The Dark Knight
Where the DNA of The Dark Knight travels
Films that shaped it
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We looked at a lot of other films, even down to a Kurosawa film, ‘High and Low,’ that was an influence on how we were trying to stage certain things and the moral ambiguity of it.
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Atlas note
Christopher Nolan made his brother Jonathan watch Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, a 1933 German thriller in which a criminal mastermind orchestrates chaos from inside an asylum, to understand what the Joker needed to be: not a man who wants things, but a force of entropy who only wants to watch the system collapse. Lang made this film as the Nazis were rising. The Joker's speech about plans is Mabuse.
Films it shaped
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Director Sam Mendes acknowledged as much in interviews saying he was quote directly inspired by it.
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I love when all of the time spent both with the protagonist and the antagonist is good time. Like The Dark Knight, for instance
