The Record breaking Box Office hit The Dark Knight (2008) is the first ever Batman film which does not feature the name ‘Batman’ in the title. The narrative involves Batman (Christian Bale), Commissioner Gordon and Harvey Dent joining forces to rid Gotham City of all criminals and battle the criminal mastermind The Joker (Heath Ledger) who Introduces “a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos”’. Overall, the storyline comes down to a typical narrative of Good V Evil (Vladimir Propp).Sequel to ‘Batman Begins (2005)’ which restarted the Batman franchise films from the beginning, The Dark Knight has been highly successful. The Director Christopher Nolan wanted to push the boundaries and this was the case when he decided to blow up a real life hospital in the film rather than using special effects. Nolan also seems to draw inspirations from other films, for example the interrogation scene involving Batman and The Joker paying homage to ‘HEAT’ (1995). Lucis Fox (Morgan Freeman) demonstrates Batman’s gadgets to Batman as though he was ‘James Bond’.
The list of top actors in the film such as Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman further helped the films massive successful. However whilst it was a Batman film, the main attention of the film was the 5 star performance from Heath Ledger as The Joker. In addition, the sound of one note getting longer and tighter as it plays which in turn helps build tension, which is anchored to the joker, works extremely well.
Sources:
· http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/
· http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/dvdsite/
· The Dark Knight film and DVD: Bonus features
· http://cielos.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/the-influences-of-the-dark-knight-iii/
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