...or to be specific, 'Heat'.
For me, this is fantastic news. Not only am i a HUGE Batman fan (especially Nolans version) but Michael Mann is my favourite director.
My top ten favourite movies include all of mann's movies and Batman Begins, so Nolan saying something along the lines of (i cant remember the quote exactly) "Michael Manns 'Heat' helped influnce my vision for TDK, I wanted it to have a crime epic feel" is like music to my ears. Really awesome music.
Like many people on these boards, ive seen the prologue and the influence is quite clear from the go - you can also tell from other clips of the movie (from trailers and TV spots) that Nolan has taken more of realistic, documentary style of camera-work, just like mann. Some examples are :
- The camera following the joker as he flicks open his knife walking toward a car pile-up (trailer 2)
- Pretty much the whole prologue, hand-held camera-work following the jokers goons around as they blow the vault, secure the hostages, etc.
- An AWESOME (but brief) shot of Batman walking towards the camera looking REALLY píssed off in one of the TV spots.
So, its possible that what is possibly the most anticipated movie of my life (and ive been around for 23 years) could be filmed in the exact style of directing i love..........
this is pure joy.
edit - Just found the quote in the Empire thread:
Also, the biggest weakness of comic-book sequels is their tendency to overstuff the story with bad guys - to wit, Spider-Man 3 and the execrable Batman & Robin.
"Yes, but the ambition has to be to make a film that in some way moves on and develops the world you're in," argues Nolan. "Otherwise you're just making a TV show - you're just making episodes of the same thing. When a sequel's done badly, you take pot-shots at it and say, 'Why did they stuff all these extra characters in?' But when it works well, whether it's The Godfather: Part II or The Empire Strikes Back, nobody complains. You have to try and expand it, and you have to try and do it well. In genre terms, if the first film had a very noirish quality to it, the what we've done with this film is taken on the dynamic of a story of the city, a large crime story. The broader canvas demands more characters to fill it. The audience accepts that type of storytelling when you're looking at the police, the justice system, the vigilate, the poor people, the rich people, the criminals. I'M HOPING ITS THE SORT OF FILM THAT MICHAEL MANN ALWAYS DOES VERY WELL, LIKE HEAT..."
For me, this is fantastic news. Not only am i a HUGE Batman fan (especially Nolans version) but Michael Mann is my favourite director.
My top ten favourite movies include all of mann's movies and Batman Begins, so Nolan saying something along the lines of (i cant remember the quote exactly) "Michael Manns 'Heat' helped influnce my vision for TDK, I wanted it to have a crime epic feel" is like music to my ears. Really awesome music.
Like many people on these boards, ive seen the prologue and the influence is quite clear from the go - you can also tell from other clips of the movie (from trailers and TV spots) that Nolan has taken more of realistic, documentary style of camera-work, just like mann. Some examples are :
- The camera following the joker as he flicks open his knife walking toward a car pile-up (trailer 2)
- Pretty much the whole prologue, hand-held camera-work following the jokers goons around as they blow the vault, secure the hostages, etc.
- An AWESOME (but brief) shot of Batman walking towards the camera looking REALLY píssed off in one of the TV spots.
So, its possible that what is possibly the most anticipated movie of my life (and ive been around for 23 years) could be filmed in the exact style of directing i love..........
this is pure joy.
edit - Just found the quote in the Empire thread:
Also, the biggest weakness of comic-book sequels is their tendency to overstuff the story with bad guys - to wit, Spider-Man 3 and the execrable Batman & Robin.
"Yes, but the ambition has to be to make a film that in some way moves on and develops the world you're in," argues Nolan. "Otherwise you're just making a TV show - you're just making episodes of the same thing. When a sequel's done badly, you take pot-shots at it and say, 'Why did they stuff all these extra characters in?' But when it works well, whether it's The Godfather: Part II or The Empire Strikes Back, nobody complains. You have to try and expand it, and you have to try and do it well. In genre terms, if the first film had a very noirish quality to it, the what we've done with this film is taken on the dynamic of a story of the city, a large crime story. The broader canvas demands more characters to fill it. The audience accepts that type of storytelling when you're looking at the police, the justice system, the vigilate, the poor people, the rich people, the criminals. I'M HOPING ITS THE SORT OF FILM THAT MICHAEL MANN ALWAYS DOES VERY WELL, LIKE HEAT..."
the style gotham in some shots of TDK actually seems to take alot from Heat.
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