The Dark Knight Rises (2012) is a superhero epic of a scope hard to explain in a few short paragraphs. It is the third film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. This film takes place over the course several months, primarily in the fictional Gotham City, an American city which had until recently been rife with crime and corruption which had made great progress in these areas due to the events in the previous films. The protagonist is Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), the eponymous Dark Knight, who has retired his Batman alter ego after taking the fall for the crimes of Harvey Dent at the close of The Dark Knight.
Wayne has discontinued a fusion reactor project out of fear it could be weaponized, resulting in profit losses for Wayne Enterprises. Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) steals Wayne’s fingerprints and gives them to Phillip Daggett (Ben Mendelsohn), a businessman who intends on taking over Wayne Enterprises. After a kidnapping gone wrong, Selina escapes from a double-cross by Daggett’s associates. Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) riddled with guilt over the lies told to the public about the events of the last film, writes the truth, but chooses not to go public. He is captured and brought to Bane (Tom Hardy), a mysterious man who has escaped CIA custody and is now living with his men in Gotham’s sewers. Gordon escapes and is soon impressed by a policeman named John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) whom he promotes to Detective. Bane attacks the Gotham Stock Exchange at Daggett’s request in order to bankrupt Wayne. Wayne resurrects the Batman persona in a failed attempt to foil Bane’s attack.To prevent his company from falling into Daggett’s hands, Wayne hands over the reins of the corporation to Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard) with w...
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...es himself to be the people’s champion. He begins his public takeover of Gotham at the football game with the first of a series of speeches, which advocate populism in its most savage and militant incarnation. “Gotham is yours,” he tells the people. Like the people of Paris in 1789, the revolutionaries storm the prison. In the mind of Bane, criminals are forced into crime because of the domination of the elite. Blackgate and the Bastille are symbols of “oppression”. They are the allies of the people not their enemy. Bane tells the people the truth about Harvey Dent, that he is a “false idol” preventing the people from tearing down a “corrupt city”. It is Bane’s narrative that a corrupt lying elite has been keeping the people down with a “myth of opportunity.” The uprising of Bane is a cautionary tale, it is 21st century populism taken to militant extremes.
Although Miller’s Depiction of Batman in The Dark Knight Returns was very extreme and surprising to many he still perceives Batman to his audience as Ethical. Overall Batman is helping the the innocent citizens in Gotham City by protecting them and lowering the crime rates that arose while he was gone. He is helping many people by removing the criminals from the streets even if some of his ways of doing so may be seen as vicious. He is able to get the job done that the police officers are unable to get control of and he is able to remove many criminals from the streets of Gotham. Batman is ethical and he is very important to Gotham, without his return Gotham would be overrun with criminals that could eventually take over. Although he does not kill he is able to take back control of Gotham like he never left. Batman is a hero who has the the entire city on his mind while fighting crime and doing the thing he does best, protect
In the film The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan depicts Batman as a vigilante through the use of film techniques. One does not have to watch far to see this. In the opening scene, a blue background is used and dark bat symbol emerges from behind the blue. The contrasting colours can be seen as the battle of good and evil. The darkness emerging from the good. The bat symbol is
The caped crusader, guarding Gotham’s streets and citizens, is in reality just a man-the “Optimum Man” as Grant Morrison has pointed out in his six year study of the character(Esposito). Batman has the resources and abilities to do what is necessary to fight injustice; even with no superpowers he uses self-motivation to become the solution to every problem (Esposito). Batman is the secret identity of Bruce Wayne who, as a child, witnessed his parents murder right before his eyes. In Nolan’s film Batman Begins the mob boss Falcone tells a young Bruce “You think because your mommy and your daddy got shot, you know about the ugly side of life but you don’t. You’ve never tasted desperate.” This leads Bruce to face a turning point in his life were he now realizes his purpose and has the drive to restore Gotham from its crime filled state.
Everyone knows who Batman is. Batman has many different monikers, from “The Dark Knight” to “Gotham's White Light” He is the hero of Gotham City. However, he is not the perfect superhero. Whenever he is fighting a villian such as the Joker and Bane, his methods are unorthodox to the average superhero. The way Batman fights crime, destroying the enviroment to do whatever it takes to stop the villian, and involving collateral damage, makes him a failed hero.
The “Dark Knight Returns”, by Frank Miller is one of the most influential comic book mini-series in comic book history. Its impact cannot be underrated as this series has changed the way comic books and superhero movies are structured, developed, and their overall meaning. Batman has never possessed any super powers and often faces foes that do. Batman has always had to rely on his superior intellect, human physique, detective skills, and masterful planning. When Bruce Wayne was a child, he witnessed his parents get murdered in front of his eyes by a burglar. Bruce then inherits the family’s fortune and with that he trains his mind and body to the absolute peak of human perfection and devotes his life to fighting crime and to strike fear into the criminals of Gotham. The “Dark Knight Returns” is set into the future after the death of Jason Todd, his second Robin. In the “Dark Knight Returns”, Bruce has not dawned the Batman cape and cowl for 10 years. Bruce is is his late forties/early fifties and his body is starting to deteriorate. He drinks alcohol as a defense mechanism for Jason Todd’s death and he has to face several enemies including old friends and an anti-vigilante police force to save the city.
