Christopher Nolan’s Low-Budget Feature Film Debut Showed His Promise

Christopher Nolan is a unique breed in Hollywood.

In a current landscape with limited amounts of sources of financially sturdy films, Nolan’s films are viable through his name alone.

A mass audience flocks to see any of his movies, whether it is an adaptation of a comic book, a heist thriller about dreams, or a time-bending World War II movie, as if they exist in a franchise or extended universe.

The director’s selling power has the chance to reach its apex with the release of Oppenheimer, a three-hour, historical docu-drama about the creation of the atomic bomb that’s being promoted as a blockbuster.

However, true anomalies like Nolan sprung from humble beginnings, and that is evident with his feature directorial debut, Following.

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