What makes movies directed by Christopher Nolan and scored by composer Hans Zimmer special? Since 2005, the duo has brought us The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar and Dunkirk. For educational purposes only.

I'm looking into the great director-composer duos, to find out why two masters of their respective crafts can bring out the best in each other.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Simplicity (Batman Begins and The Dark Knight)
4:02 - Complexity (Inception)
6:11 - Fathers (Interstellar)
8:16 - Dunkirk and the Shepard-Risset glissando
8:53 - Tenet or Dune?
9:23 - Outro

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CREDITS:

Outro music - 'Orient' by SefChol from YouTube Audio Library

The Fabelmans - Steven Spielberg & John Williams Featurette - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE9DJfiy6es

Beethoven photo by Karl Joseph Stieler - web.archive.org/web/20160623080009, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=165990

Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Sheet Music - https://musescore.com/hmscomp/scores/128179

Interstellar theme sheet music - https://musescore.com/user/38861570/scores/6877230

James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer - Exclusive Interview - 2009 Saturn Awards - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9PyX_uiiPA

Hans Zimmer Performs the Dune Soundtrack LIVE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j5GgGdSwjE

Hans Zimmer Teaches Film Scoring Official Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xBGRgvBj30

John Williams & Wiener Philharmoniker – "Main Title" from "Star Wars: A New Hope" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54hoKbTWon4

How 'Dune' Composer Hans Zimmer Created the Oscar-Winning Score (Vanity Fair) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93A1ryc-WW0

The Making Of “Wakanda” With Ludwig Göransson - Presented By Marvel Studio’s Black Panther - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcO5klPyfX4

Shepard Tone spectrum video visualization by Varenc, used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

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