The Dark Knight Rises
Where the DNA of The Dark Knight Rises travels
Films that shaped it
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For me, 'Metropolis' (1927) is the great example of that, where you have a city as a character, and the city as a symbol of modernity, and all the possibilities and all the dangers of that.
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Christopher Nolan screened The Battle of Algiers for his crew as an operational blueprint for how to shoot urban warfare, the verité approach, the documentary realism, the sense that what we're watching is happening in real time. Bane's takeover of Gotham mirrors Pontecorvo's depiction of insurgency: tactical, patient, willing to endure casualties. In a 2012 DGA interview, Nolan was explicit: Pontecorvo showed him how to make terrorism feel inevitable rather than sensationalized. The Battle of Algiers is available on MUBI.
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Blake really but his character Arc is basically a shallow ret trading of Bruce's story in the first 10 minutes or so of Batman Begins
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The Battle of Algiers Atlas note
Christopher Nolan screened The Battle of Algiers for his crew as an operational blueprint for how to shoot urban warfare, the verité approach, the documentary realism, the sense that what we're watching is happening in real time. Bane's takeover of Gotham mirrors Pontecorvo's depiction of insurgency: tactical, patient, willing to endure casualties. In a 2012 DGA interview, Nolan was explicit: Pontecorvo showed him how to make terrorism feel inevitable rather than sensationalized. The Battle of Algiers is available on MUBI.
