Christopher Nolan broke his own rules for Interstellar’s most important scene

Ten years have passed since one of Christopher Nolan’s best films, Interstellar, was released in theaters. Still, the recent Oscar winner’s behind-the-scenes work continues to receive much-deserved praise.

With Interstellar, Christopher Nolan managed to bring to the screen an epic science fiction story, but at the same time, full of scientific precision. To achieve this, the collaboration of Nobel Prize winner Kip Thorne had immeasurable value, as it helped him not exceed any limits when exploring the probabilities portrayed in the film.

In addition to scientific accuracy, Nolan wanted to maintain the emotional charge required by the story, and that’s what he achieved. One scene in particular remains memorable: the moment Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) realizes he’s lost more than 23 years of his children’s lives in just three hours.

In this emotional and important sequence, Christopher Nolan broke several of his own rules, as he revealed in an interview with The Atlantic: “The wonderful truth is that it was in my brother’s script and it was one of the things that made me want to do the film. As a father, I thought it was a very powerful narrative moment.”

“First, we shot McConaughey’s reaction, in close-up. You never do that in one scene. You start with a wide frame and then warm up,” the filmmaker said. “But he hadn’t seen the video messages, we had filmed them all in advance, so everything was…

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