Daily Dialogue — July 16, 2012
Bruce Wayne: I’m not afraid of you.
Carmine Falcone: Because you think you got nothing to lose. But you haven’t thought it through. You haven’t thought about your lady-friend down at the D.A.’s office. You haven’t thought about your old butler. Bang! People from your world have so *much* to lose. Now, you think because your mommy and your daddy got shot, you know about the ugly side of life, but you don’t. You’ve never tasted desperate. You’re, uh, you’re Bruce Wayne, the Prince of Gotham; you’d have to go a thousand miles to meet someone who didn’t know your name. So, don’t-don’t come down here with your anger, trying to prove something to yourself. This is a world you’ll never understand. And you always fear what you don’t understand. Alright.
— Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), Carmine Falcone (Tom Wilkinson), Batman Begins (2005), screenplay by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer, story by David S. Goyer, based on characters by Bob Kane
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is side characters suggested by Teddy Pasternak. Today’s suggestion by Désirée N.
Trivia: Before Christopher Nolan took over, director Darren Aronofsky was attached to make a Batman movie based on the graphic novel “Batman: Year One” and have the author Frank Miller write the screenplay. By 2003 there was a first draft screenplay with story boards, which are properties of AOL Time Warner. Warner’s decision for not producing the film is unknown, but based on the details that have since leaked out, it would probably have to do with the screenplay, which strayed a considerable amount from the source material, making Alfred an African-American mechanic named “Big Al,” the Batmobile being a souped-up Lincoln Towncar, and Bruce Wayne being homeless, among other things. This is all detailed in David Hughes’ book “Tales from Development Hell.”
Dialogue On Dialogue: Désirée has this observation: “It is the very line from Falcone that is the start of a journey that will end in Batman. Without that meeting and that line, the movie would have ended right there.”
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