If just a few days ago Quentin Tarantino confessed that among his favorite movies of 2024 was found Joker: Folie à Deux, now it's the turn of Christopher Nolan. The director of cinematographic jewels of the stature of Oppenheimer, Origen o Interstellar It is clear that his favorite movie this year is Gladiator IIby Ridley Scott, as he explained to Variety.
Nolan argues that Ridley Scott's vision in Gladiator II is not to know Roman culture, but to entertainalluding to a sequence from the first installment in which Máximo Décimo Meridio addresses the audience: “Aren't you entertained?” Likewise, the Oscar-winning director points out the mastery of this experienced filmmaker so that he can be caught making parallels with our times. “We are there to see our dark desires at a comfortable distance,” duck.
That is why, before addressing the more technical reasons why we are faced with a very great film that recently reached 400 million in box office worldwide, Nolan defends controversial scenes such as the one with the sharks in the Colosseum. A moment that the spectators had “demanded” and that Ridley Scott offers you to see precisely how these games manipulated public opinion.
“Like the long-awaited best sequels, Gladiator II It is a remake and a sequel at the same time. It's a testament to the brilliance of Scott, who manages to balance the individual pathos of the original film with the expansionist demands of the sequel's central theme, bringing a lifetime of experience in tone control“says Nolan.
The American also praises the staging of the actionwith multi-camera filming, the “clear and amazing sequences one after another” and “multiple levels.” Thus, Nolan brings out the great filmmaker that Scott is, emphasizing the contrast of a filmography in which titles such as Blade Runner, Thelma y Louise and now Gladiator II.
“Despite all his success, Scott's contribution to the evolution of cinematic storytelling has never been properly recognized. The visual innovations he and other 1970s directors introduced to film were often dismissed as superficial, but critics of the time did not capture the essence” claims Nolan, praising how Scott closes the circle with that scene in which Paul Mescal touches the wheat, as Russell Crowe already did.
Just a few months ago, Nolan He was also asked about some of his favorite films of recent years and he revealed that he had also been captivated by another by Paul Mescal, Aftersand. The indie drama between a father and daughter directed by Charlotte Wells was released to great words in 2022. Will we see the two collaborate on a project soon?
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