{"id":614804,"date":"2024-03-29T17:13:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T14:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jonathan-nolan-breaks-down-the-dark-knights-most-famous-line\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T17:13:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T14:13:54","slug":"jonathan-nolan-breaks-down-the-dark-knights-most-famous-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jonathan-nolan-breaks-down-the-dark-knights-most-famous-line\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jonathan Nolan Breaks Down The Dark Knight\u2019s Most Famous Line"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Recently, Christopher Nolan made an interesting admission: The most famous line from his fan-favorite Batman film, 2008\u2019s The Dark Knight<\/em>, wasn\u2019t his creation and was a line that he initially didn\u2019t quite get. Nolan said his brother, frequent collaborator and co-writer Jonathan came up with the prophetic line, \u201cYou either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m plagued by a line from The Dark Knight<\/em>, and I\u2019m plagued by it because I didn\u2019t write it,\u201d Nolan told Deadline<\/a> last month. \u201cMy brother wrote it. It kills me, because it\u2019s the line that most resonates. And at the time, I didn\u2019t even understand it \u2026 I read it in his draft, and I was like, \u2018All right, I\u2019ll keep it in there, but I don\u2019t really know what it means. Is that really a thing?\u2019 And then, over the years since that film\u2019s come out, it just seems truer and truer. In [Oppenheimer<\/em>], it\u2019s absolutely that. Build them up, tear them down. It\u2019s the way we treat people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n At the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival earlier this month, The Hollywood Reporter <\/em>asked Jonathan Nolan about his thought process for coming up with the line. As the audience will recall, the dialogue was spoken by Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) early in the film while they\u2019re having a chat in a restaurant (video below). <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt came later in the script<\/a>,\u201d recalled Nolan (Westworld<\/em>, Interstellar<\/em>), who was at the festival to promote his upcoming Amazon sci-fi action-drama Fallout<\/em>. \u201cWe\u2019ve done a version or two of the script where we were looking for something that would distill the tragedy of Harvey Dent, but that would also apply to Batman. The richness of Batman is in the way this principled, almost Boy Scout-like figure is wrapped up in this kind of ghoulish appearance and his willingness to embrace the darkness. So I was looking at Greek tragic figures.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Continued Nolan: \u201cThe first part of that line is \u2018you either die a hero\u2019 \u2014 and that part\u2019s important, because not everybody wants to be a hero; it\u2019s engaging in heroics that puts you in this space, where you have this binary outcome. The idea is there are people who put themselves on the line and so often that wager turns on them. It\u2019s also that old idea of absolute power corrupting absolutely. It felt uniquely resonant to the tragedy of Harvey Dent and the tragedy of Batman. The fact that it resonates with people beyond the film is gratifying. I was proud of that line.\u201d<\/p>\n

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