthralled with the films box office being $25,000,000, which was 520.8 times more than his previous film.
The success of Memento was down to it's interesting an unique technique to presenting a narrative, the story of the film wouldn't have been nearly as interesting if we were told it chronologically. I have decided to also try and see if I can present films in a non-chronological format and see which way would be most effective when presenting the narrative. Due to the fact that I have a low budget and less manpower my film would follow a lot more simplistic story-line and be limited to a few locations. My plan would be to think of a story in chronological order and then from that point try and write a screenplay which is the point in which I would play about with chronology.
