We caught up with an array of actors and filmmakers who worked on TheDarkKnight's pencil-trick scene to get the inside story
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures & DC Comics Every scene in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight has been pored over so much in the decade since its release that it’s hard to remember how well it deployed the element of surprise. It’s a film that defies expectations about what’s possible in a superhero flick and subverts your expectations over and over again.
Nathan Crowley : Everyone was like, “Oh, how are we going to do it?” There are always loads of meetings and people wanting to do prosthetic stuff.Nick Davis : I think even Chris [Nolan] assumed we were going to have to do some CG. It’s not particularly difficult to build a CG pencil and track it in and kinda make it disappear out. But we shot it in IMAX, so you see it on a giant, great, big canvas.
Jarman: I remember Christopher Nolan saying to me, “Look, we’re going to do a couple of shots where you need to be able to take that pencil away.” We did a couple of half-speed rehearsals just to get the hand action of my right hand sweeping across, taking the pencil as my body was going down, and my head striking the blank surface. It was a little hairy, because the pencil’s stuck in the table. If, for some reason, I didn’t get my hand in time, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Ritchie Coster : The thing about that weekend was just seeing what Heath Ledger was doing. I’d not seen the makeup before until he stepped out to do the first take. He did this [stunt], and my immediate reaction was, “Oh, God. You’re not doing that, are you?” And then I’m like, “Oh, yeah. He is doing that.” And it’s fucking brilliant.
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