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 What makes the story of The Dark Knight so interesting is the way that Batman sees Dent as the great hope for Gotham in his fight against crime. "Batman has an admiration for Harvey because Harvey's doing things that Batman can't do, or doesn't do, and maybe doesn't have the courage to do, which is come out in his everyday clothes and say, 'I'm going to do what I'm doing for Gotham City in the open.' That's what Harvey's doing, and he's doing it at his own peril." The question of what's right, and how best to accomplish what you believe is right, is central to The Dark Knight. "Bruce Wayne being the carefree billionaire, debonair playboy, everybody can wish and hope that they were that person," Eckhart says. "But also having a more serious profound side -- saving the city, using your money for good, that whole side -- I think that people on a daily basis struggle with those two sides of the coin. You know: should I buy a boat or should I give my money to the Salvation Army or the Red Cross? I mean, every single day we're battling with issues: what is our responsibility in society?" Eckhart even found a morality in the anarchic Joker: "The Joker has his objections to money: what he thinks about money, and what he thinks about modern crime; he has objections about the modern criminal as well. On one side he's the stylistic anarchist, on the other side he's being a responsible criminal." Eckhart chuckles. "And look at Maggie: she has her questions and issues too. Lt. Gordon: his responsibility between his police friends and Batman. I don't even understand half this stuff. There's so much that Chris has jammed in there." Ironically, the actual filming of The Dark Knight was not difficult thanks to the heady themes but rather because of some much more practical problems: maintaining secrecy on a film of this scale. "The secrecy issues involved with a movie like this are intense," Eckhart says. "The whole time I'm living in fear of the script getting released, and the responsibility and pressure of not being the one responsible for that leak, and I ended up having to do some extraordinary things. Obviously people have seen Batman's costume before, but Heath and I had to wear hoods over our heads, and go into public looking like friars. That was interesting. Heath's picture, the Joker, got out, but Two-Face never did. So I was happy about that." In matters of secrecy, the internet -- populated by nosy photographers and rabid fanboys who want as much information as possible -- presented a problem that Eckhart still sounds disappointed about. "The internet, it does suck when people reveal things," he says. ... |
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