What the Butler Saw

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July 22, 2008

"The Dark Knight"

For all its spectacle and angst, pyrotechnics and brooding, the theme of “The Dark Knight,” written and directed by Christopher Nolan, echoes the beginning of Canto the First of Lord Byron’s “Don Juan:”"I want a hero: an uncommon want,/When every...

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