I get that, but you could torture Wayne other ways. have a direct web cam stream into the city showing how people are going crazy and turning on each other. Killing the rich etc. Also, didnt they think it was possible that their "torture" would just serve as motivation for him to get back. Idk, I just hate when villains leave people alive. I know it has to be that way in this case
Also to the guy above me, Nolans batman films arent that smart. get off your high horse.
Well, it's darn smarter than Schumacher's films so I say it's smarter than the average Batman film. And I think nobody here is riding the high horse more than you bruh. I know you're smarter than that.
From CBR:
A member of the SuperHeroHype forums has transcribed a massive chunk of Christopher Nolan's forward from "The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy" book and the takeaway is pretty revealing. Check out the section below where Nolan describes his thoughts on "Batman Begins" turning into a trilogy.
"People ask if we’d always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you had planned on growing up, getting married, having kids. The answer is complicated. When David and I first started cracking open Bruce’s story, we flirted with what might come after, then backed away, not wanting to look too deep into the future. I didn’t want to know everything that Bruce couldn’t; I wanted to live it with him. I told David and Jonah to put everything they knew into each film as we made it. The entire cast and crew put all they had into the first film. Nothing held back. Nothing saved for next time. They built an entire city. Then Christian and Michael and Gary and Morgan and Liam and Cillian started living in it. Christian bit off a big chunk of Bruce Wayne’s life and made it utterly compelling. He took us into a pop icon’s mind and never let us notice for an instant the fanciful nature of Bruce’s methods.
"I never thought we’d do a second -- how many good sequels are there? Why roll those dice? But once I knew where it would take Bruce, and when I started to see glimpses of the antagonist, it became essential. We re-assembled the team and went back to Gotham. It had changed in three years. Bigger. More real. More modern. And a new force of chaos was coming to the fore. The ultimate scary clown, as brought to terrifying life by Heath. We’d held nothing back, but there were things we hadn’t been able to do the first time out -- a Batsuit with a flexible neck, shooting on Imax. And things we’d chickened out on -- destroying the Batmobile, burning up the villain’s blood money to show a complete disregard for conventional motivation. We took the supposed security of a sequel as license to throw caution to the wind and headed for the darkest corners of Gotham.
"I never thought we’d do a third -- are there any great second sequels? But I kept wondering about the end of Bruce’s journey, and once David and I discovered it, I had to see it for myself. We had come back to what we had barely dared whisper about in those first days in my garage. We had been making a trilogy. I called everyone back together for another tour of Gotham. Four years later, it was still there. It even seemed a little cleaner, a little more polished. Wayne Manor had been rebuilt. Familiar faces were back -- a little older, a little wiser . . . but not all was as it seemed. Gotham was rotting away at its foundations. A new evil bubbling up from beneath. Bruce had thought Batman was not needed anymore, but Bruce was wrong, just as I had been wrong. The Batman had to come back. I suppose he always will."
Finally, MTV spoke with Anne Hathaway about her first time reading the script for "The Dark Knight Rises."
"I was in a room by myself reading a script. I think there was a guard outside," Hathaway told MTV. "A part of me was trying to stay professional, like, 'This is going to be your one chance to read it for many, many months, so really take it in.' And a part of me was like, 'Holy ****! This is so cool! Oh my God! I am the envy of so many million people right now.' I just could not believe my luck, so I had those two things going: keeping it cool and, pardon the pun, bat**** crazy."
