There's something about the grandiose nature of superhero movie dialogue that roots itself deep in your brain and sticks there, sometimes for years.With great power comes great responsibility. Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.Or what about, "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"?Christopher Nolan recently shared a fascinating admission about one of the most quoted lines from The Dark Knight. And it wasn't even something he wrote. The Line Nolan Never WroteIn a joint Deadline interview with Cillian Murphy, Nolan confessed he didn't initially understand the depth of his brother Jonathan Nolan's now-iconic line. The director kept the line in the script despite his confusion, and years later, it's become one of cinema's most resonant moments. - YouTube www.youtube.com In the scene, Harvey Dent and Rachel are interrupted at dinner by Bruce Wayne, who (in his playboy persona) pokes fun at Dent for his public persona as a justice figure in Gotham. Subtextually, the scene works so well because Dent doesn't know he's talking to Batman, who is absorbing the message he thinks he needs to hear most at that moment.In the interview, Nolan admitted he didn't really understand the line at first."I'm plagued by a line from The Dark Knight, and I'm plagued by it because I didn't write it. My brother [Jonathan] wrote it. It kills me, because it's the line that most resonates. And at the time, I didn't even understand...
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