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Christopher nolan's astounding third batman feature, 'the dark knight rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the christopher reeve superman gave birth to the genre.
-John Podhoretz
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Christopher Nolan's Astounding Third Batman Feature, 'the

John Podhoretz
Christopher nolan's astounding third batman feature, 'the dark knight rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the christopher reeve superman gave birth to the genre.
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The dark knight series is all from batman's point of view. but if you look at dark knight 2, you'll see a superman who's much calmer than the one in the first dark knight. batman and superman are dead opposites. i love superman. do i love batman more? they're not people. they're only lines on paper.
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Some of the things i love the most are when a writer or a visionary takes on sort of an iconic character and then spins it. like with frank miller, batman was this one thing for basically forty years, and then frank miller came along and said he can also be this other thing. and christopher nolan came along and said he can also be this other thing. the idea of taking iconic comic book characters or superhero characters or mythic characters and subverting the genre or coming up with a new idea is something that's really interesting to me.
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Even when i was a little boy, when i was seven, i absolutely loved wonder woman, and i saw her as one of the superhero greats with superman and batman, and i think it's because she was her own thing. she always felt like the real deal the same way that superman and batman did. whereas the she-hulks and spider-women and all that kind of thing felt like a continuation of a concept.
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American writers often say they find it difficult to write superman. they say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. but superman is a metaphor. for me, superman has the same problems we do, but on a paul bunyan scale. if superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. when superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. but it's still a story about your relatives visiting.
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I love 'batman.' i love the adam west 'batman.' i love the animated 'batman.' the character of batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it's survived so many different media.
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I remember when we were doing "batman begins" and to watch chris nolan go from "memento" to "batman" and take that leap from such a smaller size to a big movie, that's inspiring. but those movies are their own type of art and you have to really understand it and really know that world and i would have to take a long time to figure that out.because my brain doesn't naturally go there.
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