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The Dark Hype Rises

2/10/2012

24 Comments

 
This year is arguably the most anticipated year for movies of all time. We have the end of Twilight (Which will be a joyous occasion for most), Ridley Scott returning to Sci-Fi (and hopefully good filmmaking) in Prometheus, a return to Middle Earth with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the cinematic realization of The Hunger Games, the return of the Amazing Spiderman, the union of Thor, Captain America, Iron Man and the Hulk in The Avengers and some Batman movie called The Dark Knight Rises. While many will argue about which of these films is the most anticipated and which of these films will make the most money, there is no doubt in my mind that Christopher Nolan's conclusion this his Batman trilogy, will be the movie "event" of this year. In my (admittedly short) moviegoing life, I have never seen or felt such excitement for a film. However, dare I say it, could The Dark Knight Rises do a Phantom Menace? 
Let me clarify that rhetorical question. I do not expect the films to be comparable in terms of quality however is it possible that this immense and intense level of hype around The Dark Knight Rises could cause a Phantom Menace esque reaction? deserved or not. How many films could live up to the current amount of hype placed upon The Dark Knight's shoulders? The trailer broke the record for most itunes downloads for a trailer, people have driven long distances just so they could see six minutes of the film in IMAX, YouTube is awash with countless reviews of both trailers as well as the prologue, some with no intention of watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two, went in so they could see the one minute teaser trailer on the big screen, it is following on from one of the most successful films commercially and critically of all time. The amount of pictures leaked from the set got to a ridiculous level as a clip of Joseph Gordon-Levitt walking down a street became news worthy on many film sites, everybody had their eyes on what Nolan was doing. 

Batman Begins arrived for me with only one piece of fanfare, it was a Batman film, it then became at that point one of my favourite films of all time. The Dark Knight came with the added fanfare of all the reviews I had heard and read before seeing it but I still went into the movie with a relatively low level of exposure and hype. I approach The Dark Knight Rises, months before its release with a much higher level of hype than I ever had for the other two, films where I had only seen the trailer once and in the case of Batman Begins had read no reviews. The question at the crux of this article is the following, with the internet being what it is...is it now at all possible to come to a movie, completely fresh? will the internet kill The Dark Knight Rises? You could argue that it didn't kill The Dark Knight but that movie became something nobody could have anticipated, it became a cultural phenomenon, it grossed over a billion dollars worldwide and it expanded the audience for Batman considerably. The Dark Knight may be this generations The Empire Strikes Back, it is the film that filmmakers of the future will look back on as a huge influence, it opened peoples eyes to the possibilities of filmmaking, people saw it multiple times in cinemas, it transcended its source material. 

This fear over the fate of The Dark Knight Rises comes from somebody who wants the film to incredibly well. Christopher Nolan is the filmmaker that Hollywood needs more of and I believe in Christopher Nolan, what I don't believe in is the commenters on IMDB, Twitter or other internet forums. In the end I know it doesn't matter what other people think of a film if you or I personally love it and if it makes enough money but the Dark Knight Rises is going to be one kind of threequel. The Godfather Part III, seen as immensely inferior to its predecessors and in fact unnecessary, to many ruining what had come before it and by some rejected as even part of the Godfather story, its own maker joining that crowd. Will it be a Return of the Jedi? where it is neither an abomination nor the best in the series. Or it will do a Return of the King? be huge critically, commercially and get Nolan the Oscar he deserves... 

If I was in charge of the advertising campaign for this film, I would now go on a complete radio silence. No more posters, no more trailers, let other films hog the spotlight and fight for the audiences attention. People know The Dark Knight Rises is coming, they want to see it, the job is done. The hype for this movie is at such a point that they could have released no trailers and people would be just as, if not more excited. If The Dark Knight Rises can still emerge this summer with mystery and with perhaps a readjustment of expectations if early year releases such as Prometheus or The Avengers fail to deliver, it could beat the hype like The Dark Knight. The questions I pose with this article are can the internet and hype kill a movie? Will it kill The Dark Knight Rises? and what kind of threequel will this be? A Godfather Part III, A Return of the Jedi or a Return of the King? 

Personally, nothing will hinder my hype for this movie and that worries me but not as much as it excites me. In the end I don't think anything can live up to this hype which is why I am going to do my best to cut myself off from this crazy Batman world that has formed on the internet so that when July rolls around I can be like, "Oh yeah, The Dark Knight Rises...bring it on" I won't let the hype kill this movie for me, I'll let the movie decide whether it wants to be remembered or not (And if so for the right reasons) but I doubt whether many will adopt this approach. He has defeated numerous villains but has The Dark Knight faced his biggest battle of them all? a villain he cannot defeat? Forget the fire rises, the hype rises and Nolan better have a masterpiece up his sleeve to avoid an internet outpouring of "What a disappointment", "It wasn't as good as The Dark Knight" and numerous other IMDB posts and tweets which will try to initially distort the internets view of this film. If everybody gave Toy Story 3 and Deathly Hallows: Part Two such big passes, Rises should have no issue with the critics (Who will enter into a bloodbath for the first review) but as somebody who runs a website and realizes a lot of movie discussion online, I wouldn't be able to handle a year in which The Dark Knight Rises Sucks became a trending, agreed upon topic online. So perhaps the hype killing Dark Knight Rises may be a good thing, as Bruce Wayne says in Batman Begins, "People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible" Perhaps The Dark Knight Rises will become the symbol for our over publicized, over analyzed, over exposed film hype machine and lead to a revolution in the way in which people market and approach the movies they anticipate. 

For good or for bad, "The Dark Knight Legend" may become something very real in the film industry. 

Give us all your thoughts in the Your Say section. 

By Movie Parliament Prime Minister, 
Michael Dalton 
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