STORY: Christopher Nolan: ‘Superman’ is More Challenging than ‘Batman’ “Brutal.” “Serious.” Maybe even “apocalyptic.” Instead, they are more usually candy colored, lightweight, frothy.īut while there are many words that can be used to describe The Dark Knight Rises - which finds Christian Bale’s tarnished hero battered and broken - “frothy” isn’t one of them. They rarely come encoded with social allegory and political overtones and an overwhelming sense of human decay. Movies that attract more than $1 billion at the box office - as was the case with 2008’s The Dark Knight and its follow-up this year - almost never are personal films. But seven years later, with The Dark Knight Rises, he has not only completed a cycle of films that has built in intensity and grandeur but also redefined what superhero movies can be - while also grossing nearly $2.5?billion worldwide. When writer-director Christopher Nolan completed Batman Begins in 2005, he had no plans for a sequel, let alone a trilogy.
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