'Dark Knight': Q&A with Chris Nolan
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
He reinvented the Batman franchise and now Christopher Nolan offers up his second installment, The Dark Knight. We caught up with the British director to find out what it took to bring Batman back.
Hollywood.com: Did you envision the film’s opening based on IMAX considering the scope and scale of that scene as the music hits? People around me were going “wow”.
Chris Nolan: I love the idea of creating cinema on the grandest possible scale. I think I am always trying to get back to that feeling you have when you are little kid and you’re just watching a much larger than life escapist entertainment. I really wanted to get that visceral thrill into this film since it is a sequel to a film we’ve made; it is something we were trying to expand the impact of the film.
HW: As much as this is an action movie is it also a cautionary tale about the masks people wear? The two sides we all have inside of us. Is that equally important as the action part of it?
CN: [Batman]’s driven by anger and rage and a desire for vengeance against the criminals of Gotham. But he attempts to channel that into something positive. He attempts to harness that energy and use it for something good and he’s central dilemma is how far can he go in using intimidation and violence to achieve good. I think that is a very human dilemma. I think that is something society deals with.
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