The Dark Knight Visual Style

[CConn]

It would have obviously been a rumor.

It being early doesn't mean anything, though. Art design takes place early in pre-production, so any decisions on it would have to be made rather early.

EDIT: Yeah, now I remember. It was from a BOF report. Obviously, it is just a rumor, however, judging from the tone of The Prestige alone, I would be really surprised if TDK looked greatly different than BB.

 

[E-Mack]

That's true. For some inside info, I expected something a bit...more than that. Seems weird that's the only thing gotten out of an insider.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Well, I could have said that. I mean, why change it completely? There'd be no reason to.

 

[heypapajinx]

nipples on everything... business suits. bathing suits. evening attire.
and neon under every car.
i demand it.

 

[Cinemaman]

I say, Nolan should not change his vissual style, which worked well in BB

But I'd like to see a bit darker Gotham.

Anyway, TDK is the tile of movie, so the same will be with movie itself. It will be much darker in vissual style.

 

["V"]

Begins was actually based on Blade Runner in places - Most notable when we see the alleyway in the narrows with the bikes going down it.

I personally enjoyed the visual style of Begins.

Burton's was good but a bit narrow in it's scope, I didn't get the get the impression it was a vast city.

I suspect we'll be seeing more the Narrows in 'The Dark Knight' with Batman trying to hunt down the remaining Arkham escapees.

 

[afan]

Begins was actually based on Blade Runner in places - Most notable when we see the alleyway in the narrows with the bikes going down it.

I personally enjoyed the visual style of Begins.

Burton's was good but a bit narrow in it's scope, I didn't get the get the impression it was a vast city.

I suspect we'll be seeing more the Narrows in 'The Dark Knight' with Batman trying to hunt down the remaining Arkham escapees.

I never considered Gotham to be a vast city, on a 1-10 vast scale Metropolis being the 10, Gotham would come in somewhere around a
5-6.
Always thought of it as a city that was collapsing in on itself, stunted in expansive financial growth, where a large population was hopelessly trapped in an area limited in geographic scope, hence the squallor, corruption, and depravation of the city.

 

[DV8]

I like what Nolan did . . . he rooted the film in his own vision of Batman's reality . . . Burton's style fit the type of movie he was aiming for, which detracted from the film's realism a bit . . . . but I will agree that Burtons' vision of Gotham of City was spot on for 'the look'; but we've already been there/done that

 

["V"]

I never considered Gotham to be a vast city, on a 1-10 vast scale Metropolis being the 10, Gotham would come in somewhere around a
5-6.
Always thought of it as a city that was collapsing in on itself, stunted in expansive financial growth, where a large population was hopelessly trapped in an area limited in geographic scope, hence the squallor, corruption, and depravation of the city.

I mean that we didn't get to see much of his city.

It didn't seem to exist beyond that main central square.

We never got a real scope of how big his Gotham was.

 

[fabman]

Why should Nolan change visual style? Why would he? It's his style, he created his Gotham and visuals and he loves his and his' art director's visual style...

 

[afan]

I mean that we didn't get to see much of his city.

It didn't seem to exist beyond that main central square.

We never got a real scope of how big his Gotham was.

Agree, but I think that was intentional to make his Gotham claustrophobic. There was a city scape view of Gotham in the opening scenes. It appeared to be small in scale, but very compact.

 

[super-t]

all singer and nolan need to do is switch when i watch BB i see metropolis, and when i watch SR i see gotham but jus a lil bit cleaner.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

Agree, but I think that was intentional to make his Gotham claustrophobic. There was a city scape view of Gotham in the opening scenes. It appeared to be small in scale, but very compact.

I think it was more because he was somewhat limited in his space on the backlot of the studio and less of his artistic vision.

 

[batlovescatDC]

It has already been reported that TDK will be "darker" then Begins. I think that they should go as dark as possible without turning it into a Batman Returns situation. Don't make every character dark, don't make every single wall down to the corners gothic. Just have a very dark visual style. That's all I got. Mix the Batman ('89) and Begins styles and you'll be making "art until someone dies". HaHeHaHa!

 

[Black Mamba]

First of all, Batman isn't exclusively a "gothic" character. Can't you guys get that? Just because there is dark / gothic elements, does not make it definitively "gothic".

I think keeping a similar visual tone, for all the Nolan Bat-films will be a plus. It allows for an actual feeling of a continued story, and world. It is quite annoying to watch Burton to Burton Bat-film and see a difference, then an even more radical change from Burton to Shumacher, and under all that...try to believe it is still the same world, and same characters extended from the first movie. I thought Nolan's rustic / orangy tint to the film was quite cool. And for the most part, worked pretty well. The only thing I want to see this next time, is better usage of shadows. I want to see Batman not always fully exposed. I want to see him talk to a GPD officer, but be meshed in shadows and dim lighted areas, etc.