The estimated word count of The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan is 102,300 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 6 hrs 50 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 11 hrs 22 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 48 mins.
The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan - 102,300 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 11 hrs 22 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 6 hrs 50 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 48 mins |
for The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan
An in-depth look at, and written in collaboration with, the man considered to be the most profound, and commercially successful director at work today--a franchise unto himself--whose deeply personal million-dollar blockbuster movies (The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), Dunkirk (2017) among them) have earned more than $4.7 billion worldwide: his work, his influences, his vision, his enigmatic childhood past, and much more. With Nolan's never-before-seen photographs, storyboards, and scene sketches.A rare, intimate portrait of Christopher Nolan with the full cooperation of Nolan himself who opened up more fully than ever before in his talks with Tom Shone. In chapters structured by themes and motifs ("Time"; "Chaos"), Shone writes of Nolan's thoughts on movies, on plots; on time, identity, perception, chaos, daydreams. Here is Nolan on the evolution of his pictures, and the writers, artists, directors, and thinkers who have inspired and informed his films. To write the book, Tom Shone, who has known Nolan for more than two decades and who spent months with the director, was given unprecedented access to Nolan's notes, scripts, storyboards, and artwork.In this riveting portrait of an artist, Shone deftly navigates Nolan's themes, influences, and working methods (both in writing and directing). Here is his dislocated, trans-Atlantic childhood ("It makes you feel very differently about the concept of 'home'") . . . how he dreamed up the plot of Inception lying awake one night in his dorm ("I prized the imaginative space of listening to music in the dark, thinking about things, imagining things, films, stories") . . . his color-blindness and its effect on Memento ("People are fascinated by other people's perception of the world and the way in which it differs") . . . his obsession with puzzles and optical illusions . . . and much, much more.