“People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can\u2019t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I\u2019m flesh and blood. I can be ignored, I can be destroyed. But as a symbol \u2014 as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.” Bruce Wayne to Alfred Pennyworth in Batman Begins.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
Christopher Nolan<\/strong> goes on to state that:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n“. . . in each film, we talk about the symbol of the character being the key thing. It\u2019s not about what he can achieve beating up criminals one by one. We address this again at the beginning of The Dark Knight, where you have these copycat Batmen popping up. The idea was to ask: Is that the meaning of the symbolism? To raise an army of these guys? No. Bruce sees himself as a catalyst for change in Gotham, and to me, in that conversation with Alfred, what is very clear to me is that Bruce only ever thinks of this as, like, a five-year plan, a short-term thing. I talked to Christian about this idea a lot during the making of all the films. It was the only way we knew to understand the reality of the story of Batman. <\/em>\u201cNow, Bruce Wayne is a billionaire. He has all these resources, and there\u2019s all kinds of ways he could use them to help Gotham. But he\u2019s fixed on this extremely militaristic vigilante-ism. Whatever we may think of that, in Bruce\u2019s mind, it\u2019s all about pushing Gotham to a tipping point back to good, back to the days of his mother and father, who were trying to help the city economically. So I always saw it as a short-term thing. Something he could give up once he accomplished his mission. \u2026 And in my view, Alfred\u2019s support for this has always been qualified support. He\u2019s always been a great indicator about where Batman sits on the greatness to madness scale.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat I see in the film that relates to the real world is the idea of dishonesty. The film is all about that coming to a head. The truth will come out. The idea that Gotham is literally crumbling from underneath. It looks like a better place than it was in Batman Begins \u2013 but is it? I see that in the world. I worry about that in the world.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Christian Bale<\/strong> adds:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\u201cSuperheroes should tell the truth, right? That\u2019s exactly what they\u2019re meant to do. (The Batman\/Gordon conspiracy) was a decision\u2026 that the truth was too damaging or too much for people to handle. It\u2019s not a philosophy that [we] want to hear. It\u2019s elitist. It\u2019s a belief in the inability of the public to handle complexity \u2014 and it\u2019s probably, really, sadly true, as well. It was very interesting because it\u2019s not what I wanted. I don\u2019t mean playing it \u2014 I mean as an audience. You want this guy to tell the truth regardless of how harsh and regardless of how cruel that is. And it\u2019s a great problem for him as well. And as you see, at the beginning of The Dark Knight Rises, it\u2019s one that almost destroyed him, because he\u2019s looked back on what his original plans were and seen how far he\u2019s drifted from that by not believing in the people.”<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The article suggests that It\u2019s the perspective of
The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong><\/em> that such choices, to hide the truth for an unready society, always beg a reckoning.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bale<\/strong> continues on that note:<\/em><\/em><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n
\u201cHe knows that it\u2019s coming. Everything seems great, but you know the s\u2014 is about to hit the fan, and nobody else seems to realize that. And it\u2019s his fault that it does.\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong><\/em> hits theaters this weekend, July 20th 2012.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\nRecently Entertainment Weekly caught up and interviewed both Nolan and Bale in regards to their upcoming conclusion to their Batman…\n<\/div>\n
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