Var delar av The Dark Knight Rises en kommentar om Occupy Movement?

I en intervju med Rolling Stone , regissören Christopher Nolan insisterar på att hans film är apolitisk:

In the new movie, you have Bane more or less trick Gotham's 99 percent into rising up against the rich – is that intended as an anti-Occupy Wall Street statement?

I've had as many conversations with people who have seen the film the other way round. We throw a lot of things against the wall to see if it sticks. We put a lot of interesting questions in the air, but that's simply a backdrop for the story. What we're really trying to do is show the cracks of society, show the conflicts that somebody would try to wedge open. We're going to get wildly different interpretations of what the film is supporting and not supporting, but it's not doing any of those things. It's just telling a story. If you're saying, “Have you made a film that's supposed to be criticizing the Occupy Wall Street movement?” – well, obviously, that's not true.

But the movie certainly suggests that there's a great danger of populist movements being pushed too far.

If the populist movement is manipulated by somebody who is evil, that surely is a criticism of the evil person. You could also say the conditions the evil person is exploiting are problematic and should be addressed.

Jag har läst lite om det här ämnet, och de flesta av de rapporter som jag har läst visar att manuset var i utveckling långt före händelserna "Occupy Wall Street" - det sägs att det finns flera paralleller, och det finns en artikel på theweek.com som sammanfattar de motsatta vyerna ganska bra.

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Nolan casts Bane as the leader of a "ragtag movement with a propensity for violence" against the wealthy, evoking Occupy Wall Street. "Bane's henchmen literally attack Wall Street, savagely beat the rich, and promise the good people of Gotham that 'tomorrow, you claim what is rightfully yours.'" The movie is a damning indictment of the anti-corporate movement and the threat of social chaos it poses.

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But Nolan sympathizes with Occupy Wall Street: While director (and co-screenwriter) Nolan claims that his movie is "above partisanship," Rises clearly has a "down-with-the-system undercurrent."

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Over the three films, Batman has "oscillated between seemingly opposite poles" — "savior and destroyer, human and beast, the ultimate radical individualist and people's protector." The distinctions between his two sides have "grown progressively messier," and it's impossible to force his character into a black-and-white, liberal v. conservative framework.

Jag antar att du kan välja - men det är värt att komma ihåg att många tänkte The Dark Knight med Bushs metodik när man handskas med terrorister ...

Nej. Medan Nolan inte har någon hemlighet att de aktuella händelserna (särskilt de som stod för våra rädslor, till exempel den globala finanskrisen) påverka tonen och teman i hans filmer, var skrivandet och filmen av TDKR nästan avslutad hösten 2011 - strax före upptaget rörelsen började göra stora rubriker.

Jag tyckte att det var en mycket modern syn på den franska revolutionen, Kranbanan, att fängsla stormas, makten till folket. Det verkar väldigt lik Bastillas stormning: Häftande adeln, rättvisa domstolar, Ruthless blodsutgjutning, och tillägget av ordet medborgare till Frankrikes folk.