“I can say that he is not going to be as theatrical a character as he was in the early comic books,” (Cillian Murphy) muses. “There’s this underlying theme of fear that runs through the Batman character anyway, it’s fear that causes Bruce Wayne to become Batman. For the Scarecrow, it’s kind of the opposite. Reading the comic books that D.C. sent me I learned that he was terribly bullied, an outcast and a geek when he was younger. Those were the formative experiences for Crane. What I did was look at all of the different incarnations of the character throughout the comic books and kept all of that information in my head. I used as much or as little as I needed in the different scenes that we shot. I think the character should be scary as hell, because that fear toxin he uses is a pretty ferocious thing.”
“Crane is not a good guy,” Murphy adds in conclusion. “I think it comes from serious, deep issues from a very young age. I think he’s got a serious inferiority complex, although he’s brilliant at the same time. And the Scarecrow incarnation—well, aren’t all of these villains a little whacked out? I think it’s much more interesting when there’s a distinction between the two sides of the character because when you put on a mask you want to justify it. The freedom the mask allows someone is to live all those fantasies in your head, good or bad, without revealing yourself.”
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