Christian Bale talks 'Dark Knight Rises' Occupy movement connection

Christian Bale talks 'Dark Knight Rises' Occupy movement connection

NOTE: This interview was carried out earlier this month, before the deadly shooting at a Colorado screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” on Friday, July 20, the day the film was released.

Christian Bale told OnTheRedCarpet.com that he was surprised by the societal relevancy in “Dark Knight Rises,” and the parallels between the movie and the Occupy movement.

“There’s something quite uncanny that happened during ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ and I think you’ll see that there’s a correlation in the Occupy Wall Street movement and some themes within the movie here,” Bale told OnTheRedCarpet.com.


“I turned to Chris [Nolan] and I said, ‘How did that happen? I read the script long before Occupy Wall street and Occupy anything existed, but look at that!’ It’s become more and more topical, the more that we continued filming,” Bale said. “He manages to do that – just to take a superhero but actually make it mean something to our time right now.”

“The Dark Knight Rises” is the final Batman film by Christopher Nolan, who kicked off the trilogy with “Batman Begins” in 2005. It is also the last film for Bale as Batman. The movie is also touted to be one of the realist superhero movies to date.

“I think there was a realism when Bob Kane first created Batman,” Bale said. “I think that it went off in a different direction, but this character was created around World War II. It was very topical, they were very tragic times and it was an effort to look at the individual and the uselessness that they feel and try to give them some sense of hope – of actually being able to be effective. I think that Chris has just returned to that original concept and that brings out the reality.”

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