The Dark Knight Opening Scene Analysis Essay

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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 …show more content…

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