Joseph Gordon-Levitt Says ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Had ‘Perfect Ending’

The Dark Knight Rises has generally been considered the weakest link in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. One typical complaint is about the happy ending, when Bruce Wayne retires from his moonlighting gig and runs away to Europe with Catwoman, leaving the cape and cowl to his heir apparent, John Blake. It was a departure from the endless slog of battling evil that Batman has signed up for in nearly every other interpretation of the character.

There’s somebody, though, who thinks that ending was good, and his name is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. JGL, who played John Blake, told Cinemablend that he appreciated this movie had a finite story.

“I know we’re all used to the sort of Marvel movies, which are just kind of endless series,” he said. “They don’t really have a beginning, middle, and end. But I think Nolan very much thought of that movie as a conclusion.”

Marvel movies are an endless series? Oh, I don’t know about that. Just because they have Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, The Avengers, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Captain Marvel coming out and they’re all part of the same shared universe and there’s no end in sight doesn’t mean that it’s endless … oh, wait I see his point. Back to JGL’s thoughts on the ending of Dark Knight Rises.

“… It concludes in that moment where he says that Batman is more than a man, Batman is a symbol,” Gordon-Levitt pointed out. “And so to have another man other than Bruce Wayne kind of becoming Batman at the end of that trilogy, I think that’s the perfect ending to that story.”

So, if Gordon-Levitt was presented with the opportunity to take on the Batsuit in the universe Nolan fostered, it seems he would turn it down. Not that that matters. With the Batman franchise now in the hands of Ben Affleck, and … Zack Snyder … Nolan’s version of that story is now a thing of the past.

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