The Dark Knight Comparison

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When you think of a superhero movie, there are some things that immediately come to mind. One of those, is how cliche they can be. It seems as if every one of them has the same plot and over-the-top CGI effects and transitions. In comes Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight”. This movie is not your typical Batman superhero/comic book movie. Produced by Warner Bros and starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, and many more, “The Dark Knight” is a very gritty and real film which produces psychological questions and problems that even the audience has a tough time answering for themselves. It is a work of art that pushes the envelope past the limit and really does set the bar extremely high for how almost any action movie should be created. The plot is not the only part that allows this to happen. It is also the characters that you become attached to, it is …show more content…

Villain plot but it takes it much further than just that. Batman/Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is the hero that crime riddled city; Gotham, needs but despite the crime that he fights on an almost daily basis, the citizens really start to hate him. They call him a vigilante that is up to no good and is actually causing harm to the public by blaming him for the deaths of many citizens and policemen. Even with all of this hate towards him, he continues to put his life at risk so that the city can get cleaner. Because of this, people like Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) actually support and help him. The crime in the city was nothing compared to when the Joker came in. He terrorizes the city by causing the most destruction of the whole city and its inhabitants. He makes a fool out of the people who do things for good and his main goal is to reveal Batman's true identity. He causes so much pain to almost everyone and Batman’s only motive now is take him down, but the question that he needs to answer, is at what

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