Dark Knight
My choice of favourite film would have to easily be Batman dark knight, the film was released in 2008, the budget for the film was an estimated $185,000,000 and grossed an amazing $1,001,921,825 worldwide as of the 1st of December 2010. the Dark Knight starred Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne/Batman), Heath Ledger (Joker), Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent/Two-Face), Gary Oldman (Gordon) The double Oscar winning blockbuster was directed by Christopher Nolan. On IMDB the film got a 9 out of 10 rating and also reached #8 out of #250 top films on IMDB voted by Movie viewers.
The film in my eyes is possibly one of the best modern day films, the acting in the film was brilliant, Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker is to this day the most memorable piece of acting I have actually ever seen in a movie, Christian Bale as the Batman as per usual Christian adapted to the role and made it memorable. There has always been a debate going on about the voice of the Batman that you can’t hear/understand anything he’s actually saying, people to this day still blame Christian Bale for the voice when it has nothing to do with him at all, Christian practiced and practiced for months to perfect the voice of the Batman while Christopher Nolan edited it via post production.
The story behind the dark Knight is: Batman tries to wipe crime completely from Gotham with help from District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, after doing so a new threat shows up ..The Joker.. Proving to be a challenge the Joker pushes Batman, using his heart against him after taking Harvey and Rachael (who Bruce Wayne loves and also who Harvey Dent loves) hostage, giving him a choice of what he needed or what he wanted, while thinking he was about to go save Rachael it turned out the Joker gave him mixed addresses so he saved Harvey instead..while Gordon was too late saving Rachael, due to Harvey having petrol on his face after an explosion he was left in hospital with one side of his face burnt, the Joker had visited him in hospital and ‘corrupted’ Harvey Dent now making him Two – Face, after the batman taking Joker down he learnt about the now Two – Face who took Gordon and his family hostage claiming it was his fault Rachael had died and wants him to tell his family things are gonna be okay when he knows there not, so he knew how it felt, Batman arrived on the scene, both him and two face had fell off a ledge two face now being dead, Batman had came to the conclusion he didn’t want people knowing of Harvey’s outburst and wanted people to know him as the crime fighter hero they all knew him as..
I particularly enjoyed how there was little references towards the original comics, for example: the original story of how Harvey’s face got burnt was; in court he was trying to convict a mob boss who then threw acid on his face, in the film while Harvey was trying to convict the same mob boss he pulled out a gun instead, I know its completely different but it was like a little nod towards to original comic series.
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