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The Dark Knight Rises is one of the biggest films since the silent era, this is amazing how people who are not even Batman Fans are looking into the light saying how this movie will be the icing on The Dark Knight Trilogy. They are also saying that this is going to be bigger than the silent films for e.g. Doctor Zhivago and A Tale Of Two Cities so here is the post on why it is bigger than the silent era.
Source- New.com.au
“It’s not the sort of boast you’d expect from the director of a Batman film.
But then again, Christopher Nolan isn’t just any director, and he isn’t prone to wild exaggerations, so when he says The Dark Knight Risesis “the biggest (film) anyone’s done since the silent era”, his words carry weight.The last chapter in his Batman trilogy is easily the most anticipated movie of this year. Expectations are high for a reason: this is the film in which The Bat is broken.
Nolan told this month’s issue of Empire magazine in the UK: “I think this is the biggest one I’ve done. The biggest one anyone’s done since the silent era, in technical terms. Shooting on IMAX, you wanna justify that we’ve put our resources more into what we were shooting on the day than computer graphics. It’s not what you’re used to seeing. I don’t know when someone last did a film with 11,000 extras in a real environment. It is an escalation. You want things to be justifiably bigger and more extreme than what you’ve done in the last film. As long as the story supports that.”
Nolan sees The Dark Knight Rises as an epic war movie in the mould of Doctor Zhivago and A Tale Of Two Cities, rather than a run-of-the-mill superhero blockbuster:
“It’s all about historical epics in conception. It’s a war film. It’s a revolutionary epic. It’s looking back to the grand-scale epics of the past, really, and for me that goes as far back as silent films. There’s an attempt to visualise certain things in this film on this large-scale that are troubling and genuinely to the idea of an American city. Or, to put it another way: revolutions and the destabilising of society have happened everywhere in the world, so why not here?”
Warner Bros’ ad campaign certainly pushes that sense of scale, with posters giving audiences the size of the struggle facing Batman and Gotham.”
