“A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.” Behind all the action in The Dark Knight Rises is an important portrayal of crime and deviance in society. The superficial analysis of the plot makes The Dark Knight Rises seem like a simple hero and villain story and nothing more. However, the film expresses concepts of justice and provides an important depiction of strain theory
After Batman Begins, Batman starts to raise the bar on defeating crime in Gotham. Lieutenant James Gordon and district attorney Harvey Dent help with convicting criminals within Gotham, but a new super villain comes into play, the Joker. With the new criminal mastermind, Batman is soon forced to question everything he believes in. The Joker will also take the first fully fledged supporter of Batman and make him question everything, especially Batman. A hero’s call to adventure is what makes them
Batman and police commissioner James Gordon try to rid the Gotham of organized crime while combating the rise of the menacing and terrorizing psychopath villain, the Joker. (uci.edu) It’s important to take notice of the other clowns featured throughout the movie as well as their roles in
In most superhero or action movies, the good guys are always the ones who are in the right with everything that they do, and the bad guys are always in the wrong, but that is not always how it goes. In 2008, director Christopher Nolan released the second installment in the Dark Knight trilogy, The Dark Knight. This blockbuster hit pits the “Caped Crusader” Batman, against his insane nemesis, the Joker as well as the once great Harvey Dent, in order to save the city of Gotham from complete chaos and
Based on the excerpt from Evil: A Primer, William Hart goes through a painstaking process in trying to pin down the definition of evil. “Despite five thousand years of recorded human wrong doing, despite all that out prophets and scholars and poets and undead homicidal maniacs have told us, the origin and definition of evil remain impossible to pin down” (Hart 2). Hart tries to define evil and in the end he is able to boil the root of evil to a lengthy list of criteria and an empty definition.
world. With the help of District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant Gordon, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining mob members and clean the streets of Gotham for good. Their success is only short-lived when they encounter the Joker, a mysterious mastermind who is out to prove that nobility cannot hold in a world of anarchy. From the beginning, Batman continues with his war on crime. With the assistance of Lieutenant Gordon and newly elected District Attorney Harvey Dent, they begin locking
newly diagnosed cancer patient who has to lie to his family about his newfound income after he begins to produce and sell methamphetamine. In the Oscar-Award winning film The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne, as his alter-ego Batman, and Commissioner Jim Gordon have to lie to the citizens of Gotham City about the fate of District Attorney-turned crazed serial killer Harvey Dent. In Breaking Bad, Walter White is a high school Chemistry teacher who learns that he has inoperable lung cancer. One day, while
citizens. In some ways, Dent resembles a hero himself; he is a moral character who fights for ultimate justice for his citizens. He serves as a role-model Gotham’s citizens can look up to and he is essentially a hero without a mask. As Commissioner Gordon states at the beginning of the film, “Harvey Dent was needed. He was everything Gotham has been crying out for. He was...a hero. Not the hero we deserved - the hero we needed. Nothing less than a knight, shining” (Nolan The Dark Knight). Many critics
Ever since ancient times , poisons have been used for many purposes across the extent of human existence. Throughout its history , poisons/venoms were first used by ancient tribes & civilizations as a hunting tool to ensure a quick death of their prey. As the years progress , venoms were commonly used in fictional films , initially starting out in the United States. Venoms are poisonous substances that come from venomous creatures such as snakes & spiders. Most of the times, when venoms/poisons are
In the city of Gotham, Batman gets awakened by the bat signal. He gets ready, but is alarmed when he hears a bomb go off near the football stadium. He knows that this has to be the work of the Joker. So he runs as fast as he can, and get in the Batmobile and rushes to the scene. Batman sees the destruction, dead bodies everywhere ,and the stadium torn to pieces. Batman looks for the Joker, but the joker or any of his henchmen aren't there at the scene. Batman leaves after hearing the sirens of the
In the movie The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan the main character, Bruce Wayne, is the Batman. What the Batman does is defeat evil and fights bad guys and he does not kill. He tries to solve though every conflict without anyone getting hurt, but of course something always turns out to go wrong. There is another character in the movie and his name is Harvey Dent he defeats evil and puts the bad guys in jail with his power of a district attorney. In the movie he loses his girlfriend Rachel
The power of time is crucial in both works, as both narrators are in a race against time to save themselves or others. In the Pit and the Pendulum, the narrator is strapped to a strange contraption, with a deadly pendulum descending towards him. The pendulum was lowering an unhurried rate as it states, " It might have been half an hour, perhaps even an hour, (for in cast my I could take but imperfect note of time) before I again cast my eyes upward. What I then saw confounded and amazed me. The
Should superheroes be allowed to break the law in the name of justice? Well, let’s begin by defining a superhero. A superhero tends to be someone embraced by the public, and sometimes even the authorities in being the saviors or protectors of mankind (not usually the case, but still). Superheros have taken it upon themselves to save the lives of others. But, just because they have the power and the willingness to fight supervillains and put their lives at risk, does that exempt them from the laws
Alongside the excellent characterization of Batman, and the various characters in the film. I love how the movie uses flashbacks in a story, the characters usually remember an event while at the location of where it happened. These events usually happen before their eyes and they are always an important integral to the plot of the film. Adding to the list of excellent things about this film are the voice cast. This movie opted to not use any of the cast from the animated series and I did not mind
all of them. By the end of the movie he is the only gang leader left in town because he either killed the other ones or the police have taken them down. Then there is the police who Joker outsmarts at all turns especially when he gets captured by Gordon and brought to the precinct. He baits one cop into a fight and blows the precinct and taking the witness the police had to mob activity and the Joker who might actually talk in a courtroom. Finally, Batman, while Batman is an intelligent individual
I absolutely loved the movie Batman Begins, and I was hoping the sequel, The Dark Knight, would be just as good. However, I did not let my hopes get too high because sequels are usually not as good as the first movie. On top of that, a new actress had been chosen to play Rachel Doss and Heath Ledger would be the Joker. I loved Heath Ledger in a Knights Tale, but I could not see him in a role as crazy as the Joker. Little did I know, this movie was going to have me jaw dropped and begging for more
Batman: “ Then why do want to kill me?” Joker: “I don't, I don't want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, NO! No. You... you... complete me.” (IMDB) In Christopher Nolan’s 2008 The Dark Knight, we see two of the most storied comic book characters of all-time battle for dominance, in one of the best comic book adaptations of all-time, we see Batman struggle to find the strength and resolve to take down his arch nemesis Joker. Through the film, we see
“You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain.” (The Dark Knight) These thunderous words come from Harvey Dent in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Night”. This seminal film laden with depth and intrigue is abounded with a sharp juxtaposition of good and evil, light and dark, and virtue and vice. This is primarily manifested by the interesting relationships between Batman and Harvey Dent, and Batman and the Joker. Batman works tirelessly to remain the hero Gotham needs him to
Since the 1940s, comic book readers have been entertained by stories of a mysterious caped crusader. Batman, the symbol of justice on the streets, prowls rooftops and alleys both thwarting common street thugs’ petty misconduct and sinister schemes of criminal masterminds with the same self-righteous zeal. Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is an epic, three-act saga that presents the rise and fall of this famous antihero. Archetypes, recurring symbolism found so often throughout literature that they
The third installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy starts eight years after The Dark Knight ends, while Batman is still struggling with the defeat he suffered at the hands of the Joker. Early on in The Dark Knight Rises, it is made clear that Bruce Wayne, the hero whom is better known as Batman, has hung up his cape and turned into a recluse. At a social event at the Wayne mansion, Gotham’s mayor, city commissioner, police chief, and other high profile officials are all seen remembering