다크 나이트 The Dark Knight (2008)

 

 

 

The Dark Knight (2008)

 

 

In this amazing sequel, to the already amazing franchise, Batman returns only to find that his city is turning out to be even more rotten and run down. By who? The Joker who is played by: Heath Ledger(R.I.P). Batman, with the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman has been making headway against local crime...until a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker (Heath Ledger) unleashes a fresh reign of chaos across Gotham City. only Batman can stop the Joker, who is the worst of Batman's enemies, but as the Joker has already said, "Starting tonight people will die, I'm a man of my word! HAHAHAHAH" As we can see the Joker isn't messing around and this is going to be the toughest challenge that Batman has ever had to face! "It's all part of the plan."

 

The movie begins looking into Gotham City and its beautiful towers. As it goes through the camera zooms in on one of the windows and it breaks, where we then see, some men with clown mask on there faces. We then see them shoot a grapple gun on to another roof of a building. The scene switches and we see other men heading over to the Gotham City National Bank, they begin to explain the money they were going to steal and then say, "Two guys on ther roof, three here makes us five. Five shares." "Six shares," says other thug, "Don't forget who planned the job." "He thinks he can sit out and still take a slice, I no why they call him the Joker."

 

The scene swithces and we see the men up top on the roof, "So why do they call him the Joker for? I hear he wears make-up." "Make-up?" "Yea you know war paint to scare people." The thugs come crashing into the bank and star screaming out for eveyone to get down, while anther thug begins to put gernades in there hands. We switch scences and see the men on the roof tops, once the man working with the silent alarm is done the man behinds him kills him, he then runs down and goes to the vault and begins to drill. Another man then joins him and says, "Wheres the other guy?" "The boss told me that when I was done I should take him out. one less share right?" "Its funny," says the other thug, "He told me something similiar." The guy starts to scream out and he is then shot.

 

They then show the bank owner shooting and the thugs, when one gets up gets grazed and the second one shoots the owner. We switch scenes and we see a man bringing up the money, he points a the gun at another thug, and says, "I bet the Joker told you to kill me once we were done." In a weird and sinister voice we hear the other thug say, "No he kills the bus driver?" "Bus driver? What bus driver?" (He asked for it!) A bus comes crashing through and hits the thug, killing him instantly. The man driving the bus comes out and begins getting the money when he asks, where everyone else is, the last thug then kills the bus drive and begins to walk away. When the bank owner asks the thug what he believes in the thug puts a gernade in his mouth and says, "I believe that what ever doesn't kill you, simply makes you stranger." He walks away with a string attached to the gernade, takes off in the bus and the gernade goes off, becoming a smoke gernade. 

 

http://www.comicvine.com/batman/29-1699/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Few superhero films mythology have been as greatly embellished as Batman's has. Yet, dating all the way back to Tim Burton's films in the early nineties, Batman on the big screen has too often incorporated pop culture and inane gimmickry into what is, in itself, a captivating story.

 

In the latest incarnation of Batman, The Dark Knight, a sequel to Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, new reference points are sourced from older and more obscure Batman material. The result is a film that has greater substance than all of its predecessors and a style that is as much an extension of the director's cinematic vision as it is an evolution of the darker undertones all Batman films, comic books, tv shows and cartoons inherently have.

 

 

The film begins with hope in a torn city. Rising District Attorney, Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), is gaining prominence for bringing down crooks with bravado but still by the book. His whole 'indignant-outrage-someone-should-do-something' routine goes down well with ex-bat love, Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and the relevance of the caped crusader, for the first time in a while, is being questioned.

 

But can Dent stay good forever? Will Batman's suit find new gadgets to keep him in the game? What about the romance between Dawes and that spunk, Bruce Wayne? Stay tuned, same bat-time, same bat-ch... oh, sorry. Right. He's "dark" Batman.

 

Despite Dent's best intentions, crime is still surging and he acknowledges Batman is a necessary part of the solution. Alternatively, Bruce Wayne sees Dent as an expedient, the "white knight" who can hurry Batman into an early retirement. Wayne gives Dent all the help he can, unaware that by doing so, he is also pushing his love, Dawes, right into the billionaire's waiting arms.

 

The transition, unfortunately, goes about as smoothly as the Costello-Howard hand-over when the Joker (Heath Ledger), inserts his own dose of chaos onto Gotham.

 

Undoubtedly, hundreds of philosophy students will write their PhD.'s in the near future on this film and Ledger's Joker, and justifiably so. There are undertones of Neitzche, Rousseau's Social Contract and dadaist accents that ironically counter such a stylised film fuelled by corporate machines. Thank you to Dell and Lamborghini for the subtle product placements.

 

 

I realise it's perhaps in some ways dangerous to critique any part of Ledger's role - it is undeniably brilliant - but at times his dialogue lets him down. His deranged lunacy and oddball mannerisms are at times ruined by bad lines which only serve to advance the plot, without taking into account the extreme direction Ledger has taken his character to. There seems to have been little compromise between the director and actor, but who can argue with Nolan giving Ledger free artistic rein over his own performance. It's Oscar-worthy.

 

Both Dent and Batman are perplexed as to how the Joker can be stopped. They fear their morals will be compromised by taking him down. Ultimately though, it's Dent that is corrupted by the Joker, leading to his evolution into 'Two Face'.

Dent's character is given much more humanity and depth than Tommy Lee Jones' portrayal of the character in 'Batman Forever'. His evolution into a villain is worthy of a film itself, although Eckhart is, at times, too earnest too completely engross you. His manicured hair deserves its own trailer for goodness sake.

In the end, this film is a parable of Harvey Dent.

In a scene with Wayne, he says, "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

The line is the core message of the film and it's a perplexing one. Much more than "people are inherently good", or the "good triumphs over evil" bile we've been delivered in such doozies as Batman Forever, or the horrendous Batman and Robin.

It is a thought that lingers longer than you would like though.

 

 

http://www.abc.net.au/local/reviews/2008/07/24/2313707.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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