Wally Pfister, a news photographer by training, pursues a natural realistic style and does not like to use 3D and too many special effects, which coincides with Mark, and when filming "The Dark Knight", Wally Pfister also used realism as the principle to try to make the light look more natural.

"Before you can set up the tool, you have to understand natural light and appreciate the beauty of natural light. Wally Pfister told Mark: "My approach is to go directly to the city and see the features of the landscape and light in cities like Chicago and London, and get inspiration for the film. "For example, when filming in Chicago, Wally Pfister used the orange light of the Street View sodium lamps to do a lot of tests in the hope that the film would look more realistic.

Needless to say, IMAX is a big one, but while IMAX can capture beautiful image details, IMAX cameras are also bulky, making shooting more difficult, and of course, not cheap.

Under the premise of the great success of "Time to Go to War", Mark still chose an IMAX camera in "The Dark Knight" to shoot some scenes of "The Dark Knight", such as the opening scene of the Joker robbing the bank and the car chase scene in the middle of the movie...... Wait.

Director of Photography Wally Pfister used 65mm film and a 1.43:1 ratio shot in reference to IMAX specifications to make the images even more spectacular. To support the weight of the IMAX cameras, the production team increased the weight of the camera base and even built a special crane with a more sturdy device that allowed the camera crew to mount the bulky IMAX camera on the car cover and on the crane for shooting.

Wally is a fan of IMAX and likes it far more than 3D, Wally Pfister said that Mark's film has a rich sense of layering, and in terms of visuals, IMAX can be used to enhance the overall scale and make the picture look more magnificent, and this is what they hope "The Dark Knight" can present.

However, due to the huge cost of IMXA and the complexity and difficulty of production, and the fact that IMXA had to share it, they could only choose some of the scenes, and there was not yet a film shot on full IMXA film, because it was too expensive and unnecessary.

Different from the last three-shot, this shooting is extremely demanding, aerial photography overhead shooting, including almost all shooting techniques and techniques, from helicopters to rail cars, all kinds of shooting equipment.

Mark's strength lies in the precise and strict control of the film like a machine, what kind of shots are more bold to choose, what kind of shots are appropriate to insert at what time, have you ever heard that Mark's movies have scenes that need to be reshot? Or when did Mark's movies come out with director's cuts or something like that? How to use concise and powerful means to form a strong narrative tension is Mark's killer feature.

The first shot is a large long shot, the background music is a clown theme similar to a special sound effect, and suddenly the window is shattered, and the camera immediately cuts to a close-up view of the room, which is clean and neat.

Before the hook of the hook gun hits the ground, the camera quickly cuts to the back of the clown, and the camera continues to push, in the same way, suppressing the audience's emotions with pushing the camera and increasingly compact music. Basically, these few shots already determine the tone of the entire film editing.

The sudden intrusion of the car broke the emotions accumulated by pushing the camera, which is also the same way as the previous shot, the clown just had the momentum to get into the car, and the camera immediately cut to the bandit is also the action of getting up.

An unfinished action quickly cuts to an action that is about to begin, and such movements and editing are also common throughout the prologue.

The robber who had just landed immediately cut to the clown to get into the car and settle down

Just knock on the electric box and quickly cut the shot of the car door closing

We just see the robber in the background putting his hand into his clothes, and just as we are thinking about what he will pull out, the camera cuts to the clown uncovering the bag containing the grenade, and the camera hints at a glance that the editor is in complete control of the audience's psychology.

Then there is the processing of three shots, the robber is scolding and scolding is walking to the left of the frame, cutting to the clown turning his head, the eyes of the two are connected to form a relationship axis, the next shot, not according to the clown to the left, the next shot of the character from the right into the conventional method of processing, but directly shoot the back of the robber. Because the previous two shots already hinted at the direction of the character's movement, we already had a clear idea of the spatial position in our minds without doubt.

The robber's shooting shot is followed by the clown's back shot, and from the prologue, there are a lot of hints about the identity of the clown, and viewers who don't know the film can also draw inferences about the true identity of this character.

In the end, it is the clown who drives the school bus to carry the money away and blends into the flow of school buses after school, and the police car has just arrived, starting with the big vision, and then ending with the big vision, and the paragraph closes.

