![39 Actors & Directors On Their Best Movies
CHRISTIAN BALE ON THE DARK KNIGHT
So what new physical challenges did you face for The Dark Knight?
We’ve gone a bit further with Keysi, the martial art we learned for the first one.
I’m actually learning how to do it more realistically than ever before, though it’s such an extremely violent way of fighting; there are literally moves where you tear someone’s cheek away from their face, or rip their nose off – every part of you becomes a weapon. It’s formidable.
Batman doesn’t kill, so we can’t have him doing that: we modify it.
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39 Actors & Directors On Their Best Movies
CHRISTIAN BALE ON THE DARK KNIGHT
So what new physical challenges did you face for The Dark Knight?
We’ve gone a bit further with Keysi, the martial art we learned for the first one.
I’m actually learning how to do it more realistically than ever before, though it’s such an extremely violent way of fighting; there are literally moves where you tear someone’s cheek away from their face, or rip their nose off – every part of you becomes a weapon. It’s formidable.
Batman doesn’t kill, so we can’t have him doing that: we modify it.
23 Slow Movies That Deserve Your Patience
Last Days (2005)
The Plodding Plot: Michael Pitt plays a depressed rock star (modelled upon Kurt Cobain) drifting towards suicide as his friends and hangers-on party around him. Anyone hoping for a sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll blowout will be disappointed: this is a mournful riff on the nature of depression rather than a Cobain biopic.
Rewarding Pay-Off: Less obscure then the tedious Gerry, Van Sant’s return to indie filmmaking works a treat here, his observational, detached style the perfect medium by which to portray a man adrift. Disorientating, yes. Pointless, no.
Action-Packed Alternative: Pining for jangling guitars and sex with groupies? Almost Famous is a more conventional portrayal of the rock star lifestyle…
There Will Be Blood (2007)
