Christopher Nolan Says Fellow Directors Have Called to Complain About His ‘Inaudible’ Sound

[FaTaL]

So are yall finally gonna man up and say The Prestige is overblown nonsense now or keep fronting?

Oh here we go again

 

[duncanthetall]

So are yall finally gonna man up and say The Prestige is overblown nonsense now or keep fronting?

....what? The Prestige is damn near a masterpiece and it came out before all these pretentious a$$holes started sucking Nolan off. His films, TDK and earlier, do not have these issues

 

[Zero]

Oh here we go again

....what? The Prestige is damn near a masterpiece and it came out before all these pretentious a$$holes started sucking Nolan off. His films, TDK and earlier, do not have these issues

Fronting it is

 

[GoldenGlove]

The dumbest shyt I read from that excerpt was how he said people don't care what a film is shot on (referencing the iPhone) and then said, but people get pissed if the audio sucks.

He said that like the audio isn't just as important as the visual in this medium of storytelling



Audio is pretty essential in a movie Christopher, if it's not right or off, it becomes a distraction that takes away from what is being shown

 

[GoldenGlove]

So are yall finally gonna man up and say The Prestige is overblown nonsense now or keep fronting?

This is a neg train quality post right here

 

[FaTaL]

Inception was loud but that score is bananas

 

[Json]

Nolan: Y’all nikkas using digital instead of 70mm?


Other directors: Your movies are inaudible


Nolan:

 

[morris]

This is a problem in a lot of modern film

The score drowns out the dialogue

Need to take lesson from Kurosawa and Kubrick and Lee

 

[Zero]

This is a neg train quality post right here

 

[jwinfield]

The dumbest shyt I read from that excerpt was how he said people don't care what a film is shot on (referencing the iPhone) and then said, but people get pissed if the audio sucks.

He said that like the audio isn't just as important as the visual in this medium of storytelling



Audio is pretty essential in a movie Christopher, if it's not right or off, it becomes a distraction that takes away from what is being shown

My iPhone can shoot 4k/60fps. If the video I shoot sounds like my finger was covering the mic with some loud ass music layered on top of that, people are going to have the

 

[Shadow]

It feels like Nolan is in the editing room like this with the sound mixer.

 

[HARLEM AL]

I don’t mind the loud noise, I don’t need that shyt to be so loud I can’t hear the dialog. That Bain shyt was goofy as fukk.

 

[karim]

The sound design in Christopher Nolan’s movies is known to generate frustration among moviegoers, but it turns out Nolan’s fellow filmmakers have also expressed annoyance with being unable to hear the director’s dialogue. Most Nolan releases, from “Interstellar” to “The Dark Knight Rises” to this year’s “Tenet,” spark the question: are Nolan movies too loud? The director has defended his sound design in the past, and he says in Tom Shone’s new book “The Nolan Variations” that he’s surprised how “conservative” moviegoers are about cinematic sound.

“We got a lot of complaints,” Nolan said about the “Interstellar” sound design. “I actually got calls from other filmmakers who would say, ‘I just saw your film, and the dialogue is inaudible.’ Some people thought maybe the music’s too loud, but the truth was it was kind of the whole enchilada of how we had chosen to mix it.”

“It was a very, very radical mix,” the director continued. “I was a little shocked to realize how conservative people are when it comes to sound. Because you can make a film that looks like anything, you can shoot on your iPhone, no one’s going to complain. But if you mix the sound a certain way, or if you use certain sub-frequencies, people get up in arms.”

Nolan added “there’s a wonderful feeling of scale” that can come by experimenting with sound design and “a wonderful feeling of physicality to sound that on ‘Interstellar’ we pushed further than I think anyone ever has.” For “Interstellar,” Nolan and his team “tapped into the idea of the sub-channel, where you can just get a lot of vibration.”

“A lot of it was the music where Hans [Zimmer] had this organ and he used the absolutely lowest note, which would literally make your chest drop,” Nolan continued. “There’s certain low end frequencies that automatically get filtered out by the software. He took all of those controls off, so there are all those sub-frequencies there. And we did the same on the dub stage. It’s a pretty fascinating sound mix. If you see it particularly in an IMAX theater, projected, it’s pretty remarkable.”

Moviegoers might think Nolan movies are too loud, but Nolan movies sound exactly the way Nolan wants them to sound. Read the excerpt on Nolan’s sound design below, courtesy of Trailer Track founder Anton Volkov. Shore’s “The Nolan Variations” is now available for purchase.

How are people conservative if they complain about not being able to understand what the actors are saying? If the dialogue is inaudible, you fukked up the mix, just like you fukked up the mix in music, if you can't understand the lyrics

 

[TheGodling]

How are people conservative if they complain about not being able to understand what the actors are saying? If the dialogue is inaudible, you fukked up the mix, just like you fukked up the mix in music, if you can't understand the lyrics

Don't be so conservative, it is an artistic choice to put the microphone in a tin can when recording dialogue.

 

[CarbonBraddock]

I like nolan in general but sound design has been a problem for him in the past. tried to watch tenet and couldn't even get 5 minutes in bc the audio was so garbled/fukked up. i'm not gonna sit through some shyt if you don't give a fukk enough to put out a product that's quality in every elementary way. i mean imagine being a director and watching the film before it goes out to the masses. you see the audio is fukked up and you just ok it anyway. that type of shyt make you come off as being a goddamn retard imo.