Warner Brothers has set up a site promoting the Dark Knight for the upcoming Oscars. The best thing about it is that you can download the script! I was mesmerized by the screenplay, even after seeing the film multiple times, and I finished it all in one sitting. It is just fantastic writing and was very educational to me as I dream of writing screenplays some day. The coolest thing was getting an understanding of what the writer's vision for the movie was and how the director carries out that vision. Obviously, with TDK the director was also a co-writer so the vision in the script matches up with what we see on screen.
I wonder if movies that have different people writing and directing run into problems about the tone of a film and how things should look. My guess is that sometimes they are on the same page and sometimes they are not. I recently read the book "No Country For Old Men" and was amazed at how much of the book was simply recreated in the movie, which won the academy award for best picture last year. Almost every line of dialogue from the book was qouted word for word in the film. I found it interesting that the Coen brother's seemingly only had to worry about how to represent the book visually and did not have to focus on dialogue or plot because that was already taken care of thanks to the excellent writing of Cormac McCarthy. I plan to start reading more scripts to get an idea of how they are interpreted when put on the big screen.
I went a little off subject, but here's the site were you can download the script for TDK:
Warner Bros. Awards / Movies / thedarkknight / foryourconsideration
I wonder if movies that have different people writing and directing run into problems about the tone of a film and how things should look. My guess is that sometimes they are on the same page and sometimes they are not. I recently read the book "No Country For Old Men" and was amazed at how much of the book was simply recreated in the movie, which won the academy award for best picture last year. Almost every line of dialogue from the book was qouted word for word in the film. I found it interesting that the Coen brother's seemingly only had to worry about how to represent the book visually and did not have to focus on dialogue or plot because that was already taken care of thanks to the excellent writing of Cormac McCarthy. I plan to start reading more scripts to get an idea of how they are interpreted when put on the big screen.
I went a little off subject, but here's the site were you can download the script for TDK:
Warner Bros. Awards / Movies / thedarkknight / foryourconsideration
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