Check out this another great episode of the web series Lessons from the Screenplay and it puts the focus on director Christopher Nolan’s and his extensive use of his trademark crosscut sequences within storylines to build suspense, while also preparing the audience for a huge twist in the story.
Three of Nolan’s movies that are used as an example to discuss and explain the procedure in the video include The Dark Night, Inception, and Interstellar.
So, today, I want to briefly look at “The Dark Knight” to uncover the elements of an effective Nolan crosscut. To test these elements in similar sequences in both “Inception” and “Interstellar”, and to ultimately discover why the narrative power of this “Interstellar” sequence falls short of what we usually expect from one of our most ambitious modern filmmakers…