It takes a special kind of canonical classic to feature a line of dialogue so memorable that anyone could identify what movie it comes from without any context. "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain," uttered by Harvey Dent ( Aaron Eckhart ) in The Dark Knight , fits the bill. In what is likely to remain his culturally definitive and most popular movie, Christopher Nolan , for better or worse, changed the film landscape forever by making a superhero movie feel like an American epic about crime, justice, and society's belief in costumed vigilantes as religious dogmas.

While often celebrated for his visual panache and as a groundbreaking pioneer of IMAX photography in narrative films, Nolan writes every one of his movies. However, his c

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