The Tree of Life (2011) Featurette with Christopher Nolan & David Fincher

Movie legends Christopher Nolan - Director of Inception and Dark Knight and David Fincher - Director of The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo talk about Terrence Malick's wonderful style of filmmaking.

The Tree of Life opens wide this week, the story centers around a family with three boys in the 1950s. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence.

Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain star in this epic motion picture event.

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[Noah Fusco]

I love The Tree of Life. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I see too much in it and that it's crap. Tell me you're right. Tell me it, and then tell me it again.

It doesn't make it true.

[Cameron Farboud]

Completely agree! The Dark Knight, for example, is an incredibly complex narrative lending itself to many angles of interpretation. It is a commentary on our post-9/11 world, the ethics of illegal wiretapping, of torture, of vigilantism, etc. I have to say, Transformers does not beg the same type of analysis. Sorry Michael Bay.

[hojimitown]

damn it was good explanation. Hell yes! haha

[mix poul]

And now what?are you waiting for your cookie?

[Chris Nolan]

When you think of a visual style, when you think of the visual language of a film, there tends to be a natural separation of the visual style and the narrative elements. But with the greats whether it's Stanley Kubrick, or Terrence Malick or Hitchcock...what you're seeing is an inseparable...a vital relationship between the image and the story it's telling.

[Chris Nolan]

Terrence Malick more than almost any other film maker I could name, his work is immediately recognizable. His films are all very very connected with each other and very recognizably his work, but it's very tough to put your finger on why that is or what you're seeing in that.... The technique is not immediately obvious and Malick's influence on my work is very clear.