"The Dark Knight" is grimly magisterial. It's a summer blockbuster that contemplates near-total civic disaster: Crowds surge, tractor-trailers flip, and buildings explode, but the pop violence feels heavy, mournful. Light barely escapes the film's gravitational pull. Yet flitting through this 10-ton expressionist murk is a diseased butterfly with stringy hair and a maniacal giggle. Played by a dead actor, he's the most alive thing here. It's not quite fair to say that the late Heath Ledger
I was dressed as a dark knight or rather, what the Knights of the Blooming Orchid thought a dark knight female would dress. My armor was a metallic black with foreign designs inlaid on it. It was strapless, covering my chest, but emphasizing what little cleavage I possessed. The armor continued down to my hips and stopped. The metal was custom-made, only fitting, as well as showing off, the curves of my body. My boots were made of soft, sturdy leather dyed black to match the night. The boots
Jesse Beltran Mr. Jason Higgins ENGL – 1113 – 117 21 November 2014 The Dark Knight The Dark Knight was the Batman movie we deserved... and the one that we needed at the time... AND it's a movie that we shall look up to for decades to come because it is truly one of the best comic book films of all time. Scratch that, it is truly one of the BEST MOVIES of all time. This time around the Caped Crusader (Christian Bale still) has been working well with Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and Gotham City's new DA
everywhere.” The Dark Knight, filmed in 2008, illustrates how Batman, with the help of Lieutenant Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, attempted to dismantle the criminal organizations that plague the city streets of Gotham. While Batman is considered the Dark Knight for Gotham because he attempts to bring justice to criminals outside the law, Harvey Dent symbolizes Gotham’s White Knight because he keeps the city safe without having to hide his true identity. Batman is Gotham’s Dark Knight because even
In The Dark Knight, the second film of Christopher Nolan's trilogy, Batman (Christian Bale) teams up with Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) and district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to clean up the streets of Gotham City. However, their plans are disrupted with the appearance of the incredibly disturbed and sadistic criminal known as The Joker (Heath Ledger), who aims to stop their "war on crime" by causing destruction and havoc. He begins his crime spree with a bank robbery and then uses
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008) is representative of key changes in contemporary media conglomerate Hollywood in terms of marketing, distribution, and production because of the steps it took to turn a standard superhero film into a worldwide phenomenon that not only succeeded as a standalone film, but also helped to revitalize an entire franchise, paving the way for many more of its kind. This was accomplished through the breaking of typical marketing trends by utilizing various vigorous
“The Dark Knight” by Christopher Nolan. The Joker is the speaker in this passage. The part of the movie where this passage is seen is when Harvey Dent is in the hospital recovering from his burns. A broken and discouraged Harvye is visited by The Joker, where he is told that The Joker is not a villain, he is rather an “agent of chaos.” The significance of this passage is that it illustrates how The Joker succeeds in his plan to corrupt good people, such as Harvey who was seen as a “white knight.” This
Corrupting The Incorruptible After watching Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, like most people, I enjoyed the well-made movie, without connecting it to reality, thinking that is just another fiction superhero film, where batman shows up in a fashionable ways, beats up criminals, make them look stupid, and saves the day like most previous batman movies, series and comic books. But popular culture reflects society, for example: Steve Schneider said “The 1966 Batman TV series, like most artifacts
There are many distinct themes continued throughout The Dark Knight, but two of the most prominent examples are the role of fortune and false goods, as well as good always prevailing at the end of the day. The two protagonists in this movie are Harvey Dent and Batman, who together fight the evil forces of the Joker and the mob. The Joker’s goal is to turn Gotham against itself, bring chaos to the city, and to drag heroes like the Batman and Harvey Dent down to his level. Due to these major opposing
The Dark Knight The Dark Knight is a squeal to the Batman Trilogy; billionaire Bruce Wayne finds a bat cave under his well, and figures out that he is Batman. His mission is to save Gotham City from any trouble. After a first successful crime battle, now he has a challenge to take on the vicious Joker. The theme of the starts off by the Joker showing up with school buses with his gang and robbing a bank. Gotham City Police Commissioner Jim Gordon and Batman decided to include the new district attorney