![]() ![]() ![]() “Could you turn yourself a little more to the left?” “Hey, buster!” he shouts to the stuntman, craning his neck skyward and raising his voice for the first time all day (politely, as ever, but enough so he can be heard). The meaning is clear: Batman, or at least his doppelgänger, is dead.Ĭhristopher Nolan, the director of “The Dark Knight” the follow-up to his 2005 franchise reboot, “Batman Begins” is unperturbed by the rain, but a tiny detail irks him. ![]() A noose is around his neck, a knife plunged into his heart. A few stories overhead, a stunt double in a familiar black-caped costume swings from a hoist, slamming into a window in a Mies van der Rohe tower that we shall imagine is Gotham City Hall. Producers and idle actors huddle under a flimsy canopy grips hastily unfold another over their high-priced gear. A DREARY office plaza at Wabash Street and the river, late afternoon. ![]()
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