"Die a Hero"
Comic book heroes are sometimes the source of profound dialogs. “With great power comes great responsibility.” – Spiderman Another such line is from the Batman movie by Christopher Nolan: “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Nolan says that line haunts him for multiple reasons. One, he didn’t come up with the line; his brother did. Two, at the time, he didn’t even appreciate it! “I was like ‘Alright, I’ll keep it in there, but I don’t really know what it means. Is that really a thing?’ ” Three, Nolan finds it applicable to his more recent smash hit, Oppenheimer : “In [ Oppenheimer ] it’s absolutely that. Build them up, tear them down. It’s how we treat people.” As Nolan says, if Oppenheimer had to be summarized in one line, it would be the “Die a hero” line. In recent times, I realized that the line is even more profound if taken beyond its literal meaning. Here’s what I mean. “Die a hero” doesn’t refer to just the physic...