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While attending an opera with his parents, young Bruce is frightened by the flying creatures onstage, which remind him of a traumatic encounter with real bats at Wayne Manor. To lend the opera extra credibility, director Chris Nolan hired stage director Annabel Arden to create the onstage performance, and Pfister encouraged Nolan to hire theatrical lighting designer Zerlina Hughes as well. “During a phone conversation with Zerlina, I described what we wanted and the look we were after,” Pfister explains. “She came up with a lighting scheme that worked very well, and when I went to the theater she showed me the various cues from a dimmer board. I spent a few hours changing some of the colors, brightness levels, and so on, basically simplifying her scheme in some ways. We sort of tweaked through the look and arrived at a happy medium. I’m very happy with the sequence, because it has the authenticity of a real stage performance, but it also looks the way I wanted it to look.”
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