I went to see The dark knight on the opening night on the Imax screen. Overwhelmed, I knew I had to see him again to assess him properly. Then I got a copy to watch at home and spent most of the past weekend unable to leave the movie world. Now that I’ve watched it a few times, deconstructed it, reverse engineered it, and savored my favorite scenes over and over again, I realize it’s not just cool. She is incredibly beautiful, graceful as a ballerina, and will be one of those landmark movies that we will judge others by for decades to come.
For all comparisons Hot and GoodFellas, Mainly reminds me of Natural Born Killers. Both films share an utter fearlessness in their vision of a world in which what we are seeing is real. They go way over the top, but they bring the story in for such a slick landing that you not just buy it as possible, but likely and even likely given the right circumstances. The beginning of batman It showed us the world of Batman in a way that made it feel absolutely real. The dark knight shows us the real world taken to an extreme where Batman makes perfect sense.
Much of the attention the film receives is focused on the acting. Everyone is freaking out over Heath Ledger, but I found Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon to be the standout performance here. But Gary Oldman is always great, and Jim Gordon is not at the center of this movie’s phenomenon. The Joker is. Some have tried to argue that the attention Ledger’s performance receives has more to do with his death than the actual work he did. Bollocks to that. Cesar Romero’s is the best on-screen representation of The Joker as portrayed in the comics, but Nolan’s and Ledger’s is an absolutely perfect characterization of The Joker as it would be if he were a real guy. And this brings me back Natural Born Killers comparison.
I loved talking about NBK with people who didn’t like it. The most common criticism was that it offers its disgusting leads as heroes. Then I point out that the genius of this is at the level of social commentary, where he points out that if Mickey and Mallory really happened, in the Marilyn Manson era on radio and Geraldo on television, it would happen exactly as shown in the movie. And then those characters became true cultural icons, from inspiring tributes and tributes through various mediums, to dressing up as Mickey and Mallory, becoming a rite of passage for couples sharing their first Halloween together. I don’t even want to get into real life copycat crimes. I will return to The Joker, I promise.
To make the most of The dark knightYou must have been following the various viral websites that made up the best marketing campaign ever. There were websites for everything from Gotham’s transit system to the newspaper and the 24-hour news network, with a weekly magazine show featuring characters from the movie as guests (all websites were ‘defaced by The Joker’ a week before the movie. release). I’m amazed that no other reviewer has mentioned the brilliance and skill of how, through these websites, they started telling the story two months before the movie came out. At the beginning of the movie, when Batman asks Jim Gordon if he trusts the new district attorney, you know all about him because you followed his campaign and his landslide victory online.
But that’s about it compared to what they did with The Joker site itself. For more than a year before the film’s release, ‘The Joker’ had people sign up to join his organization and then gave them orders via the internet. It was a great series of flash mob events, the grand finale of which took participants to their local cinema to be the first to see the trailer for the film. The campaign had rabid fans who showed up in cities around the world, wearing Joker makeup, often at large gatherings. And that doesn’t even touch the number of people who did not participate in the campaign and who painted Joker’s makeup on their Facebook profile photos. And this is where The dark knight one-ups Natural Born Killers. Oliver Stone showed society a mirror to alert us to the fact that we live in a world in which people could identify with Mickey Knox, an anarchic psychopath. The marketers of The dark knight Not only did he cheer us on, but he offered us incentives to declare our full allegiance to The Joker, an anarchic psychopath.
In Frank Miller’s graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns, a large part of the story involves young people, without a more appropriate role model, falling under the influence of the villain. Inside the world of the movie The dark knightI would imagine that The Joker would also inspire a large number of fans, copycats, and copycats, and would probably even use the internet in the same way that the film’s marketers did. I thought this would have been something worth exploring in the movie. That is, until I realized that they didn’t need to do it because they had already done it by MAKING IT HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE. How much more of a push would it have taken, if this power and influence were in the hands of an artist with a slightly more antisocial creative vision, to push those Joker-philes to a place where life imitates art in a way that U.S? you don’t even want to think about? And if that happened, you would have to wonder what kind of force would arise to stop them.
People have been saying for years that superheroes are the Greek gods of our culture, and their adventures in comics and movies are our mythology. As technology has improved and audiences have become accustomed to higher and higher levels of credibility, filmmakers have been able to get closer and closer to putting us in a world where Batman and Spider-Man are real. Marvel and the studios they were affiliated with were the leaders in this field, but Iron Man and The incredible Hulk each one groped in their own way. Each served as little more than one step in shaping the eventual great team movie, taking the audience for granted. DC Comics and Warner Brothers have not only given us an all-time classic with The dark knightThey have gone and innovated the art form to a point where we can barely tell the difference between their world and ours.
