In a new interview with Oscar winning composer Hans Zimmer, he talks about his score for the upcoming Batman threequel The Dark Knight Rises. We have already heard snippets of it in the trailers -- ominous chanting courtesy of thousands of volunteers -- but Zimmer promises us there is much more to it. He also touches on Christopher Nolan's much discussed secrecy when it comes to his movies - which has amped up considerably for his third and final Batman flick. Some fans feel he goes to far, and that he should let a few more details slip through on the plot etc, while some feel he is doing exactly the right thing. Here is Zimmer's take on the matter..
“There’s always this thing [that people say], ‘Oh, Chris is so secretive.’ Well, I think that there are two elements to this. One is, I think, to be able to do really good work, you have to have the chance to fail in privacy. And if everybody’s watching you on the Internet, I think it stifles creativity. And I think ‘Dark Knight’ is the perfect example of this idea. Everybody knew we were making a Batman movie. But until it came out they didn’t know it was going to be that sort of a Batman movie.
And isn’t that what we’re supposed to do? We’re supposed to go and surprise you. And part of the experience has to be a surprise. It feels a little bit like we’re working very hard at protecting part of what is great about movies -— the surprise. Because it seems like the world doesn’t want you to do that anymore. They want to know everything, they want to know about the stars and [this and that] immediately. And it’s not important to us. To us, really, the thing is the writing and the script and the ideas and the journey, and making it into something really good.”
While part of me is chomping at the bit to find out some more about
TDKR, I don't think you can argue with this. We already know pretty much every detail of so many movies before we see em these days, it's definitely refreshing to go in a bit more in the dark. What do you guys think? Be sure to head over to Hero Complex to read the full interview, in which Zimmer talks about the origins of his latest score.