Poll Suggestion: Face-Off: Which Nolan Brother is Better

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In terms of writing a screenplay, which Nolan Christopher and Jonathan do you think writes better?

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls041482013/
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cinephile

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Can you please clarify how one is to distinguish what parts of a script were written by the respective brothers? If you have some kind of context on who wrote what parts of a screenplay (in those movies where the two brothers share writing credits) on their respective list options? That would be kind of necessary for people to make their respective votes.

Not sure if you can provide this info. making this poll suggestion a guessing game at best.

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After 7 months of research, I found something really interesting.

In Batman Begins Jonathan did production rewrites.

In the Prestige and The Dark Knight, Jonathan wrote the first draft. 

In Interstellar almost everything, Christopher Nolan made some corrections.

In Memento Jonathan did the base story (the base idea).

In Inception, Christopher Nolan did everything.

In Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan did everything

In The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan had the idea and wrote the draft.


In Following, Doodlebug, Larceny, and Tarantella, Christopher did everything.

There is one of my sources: https://creativescreenwriting.com/jonathan-nolan-on-interstellar/

I didn't keep all of my sources.