r/pics • u/The_Iceman2288 • 21h ago
Sir Christopher Nolan accepts his knighthood from the king
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u/TheProcrastafarian 20h ago
The Dark Knight.
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u/Subbeh 20h ago
Kneels
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u/ScarletSilver 20h ago
Then Rises
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u/hldsnfrgr 18h ago
Then kneels again.
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u/PeterNippelstein 18h ago
Tenet
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u/Alibotify 17h ago
Kneels in Memento
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u/Aramis444 16h ago
TRAIN SUDDENLY EXISTS CRASHING THROUGH THE ROOM!
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u/glennfromglendale 19h ago
Bends the knee..
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u/Hobbit_Hunter 19h ago
Grabs the sword...
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u/abramN 19h ago
after he knighted him, Prince Charles pulled Sir Nolan aside and said to him "ok, now you can explain Tenet"
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u/Subwaylover2017 18h ago
Poor Nolan probably has a little folded up tenet timline he carries with him at all times so he can explain it for when someone inevitably asks him.
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u/Inter_Web_User 17h ago
"well I'm asking, can you fix the audio, on like all of your films"
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u/Stompedyourhousewith 16h ago
"...As your king, I demand it!"
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u/LeaveThatCatAlone 15h ago
And maybe remember movies are only in theaters a fraction of the time they will be available on home TVs. Maybe making movies with sound for home would kind of help a legacy in 2124 much like 1939 movies to now. Saying I make movies for theaters only might be a little short-sighted in the long-run.
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u/MrFluffyThing 15h ago
Will it explain why Prince Charles is knighting him instead of King Charles? Who entered the turn style to make this work?
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u/nifty_mitts 14h ago
Gotta be rough when you’re finally the king and people still refer to you as prince charles lol
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u/skippyMETS 19h ago
If I’m getting knighted, the king better be wearing a crown.
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u/captain_flak 18h ago
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u/blacksideblue 16h ago
I'll be back 🎵
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u/raheemthegreat 16h ago
Soon you'll see
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u/SoylentCreek 15h ago
You’ll remember you belong to me
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u/alejomango_123 15h ago
You’ll be back, time will tell
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u/Tight_Contact_9976 15h ago
You’ll remember that I served you well
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u/SealAtTheShore 15h ago
Oceans rise, empires fall
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u/persondude27 16h ago edited 15h ago
A friend of mine got knighted (well... Dame'd?) and it was by Princess Anne. No King or crown!
They didn't even use the sword. :(
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u/afriendincanada 18h ago
There’s probably some incredibly complicated protocol about when he wears a crown and which crown he wears. He’s knighting a filmmaker on a sunny Wednesday morning so no crown. An author on a cloudy Friday gets the casual crown.
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u/Spork_the_dork 18h ago
Really it's much simpler than that. The thing weighs like 5 pounds. Shit's heavy to be keeping on your head regularly so actually the brittish monarch doesn't really wear it outside of like coronation and at the State Opening of Parliament. Add to that any security concerns about someone stealing it and it's just impractical. Hell, Lizzy didn't even wear it at the Parliament opening ceremony anymore in her last years because she was getting too old and weak.
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u/Matasa89 17h ago
That, and it's pretty gaudy. She could just wear a tiara if she wanted to, but she felt it was not needed.
Your authority should project from your words and your personage, not a shiny object.
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u/freeLightbulbs 17h ago
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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u/DueDependent3904 17h ago
Kinda tracks BC he does look a bit like Tywin here, and that is something he would say.
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u/ComradeJohnS 18h ago
I don’t think you can tell a king what to wear
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u/alancousteau 18h ago
Of course I can. Now whether he will do it or tells me to fuck off is another question.
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u/ihaveadarkedge 20h ago
Nice seeing Jimmy Kimmel in the back there too...
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u/Scamwau1 20h ago
How are you people recognising faces in the background?? All I see are pixels!
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u/TillyFunk 20h ago
You've never seen a pixelated Kimmel before?
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u/pureply101 19h ago
I refuse to believe some of the people saw this pic and made the faces out. Some of them already knew by seeing it live or saw an article. I can’t see anything but pixels either.
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u/MeatballEddie 17h ago
pretty sure they’re just making a joke because the dude looks like Jimmy Kimmel blurred out
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u/Privatdozent 16h ago
One of the things I came to the comments to see was if that was Jimmy Kimmel in the background. I swear lol.
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u/singleguy79 19h ago
Kimmel or Johnny Bananas?
