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“And then when the lights come on, Batman is revealed, and the rest of the scene plays out with a massive overexposure.”
The Dark Knight might have come out just six years ago, but the interrogation scene between Batman and The Joker has already gone down as one of the most memorable scenes in movie history.
Redditor Join_You_In_The_Sun recently posted an awesome collection of 32 on-set photographs of that scene, with each image accompanied by director Christopher Nolan’s breakdown taken from an interview he did with Hero Complex.
Check out some pictures below and view the entire set here.
“The scene that is so important and so central to me is the interrogation scene between Batman and the Joker in the film. When we were writing the script, that was always one of the central set pieces that we wanted to crack.”
“It was a great set built into a location. It had all of the advantages of feeling that we were in a real place.”
“We wanted it to be at the point at which Batman is truly tested by the Joker and you see that the Joker is truly capable of getting under everybody’s skin.”
“It actually really adds something. We’re continually trying to catch him with the focus. You really see his movement back and forth.”
“Then there’s a point where it spills over into real physicality and he drags the Joker across the table. We go handheld at that point and shot the rest of the scene with handheld to be very spontaneous in its movement.”
“They had rehearsed the stunts and the fight stuff very specifically, but we really let the actors work within that. I had never seen anybody sell a punch the way Heath was able to with Christian. I got the violence I wanted. What I felt was really important creatively for the scene was that we show Batman going too far. We show him effectively torturing someone for information because it’s become personal.”
“He’s being pounded in the face and he’s laughing and loving it. There’s nothing you can do. As he tells Batman, “You have nothing to do with all of your strength.”
[via Reddit, images via Imgur, captions via Hero Complex]
“And then when the lights come on, Batman is revealed, and the rest of the scene plays out with a massive overexposure.”
The Dark Knight might have come out just six years ago, but the interrogation scene between Batman and The Joker has already gone down as one of the most memorable scenes in movie history.
Redditor Join_You_In_The_Sun recently posted an awesome collection of 32 on-set photographs of that scene, with each image accompanied by director Christopher Nolan’s breakdown taken from an interview he did with Hero Complex.
Check out some pictures below and view the entire set here.
“The scene that is so important and so central to me is the interrogation scene between Batman and the Joker in the film. When we were writing the script, that was always one of the central set pieces that we wanted to crack.”
“It was a great set built into a location. It had all of the advantages of feeling that we were in a real place.”
“We wanted it to be at the point at which Batman is truly tested by the Joker and you see that the Joker is truly capable of getting under everybody’s skin.”
“It actually really adds something. We’re continually trying to catch him with the focus. You really see his movement back and forth.”
“Then there’s a point where it spills over into real physicality and he drags the Joker across the table. We go handheld at that point and shot the rest of the scene with handheld to be very spontaneous in its movement.”
“They had rehearsed the stunts and the fight stuff very specifically, but we really let the actors work within that. I had never seen anybody sell a punch the way Heath was able to with Christian. I got the violence I wanted. What I felt was really important creatively for the scene was that we show Batman going too far. We show him effectively torturing someone for information because it’s become personal.”
“He’s being pounded in the face and he’s laughing and loving it. There’s nothing you can do. As he tells Batman, “You have nothing to do with all of your strength.”
[via Reddit, images via Imgur, captions via Hero Complex]