Brilliant movie. Loved the whole production – acting, cinematography, story arc. Good stuff.

Is Nolan conscious/intentional of setting up a morality play of Batman (Christ), the Joker (Satan), and Dent (Everyman)? Is it more in line with the story of Baldr? The Joker does resemble Loki, with his love of chaos.

Is Nolan leading to the “Broken Bat” arc?

The relationship between the Joker and Batman seems more Zoroastrian – an equality/duality between good and evil. Batman can’t defeat the Joker, because he refuses to kill him, and the Joker won’t kill Batman because he enjoys the conflict too much. Neither has the true upper hand, or if anything, Batman is playing catchup and is reactionary.

Interesting differences between the story of The Dark Knight and “canon”:

• Harvey is attacked in the courtroom by the Joker, who throws acid on him, causing the physical injury. The acid affects his psychosis, causing the madness.
• Rachel and Harvey are already married when he is injured.
• Harvey fights the madness (at times), and Bruce is always there to encourage him (”I believe in Harvey Dent”).
• Harvey doesn’t die. He does disappear for awhile, giving in to Two-Face, but comes back, and becomes the DA again.
• Parallels between the cellphone aggregation and Brother Eye?

This is pretty cool. A friend of mine participated in the 48 Hour Film Project in Jacksonville, FL this last weekend. Adam did the soundtrack and audio production.

The concept is really cool – your team draws a genre, and is assigned a prop and a line of dialog that has to be used, and has 48 hours to write, shoot and complete a short film.