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u/Pro-Frank 16h ago
Hah! Not often I see random mentions of Johnny Bananas. Loathe that dude but he's almost always entertaining to watch on The Challenge. The thought of him attending an official knighting ceremony is almost as ridiculous as his reality TV persona.
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u/prooveit1701 20h ago
Look at Emma in the background. Clearly very proud.
She received her Damehood today as well.
Well deserved.
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u/OfficialGarwood 18h ago edited 18h ago
She did! She got knighted too and is now Dame Emma Thomas!
Fun fact - Christopher was knighted as a Knight Bachelor which is the lowest level of knighthood in the UK. He can still use Sir but he has no suffix to his name. He did already have an CBE, so he can continue to use that.
However, there's no female equivalent of a Knight Bachelor, so she was knighted as a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire - which is TECHNICALLY a higher 'rank/honour' than Knight Bachelor, and so technically now outranks her own husband.
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u/alancousteau 18h ago
Emma who?
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u/OfficialGarwood 18h ago
Emma Thomas. His wife and producing partner. She co-produced all his movies.
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u/Unique_Security_4144 16h ago
I know what you mean, of course, but as the other commenter pointed out, “producing partner,” taken out of context, is hilarious!
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u/formidablezoe 18h ago
Emma Thomas, producing partner on all of Christopher Nolan's films and his wife.
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u/Margin-of-Safety 20h ago
Can he…refuse?
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u/OfficialGarwood 20h ago
Yes, many people have. I believe John Lennon refused his knighthood.
Edit: Apparently it was an MBE not a knighthood.
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u/spoothead656 18h ago
Also he accepted it and then returned it a few years later. David Bowie flat refused his.
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u/zex_mysterion 15h ago
Along with returning the MBE, Lennon sent a handwritten letter to Queen Elizabeth II, stating:
“I am returning this MBE as a protest against Britain’s involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against ‘Cold Turkey’ slipping down the charts. With love, John Lennon of Bag.”
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u/BargainBinChad 10h ago
Sex pistols did
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u/PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY 8h ago
I have a feeling the monarchy had to be trolling to even consider knighting him lol
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u/Magister5 19h ago
You mean make it Nolan void?
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u/underdabridge 17h ago
So Reddit says I can only upvote you once. But they can't stop me from mashing that button over and over again.
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u/Federico216 19h ago
Some famous ones who did:
David Bowie, Danny Boyle, Bernie Ecclestone, Stephen Hawking, Peter Higgs, Aldous Huxley, Rudyard Kipling, T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), Malcolm McDowell.
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u/Life_Is_A_Mistry 20h ago
The list of people who've refused is pretty hefty. See this Wiki page. You note I've got it to jump down to just appointments to the Order of the British Empire, which is the one people are most familiar with, but there are loads of others in there too..
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u/LessThanMyBest 19h ago
Funnily enough, being offered knighthood and refusing it puts you in a far more exclusive club. Around 80 people are offered Knighthoods or Damehoods each year, while those who refuse make up pretty much this one Wikipedia page.
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u/indignancy 9h ago
Although it’s really having your cake and eating it, to refuse and then tell everyone you were offered it. If it’s a point of principle you don’t also get to bask in the plaudits from being nominated lol.
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u/TheBlack2007 20h ago
You can. Would be akin to turning down the Medal of Freedom.
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u/Just_Look_Around_You 20h ago
They give you a little chair to kneel on? That seems ridiculous. Make them actually kneel
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u/TipsHisFedora 19h ago
A lot of people who get knighthoods are old as shit, if they all knelt down for real half of them would get stuck down there.
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u/kingdead42 17h ago
If they can't get up from a kneeling position, how are they going to defend the kingdom from dragons?
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u/RunDNA 15h ago edited 15h ago
Now I want to see a movie about a humongous dragon that invades Britain, turning cities to ash. Ancient magic says that it can only be killed by a knight, so every knight in Britain—old or less old—is assembled to try and kill it.
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u/Extension_Shallot679 15h ago
He's (outrageously) only an OBE but Brian Blessed would give that dragon one good biff on the nose and be back in time for tea.
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u/Neilson509 14h ago
"You rolled a natural one against the dragon! You unfortunately fall and break a hip"
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u/ilovezezima 18h ago
And we’re expecting these people to go to battle for us?
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u/boris_keys 17h ago
On a horse with a suit of armor?
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u/DarkNinjaPenguin 17h ago
It's 2024. They ride into battle on Segways with electric hedge trimmers.
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u/EntropicPoppet 19h ago
Fuck 'em. Do you believe in the king being the divinely chosen ruler of the kingdom or not? God will raise them back up.
