DOODLEBUG - short film by Christopher Nolan

[VVojtiOfficial]

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[ulfass0]

o_o

[FelipeMartinez12345]

BUGCEPTION

[IntaminPiniltsin]

I wouldn't say he's insane... kind of a jerk though. If I found a mini version of myself, I'd build a mini ring, give it mini boxing gloves, and have it fight an angry guinea pig while I took bets.

[tsm767]

Brilliant. I wish nolan would still do stuff like this...

[TheMizDog]

@tsm767 he does, it's called inception

[TheConceptChannel]

@tsm767 Wait... Doesn't he still do "stuff" like this? All of his movies are still on some level explorations of the human psyche. He just has a budget now... A big one.

[CresentSoul]

@tsm767 ah, he still does. Inception is a clear example of that. Also, batman can be said to be a story about a man who uses his own fears as a weopon against those who themselves insane. 

[35Cory85]

That's fantastic! I ha been wanting to watch this for about a year now.

[channelvaibhav]

this is more popular in India.. ;) see video statistics

[bobbyandbeans]

Why was the electric clock ticking?

[MaleBosszz]

The Dark Nolan Rises!

[xBellatrixLestrangex]

@MaleBosszz The Dark Nolan is in there somewhere, I'm sure of if :P

[LightWhiteProduction]

How the larger man fit into the room?

[CresentSoul]

@LightWhiteProduction room isn't really real. It's just his insanity. The small man, the big man, himself and the room and everything in it is all his mind's doing. This is what it's like to be insane.

[FOamERules]

Nolan Rises...

[swawesome2427]

Nolan is so emotionless lol

[pjmmNS]

WTF=!??????????''

[aneeshghosh93]

Too bad he didnt have Hans Zimmer for this movie

[DisentDesign]

meaning = trying to be clever without any real substance, sorta like inception

[shortyrags]

@DisentDesign this post had neither substance nor meaning.

[mrrickstur]

Chris Nolan Rises

[renancern]

Fascinante.

O_O

[WeirdChristian911]

That was disturbing...

[eusebiumunteanu]

Wtf?



[494ta]

***MEANING OF THE FILM***

i, like Nolan, am a psychology enthusiast. this film represents a man slowly entering psychosis. the house represents his brain and the "little version" of himself represents his sanity or conscious cognition. notice how it is a small figure of himself, this represents his sanity slowly withering as his GROWING paranoia and insanity (the big version of himself) completely take over, i.e. killing the small figure.

THUMBS UP SO EVERYONE CAN SEE

-HeWhoBearsTheMark666

[ltsjack]

@494ta So what is the cycling all about then? What does the even larger version of himself represent that is squashing him in the end and why is every version of him squassing a smaller one?

[494ta]

@ltsjack the larger one is complete psychosis, again, i didnt create that analysis, HeWhoBearsTheMark666 did.

[willstrick25]

@494ta no



[thespitfireee]

@494ta Chris is that you? Don't worry we understood it. It's awesome!

[Dazza3500]

WHAT A TWEEST!

[emykittie]

The same actor of Following =) Nolan Begins [2]

[steliosmusician2]

GENIUUUUUS...!!!!

[qaerkyr]

For every man that a person squash there is another man that will squash that person...

[LukaszPrzek]

This is going to give me nightmares

[randypcole]

NICE work!

[cadvan6]

Christopher Nolan is my favourite director, everyone of his films are original. Memento was complex, Inception was fantastic and Batman is awesome now thanks to him.

[numicago]

@cadvan6 I agree with you there and must add that The Prestige is just as amazing!

[ominus999]

Most overrated director in the world right now.But he is also one of my favorite.

[HeroesGetKilled]

@ominus999

You're confused.

[alwaysahead93]

I'd like to see Christopher Nolan try directing an indie lovestory or coming of age film. That would be fun to watch.

[gravyhouse]

holy shit that ending was scary!

[7kalessin7]

yeah!! fuckin great Nolan´s mindfuck!!!!

[kozex88]

wow

[CenyddRos]

Cool phone.

[ReekVision]

"I'm a fucking walking paradox"

[AbhishekZambre]

awesome... :D

[5th1]

Darkly funny, awesome stuff. I wonder how Nolan wuld handle a dark comedy

[GMatthews537]

haha I seen this years ago, and I keep coming back to it. Nolan is a genius! :D

- GNMfilms

[larrysg1]

Nolan is incredible! You can see how this film developed his style seen in Memento, Prestige and Inception.

