Compare And Contrast The Big Sleep And Batman

The chosen theme of internal conflict of how humans seeks out for what they want while being oppressed by society. This is evident in the extended texts ‘The Big Sleep’ by Raymond Chandler and ‘Noughts and crosses’ by Malorie Blackman along with the films ‘The Batman’ by Mat Reeves and ‘Matrix’ directed by the Wachowski sisters. These texts deals with the consequences similar to ‘The Big Sleep’ but are shown in different ways and how it affects them differently.

The film ‘Matrix’ directed by the Wachowski sister, deals with similar morals of the protagonists to ‘The Big Sleep.’ Both Chandler and Wachowski’s invites us to consider how the characters seeking out the truth will cause them harm. ‘Neo’ the protagonists in the ‘Matrix’ follows

Both Chandler and Blackman pull the reader to make them question when the protagonist will fall due to inequality they will face in society ‘Callum’ and ‘Sephy’ the protagonists in ‘Noughts and Crosses’ follows the storyline on their adventure to find true love but be faced with dangers on racial discrimination. Through this storyline both protagonists are compelled to question if the world will ever change and if society will accept their relationship. It is interesting to consider that similar to ‘The Big Sleep,’ both the novels use symbolism and dialogue through the protagonists to show the dangers of inequality and how it affects them to seek out what they truly desire. This in return forces the reader to question about what society would be like without inequality. This can be seen throughout the novel and can be seen when Sephy talks to Callum and tells him “You're a Nought and I’m a cross. We’re supposed to hate each other.” Blackman uses symbolism of the “Noughts and Crosses” and that the “Crosses” symbolize the white people whereas “Noughts” are black. With this knowledge Sephy telling this to Callum shows the discrimination and the hate between the two races. Consequently, this makes the reader question themselves on should the two races hate

Both Chandler and Reeves use the concept of how the protagonists seek the truth and justice in the setting of corrupt LA with society that doesn’t recognize their help. ‘The Batman’ follows the storyline of Batman seeking out the truth and justice while trying to find out the true identity of the antagonist ‘Riddler’, along with society not accepting and recognizing the ‘Batman’ as the hero. During his fights and journey ‘Batman’ is compelled to consider if he really is doing the right thing for the corrupt society. We first see this during the voice over at the start of the when Batman says “ The cities eating itself. Maybe its beyond saving but I have to try.” This is interesting to consider as the use of metaphor of “the cities eating itself” showing how the people in the city are shooting themselves in the foot screwing themselves over showing the audience to see how it could be impossible on saving it but due to Batman’s character he has to try all he can do to protect the city without any reward similar to ‘Marlowe’ from ‘The Big Sleep’ as he tries to protect Carmen only to realize that Carmen was only screwing herself up while he doesn’t have any thoughts about reward. Furthermore, the Batman was mostly filmed in the Arri Alfa Anamorphic lens in a chiaroscuro way to make the contrast in light and dark. This technique that the Batman was filmed has a huge meaning to the movie as