Batman And The Dark Knight Research Paper

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The movie Batman (1989) and The Dark Knight (2008) are incredibly interesting films of the batman series set of Gotham city. Gotham city creates a look of an ordinary city and at the same time a crime hotspot for evil undertakings. Tim Burton is the director of Batman while Christopher Nolan directed The Dark Knight. Both choreographers of the movies exhibit high levels of skilled work in film industry as evident in the use of brilliant visual style and good quality sound track for the audience. Batman and The Dark Knight contain similar characters with supernatural powers. The characters showcase unusual strengths at different scenarios in both movies. Batman film is humorous and exciting to watch for long hours with live up creativity from …show more content…
The character Joker’s origin in both films seems to be the major difference between the two versions of Batman. In Batman the Joker has a well-defined origin of the Joker while in The Dark Knight the origin story provided is one for Harvey Dent (Two–face). Batman being a protector of the people confronts the Joker who had gone missing after committing murder by use of gas. The Joker kills himself in a brutal quarrel with Batman, and Batman won. However, the similarity is seen in representing the two villains who are shown to develop as characters and become who they are in both films. Based on acting done in the two versions of Batman, Batman is well acted and organized in character development than The Dark Knight. The general experience exhibited in The Dark Knight is superior to the one of Batman ’89. The fact that both are great films, The Dark Knight is a better version of Batman …show more content…
Both versions are similar in that they show similar endings from a fight between the Joker and Batman in a high building. As seen in both films, the Joker is caught mid-air by Batman’s tackle while they fought inside a tall building. Another similarity is that story of the characters comes to the end in a similar manner. Batman action scenes are well designed and are easily followed. In The Dark Knight actions are not easily distinguished because many cuts are incorporated. The many fast scenes make it hard to comprehend the flow of the film plot hence the audience loses interest and remains to watch the film only to comprehend it later. The quality of acting in Batman is systematic, and the scenes are well ordered. This makes it easier to follow the events presented in the film than when compared to The Dark Knight. The scenes presented in The Dark Knight do not clearly establish whom a character first meets and also the scenes of the movie are fast thus not systematically ordered as those in

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