The Dark Knight BD Live Chat with Christopher Nolan

[BatMatt]

well I enjoyed it, I mean we got a little bit of insightful information, all while watching The Dark Knight with Christopher Nolan

 

[Caped Crusader]

some people said the stupidest things

 

[LifeisNoCheese]

That was enjoyable.

 

[CrackedPot]

What is exactly going on? Is he watching the film with you guys?

 

[NickyTea]

Well, none of my question got through... or maybe they did, and it happened one of the several times I was kicked off.
Well, such is life. Cool event.

Bummer that so many really stupid questions got through. Oh well. Now we know he likes crunchy peanut butter. Yay.

 

[Anita18]

Final monologue was the first thing conceived but didn't write until he was in pre-production.

Figures, since that's where they got the title from. t:

 

[Caped Crusader]

I asked ...

what villains would you like to explore if you were to do another bat film?

(that didnt go through.. so I asked it in a different way)


what other villains do you like besides the ones you had in your films

 

[Anita18]

Now we know he likes crunchy peanut butter. Yay.

Maybe he wants people to send him some.

 

[Symbiotic]

Maybe he wants people to send him some.

Nolan: "You want a third Batfilm? Make it a lifetime supply of Peter Pan!"

 

[Sam Fisher]

Someone should ask him if he visits SuperHeroHype.

Heh, I asked him to give a shout out, but I don't think he did.

 

[ThePunchLine]

How does it work- how are you typing questions into your blu-ray player?

 

[S.D. Plissken]

This was a giant ****ing waste of time.

Boo hiss.

 

[CrackedPot]

How does it work- how are you typing questions into your blu-ray player?

magic.

 

[Caped Crusader]

It felt like it was a bunch of people who just became batman fans because of tdk

 

[NickyTea]

This chat spawned a technical question I've never thought to ask ...
When a movie is edited digitally (as nolan said, TDK was on an Avid) is the movie scanned in high resolution, edited, then exported back to film?

Or is the edit done on the avid, and the actual cuts are somehow made to the physical film? I assume this, because Nolan said he prefers film for the added resoultion...so if it was the former, it would be downsized for editing then up-sized for film again....

Anyone able to clear this up for me?

 

[Sam Fisher]

How does it work- how are you typing questions into your blu-ray player?

You go to WB's BD Live website and type in your questions.


Sadly, I don't think any of mine were answered.

 

[BatMatt]

This was a giant ****ing waste of time.

Boo hiss.

to watch The Dark Knight? I hardly think so

 

[MelvinWhite]

This chat spawned a technical question I've never thought to ask ...
When a movie is edited digitally (as nolan said, TDK was on an Avid) is the movie scanned in high resolution, edited, then exported back to film?

Or is the edit done on the avid, and the actual cuts are somehow made to the physical film? I assume this, because Nolan said he prefers film for the added resoultion...so if it was the former, it would be downsized for editing then up-sized for film again....

Anyone able to clear this up for me?

you know, this is a question i've always had about how movies are edited in general. and seeing as im studying this subject in college i should probably find out the answer soon

 

[Pennyworth]

I enjoyed it. I was surprised how much they let thru and that Nolan played along most of the time.

Be nice if the chat transcript was made available.

 

[Anita18]

This chat spawned a technical question I've never thought to ask ...
When a movie is edited digitally (as nolan said, TDK was on an Avid) is the movie scanned in high resolution, edited, then exported back to film?

Or is the edit done on the avid, and the actual cuts are somehow made to the physical film? I assume this, because Nolan said he prefers film for the added resoultion...so if it was the former, it would be downsized for editing then up-sized for film again....

Anyone able to clear this up for me?

Since Wally Pfister was adamant they never used a digital intermediate for TDK, I assumed that they did the editing on an Avid, then physically cut the negative. Old-school, just like Nolan likes it.

It makes sense though, looking at TDK's IMDB credits. Many assistant editors (who would presumably be doing the negative cutting) and no digital intermediate people. There's a long list of DI people in the editorial dept on Transformers, for instance.

 

[Anita18]

you know, this is a question i've always had about how movies are edited in general. and seeing as im studying this subject in college i should probably find out the answer soon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_editing#History_of_film_editing_technology

 

[JMartnwa]

It certainly was not a total waste of time... got to watch the movie yet again for the eighteen millionth time and got some decent insight on some key points. Found the concept that all of the "day" shots in the movie belonged to the Joker and were intentionally shot extremely bright to showcase the absurdity and shock of it all and that Batman owned the "night" to be pretty intriguing. He loves Michael Mann, which we already knew, and borrowed some of his inspiration from "Heat." He said all the right things, did not touch on Ledger's death at all, did not speak too clearly about a third film but left enough out there for the fans to talk about, and never really buried any technology outside of ADR.

It was interesting, despite some of the questions being some of the most inane things ever conceived. I would LOVE to have been on Nolan's end with his screeners and see some of the dribble that was not selected, although I'm sure a lot of good questions were passed up.

-JM

 

[Bats]

Hopefully the inane questions he had to endure will make him do an actual commentary for the film so that the real stories get out!

And I do want to add that I did enjoy the experience no matter what questions were asked. "Hearing" Nolan speak about his films is always fun.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Nolan mentioned the fact that Two-Face was not in any IMAX scenes because of the CGI being rendered at a lower resolution than IMAX film. Well I would say Transformers 2 is screwed then, unless they have magically been able to build some supercomputers over night to handle the rendering of the robots for IMAX resolution. Bay's going to shoot IMAX scenes of people and then slap much lower resolution CGI robots on top of the fim. What a wonderful idea. LOL, total abomination (as expected from that dip****).

 

[hegele]

Ever notice on deleted scenes/bloopers they sometime show the time tracking on the bottom? That links up with the film, so once they have a digital cut on avid, they can go to the negative and cut it exactly how it was originally. They have to go through a process of re-transfering shots when they use CGI or even post-production color correction.