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Christopher Nolan Says Story Isn’t Everything When It Comes to a Great Movie · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: When discussing what makes a great film, you often hear
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Speaker 2: the phrase it all comes down to the story. But
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Speaker 2: not according to one of the premier filmmakers of today,
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Speaker 2: Director Chris Nolan passionately tells The Telegraph, it's a very
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Speaker 2: popular fallacy, sometimes with critics as well, that all that
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Speaker 2: matters is the scale of the story being told. People
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Speaker 2: will tell you that the success of Star Wars had
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Speaker 2: nothing to do with its visual effects and it was
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Speaker 2: all down to its great story. But clearly that's not
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Speaker 2: the case. It is indeed a great story, but it's
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Speaker 2: also an incredible visual experience, which is an undeniable part
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Speaker 2: of great cinema. There's a wilful denial of what movies
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Speaker 2: actually are. Nolan's latest Oppenheimer, is out now.
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