Some men just want to watch the world unburn itself backwards.

In an actual Nolan movie this conversation would take place across 3 scenes all in different continents.

"Turned out they kidnapped the wrong elephant" is one of the greatest sentences ever.

The start to this skit with the guy saying, “I’ve started without you, I hope you don’t mind” is the most Nolanesque piece of dialogue I’ve ever heard.

It's cool that Nolan made Tenet based on this parody...

“Are you familiar with [random science equation]” “Only the practicality of it”

I keep coming back to this…or rather I will

You forgot the slowly building crescendo of brown notes that eventually drown out the whole conversation.

A screenplay penned by both Christopher Nolan and Hideo Kojima would become so incomprehensible that it's incomprehensibility would fold in on itself and become comprehensible.

The only thing missing is random scene jumps to them continuing this conversation while walking around a completely different location.

"Don't try to understand it, just feel it." - Tenet

After he said “we don’t obsess over chips, only the weather” . The American chuckles, the British man chuckled then I chuckled all in perfect timing. I had to pause the video after we were all finished chuckling

The two lines of small talk before getting to business is the most realistic part

This is nothing like a Nolan film, I could actually hear what they were saying.

“Linda Purcell, the wife of Petrov?” “No, a different Linda.” “Oh, for fucks sake.”

This video exemplifies why Nolan mixing his audio so you can't hear the dialogue is actually an act of kindness.

Christopher Nolan solved that exposition problem by making the dialogue in Tenet totally inaudible. Such a genius

The only thing missing is loud epic music to confuse you even more

Legend has it that if you get bored enough and confused enough w/ any Nolan film if you just stand up, raise your hands above your head, and say, "Christopher Nolan is a genius. Christopher Nolan is a genius. Christopher Nolan is a genius," the movie stops and the credits roll immediately.

Someone should tell Nolan that making a plot as complex as possible doesn't make it matter more.

"The plane crash didn't happen, or rather it will, but it won't yet" such a Christopher Nolan thing to say.

I’ve watched this 10+ times, and the worst thing is that it’s starting to make sense.

The only thing missing from this is Hans Zimmer banging you over the head continuously with his earsplitting score, to add to the trauma of trying to follow a Nolan film.

Every couple of days I come back to this video and laugh my ass off. My favorite part is 2:23 when the plot is almost starting to make sense and tie together but then the guy is like, "No."

Sounds like a creative writing exercise that you just keep handing around the classroom

"Linda... Petrov´s wife?" "No, a different Linda" Fucking killed me.

I like how it escalates into nonsense rather than just being 3 minutes of it.

This is so on-point, it doesn't even feel like a parody 💀

"turns out they kidnapped the wrong elephant" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Show, don't tell" - Not Christopher Nolan

This is pretty much the plot of every Call of Duty game from the last 10 years

1:43 is perfect. The tiny incy wincy bit of cheese on the fork smack bang in the middle of the whole scene. True Genius. 🤣

Tenet looks like it was written by a bot who read all the Nolan scripts.

The best part of this skit is that it doesn't actually sound totally gobbledygook but gets more and more frustrating as you go along. Perfectly Nolanesque. 😂

I love how the story isn't even incomprehensible, it's just convoluted, poorly-explained, has a lot of pieces involved and hard to keep track of.

Okay so it's my 8th time watching this over the course of the weeks and I'm actually starting to get it. The only problem is, putting that much effort trying to understand this has made me invested. Please make a sequel

Bro I felt that "Linda Purcell?" "No, a different Linda." in my bones. That moment where you think it's actually all coming together but then it just keeps going

"Thats because it doesn't exist. Well... not yet." Christopher Nolan wrote this. End of story.

"No a different Linda" That bit got me! Well done

3 years later I still keep coming back to this absolute gem

This video felt like it lasted far longer than 3 minutes.

All we need is the blaring music making everything they say inaudible and it'd be spot on

The explanation: (Watch the video THOROUGHLY before reading this) In the future, a man named Lawrence finds a wormhole leading him back in time, 23 years before the movie took place. By now, the Vietnamese cartel was too powerful, and to help stop them, he implanted information relating to the future in a chip, more about this later. Ten years ago, Petrov and Benjamin met to steal an Elephant with the nuclear codes on it, they kidnapped the wrong Elephant, so they just try to steal the nuclear bomb from Russia, this fails (kinda, you’ll see why later), and Petrov and Benjamin both flee, leaving doppelgangers in their place. But you see, in an alternate reality, they did steal the bomb, and detonated it in Siberia in the present day, more about that later. Petrov and Benjamin both secure high-up government roles, Petrov becoming an agent for the British and Benjamin becoming a CIA agent in Vietnam. Petrov fainted giving valuable info to Mi5, the British homeland security as a rat, and in reality was selling this information to Benjamin, who used this to avoid suspicion while building a drug cartel in Vietnam. After some time, Linda (Petrov’s wife) and Petrov meet again, presumably to settle down and live in criminal retirement in Oslo, but then, a Russian nuclear bomb, the one they tried to steal all those years ago, was detonated in Siberia, despite the bomb still being in Russian hands. As it turns out, the Cecil theorem of Quantum mechanics created two alternate realities, one where they succeeded, and one where they didn’t, and at this point, they blew up a portion of Siberia, but this explosion was a test, you see, working with the scientist Darian, Darian, and Benjamin figured out that the quantum mechanic's theory was real, and they abused it, figuring out that even if they failed in a mission to secure power, their other selves would pick up the slack, so Darian from the future and a different timeline called Petrov and asked him to start a company, and in that alternate reality, the one where Darian and Benjamin didn’t die, they succeeded in making the company, but since they wanted Petrov out of the picture in Timeline 1, they sent the missile to the plane Petrov was on, as he purchased tickets after hearing the same bomb they tried to steal blew up. To be clear, in Timeline 1, Benjamin and Darian are both dead, but alternate versions of themselves are succeeding anyway, and that’s leaking into Timeline 1, with this power, they could easily take over the world, Benjamin is already preparing for it by testing his nuclear theory and killing/capturing agent Linda who was trying to expose his cartel and using other versions of himself to do all of his plans. Lawrence knew how dangerous this was, and he warned the future about this terrible event. In the movie, the American man finds his grandfathers clock, which was actually a portal to the alternate realities, he fights every version of Benjamin and Durian, but you see, they prepared for this by both becoming the Americans father, but sacrificing himself, he killed them anyway, and only this British chap will ever remember agent dingle, the man who single handedly sacrificed himself and saved the world.

Nolan really hates having anything in chronological order, does he?

"An elephant that has the nuclear codes carved on its tusks" That's a film by itself

"Turned out the kidnapped the wrong elephant" cracks me up everytime.

Kept thinking about this for the last hour of Oppenheimer

When I watched Oppenheimer, this video pops in my mind, and that is how Nolan characters speaks... I can't even.

"Are you aware of the Back-twisting-spacial-ribbon-gravitational-force?" "yes, but it's just a theory" "until last Friday"

Don’t try and understand it FEEL IT

You got the Michael Caine vibe across well enough to someone who saw this before the movie.

Just saw Oppenheimer. I really liked it...I don't know what the fuck happened...but I liked it.

I love how he managed to involve almost all cliche villain nationalities. There's a Russian, a German and a Vietnamese... He only forgot about some random Middle Easter guy

This is the kind of accent that could be used to say dumb things and still make you feel smart from listening.

I’ve seen this at least 30 times, and I can’t stop. KZfaq keeps suggesting this video to me, the algorithm basically has me hooked and I just can’t stop watching. This is so perfect to say I love it is a big understatement. I think if I watch it enough I’ll start understanding the plot, at that point I will transcend to a superior state and be ready to watch Tenet again with different eyes.

I just watched oppenheimer and the last hour of that movie is precisely how this video makes me feel

I swear he's got a talent for making people immediately forget everything as soon as the scene ends.

I just came back from Oppenheimer and this video still holds up.

After watching Oppenheimer I can agree

This could be titled “Every time Michael Caine gives exposition in a Nolan film.” 😂

“We don’t obsess over chips, only the weather.” Is the most Michael Caine thing I’ve ever heard.

Such a brilliantly written and acted sketch. Every time it pops back up in my feed I just have to rewatch it.

In a christopher nolan movie this conversation would take place in India, Ghana and the Netherlands backwards in time while they are walking with loud notes in the background, and it would cut to the scene right BEFORE the climax of an action sequence (the rest of the action sequence will take place 50 minutes later)

*In a Nolan Movie* this conversation would’ve been had as they’re walking up to a Plane - - then continue with them on the plane - and 15 hours later they’re getting off the plane having the same conversation - while inspirational music plays in the background.. *All inside 45 seconds*

The writing of this skit, is by itself, very very very impressive

Oppenheimer is this for 3 hours but with actual real stuff

If Christopher Nolan directed a time traveling James Bond film.

I zoned out in the first 30 seconds. Brilliant video.

It’s embarrassing how far into this I would have still watched the movie.

The subtle Dark Knight background music really ties this together

Man I never seen a dude with this amount of actor level attractivity, comedian goofines and conventionallity (like a neighbour) in one face at the same time. KZfaq is really just the beginning for you mate😂

I love how Tenet starts off followable and then the movie itself just goes "Don't think about it too much" and just goes nuts.

You can't just put clips of Tenet on your channel.

Me, 10 years into my marriage: - Fuck, I kidnapped the wrong elephant...

that subtle hanz zimmer in the back 😂

“No a different Linda.” That’s the moment. Trying your damnedest to keep up with a convoluted plot, and you recognize a key detail from before, only for it to be a spurious connection. “Oh FFS” indeed.

I’ve literally watched this like 9 times and each time I feel myself getting closer to the plot

Just watched Mission Impossible; this is exactly how I felt the entire movie.

I've seen this a billion times and am just now realizing this is the same person playing both characters xD

Somehow you nailed that balance of "this sounds like nonsense but also the most fascinating conspiracy in history"

The really scary thing is that after so many years of very complicated movie plots this sketch makes a lot of sense

This writing style had the biggest hold on me on back then. I could never understand why people would say "they don't get it"

Quantum physics is easier to understand than Nolan's dialogue.

Turns out, they kidnapped the wrong elephant. Brilliant!

"Turns out, they kidnapped the wrong elephant."

& Michael Caine somewhere in there.

No one is mentioning the fact that he nails the “chew on screen and swallow in the cut” form of editing for this video.

You laugh, but right now, Nolan is watching this and taking notes!

They way I quickly zoned out but kept watching only picking up the names of countries and random verbs is pretty much the Nolan movie experience

This sketch was so well done. Genius work!

You forgot the insanely loud music that makes your ears bleed

They can't hate the movie if they don't understand it. - Christopher Nolan

“Yeahhh I still don’t underst-“ “Have you ever heard of Cecil’s theorem of quantum mechanics…” I DIED 😂

Man I'm actually super into this story it needs to become a movie

This dialogue is awesome. Congratulations.

Jokes aside, his Michael Caine impression is spot on. He was even able to give himself a lazy eye. Impressive acting.

This needed some Hans zimmer falling asleep on his organ to be authentic.

This video is literally Oppenheimer no joke.

Come back straight after Oppenheimer and was not disappointed! :D

“We believe that it has. In Siberia, three weeks ago.” I don’t why but that line in particular felt EXACTLY like a Nolanish thing to say.