The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Examples include Rutger Hauer in Batman Begins Eric Roberts and Anthony Michael Hall in The Dark Knight Tom Berenger in Inception and Matthew Modine in The Dark Knight Rises. Theatricality and deception are embedded as internal themes and also function as Nolan's commentary on the artifice of filmmaking itself. ' He's fully engaged — in every aspect of the film.

In July 2012 Christopher Nolan became the youngest director to be honoured with a hand and footprint ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. 6 billion in North America and US$3. Nolan co-founded Syncopy Films with his wife Emma Thomas and they have produced all of his films since The Prestige (2006).