Christopher Nolan has somehow outdid himself by Christopher Nolaned and revealed one Tenet Easter egg in one of his films from twenty years ago. The opening scene of his 2000 psychological neo-noir Memento features a core concept from the sci-fi spy thriller: a bullet that looks like it’s being caught by a gun.
“I felt like there was just a bullet being sucked out of the wall and into the barrel of a gun,” Nolan said in an interview with Complex (via Collider). “It’s an image that I had in Memento to demonstrate the structure of that movie, but I always had the ambition to make a movie where the characters had to deal with the physical reality of that. When the time is right, and it’s a difficult process to quantify, so I did all these other things. “
It took Nolan five years to write the screenplay for Tenet, but as he says, he spent more than a decade deliberating on its central ideas. Tenet follows a secret agent who manipulates the flow of time, with scenes filmed both backwards and forwards. Memento follows a man with short-term amnesia, with scenes from his past in reverse, as he tries to find out what happened to him.
Here’s the opening scene:
For multiple viewings to study all the time-consuming madness, you can now buy Tenet on streaming platforms Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, and Google Play.
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