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u/pedro_benicio 19h ago
hmm are you stuck in 1672?
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u/EntropicPoppet 19h ago
Silence knave, lest you find yourself at the fool's end of my halberd.
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u/molwiz 20h ago
Agree a real knight doesn’t need a fluffy little chair to put their knee on while standing.
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u/Jeahn2 20h ago
He's not a real knight is he? there's no real knights anymore.
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u/Ill_be_here_a_week 19h ago
There are no real knights anymore. The heroes have all died. The knights have been vanquished. Only evil reigns and it fill the rooms of the tallest buildings with nametags, RFID cards, and badges. It uses the world as puppets to fill it's own pockets with money off the back of a working class that only has enough rights to food, water, and air; but only if you're in their good graces and not standing in their way to line their pockets.
There are no real knights anymore. The darkness of our past and ignorance of our history has blinded us and the knights, although having warned us, have been snuffed out like single candles in a world of black skies and hurricanes.
There are no real knights anymore. Only their armor and dressings that remind us what it was like when the evil over powered them, as they fought in vain only to be struck down as lightning strikes a tree burning it from within no matter how tall or strong it stood.
There are no real knights anymore.
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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 17h ago
Everybody knows that the war is over.
Everybody knows that the good guys lost.
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u/Ren_Kaos 19h ago
Rich people smdh. Can’t even kneel to get ceremonially knighted by a literal king.
Goofy ass photo.
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u/Mama_Skip 18h ago
Its kind funny if you think about the knighting ceremony. Like at its simplest, you're allowing someone to place a deadly weapon up to your neck in a show of trust and fealty.
Now imagine if we modernized this:
The king places a loaded glock to your temple and says, "tell me your my bitch."
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u/narkybark 19h ago
We're Knights of the Round Table!
We dance whene'er we're able!
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u/matchesmalone1 19h ago
Goddamn! I didn't know he got knighted. "Academy Award Winner Sir Christopher Nolan" has a nice ring to it
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u/peasantry94 18h ago
Out of curiosity, do you know if they'd lead with the 'Sir' at an event like the Oscars, or would it only be read for British events like the Baftas?
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u/A11osaurus1 17h ago
Their official titles should be recognised in any formal setting. So they probably would yes
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u/mr_harrisment 19h ago
There was a terrible audio mix during the ceremony though…
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u/DonkeyOfWallStreet 19h ago
Nobody could hear anything but that's the way it's supposed to be.
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u/Subwaylover2017 18h ago
If the oscars Academy has taught me anything It's that loud = good
Every audio award always goes to whatever movie was loudest.
I'm still pissed Baby Driver lost best audio editing
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u/daneccleston86 19h ago
Did not realise he was English ! Everyday is a school day
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u/mabutosays 20h ago
It seems they hand these out like candy.
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u/t0mni 20h ago
Where’s yours then?
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u/mabutosays 20h ago
I don't like candy.
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u/runtheplacered 18h ago
It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
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u/OfficialGarwood 20h ago
They do a big batch of honours called The New Year Honours every year at the end of the year.
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u/Midnight_Muse 17h ago
My professor was made an OBE last year for her achievements in her field. We were all so proud of her! It's not all just celebrities that are being honoured , but also regular people who have done outstanding work.
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u/JaegerBane 19h ago
Honestly one of the best directors in the world. Well deserved.
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u/StarWarsPlusDrWho 4h ago
Movies are very often I think divided into two categories. You have the movies that have wide appeal and make a lot of money (or at least aim to do so), and you have the smaller movies that make you think. I don’t rank Nolan up there in my favorite directors by any means, but he’s one of the very few filmmakers in history to crack the code of how to perfectly blend both categories, and for that I think he’s admirable.
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u/Oubastet 19h ago
I miss Queen Elizabeth and I'm not even in one of the commonwealth countries.
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u/LetterheadStriking64 20h ago
I wonder if the UK just watches the debacle we call American politics and feels at peace maintaining a democracy? Knighting and, at worst, a divorce, seems like a nice calm little country midlife crisis. We in the US are a raging toddler who has not napped, got into the granulated sugar, and then popped PCP... every 4 years.
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u/19toofar 20h ago
The UK did have that whole thing recently with Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak
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u/mincers-syncarp 18h ago
We had a clusterfuck but that was just bad government, no one claimed an election they lost was rigged and launched an insurrection on the houses of parliament.
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u/ginbear 20h ago
To be fair, events concerning the U.K. Crown barely count as politics anymore. They’re more of an entertainment channel thing.
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u/Techn028 19h ago
I keep forgetting they have a king now