Excerpts According to Will Lloyd , The director is a mass entertainer with an elitist disdain for the masses. In his films, order and hierarchy reign supreme. Nola went to Haileybury College… A prison… though with better hymns, and one where the prisoners eventually graduate as prison guards.” “Survive your first two years at Haileybury,” claimed RAF group captain Peter Townsend, “and you could survive anything.” Haileybury was a finishing school for a dead Empire. Nolan never slept well there. This was the early Eighties; he believed the world would soon end in a nuclear holocaust. In the dormitory each evening he would lie in his bed after lights out listening to the scores for Star Wars , Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 , or Vangelis’s score for Chariots of Fire on his walkman.” Nolan’s fastidious character hints at a pre-21st century moral seriousness… Nolan believes in deadlines and careful resource allocation. He considers efficiency “a form of control”. No sentiment. No treaties wi
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51