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Originally posted by Branden_Lucero
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Nolan as a director has always made films more for 'The adult table' while most filmmakers stick to the 'kids table', because at the kids table is generally lighter, flashier, and deals with things simplified and is a lot of fun. The kids table is a blast and really quite fun, but the adult table gets more in depth about stories, characters and motivations and talks about exciting situations rather than showing them to you.
Not to say he doesn't include elements from the kids tables in his films, but really that's something in Nolans films I've always appreciated, his Batman films especially.
He treats his audience as adults and doesn't show off flashy and absurd action scenes, and keeps things moderately grounded. His characters all have something to say and are rarely wasted, and the important thing is that everyone has something a purpose in the story, rather than just screen time.
The Dark Knight is a film that's about build up, that's one of the reasons lots of people didn't really like it...Now granted not everyone has the same tastes in entertainment, but the fact that the film succeeded in the way it did was very much due to Nolans abilities as a story teller, his brothers abilities as a writer, and the fact that they've taken these larger than life characters and minimalized them so they're more like real people, but still are the comic characters at their core.
I've always felt that there are many reasons the dark knight succeeded outside of the death of Heath Ledger.
They had amazing viral marketing, they had amazing actors(other than Ledger) but really the key thing that made the film what it was, were the Nolans and their take on the Batman universe.
It took the Nolans 1 Batman film to figure out the comics universe, characters, motivations, and mythos. None of the previous films ever did that I felt. They all had Batman as 'Gothams protector' who beat up(and killed) criminals because his parents were murdered. But there was never anything beyond the character, or the villains.
The Burton Joker, why did he kill people and try to destroy the city? Because he was crazy and just wanted too. Why does the Nolan Joker kill people and try to destroy the city? Because the character has an overwhelming sense of anarchy that he wants to spread through out the place and turn everyone on each other for his own sick amusement..and Hes crazy.
The Schumacher Two Face, why does he go around killing people and try to destroy the city? Because hes crazy, nothing more.
Nolans Two face isn't out to destroy the city, though at the end of the film he no longer cares about Gotham, hes goes on a killing spree to in an anarchic attempt to make things 'fair'. Thats the character at his core and thats what made his last scene so gut wrenching, because you know if the coin lands bad heads up, he'll pull the trigger instantly.
These are just a few reasons why the Dark Knight succeeded the way it did regardless of Heaths death. The film isnt going to please everyone and while thats unfortunate, there's always someone who will hate something because 'its not the right color', etc.
I'll end my rant nao.
He's marginally better than the rest so I'll give it a watch come July.
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