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Christopher Nolan built the entire score of Dunkirk on the Shepard tone, an auditory illusion of an endlessly rising pitch. The notes actually just loop within the same range, so the tension never resolves for the film's full 106 minutes.
The nuclear-explosion scenes in Oppenheimer (2023) were filmed with real fire, not CGI. The crew mixed gasoline and propane with aluminum and magnesium powder for brightness, then detonated scaled-down models right in front of the camera to fake a towering mushroom cloud.
For The Odyssey (2026), Christopher Nolan shot every frame on IMAX cameras. Soundproofing made the rigs so bulky they blocked sightlines, so crews rigged two mirrors so actors could meet each other's eyes — echoing how Perseus used a mirror to face Medusa without a direct look.