DARK KNIGHT SCENE ANALYSIS INTERVIEW
I: Today I am here with the one and only Christopher Nolan, legendary director of countless movies such as Inception, The Prestige, Memento, and The Dark Knight. Today we’re going to be talking about the opening scene of the film, which includes the Joker and some of his goons robbing a bank So, Mr. Nolan, what were your main goals in the first scene?
N: We were basically trying to set the Jokers character for the whole film. He’s unpredictable, clever, forward thinking, and crazy. So, we open the film with the establishing shot of Gotham, and then started to bring in the droning sound that we used to embody the Joker throughout the film. We liked to use that sound to anticipate the Jokers appearance. The sound is great, it’s an electric guitar playing one note, distorted to the point that it barely sounds like a guitar. It raises the tension and keeps the audience on their toes as to when Heath will pop out. Unpredictability, again.
So we’re zooming into this window in the building from that establishing shot with this droning going on when, boom, the window smashes out. Didn’t expect that did you? Unpredictability. We then then cut to the Jokers henchmen inside the building starting up their heist. So from the apparent order of
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Gotham’s linear cityscape, comes a moment of chaos that will pre-empt a heist on a grand scale, I’m sorry, I’ve gotten carried away. What was the question? I:*laughs* No worries Mr Nolan. During the scene we hear the goons talking about the Joker, saying, “I heard he wears make-up… Yeah, to scare people. You know, war paint.” Is that why he wears the make-up? Is there any other reason? N: Alright, so The Dark Knight works a lot with the idea of Identity.
Bruce Wayne hides his identity with his Batman mask, and the Joker hides his identity with his make-up. Or is he? The Joker may have just taken the identity as “The Joker” as his identity, dismissing whatever he was before whatever happened to him. This is also shown in the way he makes up stories about his childhood, and how he got his scars. The Joker could wear the make-up because it’s his identity, but he doesn’t wear the make-up, he is the make-up. If you go by one back story from the “The Killing Joke” comic book, it’s not even make-up. However, since we don’t actually know that much about the Joker, it could be
anything. It is pretty freaky though. I: It sure is. So, at the end of the scene, when the Joker takes off his mask and says “What doesn’t kill you only makes you stranger,” what does that mean? N: Oh, that! It really doesn’t mean anything actually. It’s supposed to feed into the Jokers unpredictability, just like earlier, which, if I’m not mistaken, comes back in somewhere near that line. That soundtrack is so random; you don’t know when it will start, or stop, increase in volume or anything, just like the character the track embodies. Later on in the movie, the Joker recognises his own unpredictability when he says to Dent, “Do I look like a man with a plan?” However, you need to think how, at times, he is a criminal mastermind with incredible plans, like the heist scene at the beginning of the film, the ferry scene at the end of the film, and when he purposely gets arrested (and the happenings directly after that). So this all makes the Joker an unpredictable criminal mastermind, which is kind of scary. I: After the Joker gives that line; he puts a grenade in the mouth of the bank manager, and then pulls the pin. What is the green smoke that comes out of the grenade, and what does that mean, if anything? N: A theme we decided to show throughout the film is the idea that ‘things are not what they seem.’ That’s exactly what that grenade means. The whole heist the goons were working with dud grenades. All of the hostages were holding duds to stop them doing anything from their hands, so if one of them had questioned the grenades’ legitimacy, the while plan could have been foiled, even though they really weren’t in the situation to be questioning anything. We were forcing the audience to think about their own lives in the context of this idea. If something so destructive as a grenade can be fake, and not what it seems, then surely some things in an everyday person’s life could be not what it seems.
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