Christopher Nolan has created his own style within the superhero genre. He single handedly made the comic book movie into a real world that audiences believe they could exist in. He achieves this by shooting the film in a very realistic manner. He uses lighting that gives the feeling of everyday life rather than attempting to overflood our senses with wild colors. This grounds the film in a world we've seen before.
Nolan also uses editing to create some memorable moments which all have to do with the rhythm of the picture. We see Bruce Wayne walking slowly on his crutch to find out Selina has stolen his Lamborghini, and Nolan cuts to Selina driving super fast in his car then back to Wayne slowly getting into the car with Alfred. It creates a sharp contrast and a bit of humor. Next, we see a high paced scene with incredible energy from the action as well as the scoring to a wide exterior shot of the Gotham football stadium with no soundtrack behind it. Just the sound of people in the stands. The cut brings levity to the moment as Bane is about to set off a bomb and change everyone's day to day lives.
Finally, Nolan uses wide exterior shots of Gotham in order to show the destruction occurring when the bombs are going off. Instead of using close or medium shots of the explosions he shows how a city that is seemingly quiet can be set off and in the matter of a moment be turned into a war zone. Nolan's film is a blockbuster but he engages the audience to experience the story from the level of the character's and the emotional journey's they have been on in order to get to the place where they are the people they are today. This allows us to experience the genre in a whole new fresh way which has changed the expectation of movie goers for these types of films since.
