Time for a repost! (starting to wish some of these were on the OP) From 2008. Emphasis mine.
Source?
https://web.archive.org/web/20080802175039/http://dirtyharrysplace.com/?p=3226#comments
Tommy V
“As I have said before, there are plenty works of art that still apply to things they never could have imagined when they were created. They were not intended to apply to today, but they do because they tapped into certain truths.”
Agreed. I’m not expecting the nigh-innevitable “simmer down” from the guy who actually made the movie to change anyone’s mind about paralells… but I’d hope it’d stop people from putting words in his mouth.
See, I’ve got a semi-personal investment in this. I want more Batman movies. Lots more. And more comic/genre movies in tandem. I want to see the whole of the blockbuster moviescape dominated so completely by Geek Culture that it chokes the very life from almost everything else. And if Hollywood looks at this MASSIVE blockbuster and gets the idea (which also happens, conveniently, to be THE TRUTH) that listening to the “geek set” and targeting them can be a good bet… I get that. But if it becomes a “meme” that Dark Knight is breaking bank because the same savages who block-bought “Passion” into a hit are propping it up? (Which happens to be, y’know, demonstrably untrue?) Yeah, opposite effect.
Never let it be forgotten that Bob WANTED the moviescape choked to death by geek culture.