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Article: The Joker is wild in Batman's 'Dark Knight'
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 17, 2008
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HOLLYWOOD - Given the success of "Batman Begins" three years ago,
adventurous, eclectic director Christopher Nolan could have gone
anywhere and done anything with his next film. So why did he elect
to return to the mythical city of Gotham, to the confines of a
superhero movie and the narrow world of a caped crusader imprisoned
by the secret of who he really is?
That sequel, "The Dark Knight," answers all those questions with
a vengeance. To see it is to understand that Nolan and his co-
writer brother Jonathan saw a chance to go deeper into familiar
characters and mythology, a chance to meditate on darker-than-usual
themes that have implications for the way we live now.
With Christian Bale ...