Nolan only cut one scene from The Dark Knight because it was too violent

Christopher Nolan is one of the greatest directors of our time. But even the most devoted fans have a complaint about him: Nolan makes films with a PG-13 rating, and because of that, there are never any real bloody scenes in his films.

Of course, violence is not the most important element of cinema. Sometimes, however, the story itself demands a more ruthless approach from the director.

In The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan shocked audiences with the scene where Bane breaks Batman’s back. But fans still can’t forgive the director for his decision to cut another brutal scene from the film: the death of Captain Peter Foley.

Throughout the film, the audience considered Bane to be the main villain. The director completely reversed the plot at the end of the film, revealing Talia al Ghul to be the ’eminence grise’ of the terrorist plot.

Fans were happy with this unexpected twist, but the director was never able to make Talia truly scary – she only became a villain at the end of the film and the audience simply found no reason to be afraid of her.

In one scene in A Legend Reborn, Talia shoots Captain Foley during her escape.

Nolan decided not to include the actual moment of the police officer’s murder in the final version of the film, so viewers only saw Foley’s dead body.

At the same time, the director was filming a scene in which the captain is brutally hit by a car. Insiders revealed that Nolan was “blindsided” when he saw the scene and decided to cut it from the final cut – it was too violent for a PG-13 rating.

If Nolan had left this moment in the film, the audience would have understood Talia’s sadism much better. Considering that “Rebirth of a Legend” was rated 8.2 points 500 thousand users of Kinopoisk, the film did not suffer much from such a decision of the director.