The Dark Knight Essays

The Dark Knight (2008) is a movie directed by Christopher Nolan. Serving as the second installment to the Dark Knight trilogy, this oversees Batman as he tries to protect the residents of Gotham city from a new villain named the Joker. While Dark Knight is a superhero film, it provides distinct, underlying interpretations around the risk communication of terrorism. Specifically, The Dark Knight functions as propaganda for the “War on Terror” through the social othering of its core characters,

Part Two The Dark Knight：A Man Fights With Evil 2.1 Violence as a Means to Achieve Justice and Freedom In America 's "super hero" movies, the hero always represents the value orientation of the Americans. This pursuit of freedom is just the pursuit of individualism. In the film, the negative character, a clown act by Heath Ledger, appears when the freedom of citizens is threatened. He is different from other negative characters. He is not a villain for the money but an antisocial. His purpose is

Dark Knight Analysis How Christopher Nolan uses film techniques to explore Order vs Chaos Christopher Nolan steps back into the director's chair for this sequel to Batman Begins, which finds the titular superhero coming face to face with his greatest nemesis -- the dreaded Joker. Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight, used quite a large variety of film techniques in the production of the movie in order to create scenes of complete order and then absolute chaos. Christopher used camera

Batman’s brand of justice meets its ultimate match with the introduction of the Joker. The Joker represents the counter to Batman’s brand of justice, as the symbol that Batman created is torn down. A major plot point in the Dark Knight is the Joker randomly killing people of Gotham until Batman decides to take off his mask. This is the ultimate threat to the idea of Batman. Batman is meant to be an unknown protector of Gotham, this is what makes him so fearful. Criminals are meant to fear even the

In the 2008 film The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan, it can be argued that the main character Batman is considered morally ambiguous, because even though he is a vigilante the way in which he does things does not always correspond with the law. Batman’s alter-ego Bruce Wayne is a billionaire who dedicates himself to protecting Gotham City from its criminal underworld and from his archenemy, The Joker. One of the reasons Batman can be considered ambiguous is because he does immoral things

Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight is one of the best iterations of Batman since the concept of Batman first came into being in 1939; the film offers easy to digest bites of philosophy and a deeper look into human nature. Despite the film's success and acclaim, what does The Dark Knight say about society's views on mental illness? The film presents a sensationalized portrayal of mental illness and depicts criminals as people that are meant to be feared; that people with mental illness are dangerous

In The Dark Knight, Batman faces his evil counterpart, the Joker. “The plot involves nothing more or less than the Joker’s attempts to humiliate the forces for good and expose Batman’s secret identity, showing him to be a poser and a fraud” (Ebert, 2008). The Joker

In Christopher Nolan’s 2008 film, The Dark Knight, he portrays the common rivalry between both the Joker and Batman as it continues within the history of a superhero versus a villain world. The beginning of this scene starts off with the Joker on a huge pile of many stacks of money looking down upon the other lesser criminals of Gotham City. The mob leader is very confused on the situation since his own men are surrounding him as well but they seem to be in alliance with the Joker. This makes the

Joker’s conflict between his own self-perception as an agent of chaos and society's perception of him as a criminal highlights the vital role that self-perception plays in determining how an individual acts and interacts with the outside world. The Dark Knight is a film starring the well-known superhero Batman, played by Christian Bale, and the infamous villain Joker, played by Heath Ledger, is directed by Christopher Nolan, who explores one man’s struggle to rid evil from Gotham. In this film, it is

fear at all? Even the idea of his own death doesn’t seem to bother him. It was one of the most emotionally disturbing moments in film The Dark Knight, Batman throws him off of a building and he just laughs the whole way down. Nothing scares The Joker, and in a way, that is even more terrifying than what he does to people on a daily basis. The Dark Knight showed the Joker the way he was meant to be portrayed. It really captured him in the best way possible. It showed a brilliant criminal mind

