This is from superherohype.com - Interview 3
ComingSoon.net/SuperheroHype.com spoke to director Christopher Nolan about making the anticipated film:
Q: Will kids like the movie?
Nolan: I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something that's also for adults.
When I looked at films that I liked as a kid they were internal (unintelligible). I think that often tends to get
underestimated.
Q: Do you want to do bigger movies after this one?
Nolan: To be honest I really couldn't do much bigger than this one. I would certainly like to do something on this scale
again, because I enjoyed it. But I would also be interested to go back to something smaller as well. I think there are
advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
Q: How much of his anger is really under control by the end of this film?
Nolan: Well, I think when it's harnessed, and that is a form of control, that doesn't mean it's not there and it
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doesn't mean it's suppressed - it's channeled and it's harnessed. And that to me is what keeps him as a character frightening to
his opponents and all of us to some extent.
Q: What was the creative mandate going in for a new audience?
Nolan: The creative mandate was really to do something fresh and original. And that was coming straight from the studio. And
if it wasn't, I wouldn't have gotten involved with the project because it's pretty rare to have an iconic figure that's
owned and controlled by a studio that's asking you to do something different with it. That really was the mandate. For me,
what that became was my desire to do something we hadn't seen before, a superhero story told in a realistic fashion. And step
outside itself and acknowledge the form and the medium it's coming from, but one in which the audience is just immersed in
the reality that's going on.
Q: What was your inspiration for the look of Gotham City?
Nolan: We tried not to be too specific. When Nathan Crowley, my production designer, started discussing the look of the film with me,
we immediately rejected any reductiveness. The driving force was not to, "OK, they've done an art deco city, we'll do a modernist city,"
nothing like that. We wanted something that reflects the reality of a large modern city which is a
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