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How ‘The Dark Knight’ Kept Its PG-13 Rating Despite Being One of the Darkest Superhero Films Ever · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Nolan's epic and now legendary Batman film, The Dark
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  Speaker 2: Knight certainly lives up to its title as one of
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  Speaker 2: the darkest superhero movies ever made, but it was also
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  Speaker 2: surprisingly the rate of PG thirteen tends to release in
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and eight. Other superhero films have been box
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  Speaker 2: office successes with an R rating, like Deadpool, but at
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  Speaker 2: the time that was unheard of and the studio insisted
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  Speaker 2: it reached as wide an audience as possible. So how
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  Speaker 2: did Christopher find the right balance? He tells Real Blend.
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  Speaker 2: There was a certain amount of negotiation and editing that
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  Speaker 2: had to happen to secure the PG thirteen rating, which
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  Speaker 2: is often the case with films that are edgy. But
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  Speaker 2: those are films that you get into with the studio
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  Speaker 2: knowing full well that you're aiming for that wide audience,
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  Speaker 2: and so you have to change things to make it work.
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  Speaker 2: You have to get clever about how you do things
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  Speaker 2: and how you present action scenes. You don't use red
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  Speaker 2: blood squibs, just gray dust squibs, things like that. Nolan's
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  Speaker 2: latest epic, Oppenheimer's in Theaters that's
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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood,