the screenwriter of ‘The Dark Knight’ sentences the last shot of the film

For years now, quite a few versions of the ending of The Dark Knight: The Legend Rises. The stories of Christopher Nolan They are direct and at the same time evasive when it comes to giving explanations. It leaves a lot to interpretation.

The end of Origen It is still the subject of debate to this day, Memento It is the best example to start investigating and theorizing about what is really happening. It’s Nolan’s story with the least reliable narrator and protagonist. And nobody understands what it’s about Tenet.

In the case of the trilogy of The dark knight, that until the arrival of Oppenheimer had been the great commercial success of the director, at first, he seems quite frank when it comes to portraying what is happening. Despite the obvious fictional nature of superhero cinema and the fact that it has such deep and well-achieved symbology.

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But fans have always sought double interpretations for the end. There are those who believe that Batman died by sacrificing himself, and What Alfred sees in the end is a vision of the life he would have wanted Bruce to lead, far from the spiral of violence and the ghosts of the past that tormented the dark knight. And there are those who really trust what Nolan (and Alfred) is telling us and believe that it does. managed to escape, and he just let go of that version of himself obsessed with revenge through heroism.

In a conversation with Brandon Davis, of Phase Herothe screenwriter David S. Goyer has recalled a conversation he had with Christopher Nolan to discuss ideas for the third installment of the trilogy. According to him, The first thing that came to mind was the final scene. After a lifetime of Alfred constantly worrying that Bruce “had no other way… than commit suicide like Batman”, Both thought that the ending, as it could be interpreted at first, was a “story worth telling.”

“That was supposed to be the end. I remember, after the premiere of The dark knightcalled me three months later and said: ‘Do you want to meet for lunch?’ And I realized that he was toying with the idea of ​​talking about another movie,” says Goyer. “I remember, while we were eating, the first idea that came to mind was that last scene.”

“That was the first idea and then we knew we had a movie! Alfred is like a surrogate father; he worries that Bruce sees no other way out than Batman’s suicide, Batman’s death, TRUE? And then, in that moment, he sees that nod and he realizes that Bruce has moved on. And we thought, ‘Oh! “That’s a story worth telling!” he concludes.