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 film was shot using a wider than usual lens so that it could be shown in I-MAX cinemas nationwide. Today’s audiences want an experience bigger than reality. We have to go that extra mile to give them that something extra.” Chris Nolan also insisted that the film should have a distinctive style which included making the film feel sincerely dark and sinister. Very rarely were the cameras sat still instead the cameras used very technical tricks e.g.: tracking, zoom. This film was originally promoted using a very unique style. Instead of paying for adverts they decided to promote the film using an alternative route. One of the ways this was accomplished was by de facing thousands of fake dollar notes by putting the jokers smile on top of the original face. A sane yet effective way was when many “Batman” recruits placed Joker cads into hundreds of books in libraries to do with death, this had the desired effect as many people became stirred up as to what this meant. The next alternative was to send out spam emails to the site named www.whysoserious.com. But when did Batman evolve as part of our lives. It was in 1939 when the world was introduced to a new hero. Bob Kane’s simple vigilante, Batman. The comics were e-introduced during the 50’s period. Yet due to Comic Book Censorship the violence was forced to gradually become weaker. The well anticipated Batman retuned in the 1970’s. Yet to intrigue a wider variety of audience he appeared more complicated and violent than previous comics. Today’s Batman comics show Batman as a real man with realistic and varied dilemmas. Due to these changes Batman is now one of the most original and adored comic book heroes. Nolan’s interpretation is a variety of the previous comics. It includes the violence of the First Batman mixed with the complexity and realism of today’s modern comics.
Film Noir contains several classic movie traits that separate it from the other numerous genres in the industry. The movies The Big Sleep and Chinatown are examples of Film Noir for their femme fatale, hardboiled detective and the use of Mise en Scene throughout the films. After viewing The Dark Knight the Rises, I have come to the conclusion that it too falls under the category of Film Noir for using the same traits as the previously mentioned films.
In July 2008, the gloomiest adaptation of Batman hit the theatres. Christopher Nolan (b. 1970), director of The Dark Knight (2008), brought us a morally ambiguous film, filled with violence and astonishing effects, raising questions about justice and corruptibility. The film shows us multi-layered characters who battle with very relatable issues in a world which is also more relatable, only much darker, than in other hero movies. We return to Gotham City where the mob is trying to rule the city. But since its prequel Batman Begins (2005), also directed by Nolan, the city is now busy with cleaning the streets and fighting the organized crime. These efforts, combined with the Batman, generate fear among the mobsters, and, eventually, cumulate
The Return: With the death of his beloved childhood friend Rachel Dawes, Bruce Wayne retires the suit and fame that Batman had carried throughout his journey. Returning to his old life as a wealthy business man, Wayne leaves all of his knowledge and skill in the Bat Cave and abandons it for good. His dearest family friend and butler Alfred, also known as his mentor during his journey disapproved of the way the title of Batman was thrown away because reaching the point of where he stood was not easy and giving up should not have been an option. With the city now open to any threats and crimes, Bruce Wayne must decide whether to gear up of sit back and watch his city burn.
Besides of Batman almost killing the joker, Batman hold himself because of his moral judgment, the Joker kill himself on purpose to frame the Batman to cause the media goes against him and his ideological position. Because Batman as the myth or the hero, it keeps Batman in a ubermensch, position were what he believes to be morally accepted or not, directing his morality the reference, although the dark nights use violence, weapons, threats against others he keeps a certain level of morality or decision of what is more important putting justice to its hands. The Dark Knight Returns, Batman is seeking information from a thief. In the middle of his “interrogation,” Batman throws him to a window. The man sits in large piece of glass stuck in
On July 20, 2012, James Holmes purchased a ticket to The Dark Knight Rises premiere in Aurora, Colorado.
After reading the beginning of The Dark Knight Returns, I am a little confused of who Batman really is, I had never known that Batman disappeared from his work and took a break for 10 years of being Batman. That
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 Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) in locking up most of the city's major criminals, and overall making Gotham a safer place to live. However, their plans all go awry when a new insane criminal, the Joker (Heath Ledger), starts wreaking havoc in Gotham forcing Batman to go to great
Any fan of Batman knows that “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight” are two of the best Batman films made in the seventy-eight years that Batman has been around. The plots really make you look deep in yourself and show the true and more real sides of the characters of the Batman world. Each movie shows the evolution of Batman and shows only a few of the many crazy and intense adventures of this mysterious hero. These two movies are the first two in the dark knight trilogy, created by the amazing Christopher Nolan. These movies were heavily praised for their astounding realism to the real world, and its pros and cons. But they were also extremely liked for their possibility for