When Christopher Nolan Turned A Break-In Into A Thriller: How A Real-Life Crime Inspired His First Film!
Nolan’s First Film Inspiration (Photo Credit – Instagram)
Before making Inception, Interstellar, and Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan was just a filmmaker with no budget. His first movie, Following (1998), was a low-budget thriller. It was about a writer who stalks people for inspiration. But the narrative wasn’t just fiction—it was roused by a real-life crime Nolan experienced. In an interview with Mental Floss, the movie maker said:
“You’d go out of your flat and you’d be surrounded by people. I became interested in the idea of looking at individuals and saying, ‘What’s that person’s story?’ Right around that time, somebody broke into the flat.”
Nolan once revealed that the idea for Following came after someone broke into his flat. At the time, he was living in a place with a plywood door—something he hadn’t thought much about until the break-in happened.
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Before making Inception, Interstellar, and Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan was just a filmmaker with no budget. His first movie, Following (1998), was a low-budget thriller. It was about a writer who stalks people for inspiration. But the narrative wasn’t just fiction—it was roused by a real-life crime Nolan experienced. In an interview with Mental Floss, the movie maker said:
“You’d go out of your flat and you’d be surrounded by people. I became interested in the idea of looking at individuals and saying, ‘What’s that person’s story?’ Right around that time, somebody broke into the flat.”
Nolan once revealed that the idea for Following came after someone broke into his flat. At the time, he was living in a place with a plywood door—something he hadn’t thought much about until the break-in happened.
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