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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

1933 · Directed by Fritz Lang · Germany

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Germany · 1933

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The Dark Knight 2008 · Christopher Nolan Atlas note HBO Max

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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.

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