Watchmen + The Dark Knight Rises | “Necessary”
“Maybe the knife was too slow.”
Criminals mock society’s laws. You know this better than most.
Memento (dir. Christopher Nolan)
The Dark Knight Trilogy: Bruce Wayne’s Unusual Requests.
The Dark Knight Trilogy: Revisited Wounds.
Hans Zimmer: I’ve always gone “What was the defining moment for him?” The defining moment for him was seeing his parents being killed. And that moment froze him in time. You know this sort of an emotional freeze that happened to him and that’s why i kept going back to the choir boy.
Christopher Nolan: Yeah, the choir boy with the frozen voice. It was a very intriguing idea of an arrested development of being stuck somewhere.
In batman begins he literally fell into the ice (a symbolism to bruce being emotionally frozen, maybe) and in the prologue of the dark knight rises, the ice cracking into the shape of the batman logo made it seem, to me, like bruce is finally about to be unfrozen, emotionally.
“Gotham needs its true hero.”
"The darkly romantic, lush score, with its strangely minimalist core that he and James Newton Howard labored over with such passion brought new ways of tapping emotion and pathos within the context of relentless action. The sound was fresh, distinctive and has been mercilessly plundered by every action movie (or at least their trailers) since 2005."
The pearls were vital to me. When you actually pause for a shot where she looks at herself in the mirror with the pearls, which to me says everything’s flashing through her head, what it could have been if things have been different, if things have been fairer, if things have been you know, which side of the tracks are you born on the accident of all that. - Hans Zimmer
People usually say that Bruce Wayne’s superpower is his wealth, but i think that the will to act is his superpower.