[OdinaRU]

OMG, this is seriously disturbing. I love Nolan though :)

[TheDM75]

It's a dream within a dream.

[50HMD]

o.O



[123bluepoppy]

great to see his earlier work

[acolabella]

It's a man trying to squash a man trying to squash a man. You can somehow relate every one of Nolan's films with Inception.

[delisle3334]

@acolabella It's not related to Inception, the dream is not a small universe that's part of the real life they aren't in the two spots at the same time, at least not mentally, you just think that everything that has some sort of level is like inception and the other movies aren't related either. How is Inception similar to memento, the prestige, the dark knight or insomnia?

[MilanPavlovicSmolkov]

@acolabella Yeah, He is obsessed with paradoxes. But he reflecting it in very interesting way...

[Eaglestrike117]

@acolabella You forgot one. The smallest man we see is actually trying to squash something smaller than him (presumably another man). So it's a man trying to squash a man trying to squash a man trying to squash a man. (Possibly infinitely getting smaller.)

[UsernameHerePeople]

@Eaglestrike117 And infinitely larger.

[Eaglestrike117]

@UsernameHerePeople Well, maybe, but probably not. There's not much larger a guy could be and still be able to fit in the room. If the ratio of man to man stays the same, he definitely wouldn't fit in the room.

[codecrt321]

3 minutes from Nolan is still smarter than some directors full films. Genius.

[amritvirk23]

I am big fan of Nolan's Direction. The concept is simply awesome.... and I think this movie never ends... A chain is moving and moving in viewers mind....This is where a director hit, directly on viewer... Gr8 job :)

[tehsuperepicpwnzor]

Nolan is Hitchcock 2.0.

[SenorAWESOME13]

Its a paradox within itself!

[Gamesharkedfr]

A little bit like inception with some "levels" of him

[jacobcreators]

dude this movie is so frekin awesome!!

[nfsmohpsp]

kinda funny

[SMAXZO]

I like the ending very much. It gives that Twilight Zone-esque feel to it.

[jcsmtih900]

not the best acting and visual effects for the last scene but the idea of a paradox and the fact that you don't have to spend more than 3 min. the see it make this a great short film... it's very much like Nolan so if you like Nolan chances are you will like this anyway

[babilonas8]

and people, who says that this short film is appreciated by all of us here just because of Nolan's popularity, i would like to say -

if your subjective reasoning are narrow and your own minds are blinded by cheap values such as fame, does not mean that others are the same as yours. peace. V

[babilonas8]

the whole atmosphere and mood of this, kind of reminds me novels of A. Camus and F. Kafka. Really like it.

[MrElwood2]

@babilonas8 I also thought about Kafka. Maybe some day Nolan will adapt one of the novel/short stories this great writer. It would be someting.

[daneatmyflotz]

@MrElwood2

If you like kafka then you will find polanski films very similar.

The tenant

Rosemay baby and repulsion

[MrElwood2]

@daneatmyflotz I'm from Poland, so we quite good know Polański's filmography. I've watched 'Rosemary baby' and Ialso I can recommend you picture by another great polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski, especially 'On the Silver Globe' and 'Possession'.

[daneatmyflotz]

@MrElwood2 THX

[MrElwood2]

Incredible short. Maybe I'm not a huge fan of Nolan, but this short film is charged of tension that Hitchcock would not be ashamed.

[OrganizizedMan]

Nolan Begins

[isauro13]

I'm a great fan of Nolan's films but come on... this one is not that good

[febiand]

u know.. i think this movie is never ending, right?!

[codecrt321]

@febiand yup the little one was trying to hit a smaller version and the bigger one would've got hit by an even bigger version

[Nikkishoko]

resembles Cafka

[daneatmyflotz]

@Nikkishoko kafka you mean

[Nikkishoko]

@daneatmyflotz fuck, you're so clever. You can eat a doughnut!!

[daneatmyflotz]

@Nikkishoko

You suck dick?

[Nikkishoko]

@daneatmyflotz fuck you, poor poof

[daneatmyflotz]

@Nikkishoko

haha nice

please dont make children



[Nikkishoko]

@daneatmyflotz oh...look at you) You don't even know what to answer. So pathetic...

