For Christopher Nolan, director of this summer’s “Batman” sequel “The Dark Knight,” the film has been an even darker exploration into darkness and death than its predecessor.
Christian Bale, who stars as Batman sees “The Dark Knight” is an even lonelier venture for his character, who initially and rather unrealistically thought his crime fighting could last forever.
“This escalation has now meant that he feels more of a duty to continue,” he said. “And now you have not just a young man in pain attempting to find some kind of an answer, you have somebody who actually has power, who is burdened by that power, and is having to recognize the difference between attaining that power and holding on to it.”
“The Dark Knight,” which will hit theaters July 18, is full of story, characters and action that creates the films tone of “unintended consequence.”
“As we looked through the comics, there was this fascinating idea that Batman’s presence in Gotham actually attracts criminals to Gotham, attracts lunacy,” Nolan said. “When you’re dealing with questionable notions like people taking the law into their own hands, you have to really ask, where does that lead? That’s what makes the character so dark, because he expresses a vengeful desire.”
Christopher Nolan’s creation of Batman will soon see if it can maintain its hold on the imaginations of comic fans and critics, while expanding its reach to a wider summer moviegoing audience, even when the death of Heath Ledger, who played the Joker in “The Dark Knight,” has added unforseen morbidity to the film’s deliberate dark tone.
It’s known that it always seems harder to improve upon an original by making a sequel but with this possibly being Heath Ledger’s last performance coupled with claims that the prescription sleep aids that had a part in his death could have been caused by the physical and mental demands of his intense performance it automatically makes things that much more difficult.
Ledger, also said of his performance “the most fun I’ve ever had, or probably ever will have, playing a character.”
However, Ledger’s exhaustion was obvious, said Michael Caine, who co-stars with Ledger.
“He was exhausted, I mean he was really tired. I remember saying to him, ‘I’m too old to have the bloody energy to play that part.’ And I thought to myself, I didn’t have the energy when I was his age.”
Wally Pfister, the cinematographer, said Mr. Ledger seemed “like he was busting blood vessels in his head,”
“It was like a séance, where the medium takes on another person and then is so completely drained,” he said.
Whatever the effect that Ledger’s death has over the feel of the film Nolan said he felt a “massive sense of responsibility” to do honor Ledger’s “terrifying, amazing” performance.
“It’s stunning, it’s iconic,” Nolan said. “It’s going to just blow people away.”
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Christian Bale, who stars as Batman sees “The Dark Knight” is an even lonelier venture for his character, who initially and rather unrealistically thought his crime fighting could last forever.
“This escalation has now meant that he feels more of a duty to continue,” he said. “And now you have not just a young man in pain attempting to find some kind of an answer, you have somebody who actually has power, who is burdened by that power, and is having to recognize the difference between attaining that power and holding on to it.”
“The Dark Knight,” which will hit theaters July 18, is full of story, characters and action that creates the films tone of “unintended consequence.”
“As we looked through the comics, there was this fascinating idea that Batman’s presence in Gotham actually attracts criminals to Gotham, attracts lunacy,” Nolan said. “When you’re dealing with questionable notions like people taking the law into their own hands, you have to really ask, where does that lead? That’s what makes the character so dark, because he expresses a vengeful desire.”
Christopher Nolan’s creation of Batman will soon see if it can maintain its hold on the imaginations of comic fans and critics, while expanding its reach to a wider summer moviegoing audience, even when the death of Heath Ledger, who played the Joker in “The Dark Knight,” has added unforseen morbidity to the film’s deliberate dark tone.
It’s known that it always seems harder to improve upon an original by making a sequel but with this possibly being Heath Ledger’s last performance coupled with claims that the prescription sleep aids that had a part in his death could have been caused by the physical and mental demands of his intense performance it automatically makes things that much more difficult.
Ledger, also said of his performance “the most fun I’ve ever had, or probably ever will have, playing a character.”
However, Ledger’s exhaustion was obvious, said Michael Caine, who co-stars with Ledger.
“He was exhausted, I mean he was really tired. I remember saying to him, ‘I’m too old to have the bloody energy to play that part.’ And I thought to myself, I didn’t have the energy when I was his age.”
Wally Pfister, the cinematographer, said Mr. Ledger seemed “like he was busting blood vessels in his head,”
“It was like a séance, where the medium takes on another person and then is so completely drained,” he said.
Whatever the effect that Ledger’s death has over the feel of the film Nolan said he felt a “massive sense of responsibility” to do honor Ledger’s “terrifying, amazing” performance.
“It’s stunning, it’s iconic,” Nolan said. “It’s going to just blow people away.”
For the entire story click here
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