FILM REVIEW: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES SUBMITTED BY: RITWIK DASH ROLL NO: 2012-52 1ST YEAR, 1ST SEMESTER SUBMITTED TO: PROF. AMITA DHANDA Professor of Law NALSAR UNIVERSITY OF LAW, HYDERABAD Review The Dark Knight Rises is the third and final installment in a trilogy of Batman movies directed by Christopher Nolan. As a student of Legal methods, it is my personal opinion that an appreciation of the movie becomes engaging on deconstructing the motivation and reasons behind the antagonist’s

Tamil Selvam Adriel Wong ENL 102 22 October 2015 The Iconic Character in “The Dark Knight” Of all the villains in the history of pop culture, the Joker is without doubt one of the most enduring and iconic, sharing ranks with the likes of such immortal fiends as Darth Vader and Hannibal Lecter. And though he has always been popular, it is Christopher Nolan and Heath Ledger’s mesmerizing interpretation in 2008’s The Dark Knight that has indelibly branded the character onto our consciousness forever.

1. Introduction The Dark Knight is part of the Batman trilogy. In this movie, it focuses more onto Batman and The Joker. The Joker is known to be one of the most fearful criminals in Gotham city because of his attacks that is unpredictable and causes chaos towards the city. At the beginning of the movie, there is a new district attorney, Harvey Dent who is the uncommon courteous in Gotham. He is a law graduate and has successfully won many cases. Harvey Dent was a noble individual who has the goal

The 2008 film directed by Christopher Nolan, “The Dark Knight” is a film of the well known comic book character Batman. The dark knight is the second movie of the trilogy starting with “Batman Begins” in which a young man by the name of Bruce Wayne witnesses his mother and father robbed and murdered by a thug in an alley way upon leaving a play in his home city of Gotham. Bruce would continue to grow into a man that decides to use fear to combat those criminals who utilize fear to prey on their victims

Hate me or not but this is the first Batman movie that i have ever seen, so i am not 100% sure that i understand everything. Batman The Dark Knight came out in 2008, was directed by Christopher Nolan and the cinematography was by Wally Pfister. So on and so forth, the Joker is a bad guy who kills people and Batman is a good guy who doesn't kill people. Batman isn't really a good guy though because he still does illegal things he just doesn't kill people. Overall I would say this is a good movie but

Harvey Dent, a fictional character from The Dark Knight trilogy, saved the city of Gotham from mobs and gangs, and helped them to survive and prosper as the Attorney General. Yet, because of his job, he was burned alive and became a villain of his own city, hinted as being the character “Too Faced”, who is an old-time villain of Batman. Dent eventually was remembered as a hero because Batman took the fall for his crimes in order to give Gotham the hero they need. Piggy died taking the blame for Ralph’s

In the 2008 superhero film co-written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight, brought an action-packed, inspirational, and comic-inspired movie to the theaters around the world. Alternatively, as many would say the bundle of joy Warner Bros. brought to the big screens. The movie features major actors such as Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, and more. The story’s plot begins with Batman gambling with his war against crime by eradicating

In the movie, The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, film techniques are creatively used to portray Batman, the protagonist, as a superhero with good character and judgement. Throughout the film, Nolan has ensured that Batman is mostly shot from low angles. The purpose of these low angles is to portray Batman as much more superior than any other mortal being. These angles can also be seen as a reflection of Batman’s altruistic nature, because he is willing to do whatever it takes to fight

Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy constitutes a rather contemporary manifestation of an extensive body of artifacts in media culture. Media culture, Henry Giroux holds, “has become a substantial, if not the primary educational force in regulating the meanings, values, and tastes that set the norms, that offer up and legitimate particular subject positions – what it means to claim an identity as male, female, white, black, citizen, noncitizen” (2-3). Being the most popular remediation of the

variations of Batman 's out there: Tv shows, movies, and comics all involving different actors, villains, and plots. While there have been many successful and entertaining Batman movies along the way, the Dark Knight trilogy are by far the best movies to truly showcase Batman. The Dark Knight trilogy was directed by Christopher Nolan. Nolan has had a very distinguished career working on many extraordinary movies.