Reply With QuoteAn earlier draft for The Dark Knight has been leaked. Pretty interesting read.
Link.
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An earlier draft for The Dark Knight has been leaked. Pretty interesting read.
Link.
Seems reasonable to me. Those hookers aren't going to kill themselves, you know.
Some theaters have 6 AM screenings (holy shit) to keep up with demand:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment...he_dark_k.html
I would consider a 6am showing.
It'll be running 24 hours a day here in Vegas during opening weekend. Guessing that I'll see it around 4-5am Saturday morning.
From Time's review:
Beyond dark. It's as black -- and teeming and toxic -- as the mind of the Joker. "Batman Begins," the 2005 film that launched Nolan's series, was a mere five-finger exercise. This is the full symphony.
This will little snippet from a Scifi.com article was interesting (concerning IMAX):
--- AlanNolan opted to use the unwieldy, noisy IMAX cameras to shoot six major action sequences, in part to intensify the cinema-going experience in a way that home theaters can't match.
But Nolan also discovered that the high-definition format was good for smaller shots as well. "What we found as we started getting more and more interested in [it is using] these cameras ... for smaller, quieter moments that weren't necessarily action-based," Nolan said. "And that became interesting photographically as well. So we just worked [the IMAX format] more and more into the movie, and because we knew that for the 35mm release we'd be extracting [a] 35mm [image] from the IMAX [print], we used the cameras as much as we felt like, and then in the [editing] were free to decide, 'Do we use the full IMAX frame for this, or do we keep it in the 35mm [aspect ratio]?'"
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IMAX came in handy in several scenes, some of which didn't make the final cut, Nolan said. "Like the ... cop funeral, where there are so many ... hundreds and hundreds of police--we shot all those grand shots ... actually ... in IMAX, but they don't appear in IMAX in the finished film, because, ... rhythmically, it didn't feel right," he said. "It was an edit-room decision at the end of the day."
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Nolan added that the IMAX version of the film may make it onto the eventual Blu-ray high-definition disc version of the movie.
So there is extra footage!
As if I needed another reason to watch this movie, apparently there is a full trailer for WATCHMEN being shown before TDK. I mean, can this get any better? I submit that it cannot.
This is going sound callous, but I think think movie is getting a lot of hype because of Heath ledger's death, and that pisses me off. Would people (outside the geek and otaku community) be as excited for this movie if he hadn't died? hard to say but I think not.
Yeah, its a pretty small movie. Warner Brothers probably hopes people will go see it based on word of mouth and definitely not because of the GIGANTIC POSTERS THAT ARE ALL OVER EVER CITY IN NORTH AMERICA.
I'm pretty sure they would.
The surreal plethora of promos and press gigs they've pulled is sheer insanity.
Who will be joining me in announcing "Bat Manuel!" in all of Nestor Carbonell's scenes?
Holy zen I did not know he was in it. I'll be announcing it in my head, definitely.
Wholly, I will join you! Hell, I'm already saying it everytime he appears on Lost.
hrm... I don't to be a jerk or anything... but how much are reviews going to be effected by Heath Ledger's death.
I mean Entertainment Weekly is comparing Ledgers performance to Marlon Brando..
He was in "A Knight's Tale"
I also really like that on the rottentomatoes page (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_...itic=creamcrop), out of the all of the top critic reviews, only one is negative, and it has 394 ridiculous comments.
Jesus, I take that Ledger comment back... He is compared to Marlon Brando even in the negative new yorker review. Jeeze, he must have pulled out all of the stops for this one.
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Having read about Heath Ledger and his insane efforts of method acting, I've found a great amount of respect for his acting - or at least the labour he undertakes prior to and during it.
Yeah, and Marlon Brando was in The Island of Dr. Moreau. Great actors make terrible movies sometimes.
Heath Ledger was great in "A Knight's Tale". Which was actually a lot more enjoyable than it had any right to be.
Niclas, what about his method acting particularly impressed you? I heard that he spent a couple days or something in a rubber room to get the idea of being in an asylum. Is that any more admirable than Dustin Hoffman staying up all night drinking, so that he could appear on set as a convincing drunk?
It's just that kind of attitude that inspires my callousness above; before his death people thought Ledger was a good actor but they care a LOT more now that he's dead.
Not really. Maybe stop getting your news while checking out at the supermarket?
A Knight's Tale was awesome fuck you haters.
They don't care a lot more now that he's dead, they care a lot more because those who reviewed the film are hailing his acting in The Dark Knight as the performance of a lifetime.
He was being lauded around the time he did Brokeback, too. I think it was after that people started to realize the guy was a serious actor, and it made his being cast in Dark Knight all that more of an interesting and awesome choice.
I guess I will have to see the movie to know fully.
I work at a library, which means I work with a lot of middle-aged women. But I'm kind of the "movie guy" around work, so a lot of my co-workers turn to me to ask about what's out and what's good. I got a few of them to watch Batman Begins despite their aversion to comic book films and got very positive reactions from all of them, including my former boss who had a very strong aversion to action movies in general. I've generally found that Batman Begins is the comic book film for people who don't normally like comic book films (and those who do too), but it can be a hard sell to get them to actually sit down and watch it.
The ads are making me a bit uneasy. It seems they're pimping Heath Ledger pretty hard.
Small snippet about the IMAX experience on AICN:
It actually seems like the movie is more about Two-Face in the mostly non-spoiler reviews I drew this quote above from, so... I'm not worried. All indications are this is gonna be awesome so at this point I don't really care.The IMAX experience was amazing. The film played in it’s correct aspect ratio (2.35:1) except whenever the specifically shot IMAX sequences played, which opened the world up, giving me a 70 foot tall window into another universe. Wally Pfister’s cinematography was always sharp and in IMAX really did make me feel like I was there, which is the highest compliment I could pay to him.
--- Alan
The way I see it is that they are trying to desensitize the audience to the fact that the character seen is played by an actor dead - to boot recently, and just after the film was shot, thus making it his last film. It would possibly be much more awkward seeing Ledger in the movie with completely PR "silence" after his death.
Well they've already said that a lot of the movie will be based on The Long Halloween and Dark Victory - or was that the third installment?
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