The Dark Knight The Composite Christopher Nolan Interview Thread

[LongHalloween]

old. thanks though

Old? This article is from yesterday.

 

[Darkness Falls]

“The Joker, he sort of cuts through (The Dark Knight), … He’s got no story arc, he’s just a force of nature tearing through. Heath has given an amazing performance in the role, it’s really extraordinary.”

“Harvey Dent is a tragic figure, and his story is the backbone of this film.”

very cool

 

[Ama Zing]

You just saw this on Digg, didn't you?

 

[LongHalloween]

You just saw this on Digg, didn't you?

Yes I did =)

I worked with Kevin Rose at G4 so I've been following the RSS feed for quite sometime.

 

[bkey]

Old? This article is from yesterday.

The Nolan interview has been on the web since last week.

Its good to have a place to specifically discuss it though.

I'm glad about this personally, I think Dent/Two Face is a very interesting character and I'm glad he will have an important role in the movie.

 

[nedflanders]

Cool.

So NO origin story!

The Joker is a plot moving device. That's awesome. Negates the usual BS where they have to provide reasoning etc.

 

[Ama Zing]

Yes I did =)

I worked with Kevin Rose at G4 so I've been following the RSS feed for quite sometime.

Thought so, so I was just there and saw it on the front page.
But yes, here the article is a few days old and has been discussed in a few of the threads. No hard feelings

 

[Killing Joke926]

“The Joker, he sort of cuts through (The Dark Knight), … He’s got no story arc, he’s just a force of nature tearing through. Heath has given an amazing performance in the role, it’s really extraordinary.”

I gotta hand it to Nolan, he gave me the perspective I've been waiting to hear; "just a force of nature tearing through." Pure Genius and most important Pure Joker.t:

 

[LongHalloween]

Thought so, so I was just there and saw it on the front page.
But yes, here the article is a few days old and has been discussed in a few of the threads. No hard feelings

Ahh dang. Oh well. I check here everyday and didn't see it so I thought I would share. Hopefully those that haven't seen it will stumble upon it! t:

 

[Morg]

bump

 

[abiwankenobi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr3iODHJf0k

I made a harvey dent political ad

Nice.

Where did you find that shot of Batman standing on the roof? It is not the same shot from Begins right before that scene with Gordon. The background is different and Bats is standing in a different position.

Is it from an old trailer?

 

[GoogleMe94]

strange how nolan would say this and yet we've heard and seen close to nothing about dent or twoface.

 

[Ibn]

Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart join a line of high-profile actors who battle Batman.
By Geoff Boucher, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 13, 2008
HEATH LEDGER and Aaron Eckhart, welcome to Hollywood's elite and gaudy Arkham club.

In the highly anticipated new Batman film "The Dark Knight," which opens July 18, Ledger is stepping into the purple suit of the Joker, while Eckhart will portray Gotham City Dist. Atty. Harvey Dent, who starts the movie as a handsome lawman but ends up as Two-Face, the villain driven insane by disfiguring wounds.

"Harvey Dent is a tragic figure, and his story is the backbone of this film," says Christopher Nolan, the director of the acclaimed franchise-rejuvenating 2005 film "Batman Begins," who returns with Christian Bale again playing the caped crusader. "The Joker, he sort of cuts through the film -- he's got no story arc, he's just a force of nature tearing through. Heath has given an amazing performance in the role, it's really extraordinary."

Ledger and Eckhart will be joined in "Dark Knight" by "Batman" veteran Cillian Murphy, who reprises his role as the Scarecrow.

There's a long and colorful screen history of Gotham bad guys who all seem to die violently or end up imprisoned (if only briefly) in the bleak towers of Arkham Asylum. The scenery-chewing roles -- as well as some staggering paydays -- have attracted a gallery of Hollywood's biggest names, including four Oscar winners (Jack Nicholson, Tommy Lee Jones, Jack Palance, Christopher Walken) and half a dozen Oscar nominees (Michelle Pfeiffer, Liam Neeson, Jim Carrey, Uma Thurman, Ken Watanabe, Danny DeVito) and, um, one frosty-looking governor (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Don't expect a lot laughs in this summer's return to the cave. "It's a dark and complex story," Nolan said, "and the villains are dark and complex as well."

