Today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 secrets about the filming of Christopher Nolan scenes.

What's that, Another tumbler?

Or you wouldn't be interested in that for this list.

We're looking at extravagant Christopher Nolan scenes and detail ing how they were reportedly made.

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Number 10 Crashing A really plain tenet.

Crashing this plane is a quote from the Dark Knight rises Now.

What's the next step of your master plan crashing?

This played, but it also applies to tenant.

Christopher Nolan prefers to use practical effects over C.

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I, even if a scene involves constructing an entire abandoned town or crashing an airplane through a building.

Nolan told Total film that he originally planned to utilize miniatures and quote a combination of visual effects to film the scene from the sci fi action thriller, but later realized that it would be cheaper to just buy a 7 47 and do it for real.

So that's exactly what they did like there's no way they're going to crash this thing into that building.

Tenants Plane crash sequence is 100% riel And as Robert Pattinson hilariously claims quote, it's so bold to the point of ridiculousness.

Yeah, we got a 7 47 crashing into a building.

That's how we're achieving the 7 47 crashing into a building.

It feels very, very riel essence, because it is really that could be Christopher Nolan's motto.

Number nine Gun Cartridge Memento.

This is arguably Christopher Nolan's most reserved and grounded movie, but it's still filled with a lot of Nolan esque flourishes, like non chronological storytelling and reversed playback.

If you have a piece of information which is vital writing on your body instead of on a piece of paper, it could be the answer.

It's just a permanent way of keeping a note.

One of the most brilliant examples of the former comes in the films opening sequence, as Memento shows the result of Teddy's murder before rewinding to the shooting itself.

During the rewinding ah, bullet case spins rises from the ground and goes back inside Leonard's gun, in Nolan's own words.

In terms of the film, that quote was the height of complexity, an optical to make a backward running shot forwards and the forward shot a simulation of a backward shot.

Number eight football field explosion.

The Dark Knight rises regardless of how much Nolan loves his practical effects.

Sometimes he is forced to utilize C g I.

And one of the biggest uses of C G.

I.

In his filmography could be found in the football field.

Explosion of the Dark Knight rises Loathe Scene was shot in a real stadium.

Pittsburgh's Heinz Field, to be exact and employed a mix of practical effects and c g.

I.

The rial stuff included pyrotechnics and a raised turf, allowing stuntman to fall through the field.

Obviously, the complete destruction of the field itself was done in post using G obviously challenge everybody to put as many riel elements of that frame was possible from the dirt flying in the air to the guys falling the holes way.

No, Nolan is a fantastic film maker, but he's not about to blow up a football stadium, right?

Yeah.

Number seven, Victorian London.

The Prestige.

This is one of Nolan's most underappreciated efforts, grossing just $109 million at the worldwide box office.

The story takes place in London at the end of the 19th century and concerns to stage magicians one of the working class, the other an aristocrat.

He's squandering the goodwill of the audience with these tired second rate tricks.

Favorites, please, favorites.

Come on, give me something fresh.

So how did Nolan and his team achieved such a believable and authentic Victorian London by filming in Los Angeles?

The theater stuff was filmed in the city's Broadway district due to its unique Victorian architecture and other L.

A.

Locations were simply dressed up in period detail.

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Other than that, the film was shot on sound stages and even the parking lot of the Mount Wilson Observatory.

Sometimes the most convincing effects are the most simple.

Number six, The Tumbler, Batman begins.

What's that, Another tumbler?

Or you wouldn't be interested in that.

This was Christopher Nolan's first big blockbuster, complete with a $150 million budget.

He certainly put the money to good use, like building a really Batmobile, because I had a very specific idea in my head about a contemporary approach to about Mobile on our approach to it would tell everybody who saw it a lot about what we're doing, the whole film, which is a more grounded reality in which we're trying to base this story.

Officially known as the Tumblr, the Batmobile took nine months to make and included things like a racing truck suspension system, hydraulics and a 5.7 liter Chevy V eight engine.

Chris known and wanted the Batmobile to be a real car, not just a car that look pretty on but didn't actually function.

You know, he's gem was Look, I want this to be a mean machine.

I wanted toe perform.

The visual effects team built four separate tumblers at a combined cost of $1 million one with a fully functioning jet engine.

These tumblers were then actually driven through the streets of Chicago by a team of professional stunt drivers, each of whom required six months of training.

Number five Bistro Explosion inception.

While it may seem like inception is filled with C G I, most of the effects were done practically, as is often Nolan's way.

