Dark Knight Analysis of the Day: Lee Smith, the film editor of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, has said that overcutting an action sequence makes a movie hard to follow. Jim Emerson at Press Play wonders why the big chase sequence in The Dark Knight is so incoherent, then.
In the first installment of a new film analysis series called “In The Cut,” he walks through every confusing cut, inexplicable direction change and phantom police car in that Dark Knight chase.
Oooh, busted!
