@TomoMachi Ok, Nolan and Paprika. I hadn't been this tense since the Q+A with Miyazaki for Spirited Away. Though at least w/ SA, I hadn't seen it before, so I could pass the time while waiting. Here, though, I was just mentally fast-forwarding Memento, because I had already seen it again last year.

Anyway, they tell the audience up-front that we're only allowed to discuss Memento @ the Q+A, but what do the moderator and Chris mention but his other stuff *besides* Memento. So I said "Fuck it!" and tried to slip mine in. What was really irritating was the questions were limited to four people-though the moderator, Guillermo Del Toro[Yes, Mr. Pan's Labyrinth/Hellboy/Mountains of Madness director himself.] did let one more audience member participate at the end. Still, I knew it was gonna be a tight squeeze, so I semi-stood up out of my seat, raised my hand fast, and was fortunate enough to be at an angle where Del Toro would notice me. So I tried to be coy about the whole thing.

First, I asked if Chris had heard of that blurb about him in Execessif, and Del Toro naturally made fun of the domain name. So then I brought up that the site listed his allegedly favorite movies which inspired his work from Memento to Inception. And one film was from Polanski, and another was Paprika by Satoshi Kon. Chris told me w/ a straight face that he *hadn't* seen Paprika, but that he'd been hearing about it, and that he had a similar situation with another entertainment rag where he came up with five movies off the top of his head, and they automatically cited them as his favorites.

I totally fucked that convo up, too, because I unintentionally interrupted in-between, and I feel like a bigger ass doing it in front of a Brit. So then I added that Kon mentioned TDK before he died, and Nolan seemed more interested in checking out Paprika now. In addition, Del Toro personally said after that, something like, "Satoshi Kon was a great man." And given that Del Toro was, at one point, going to adapt Katsuhiro Otomo's Domu, I totally believe him.

As for Nolan, there is one movie which matched that Excessif thing, as he mentioned Blade Runner as one of his favorites at the show. So here's what I think. It's Chris's *bro* who's the anime fan-boy, because John came up with the initial concept for Memento, while C. Nolan's specialty seems to be tweaking the narrative of a treatment, not dabbling in the actual presentation. Anyway, that still doesn't let Darren off the hook, for obvious reasons, but it felt good knowing that Nolan wasn't a cad. Though the whole thing is beginning to remind me more and more of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWyhI4XWoKM . I kind of wish I had a chance to ask him about Bebop and Batman Begins, though, but I think he was being generous enough with his time given to me.

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