The Dark Knight Rises Is Nolan afraid of skyscrapers? Funny Article

[stlblues84]

Just a funny article

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/07/13/batman-christopher-nolan-fear-skyscrapers/

http://www.grantland.com/blog/holly...does-christopher-nolan-have-against-buildings

 

[byte19]

ha!

 

[DoomsdayApex]

Haha

 

[obin_gam]

obvious tounge in cheek but I do get what the article is coming from. But I would rather than saying Nolan has a fear of buildings, say that he sees cities and architecture as characters themselves.

 

[Frontier]

The fact that such a fear is called "Batophobia" is just too funny!

 

[RedSkull]

Funny, but I really love the epic sweeping shots of the buildings in TDK and soon to be TDKR

 

[enquencle]

Haha nice articles. Specially the last line of the first one

But I would rather than saying Nolan has a fear of buildings, say that he sees cities and architecture as characters themselves.

That's a really nice way to put it. I really like how that sounds

 

[EliteF50]

Lmao. Great read, thanks.

 

[Polaris23]

Hahaha. That was unintentionally funny. Biggest flaw: If he feared buildings, wouldn't it be stupid to slap them on a poster? That'd mean he'd see buildings even more... Um, dumb.

 

[DrCosmic]

obvious tounge in cheek but I do get what the article is coming from. But I would rather than saying Nolan has a fear of buildings, say that he sees cities and architecture as characters themselves.

Characters that he loves to maim and torture.

 

[obin_gam]

Characters that he loves to maim and torture.

Is there any other way to show affection?

Spoiler

 

[HappyDragon]

@Polaris
The way I understood it, he might have buildings in the posters, but not without destruction. He wants to put buildings on his posters just to watch them get destroyed in some way. But I see what your saying.

 

[TheBat812]

It's a joke.... some of you are taking this super cereal.

 

[Rocketman]

I think there's something poetic about crumbling buildings. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but as an architect, there's something about being a creator that allows you to see a physical representation of what you had in your head, some sketches on paper, suddenly in real life, towering over you.

It's kind of like being a writer - of novels or screenplays. To see something you had in your mind, or on paper, suddenly become a real thing (a book, or a movie), would make you feel like a god, almost.

If Nolan has a phobia (which I don't think he does), I'd say it's quite simple: Seeing something you created, deconstruct. And there's something terrifying about how easy it is to destroy something that took a long time to build.

- It's easier to blow up a hospital, than it is to build one.
- It's easier to burn a book, than it is to read one.
- It's easier to kill someone, than it is to build a relationship with them.

Overall, destroying is EASIER than creating, almost all the time.

To take it one step further, it almost shows how ass-backwards the League of Shadows is when watching BB.

- Ra's wants to destroy Gotham in order to re-build it.
- Bruce actually wants to re-build Gotham by helping and creating symbolism, not by destroying.

All of this stuff ties into Inception, too. Cobb and Mal, the idea of creating worlds, and so on and so on.

I'd say a very central theme of Nolan's films is the balance between creating and destroying:

- Memento: Destroying memories, creating new ones / false ones.
- The Prestige: Creating copies of yourself, destroying them.

 

[nimrodson]

Haha hell yeah dude **** skyscrapers and buildings! Right there with you, Nolan!