the dark knight scene analysis
SETTING
Description: The chase scene is set in a tunnel and on the streets of Gotham City. There is a lot of buildings and structures surrounding the action telling us that the action is important only here.
COSTUMING
Description: Purple and green suit- royalty and jealous. This means that the Joker is powerful but also jealous of Batman. He also wears a suit- suggesting he is a powerful person but because of the colour, doesn’t play by the rules of society.
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." ―Harvey Dent[src]
The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, it is the sequel to the 2005 release, Batman Begins. The film is directed by Christopher Nolan and stars Christian Bale as Batman, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Heath Ledger as The Joker, Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent / Two-Face, Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes, Gary Oldman as James Gordon and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. The Dark Knight was released July 18, 2008 in the United States.
The Dark Knight proved to be successful, and a sequel titled The Dark Knight Rises was commissioned for a 2012 release with both Nolan and Bale returning.
Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
"Because he's the hero that Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight." ―Excerpt from end of the film's novelization.[src]
Prologue
The doomed meeting between the Scarecrow and the Chechen.
Taking place roughly 9 months after the first film, The film begins with the disguised Joker and various clown masked henchmen robbing a mob-owned bank, and systematically double crossing each other, killing each other for a larger slice of money. Eventually the only survivor is the disguised Joker, who reveals himself to the bank manager and then
Description: The chase scene is set in a tunnel and on the streets of Gotham City. There is a lot of buildings and structures surrounding the action telling us that the action is important only here.
COSTUMING
Description: Purple and green suit- royalty and jealous. This means that the Joker is powerful but also jealous of Batman. He also wears a suit- suggesting he is a powerful person but because of the colour, doesn’t play by the rules of society.
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." ―Harvey Dent[src]
The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, it is the sequel to the 2005 release, Batman Begins. The film is directed by Christopher Nolan and stars Christian Bale as Batman, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Heath Ledger as The Joker, Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent / Two-Face, Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes, Gary Oldman as James Gordon and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. The Dark Knight was released July 18, 2008 in the United States.
The Dark Knight proved to be successful, and a sequel titled The Dark Knight Rises was commissioned for a 2012 release with both Nolan and Bale returning.
Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
"Because he's the hero that Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight." ―Excerpt from end of the film's novelization.[src]
Prologue
The doomed meeting between the Scarecrow and the Chechen.
Taking place roughly 9 months after the first film, The film begins with the disguised Joker and various clown masked henchmen robbing a mob-owned bank, and systematically double crossing each other, killing each other for a larger slice of money. Eventually the only survivor is the disguised Joker, who reveals himself to the bank manager and then