A fair amount of the second act of The Dark Knight Rises has a class warfare plotline. This is foreshadowed in the trailers with Selina Kyle's "there's a storm coming" monologue. Some of the verbiage and themes of this portion of the film seem to mirror the Occupy Movement, and I wanted to know if this was on purpose.
Did the writers of The Dark Knight Rises purposefully model this plotline on the Occupy Movement, or were they pulling from some other source?
Answer
In an interview with Rolling Stone, director Christopher Nolan insists his film is apolitical:
In the new movie, you have Bane more or less trick Gotham's 99 percent
into rising up against the rich – is that intended as an anti-Occupy
Wall Street statement?
I've had as many conversations with people who
have seen the film the other way round. We throw a lot of things
against the wall to see if it sticks. We put a lot of interesting
questions in the air, but that's simply a backdrop for the story. What
we're really trying to do is show the cracks of society, show the
conflicts that somebody would try to wedge open. We're going to get
wildly different interpretations of what the film is supporting and
not supporting, but it's not doing any of those things. It's just
telling a story. If you're saying, “Have you made a film that's
supposed to be criticizing the Occupy Wall Street movement?” – well,
obviously, that's not true.
But the movie certainly suggests that there's a great danger of
populist movements being pushed too far.
If the populist movement is
manipulated by somebody who is evil, that surely is a criticism of the
evil person. You could also say the conditions the evil person is
exploiting are problematic and should be addressed.
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