[daneatmyflotz]

@Nikkishoko so you sit all day waiting for some random guy on youtube to comment on your 3 years olds jokes, get a life.

and come back to me that you something a bit more sophisticated then 'poor poof'.

[Nikkishoko]

@daneatmyflotz oh, please don't take it to heart)))). My first comment about the film WASN'T for you. So fuck off. But you obviously need some attention and try to cling to every comment. Still pathetic....

[coylewe]

I didn't know people really made shorts like this. It's kind of cool. I didn't like it until he slid the boxers away and there was a little man under there. This is neat. Good work!

[HipHopapotomoose]

Its pretty piss poor. There are a million shorts out there better than this (keep an eye out for my friend Ross).

He didn't get a feature based on this. He got it because he had a killer script to take to a studio and demand that he directs. I'm glad that he did as well as he's one of the top filmmakers of this generation.

[cr33pyGamer]

@HipHopapotomoose it's not piss poor.

[jcanime]

look at inception in the hotel scene he use a real stage that rotates to do the special effect not computer. and i tought that was cool. Nolan is one few director that know what he is doing. he should make all the comic movies lol

[shlomi1512]

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[SONYroxs]

@karanmaxfilms Sometimes you can't use practical effects so CGI is necessary. He said so himself that he didn't like it. CGI is being lazy. If you can actually do the effect then do it. All these big CGI filled movies are annoying and mostly bad.

[BrianIsChill]

@karanmaxfilms I dont know about that.Christopher Nolan is the better director by far.Shyamlan is sort of a one hit wonder.But I do agree both have different styles of directing.

[BrianIsChill]

@karanmaxfilms I think Shyamlan is highly overrated.The Sixth Sense was a good movie but I would still rather watch Memento.Inception,The Dark Knight anyday over the Sixth sense.

[BrianIsChill]

@karanmaxfilms You are CRAZY.Let me repeat again CRAZY Nolan Has made plenty of great films Memento being his greatest yeah so what if he has made mainstream films they are good,Shyamalan has made one movies considered great then he gets all this hype about his moveie's then he creates all these horrible horrible pieces of crap lady in the water,the happening,the last airbender,the devil.Christopher Nolan has yet to make even a mediocre movie.Oh and the SIxth Sense was good but really doesnt..

[TestAcct45]

Dumb. No idea who this Christopher Nolen guy is. Doubt we'll hear from him again.

[SONYroxs]

@karanmaxfilms He rarely uses it. He hates using it and he tries to use it as little as possible. CGI that is

[clawpirate217]

thats the most basic idea for inception right there.....

[vanshma]

If you guys think this is creepy, watch "Kitchen Sink" *shudder*.

[TheLengthyZebra]

Please tell me you aren't seriously arguing that M. Night Shyamalan is a good director, let alone better than Christopher Nolan??!!! Shyamalan had 1 good movie The Sixth Sense, and Unbreakable was ok. EVERYTHING ELSE sucks. And how can you say Nolan is a CGI director??? You seriously have no fucking clue what you are talking about.

[fannboygh]

@TheLengthyZebra

>Unbreakable

>not the best super hero movie ever

it's not the dark knight asshole.I like nolan more than shamalayan but,fuck you.

[abksharma]

my reaction

[dvir971]

Genius... Like everything by Nolan...

[juiceitwell]

@karanmaxfilms I personally, think that Nolan's "Memento" was far far better than "The Sixth Sense" or any other Shyamalan film. "The Dark Knight" and "Inception" are also wonderful films, despite their mainstream success. Shyamalan is a good director, he just isn't as intelligent as Nolan.

[juiceitwell]

@karanmaxfilms Nolan is by far one of the best directors in the modern day and a genius in general. Maybe you dislike him because you can't wrap your cynical brain around some of his films. Nolan is something special. A type of director that comes around ever so often. Shyamalan was a one-hit-wonder... he lost his touch. Nolan makes movies because he loves movies... And that's one of the reasons why his films are so damn good! His attention to detail and all the subtleties. 

[Ashyaksan]

Always this Babushka Doll thing.

[28rickert]

this guy looks like the lovechild of leonardo dicaprio and joseph gordon levitt

[JarHarJar]

@karanmaxfilms what are you british lol

[JarHarJar]

@karanmaxfilms lol i think im speaking for both of us when i say we can get on with our lives (but not in a bad way), but i disagree about shyamalan as class...

