Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
39:46 – 42:32… audible.com slash R-E-W-A-T-C-H-A-B-L-E-S or text rewatchables to 500-500 to start your 30-day free trial. And now, back to the rewatchables. We're back. Apex Mountain. Who reached their peak in this movie? Here's a short list that I have. Christopher Nolan. Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Cinematographer and longtime Nolan collaborator Wally Pfister. Tom Hardy. Cillian Murphy. Those are just my candidates. Feel free to pick your own. Sean. Let's go Wally Pfister. Wow. Who went on to become a filmmaker in his own right and not a terribly successful filmmaker in my opinion. But I think that the scene that Andrew …
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That's audible.com slash R-E-W-A-T-C-H-A-B-L-E-S or text rewatchables to 500-500 to start your 30-day free trial. And now, back to the rewatchables. We're back. Apex Mountain. Who reached their peak in this movie? Here's a short list that I have. Christopher Nolan. Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Cinematographer and longtime Nolan collaborator Wally Pfister. Tom Hardy. Cillian Murphy. Those are just my candidates. Feel free to pick your own. Sean. Let's go Wally Pfister. Wow. Who went on to become a filmmaker in his own right and not a terribly successful filmmaker in my opinion. But I think that the scene that Andrew noted earlier, which is the first time we see Cobb sort of showing Ariadne how this works, is pretty like masterful, mind-blowing stuff. You're like, oh my God, we're really in the hands of somebody who knows how to blow your mind. Yeah. And a lot of that is how a movie is shot. It's not just how the movie is conceived. You know, a movie like this can be conceived by any stoner in a dorm room, as we've discussed. But actually pulling it off and watching a building fold on top of another building to resemble an M.C. Escher painting is pretty high-level stuff. Saying like the cinematographer is the winner of this movie is not the most interesting opinion, but I think it's kind of true because I'm a little dubious of this movie. I like it. Andrew? I think it's JGL. Yeah, where's he been? What's he doing? What's he doing besides like commercials and stuff? He's got, what is his company? Oh yeah, that's right. Hit Record. Hit Record. Hit Record, which I don't know anything about. I think it's an app. I could be wrong about that. I'm sure it is. I decided not to Google it after seeing the commercial once. But yeah, he dressed up as Edward Snowden for a second after this. He was Lincoln's son in Lincoln. Oh, that's right! Yeah, with a great mustache. He wanted to be his own man. That's right. Similar to Cillian Murphy. But yeah, he's not in much. A looper, I guess. Yeah. Where he had prosthetics on his face. And Robin in Dark Knight Rises. But not really. Yeah, so-called. Maybe Robin. Right. But yeah, and I think he's actually really good in this movie. He is. His kind of play with Tom Hardy is really funny. And they're kind of like, they're buds, but they also rib each other. Right. It's beautiful. When we take him a level deeper, his own projection of Browning should feed that right back to him. So he gives himself the idea. Precisely. That's the only way it will stick. He has to see himself generated. Eaps. I am impressed.
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