{"id":280,"date":"2019-10-04T21:51:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.runyanprogramnotes.com\/program_note\/batman-dark-knight-rises\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:13:25","slug":"batman-dark-knight-rises","status":"publish","type":"program_note","link":"https:\/\/www.runyanprogramnotes.com\/program_note\/batman-dark-knight-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman:  The Dark Knight Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there is a challenger to John Williams\u2019 incredible record, it is certainly Hans Zimmer.\u00a0 Composer of over 150 film scores, his major successes include the various <em>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em> movies, <em>Gladiator, Dunkirk, Driving Miss Daisy, Rain Man, The Lion King, The Thin Red Line <\/em>.\u00a0 .\u00a0 .\u00a0 well, you get the picture (sorry).\u00a0 He is known for his inventiveness, and often incorporates electronic synthesizers to enhance his material.\u00a0 But he has many tricks. In <em>The Dark Knight Rises<\/em>, he notably features a chant theme to a phrase, <em>deshi basara<\/em>&#8212; putatively Arabic dialect for \u201crise up.\u201d\u00a0 But that remains obscure.\u00a0 The simple motive, in typical Zimmer style, is the basis of elaborate and extensive variation, and is associated with the character, Bane, and used in myriad contexts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Wm. E. Runyan<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92019 William E. Runyan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"program_note_tax":[110],"class_list":["post-280","program_note","type-program_note","status-publish","hentry","program_note_tax-hanszimmer"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runyanprogramnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program_note\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runyanprogramnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program_note"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runyanprogramnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/program_note"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runyanprogramnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runyanprogramnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program_note_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runyanprogramnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program_note_tax?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}