[JarHarJar]

@karanmaxfilms how is that a dirty joke? nolan and hitchcock are both class. Ask any fan of them lol

[memnark129]

Personally, Chris Nolan and M. Night Shyamalan are two of my favorite directors. They both have a good style of how they make movies, but their styles are not related. M. Night’s style is more focused on thriller/supernatural stuff that intertwines with spirituality and faith. His movies are about beings scared of something rather than someone. Chris’s style is more centered on the mixture of criminology and psychology. His movies are more realistic even if the story is fiction.

[demonDUCKisHUNGRY]

@memnark129 Yeah except Nolans films keep getting better wheras Shayamalns keep getting worse....

[memnark129]

@demonDUCKisHUNGRY That depends on who you ask. The only film of Nolan’s that I didn’t like was The Prestige and the only Shyamalan films I didn’t like were The Happening and The Last Airbender. The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs were masterpieces. The Village was okay, but there were too many twists that lost the story. Me and my nieces and nephews loved Lady in the Water; that was completely original. Devil was awesome. So again, I like both of these guys.

[MrPolishYankee]

@karanmaxfilms CGI? He only uses it when necessary. Plus I'm not saying he's the same. Nolan is trying to have an original idea on this, but nevertheless he is still "influenced" by hitchcock. And another thing, how are any of his movies Shyamlan related?

[JarHarJar]

@karanmaxfilms no actually, nolan has spoken out against CGI and only uses it when necessary, most of his stunts and explosions are real...jeez. do you homework first, and hitchcock...class? so is Nolan Xp

[MrPolishYankee]

@karanmaxfilms I guess you ever heard of Hitchcock before? -.-

[KyoXo]

This is how Inception was born.

[silnetofsn]

Im not a psychology enthusiast but I like this movie.

[navneetojha88]

amazing piece of art just out of the world

watch another concept which is out of the world

youtube search- vanish a real science fiction

[windowscanbreak]

only nolan is capable of a 3 minute mind fuck !!

[cscdigitalgraphics]

Nolan aside, this is one disturbed guy in the film.

[danzer0]

I smirked.

[Bojac]

Thumbs up if you think Christopher Nolan made this film to be something cool and not to "represent a man entering psychosis". Sometimes a chair is a chair.

[sssgv]

thumbs up if you came here cuz thats the only thing you haven't seen for Nolan

[RafaelDivoz]

@sssgv f*cking yeah !

[XxFaTaLsToRmSXx]

uh, @lechienman, r u saying this isnt good? this is really impressive for a film with no budget. and oscars r not dumb, unless u r saying Butch cassidy & the sundance kid, the sting, the kings speech, gone with the wind, reservoir dogs, the hurt locker, american beauty, one flew over the cookoo's nest r fuckshit, then im sure ur the retard

[JarHarJar]

@XxFaTaLsToRmSXx reservoir dogs didnt win any oscars

[blaringoverkill]

@XxFaTaLsToRmSXx the kings speech is a shit film... one of the worst ive seen in along time... black swan inception or 127 hours should have won

[MrEffectfilms]

Both of you need to SHUT THE FUCK UP! It's just a comment, no need to go batshit crazy over it!

[derailedbicycle]

This has a somewhat David Lynch feel to it, who happens to be another great director. Wonder if Nolan was influenced by Lynch's work while creating Doodlebug.

[TheOyesteeer]

just love nolan's work.....

[satyerhunter]

the big and the small one do exactly the same thing except the big ones is just a few seconds behind and it goes so on

[jtelroy]

vote this down if you are tired of people asking for their comments to be thumbed up

[omerplater]

my entire life mapped out is a road to mental insanity. I lost 8 years of my life because of it as well as my friends reputation and health among other things.

When you slip its not the end but the recovery is near an impossibility especially when your alone. sure you can take pills and seek professional help but you will never be you again through those methods and the insanity will still remain.

This is why family should always be everyones number 1 priority.The brain can be harmed to easy.

[banannastv]

thumbs up ig you are from joenationtv

[WhoTheHellsJoeNation]

@banannastv haha YES!!

[MetalFish2009]

THIS IS WHAT I CALL ART !!!!!!!!!!! <3 great vid

[TheEpicZelda1]

I thought this was somehow going to be about the Doodlebug bomb (V1 i think it was)

[ShirtlessLocke]

I wonder how many people's opinion of this short film are so heavily influenced by the fact that Nolan made it.

