The Movie Author Of Hollywood Commercial System-Christopher Nolan

Commerciality and artistry are a pair of binary and contradictory characteristics that films born with.Because of this,insisting movies as the independency of art and keeping the creativity of arts seem more precious in the commercial film system.Christopher Nolan is such a film's creator.In 1951 s,France film director Francois for the first time put forward the “film author”concept,he believes that a film of the real author should be the director.They express their own creative will and personality in their films.Should use the “camera pen”independent “writing”with their own style.In early 1960 s,the American film theory commenter Andrew Salis introduced this view to America,to encourage and identify movie authors who compose their work with the core of character.Although there is a manifest conflict between Hollywood's commercial system and the theory of“Movie author”,in the history of American film it has been a group of highly unusual movie authors,their work is built by the combination of commercial intention and author's style.Such as Christopher Nolan,his work were not only made by the traditional Hollywood types of narrative,but also deeply marked by individual brand at the same time,they actually find a perfect balance point between the US mainstream of commercial system and the road of independent creation.This article will explore “film author” Nolan,from the perspective of “commercial film maker” and "film author",to research that how to follow the laws of the industry and manufacture commercial blockbuster while maintaining an utterly distinct personality of art,how to make the film's commercial and artistic to be a perfect match,how to harvest the public praiseand the box office at the same time,as well as how to create a movie with good sell and evaluation.The paper consists of six parts.The first part is preface,it states the background of the study,gives examples of the current situation of the study and explains the meaning of studying Nolan for chinese films' development.The second part of the article describes the origin and development of the concept "the film author",and points out the clash between the Hollywood commercial system and the "film author".The third part narrates Nolan,as a "film author",his development history,creation process and the unique "author's mark" which have been showed in his moves.The fourth and fifth part respectively analyze "film author" Nolan's external performance and inner performance,which the former one lies in his special nonlinear narrative techniques and the latter one shows his pursuit of life enigma.The sixth part summarizes how Nolan successfully resolve the conflict between “author” and “system”,integrating his own narrative way into the old fashion Hollywood pattern,balancing the relationship between commerce and art,plus making a film to have business value and artistic aesthetics simultaneously.That is the luminous significance Christopher Nolan means to us.