Listeners, you either die a normal film podcast, or live long enough to see your show completely devolve into a Christopher Nolan marathon.

Between Heath Ledger’s legendary turn as the Joker, Nolan’s transformation into an IMAX-first director, and the coolest truck crash in cinema history, there’s so much to explore in this sprawling behemoth of a picture. We went for nearly four hours on this one, and could easily do another four. THE DARK KNIGHT is (still!) just that good!!

Next week, our Nolan era comes to a climactic finish with THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012). Join the conversation on our Discord at https://discord.com/invite/RssDc3brsx and get more Eye of the Duck on our Patreon show, After Hours https://www.patreon.com/EyeoftheDuckPod

References:

• Special Features
• The Prologue
• New Batsuit
• Joker Theme
• Hong Kong Jump
• Challenges of the Chase in IMAX
• SWAT Van Into River
• Destruction of Batmobile
• Bat-pod
• Helicopter Crash
• Lamborghini Crash
• Hospital Explosion
• Collider Nathan Crowley Interview
• StarLog Production History
• CineFex 2008 No. 115 Production History
• Jonathan Nolan Wants to Take the Batman Franchise For a Ride
• Empire The Making of the Joker
• Happy Sad Confused Jonathan Nolan Interview
• The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy by Janine Pourroy and Jody Jesser Duncan
• Variety Nolan Interview
• IGN Nolan Interview Part 1
• IGN Nolan Interview Part 2
• LA Times Nolan Interview
• Empire Jonathan Nolan Interview
• The New York Times Nolan Interview
• The New York Times Heath Ledger Interview
• Empire Cinematography Breakdown
• Collider Jonathan Nolan & David Goyer Interview
• The ‘Curse of Batman’
• Nolan Doesn’t Get His Little Brother’s Writing
• Matt Damon Turns Down Harvey Dent
• Obama Cites The Dark Knight In Strategy Meetings

Credits:

Eye of the Duck is created, hosted, and produced by Dom Nero and Adam Volerich.

This episode was edited by Michael Gaspari.

This episode was researched by Parth Marathe.

Our logo was designed by Francesca Volerich. You can purchase her work at francescavolerich.com/shop

The "Adam's Blu-Ray Corner" theme was produced by Chase Sterling.

This miniseries was programmed with the help of Nik Long.

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