Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: The Dark Knight is almost a Pixar movie

[quote name="Vested Id"]Most Pixar films have a single line that gets repeated later in the film with a different spin on it to indicate the story's progress. In Toy Story it was "That's not flying, it's falling with style" / "I'm not flying I'm falling with style"; in Ratatouille it's "You can't change nature"/"Change is nature". I call it the "progress bit" because you flip it to verbally indicate the significance of the narrative. It's a lame tactic but then Pixar is of course insanely overrated. The Dark Knight has a bunch of lines that sound like progress bits - short glib sayings that sum up the universe of the film - but they stay unflipped. I don't even want to repeat them because you know them and people love saying them. But my point is the styling of "You either live..." or "Some men..." indicates that they're functional pieces of the story. They're really just glib world-encapsulating statements. They get repeated because they are simple axioms and equations for containing some of the unresolved and difficult to articulate thoughts and feelings people had post-9/11 and post-invasion of Iraq. But they're programming as much as anything in any Pixar film.[/quote]