For example, the train in the middle of a Los Angeles Street was actually a train in the middle of a Los Angeles street while a train engine on top of a tractor trailer.

But still, but one of the most impressive effects is the cafe explosion that convinces area DNI that it's a dream is your first lesson and shared dreaming State coming.

What?

Okay, Mhm to film the sequence.

Nolan and his team blew the set with high pressure nitrogen and caught the destruction on six separate high speed cameras.

Chris Cobalt came up with this way of creating an explosion using air cannons, and we did tests with people sitting in front way, showed them to Leo and showed it to Ellen and said, This is what it's gonna be.

Some supplemental debris was added in post through the use of C G.

I.

What we do in visual effects is we can add mawr destruction.

We can have mawr debris in particular, we can add the kind of stuff which just wasn't possible to do on the day when we actually filmed it, which is a low, hard, rigid bits of masonry and glass and furniture.

Number four, the Tesseract, interstellar, even interstellar, a movie about space travel, black holes and dimension hopping.

Tesseract was mostly made through the use of practical effects, including the Tesseract itself.

Theo Tesseract was built on a massive soundstage, and it reportedly took months of planning, procrastinating, brainstorming and building.

It was the thing we started with Nathan myself on.

It was the very last thing that we're actually pinned down, even though it was a very considerable set that needed to be built.

It took a long time.

Cables were then attached to Matthew McConaughey, who was able to float and glide through the set and interact with its numerous elements, including the bookshelf.

He peers through the watch Murphy.

His stunt double would rehearse everything.

We'd have it all dialed in.

We bring Matthew over, would show him the action on what he would have to do, and he'd be like, Okay, put me up so we'd put him on, take him up on day.

He'd replicate it again and again when they needed it, and it worked really well.

This is the sort of stuff movie lovers get with a genius and ambitious film maker with a $165 million budget.

Number three flipping a truck.

The Dark Knight, One of the most famous scenes in the dark Knight, sees Batman flipping jokers truck upside down with the use of some cables.

And how exactly does a filmmaker make this convincing by actually flipping a truck?

Of course, this truck flipped, devised by Chris Caldwell of these guys came about very much as a result of me just pushing them and pushing them to do this flip With 18 articulated truck, the stunt truck was equipped with TNT and a giant steel piston theme.

TNT would trigger the heavy piston with a small explosion, which in turn pushed the truck onto its back.

We actually tested it on the site of the way through the hospital was just asking the stunt guys that this test site did the run up.

Press the button and it just sailed over.

I couldn't believe my eyes.

All of this was filmed on Chicago's LaSalle Street, and the piston was bravely triggered by stunt driver Jim Wilkey, who was actually inside the truck when it flipped.

Number two.

Plane Hijacking.

The Dark Knight Rises, the concluding film to Nolan's Batman trilogy, contains one of the greatest opening sequences in action movie history.

No one cared who I was till I put on the Mars.

If I pull that off, will you die?

It would be extremely painful.

You're a big guy for you.

It sees Bain and his henchman hijacking a plane, kidnapping a nuclear physicist and subsequently dumping the plane over Uzbekistan.

The image of the wingless airplane dangling from the bigger aircraft is now iconic, and it looks absolutely spectacular, especially on the big screen.

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That's because it's all riel.

The entire scene was accomplished using stuntmen and a really dangling aircraft.

And Nolan has admitted that successfully pulling it off in just two days was, ah, high point in his filmmaking career.

Now is not the time for fear that comes later.

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Number one.

The Spinning Hallway Inception.

The plane stunt is undoubtedly impressive, but the rotating haul away from inception, just as a certain beauty and filmmaking majesty to it.

To film the iconic sequence in which Arthur fights henchman in a zero gravity hallway, the production team built a massive 100 ft long hotel corridor on eight spinning concentric rings.

The rings then spun the constructed hallway, resulting in the scenes disorienting zero gravity effect.

I mean, the idea of using a centrifuge Thio manipulate gravity.

It's being done on various films, most notably Kubrick 2001 on I Like the idea of repurpose ing that technology and really trying Thio Car in rough and tough fight sequence.

Joseph Gordon Levitt also did his own stunts inside the Hallway contraption stunts that required weeks of planning, training and getting bruised.

The result was well worth it, as he's now part of what's arguably Nolan's most iconic action sequence.

This scene and its construction are pure filmmaking wizardry.

It just doesn't look possible.

It's very clever in my head.

Christopher Nolan makes thriller movies, but then I looked at this list and I was like, He really does do amazing action scenes.

Gotta love practical effect.

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