The Dark Knight

Christopher Nolan has arguably created the best Batman film. The Batman in The Dark Knight has taken the approach of a more vigilante role with ambiguous morals. The definition of a vigilante is member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement into their own community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate. By the definition above Batman is a vigilante because he is a self-appointed citizen of Gotham City who took law…

Albert Huang Mr. Robbins Period 5 3/14/15 Strength of the idea In the conversation defining the all-time greatest director in the movie industry, several names, may never be absent. Among those that legend isn’t a powerful enough word to describe their merits, one name has appeared like the transit of Venus. It’s never as magnificent as the darkness of an eclipse, but has attracted countless followers with its distinctive glamour. It’s always close by the orbit of our lives, but yet so far away…

choice for the next Batman has sparked a mix of emotions and feelings in many people and it has been greatly shown through Twitter and other social media. Heath Ledger, a name that once had little to no meaning but after the 2008 release of “The Dark Knight” is a name that is notorious and forever will live in infamy. He too was also doubted my many other critics and moviegoers. When the announcement of him filling the role of the famous clown prince of crime Joker, the internet, like with…

Just as we inherit traits from our parents, the bible says we inherit our sinful nature from Adam and Eve because we descended from them. (Smith, 2016 ) Similarly, satanic popular culture characters have ‘inherited’ biblical Satan’s attributes. The Dark Knight’s Joker epitomizes deception and trickery. He offers two stories describing the origin of his facial scarring and never reveals which, if any are true. Additionally, he tells Batman where Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes are being held but he…

The Dark Knight is my favorite movie in this series, but is also my personal favorite Batman story, surpassing all the other Batman films. By putting all the right elements in play and given the character literary merit, the Dark Knight has achieved a great impact to its audience. Those elements are moral ambiguity, paralleling Batman with his villains, a large cast of equally compelling characters, and realistic depiction of crime and detective work. The story of The Dark Knight is entirely…

post-racial. We live in a world that is anything but post-racial. In Charleston, a white supremacist walked into a church, famous for its ties to the Civil Rights Movement, and opened fire, killing 9 African Americans. In 2012, after a screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, James Holmes…

In the 2008 movie, The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, multiple explosions occur in the Gotham City Hospital as the Joker walks down a street like nothing happened. Mayhem breaks loose as there is another possible two hospitals that he may blow up as well, how does the community deal with the Joker? Do they kill him or leave him be? This might be one of the most controversial debates in the comic community, should Batman kill The Joker? The Joker has done many Per many different…

reading The Odyssey Book 5-8, it came to my attention that the modern world of today and the classical myths of the past have somewhat different beliefs on what a trickster is all about. The current myth I am going to use come from the movie The Dark Knight(2008), where we are introduced to a trickster known as the Joker. The Joker is a villain who dresses up as a clown and commits crimes. In addition to being a villain he is also consider a criminal mastermind due to his ingenuity when it comes…

he is cackling alongside the crook. Some believe this is where the Joker truly breaks the Bat, making said hero a little more like himself. But there are, of course, several ways that they are different. One being the obvious, Batman being The Dark Knight, the other, The Clown Prince of Crime. Now, while they both come from terrible tragedies, Batman has chosen the side of good. The reason why he did…

The final trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice may have shown that the Dark Knight can hold his own against the Man of Steel, but it also hinted on a brief flirtation between Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) and Diana Prince (Gal Gadot). So is there any possibility that Batman and Wonder Woman will start a romance in the film? Affleck recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about how Batman reacts after realizing that Wonder Woman is a powerful being. “It inspires in him the idea that well, if…