Christopher Nolan, Batmaniac
Great article in Wired about Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, and his preference of really shooting things instead of relying on visual effects. I love that Nolan’s approach to filmmaking both hearkens back to early guerilla work by the likes of George Lucas and at the same time, contradicts, oh, everything Lucas has done in the last ten years or so.
Nolan has a cogent Theory of Applied Batmatics: Insist on reality — no effects, no tricks — up to the point where insisting on reality becomes unrealistic. Then, in postproduction, make what is necessarily unreal as real as possible. “Anything you notice as technology reminds you that you’re in a movie theater,” Nolan explains. “Even if you’re trying to portray something fantastical and otherworldly, it’s always about trying to achieve invisible manipulation.” Especially, he adds, with Batman, “the most real of all the superheroes, who has no superpowers.”
Not only that, but Nolan’s been shooting portions of the movie in Imax and The Dark Knight will be shown on around 100 Imax screens around the country when it’s released. I’m thinking that might be a worthwhile trip to make.
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Preferably, for everyone who isn’t a viral marketer, the next Batman will have a better, relevant, screenplay, a better director and better actors, especially as Batman. The major complaint, obviously, was the terrible, yet overhyped, movie, the atrocious directing, and the terrible, badly-cast, gay actors. If this were imdb there would be more viral marketers here. They’re like the cheap hustler telemarketers and telephone technical support of internet media. The next Batman movie needs to be just plain better. Meaning, NO BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Tony on 08.15.08 1:52 am
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