Gotham’s landscape, Chicago style

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Christopher Nolan decided that for ‘The Dark Knight’ his vision of Gotham City needed to be even more reality-based that the one he presented in ‘Batman Begins.’ That took to him to Chicago where, over 65 days, he and his crew used the Windy City’s shining towers and darkened corners to bring Gotham to life in a dramatically different way than Tim Burton did back in the 1980s when he envisioned a Gotham that was a mixture of gargoyle gothic and funhouse cemetery.

Some folks at the Chicago Tribune had the clever idea of mapping out the locations used by the film crew and, through a nifty interactive map, showing how place like Daley Plaza and the Berghoff became the stomping crowds of the Caped Crusader and the people he loves to punch. Take a look at it here, although I should tell you there are some quasi-spoilers in the text if you are one of the few people left who actually haven’t seen the movie.

-- Geoff Boucher

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Photo from ‘The Dark Knight’ shows Batman astride his Batpod, which was in scenes filmed near the Metra entrance in the 200 block of E. Randolph St. in Chicago. Image from Warner Bros.