Christopher Nolan likes to look like his film's protagonists Or viceversa?

That Christopher Nolan is a filmmaker who is fanatical about his work is pretty clear by now, not only thanks to the success of his burgeoning career but also to the average length of his projects and the style they all have in common, curiously similar to Nolan's own attire. Oppenheimer, which was released in Italian cinemas last week, personifies Nolan's main obsessions in an obvious way: a three-hour film in which male protagonists try to change the fate of the world, Cillian Murphy, and a dark and gloomy aesthetic - this time taken to the extreme, so much so that it resulted in the successful marketing called Barbie vs. Oppenheimer. The obvious resemblance between Nolan and his characters, a theme that emerged mainly after the release of Tenet(2020), in Oppenheimer, is re-proposed to viewers through the protagonist's clothes. The film recounts the invention and dropping of the atomic bomb during the Second World War. Yet, the physicist's well-groomed and fashionable look - considering the times in which it was set - is a supporting element in the development of the plot.

Spike Lee's dapper and colorful style follows his choice of narrating Black History in his films. Although his photography is mutable, his characters' costumes largely influence the US director's wardrobe, from Do The Right Thing to Malcolm X, to the most recent BlacKkKlansman, set in the 1970s, a decisive decade for African-American rights.