Comparing The Dark Knight And The Breakfast Club

The two films I’ll be examining is The Dark Knight (2008) and The Breakfast Club (1985). Both movie involves complex and interesting plots but differ greatly in contents and acting methods.

The Dark Knight stars Christian Bale as batman, saving Gotham from the Joker, played by Heath Ledger. The film was also supported by an enormous cast of supporting actors such as Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Gary Oldman. The film involved the actors to play characters from a fictional world of superheroes and villains. Christian bale acting as batman takes tremendous practice to not only use body language but mostly the sound of his voice to portray the emotions and thoughts of batman. While most of the actors within the film also use facial expression, batman is restricted by his mask, thus focuses more on tone. Heath Ledger on the other hand uses a lot of facial expression and tone through body language as the Joker. Both characters juxtapose each other in the way they act. Bale focused on the seriousness of his character, preventing the display of emotion in batman, while showing the emotions in Bruce Wayne. The Joker was the opposite, the actor had to spend majority of his scene pushing the

The movie involves Molly Ringwald playing the beautiful and popular Claire Standish, Judd Nelson playing rebellious John Bender, Ally Sheedy playing shy Allison Reynolds, Emilio Estevez playing jock Andrew Clark, and Anthony Michael hall as geek Brian Johnson. The movie involves all these students attending detention at their high school. Throughout the movie we see that the characters are revealed more than what we first see, more than what the categories that we put them in. The movie focuses on the progression of characters to develop the story. We get to see the personal characteristics of these characters, and how their personal lives are much different than what we are so used