[malows1234]

@ShirtlessLocke everyone's noone would watch this film or even praise it were it not a chris nolan film and you KNOW IT. thats the truth

[ShirtlessLocke]

@malows1234 Well no shit. You should be replying to the people who didn't just point out the same thing you did.

[Skeletonwitharaygun]

@ShirtlessLocke

It definitely is.

If it wasn't for TDK not a single fuck would be given by any of them.

[494ta]

@Skeletonwitharaygun actually no, nolan has made about 6 other films that are just as good, if not better than TDK

[LMMFilms]

Most extremely well known directors make hit movies and usually movies with no meaning. They have to appeal to many people, which is stuff like crap love stories, kids movies, or stereotypical junk, etc., so they can make money. Many of them quit making artsy movies or movies with meaning once they hit it pretty big. Hollywood pays you to get, everyone who is involved, money. Great movies are a risk, because the average person wants to sit in a theatre or at home and be brainless watching junk.

[HeWhoBearsTheMark666]

@LMMFilms I applaud you.

[METALMUNKEEZ]

This is a job well done... Who's Chris Nolan?

[ExplosivePus]

This sucks, it's only because you know Nolan did it that makes it *seem* better

[ThePulpMot]

Wow the ending is incredible and really shocking!!!

[TheCrocxxx]

Great short film. Nolan never disappoints.

[ReeceJackson]

No disrespect to Chris Nolan but this is really awful lol, Memento was only made 3 years after this though so that amazes me, respect.

[Enerki]

Seems like a mixture of Eraserhead and Pi to me. Nolan should use that actor again sometime.

[Molyneaux88]

Well that was bizarre.

[Pinebushfootball]

@coolman12480

Actually nolan was born in england but raised in the us so hes british-american

Malows1234-ur right about one thing, star wars and indiana jones suck ass

[Pinebushfootball]

Real shit directors are james cameron and michael bay: their films are all about stupid ideas, they have no story line, and just plain terrible direction. Nolan can create an action film that has amazing storyline and the best directing. Oh malows, btw kubrick made 2001 a space odyssey, wasnt that a blockbuster, you fucktard??!!!

[Pinebushfootball]

Malows u fucktard. Christopher nolans films arent about acting or action, there about you leaving the movie theater with a question in your mind. And heres a question for you: if christopher nolan is all about the money, why doesnt he just shoot his films in 3D? Btw what is a fanboy?

[GarnetBering93]

Christopher Nolan should be Knighted.

[orr971]

This is PURE genius!

You can see that Christopher Nolan is a cinema genius and a psychological genius in his first film!

I like this short film!

[seauryakumar]

I’ve seen al his films. I believe Memento is the best but that can be because of its editing.

[bubediscuss]

Nolan's special effects have improved slightly over the years hahaha. Good film though.

[sriram007003]

GREAT CLIMAX......WOWWWWWWW



[Slezi2007]

Hey Christopher I want Jeremy Theobald in more movies of yours. He is great actor (following)!! Thx :)

[kaysersoze92]

33 people are watching high school musical right now :)

[V4Vman93]

Wow

[twotonguestalking713]

So, this is the short film that started it all.

[HeWhoBearsTheMark666]

***MEANING OF THE FILM***

i, like Nolan, am a psychology enthusiast. this film represents a man slowly entering psychosis. the house represents his brain and the "little version" of himself represents his sanity or conscious cognition. notice how it is a small figure of himself, this represents his sanity slowly withering as his GROWING paranoia and insanity (the big version of himself) completely take over, i.e. killing the small figure.

***THUMBS UP SO EVERYONE CAN SEE***

[SeinfeId]

@HeWhoBearsTheMark666

i think you missed the point...

[HeWhoBearsTheMark666]

@SeinfeId first of i want to say, i love your name. and "by missing the point", do you mean my interpretation of the film in the "highest rated comments" (the one that says "meaning of film" in cap letters) or agreeing with srk1121srk on his opinion on the film?

[494ta]

@HeWhoBearsTheMark666 then what did the giant version of himself represent?

[HeWhoBearsTheMark666]

@494ta complete psychosis. i assume this is an illusion of paranoid schizophrenia.