' The Dark Knight' IMAX shoot furthers Nolan's realist approach

"The Dark Knight" synopsis

The ultimate evil has descended on Gotham City. The man, who calls himself the Joker(Heath Ledger) and grins fearlessly and believes that crime is the best joke, sneaks into a gang of bank robbers, kills them all, and steals a large sum of money. Batman(Christian Bale) protects this city. He works with Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) to successfully bust a Mafia money laundering bank.

Even so, a savior appears in a city that is becoming more and more covered in evil day by day. Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) is the new district attorney. Dent, who has a strong sense of justice, supports Batman and vows to completely eradicate crime. The Joker appears at a meeting of mafia bosses who are suffering from a lack of funding. "I'm going to kill Batman." The condition is half of all mafia assets. However, Joker's true purpose was not money. I want to crush the disgusting justice system, corrupt noble people, and enjoy watching the world fall into ruin from a privileged seat.

The survival The Game set by Joker has finally begun. The opening signal is the assassination of the police chief. The Joker threatens Batman with killing civilians if he doesn't reveal his true identity, and chooses Dent and Assistant Prosecutor Rachel (Maggie Gyllenhaal) as his next targets. However, that was just the beginning of the full course of evil he had prepared...

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• Nolan's first ambitious film to use IMAX filming.
• Finally seen the IMAX version of “The Dark Knight”!
• The realism-oriented “The Dark Knight” approaches with even more reality.

Nolan's first ambitious film to use IMAX filming.

Christopher Nolan's masterpiece ``The Dark Knight'' (2008) is currently being revived at IMAX theaters. It is well known that Nolan was in love with IMAX, especially the analog film-based IMAX, and about 75% of the war movie Dunkirk (17) was shot with film-based IMAX cameras.

The Dark Knight was Nolan's first attempt at IMAX filming. This is one of the " Batman movies" in which the late Heath Ledger played the role of the villain Joker and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, but it is also an important work from the perspective of the film revolution that Nolan is working on, as previously reported in a separate article. But I was allowed to write it.

However, the screening of "The Dark Knight" in the IMAX format that Nolan wanted was not possible for the general public to see, although a rare premiere preview was once held at the IMAX theater in Tempozan, Osaka. The situation continued for a long time. This screening at IMAX can be said to be an incident.

“The Dark Knight” preview

There's no end to the technicalities, so I'll explain it briefly, albeit a little harshly: IMAX has a big screen. In particular, the IMAX Laser/GT Technology screen, which supports IMAX film projection sizes, is so huge that it makes you feel weak. And it's longer than a regular movie. In numerical terms, the aspect ratio is 1:1.43, giving the impression that it is as close to a square as possible. Currently, there are only two facilities in Japan that can project movies to fill a huge IMAX screen with this aspect ratio: 109 Cinemas Osaka Expo City and Grand Cinema Sunshine in Ikebukuro, Tokyo (although they screen digitally rather than film).

When watching on the ``IMAX Laser/GT Technology'' screens in these two theaters, the image spreads out to fill the audience's field of vision thanks to the huge screen that covers the entire wall, and the sense of a frame is lost. It can be said that this "freedom from the frame" is the full power of IMAX.

Of course, other movie theaters may be able to display images with an aspect ratio of 1:1.43. However, if you project a vertically long image, there will be a large gap between the left and right sides. The precious IMAX footage ends up being projected smaller than a regular movie.

Conventional IMAX digital theaters other than the two theaters mentioned above can also provide effects similar to "IMAX Laser/GT Technology," but the aspect ratio is narrow at 1:1.9, and the top and bottom of the original image are cut off. be.

By the way, compared to a regular theater screen, the 1:1.43 aspect ratio of "IMAX Laser/GT Technology" has about 40% more information on the top and bottom. In other words, in scenes shot in IMAX, nearly half of the screen that Nolan wanted to show could only be seen with IMAX laser/GT technology.

Finally seen the IMAX version of “The Dark Knight”!