For years, numerous versions of the end of The Black Knight: The legend rises. The stories of Christopher Nolan They are both direct and evasive when it comes to giving explanations. This leaves a lot to interpretation.
The end of Origin This is still a subject of debate to this day, memento This is the best example to start investigating and theorizing about what is really happening. This is Nolan’s story with the most unreliable narrator and protagonist. And no one understands what it’s about Principle.
In the case of trilogy of The Black Knight, that until the arrival of Oppenheimer was the director’s big commercial success, at first he seems quite frank when it comes to describing what is happening. Despite the obvious fictional nature of superhero cinema and the fact that it has such deep and well-realized symbology.
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But the fans always searched double interpretations for the end. There are those who believe that Batman died sacrificing himself, and What Alfred sees at 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 truly trust what Nolan (and Alfred) tell us and believe that to be the case. managed to escape, and he simply abandoned this revenge-obsessed version of himself for heroism.
In a conversation with Brandon Davis of Phase Herothe screenwriter David S. Goyer 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 comes to mind is the final scene. After a life where Alfred constantly worried that Bruce “had no other way… than commit suicide like Batman”, Both thought that the ending, as it might be interpreted at first glance, was a “story worth telling.”
“It was supposed to be the end. I remember, after the premiere of The Black Knightcalled me three months later and said, “Would you like to meet for lunch?” And I realized 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 my mind was that last scene.”
“That was the first idea and then we knew we had a film! Alfred is like a surrogate father; he fears that Bruce sees no other way out than Batman’s suicide, Batman’s death, TRUE? And then, at that moment, he sees this nod and he realizes that Bruce has evolved. And we thought, “Oh! “It’s a story worth telling!” he concludes.
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