And In The End
Confession time. I have a horrible memory for the endings of stories. Take Lawrence of Arabia for example. I have seen it many times, it’s one of my all time favorite movies, but I cannot remember how it ends.
So, with The Dark Knight Rises coming soon and details trickling out about it I wanted to revisit The Dark Knight as I could not recall specifically how it left things in the city of Gotham. Since I couldn’t find anywhere to stream the movie, I found the screenplay and dove in.
Maybe it’s because I’m such a Batman fan, but this script just zoomed by despite being easily the longest one I’ve read this year. Any time I checked the page number to try and gauge where I was story/structure-wise, I was surprised by how far I’d read since I’d last checked. It does come across as a lot to have crammed into one movie, but it flows so well that you can overlook that.
While the Joker is very well written here, Heath Ledger really did take the role far beyond where it could have gone in the hands of a lesser actor. It’s also very disappointing, as it was when I saw the film, to know that this version of Two Face won’t be returning. He’s a character that was always too gimicky for me to really be interested in, but here he’s fully fleshed out in an exciting new way.
I need to read it again sometime to really pick it apart, but overall, very much worth reading.
