The film The Dark Knight Rises is very phallocentric and masculine. It also focuses on and uses gothic themes to present and challenge the fears a current age person has in today’s society. Its use of gothic themes creates a setting that helps amplify and enhance these fears. The setting has a gloomy atmosphere‚ urban decay. A sense of an underworld is created through dark tunnels and hidden secrets‚ this also gives Gotham City a labyrinthine quality. The film also uses aerial shots of the city‚
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Directors often use framing to portray a scene or character in a way that provides information to the viewer. Throughout The Dark Knight Rises‚ (2012)‚ Christopher Nolan uses framing to convey the balance of power between characters of a given scene. This element of cinematography is most evident in shots that feature the villain‚ Bane. Even though the actor that plays Bane is 5’9”‚ he appears taller and powerful due Nolan’s use of low angle framing. During the scene in the airplane before Bane
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English 1010-010 The Batman (also referred to as the Dark Knight) is a character that fights crime while doubling as a billionaire (Bruce Wayne)‚ that signifies nearly two generations of heroism through the youth and even adult based viewer market. The society of which people live in today gives a vast understanding of the elements that makes up the Batman and his persona. He gives the world a sense of many aspects of the human individuality. The oddity that is the Batman is something that the viewers
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Frankenstein Essay One of the reasons the movie‚ The Dark Knight‚ has done so well is because it toyed with the viewer’s sense of morality. In one of the scenes the hero‚ Bruce Wayne‚ had to choose between saving Harvey Dent‚ a district attorney‚ or Rachel‚ who was Harvey’s girlfriend. Ultimately‚ Bruce had chosen Harvey and left Rachel to die‚ causing the downfall of Harvey Dent to become a vicious murderer. This brought the question in the viewer’s mind whether Harvey was responsible for letting
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The Dark Knight Trilogy 1. Call To Adventure A key part of the Batman movies is that when Bruce was young‚ he fell into an empty well filled with bats and developed a major phobia of them. Bruce Wayne witnessed his parents get murdered by a mugger by the name of Joe Chill when he was young. After years of being raised by his butler‚ Alfred‚ he decides that he is going to kill Joe Chill before he testifies against Mob Boss Falcone. At the courthouse‚ Bruce stands and waits‚ gun in hand. He
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suspense. Examples of these Conventions in films are Scarface‚ Breaking Bad‚ The Taken series‚ The Godfather and the one which I’m currently analysing‚ The Dark Knight. Christopher Nolan’s‚ The Dark Knight is not fiction in the usual way the superhero films are. There is no godlike alien wandering the Earth‚ nor a man in a robot suit. The Dark Knight is‚ instead‚ a Psychological science fiction movie about an
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and lighthearted‚ or how horrific and tragic a film is perceived by the audience. This paper will provide an analysis of Hans Zimmer’s composition of the soundtrack to the movie The Dark Knight Rises. This dark‚ intense and emotionally pounding soundtrack pairs perfectly with the tension between the mysterious Batman character and his latest evil nemesis Bane. We will examine the musical characteristics of two selections from this soundtrack‚ the first selection examined is “Gotham’s Reckoning”
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Christopher Nolan is a very smart and creative director. In the hit series batman the film “The Dark Knight Rises” grabbed the audiences attention‚ and for good reason. In his opening seen of the movie Nolan already creates the readers to get a feel of what the theme of the movie is going to entail. The initial 0:35 seconds of the movie Dark Knight Rises focuses on a van driving through an open field. The shot at the beginning of this scene sets the idea of isolation and suspense for the rest
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Harvey Dent‚ from The Dark Knight‚ was Gotham Cities white knight. He was the district attorney and made it his had the same mission as Batman: to shut down Gotham’s organized crime. Throughout the film‚ Harvey uses a two-faced coin in order to “make his own luck”. Near the end of the film half after laying in oil‚ half of Harvey’s face and one side of his coin is disfigured/burned in an explosion. Harvey Two-Face then pursues and murders those he felt responsible for Rachel’s death. The Batman’s
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“Elements of Design in The Dark Knight” Mise-en-scene is a French term that refers to the staging and visual arrangement of a dramatic production. This includes such elements as scenery‚ properties‚ costume‚ lighting and the movement of the characters. In film making‚ the term is also used for the combination of all the elements in front of the camera (setting‚ lighting‚ acting‚ costume)‚ distinct from the camerawork and editing of the film. With regards to film‚ the director‚ production designer
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