This six-point opening drama made Barry watch it very coolly, Mark was on the line, and the specialty of this commercial film was not left behind, all because Barry watched Mark's "No Country for Old Men" through internal channels, this is a rare literary film, if "The Dark Knight" is also like this, they will die.

Fortunately, Mark's brain did not enter the water, and the opening minutes of "The Dark Knight" were full of tension, and it was in vain that Warner directly borrowed a bank for them to shoot on the spot.

Hoffman has been training his physical fitness since he took on the role, a man who is painted in clown paint and does not show his true face from beginning to end, but Hoffman decides to go into battle on his own except for some difficult and complex moves, and does not need a stand-in.

In eight or nine years, Nicholson played a classic screen clown image, and every time someone plays this role in the future, it is inevitable that it will be compared with Nicholson's version, which will be an insurmountable mountain.

As Batman's biggest enemy, that is, the villain, if this role is not properly cast, it will definitely mess up the movie, Mark chose Hoffman, a gold medal old actor, to play the role, this Oscar actor is powerful and qualified, his image as a villain in "Professional Secret Service 3" is impressive, played by him, who is also an Oscar winner, should not let those clown fans spray wildly.

At the beginning of the clown casting, the online vote was Nicholson's, but this person's offer was too high, and Markney set Hoffman, which made Nicholson very unhappy, and on many occasions he made disrespectful remarks, thinking that they were ruining the classics.

The crew started filming in Chicago, and finally revealed the news, the crew has a large number of reporters and fans to visit the class every day, and the police of the Chicago Police Department, as long as they are not on duty, will come to the set and make a cameo appearance in the film as the police officers of Gotham City, of course, they only wear uniforms and do not carry weapons, and this behavior is also approved by the boss of the upper echelons.

"You have to try to get the audience to be addicted to your film and believe that this is the reality. This is what Mark said in an interview with the Chicago Sun: "What I saw in the comics was just an ordinary world, which was also based on DC, but unlike Burton's 1989 Batman, Burton created a "world that Batman fits", but I didn't want to do that, I was going to remake the Batman movie in my own way, based on "reality". ”

The reporter asked, "Why do you fall in love with Bruce Wayne?"

"I'm interested in Batman because he's not a superhero, he's just an ordinary person, and I think Batman is the darkest character of any superhero," Mark said. As a result, you have to deal with more disturbing elements of the mind. And I really like the dark motive in the movie - revenge, and I can use this to develop a lot of interesting stories. ”

In The Dark Knight, Mark values live-action and believes that making a movie is not just about telling a story, but about getting the audience to dig deeper and think, "Why did Batman do this?" which helps make the film seem more authentic and keep the audience engaged in the story.

And he is also qualified to do so because he has a series of best-selling works, and he must be as faithful to the original book as possible, loyal to the comic style, and as commercial as possible in "Time to War", but this "Time to War" has a very high mouth, and it is a superhero movie with the highest mouth, which is higher than his own "Spider-Man".

So Sam Raimi listened to Mark's proposal and adapted the drama of "Spider-Man 3", removing the Venom line to make the story more concise and smooth.

In fact, this sequel movie is a big hit, but the beer is falling, which is almost an iron law, all movies are no exception, "Star Wars", "The Matrix", "The Lord of the Rings", etc., especially the third part of the trilogy, the collapse of beer is almost common, and the money has to be earned and the beer has to be robbed, there is such a beautiful thing there.

If it weren't for Mark being the big boss of MM, he would have suffered more from the non-council, but Mark is not easy to mess with, in terms of the ability to make money in movies, in terms of the ability to speculate, he is the best contemporary, so he disdains these accusations, even if he puts the blame on his head?

If he wanted to hack him, there was no way, he immediately summoned Leiden and Pascal, and if he arranged it as such, they made a new ledger.

This is now the hottest and most beautiful blockbuster in Hollywood, a box office blockbuster that has swept the world, just barely breaking even, and there is nothing to make at it.

This Layton and Pascal have repeatedly claimed that they will make a sequel, and they will shoot until they vomit, but they have received Mark's instructions, Spider-Man is definitely going to shoot, but they are ready to abandon the pit and restart, they will make a new trilogy, and will integrate into the Marvel Universe and join the Avengers, this is Mark's strategy.

Since they have decided to abandon the pit, they have the heart of the pit and the people, who are profit-seeking and pursuing the maximization of profits, which is justified.

Thank you for the big reward, thank you!