This all BETTER be bull****.

 

[BrollySupersj]

^ Nope, it's true.

In the words of Nolan himself.

"This isn't Joker Begins*

 

[TromaFreak64]

This all BETTER be bull****.

Well I on the other hand hope it is 100% accurate as I don't really need Joker to have a plot or some other forced reason - like B89 Joker... I prefer my Joker be a pure anarchist who simly loves chaos

 

[GoogleMe94]

a forced reason? he was the wayne killer! that was cool. dont know why some ppl have a problem with that.

 

[gazzilla8000]

This is a relief for me, I was worried Harvey Dent would kind of be ignored in light of the Joker. I was also worried he wouldn't get enough character development before becoming Two-Face.

Harvey Dent/Two-Face is pretty much my favourite charcter after Batman.

 

[Ibn]

I cant believe some of you guys are serious. Harvey will be getting his movie the third go round!! It's the Joker's time right now! I'm going to see this movie because of the Joker, not Harvey Dent. This news sucks if true.

 

[DieSmiling]

a forced reason? he was the wayne killer! that was cool. dont know why some ppl have a problem with that.

Hated it hated it hated it. The Joker didn't kill Batman's parents, the very idea or it is just god awful. One of the few things I really hate about Batman '89.

 

[Darkness Falls]

Hated it hated it hated it. The Joker didn't kill Batman's parents, the very idea or it is just god awful. One of the few things I really hate about Batman '89.

can you explain why it is god awful

 

[TheCaptain]

because it's a cheap way to give two characters an artificial history/hatred for each other.

 

[Heisenberg]

I expect Heath's performance in TDK to be simliar to that of Hopkins performance as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. While Lecter was only in the film for like 25 minutes, he dominated the screen when he was on. And like Lecter, Joker won't have any backstory, which adds more to his charecter.

I agree completely. Hopkins only had a little over 16 minutes of screentime, and yet because his character was so enigmatic, intense and self-consuming he completely chewed up the screen. I imagine Joker will get a fair bit more screen time, but i can imagine Heath approaching it in a similair manner. Joker is a force of nature, someone with no morals and thrives on disharmony... he doesn't need a motivation, other than to drive fear into people and create chaos.

Having said this though, i think Nolan's quotes may be out of context. His interview with IGN a month or so ago went a little deeper into the subject, and i'm almost certain he mentioned that this is Joker's "show", but the main story is the character of Harvey Dent, starting his arc and the evolution of that character... whilst Joker is a "force of nature". Either way, i have no problem with this approach. Joker's not really someone who needs an introduction t:

 

[BatmanFanatic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr3iODHJf0k

I made a harvey dent political ad

You made that!!?! OMG it was awesome. I showed it to everyone =)

 

[BatmanFanatic]

Okay - backbone of the story, is like saying the backstory or the underlying story. It doesn't mean the most visible part of the story or the most screentime.

We KNOW that he doesn't become two face until practically the last shot of the movie, as a teaser for film 3. So why would he have tons of screentime for the rest of the 2 1/2 hours? What would he be doing? Going on dates with Rachel and talking about how he's going to put an end to crime, being political?

Joker will have far more screentime than Dent, Dent's journey will be like the B plot that surfaces every now and then in the narrative. That's what I'm predicting.

 

[jmc]

Okay - backbone of the story, is like saying the backstory or the underlying story. It doesn't mean the most visible part of the story or the most screentime.

We KNOW that he doesn't become two face until practically the last shot of the movie, as a teaser for film 3. So why would he have tons of screentime for the rest of the 2 1/2 hours? What would he be doing? Going on dates with Rachel and talking about how he's going to put an end to crime, being political?

Joker will have far more screentime than Dent, Dent's journey will be like the B plot that surfaces every now and then in the narrative. That's what I'm predicting.

No we don't.