Levy calls the action sequences some of the most impressive seen in an American film for years, and talks of the Hong Kong-set portion of the film as being particularly visually impressive. He doesn't think about franchises, he's a more Leoneish kind of director. It was difficult simulating fire on Eckhart because it is inherently unrealistic for only half of something to burn. Nestor Carbonell appears as Anthony Garcia, the mayor of Gotham. Tom Hardy, [111] The Batpod was highly unstable for riding, and Goy was the only stuntman who could manage to balance the bike, even commenting that he had to "nearly un-learn how to ride a motorcycle" to manage riding the Batpod. Once again they worked the script of the movie under a fake title, calling it "Magnus Rex". [250] Meanwhile, Michael B. Jordan named Ledger's performance as an influence for the former's portrayal of Killmonger, the villain in Black Panther. [109] Though the new costume is eight pounds heavier, Bale found it more comfortable and not as hot to wear. In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[10]. With his acclaimed take on Batman in The Dark Knight Trilogy, Christopher Nolan helped take superhero films to new heights both critically and commercially, paving the … Catwoman's suit, for example is a reference to Julie Newmar from the 1960's Catwoman in the comical Adam West series, and you can see the resemblance.And there's even books as inspirations, yes, classic stories, Nolan also spoke that most of the plot of the movie was inspired by the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities, beautifully depicted in a 1935 movie, and when you get the book to read, you notice it right off the bat. [140], In the United States and Canada, The Dark Knight was distributed to 4,366 theaters, breaking the previous record for the highest number of theaters held by Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End in 2007. R Why So Serious? It was additionally nominated for six others, these being Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup, and Best Film Editing. And speaking of right influences and drinking from the right sources, there's a story about the whole conception of the movie. Val Kilmer, Ernie Hudson, Votes: Media In film magazines Batman was the main story until it was released, and this is aimed at cinema goers. Also, Nolan reveals that when he thought about his own origin story for Batman, it came to his briliant mind to do something in the very lines of the first Superman, starring Christopher Reeve. Director: In the United Kingdom, the film had combined sales of 513,000 units on its first day of release, of which 107,730 (21%) were Blu-ray Discs, the highest number of first-day Blu-ray Discs sold. Batman persuades Gordon to hold him responsible for the killing spree and preserve Dent's heroic image. The Dark Knight also received nominations from the Writers Guild of America (for Best Adapted Screenplay), the Producers Guild of America, and the Directors Guild of America, as well as a slew of other guild award nominations and wins. [16][27] Nolan noted, "We gave a Francis Bacon spin to [his face]. "[149], Other critics have mentioned the theme of the triumph of evil over good. "[184] Benjamin Kerstein, writing in Azure, says that both Klavan and Landesman "have a point", because "The Dark Knight is a perfect mirror of the society which is watching it: a society so divided on the issues of terror and how to fight it that, for the first time in decades, an American mainstream no longer exists. [251] Director Sam Mendes called The Dark Knight a "game changer for everybody," saying that it influenced his approach to making Skyfall (2012): "What Nolan proved was that you can make a huge movie that is thrilling and entertaining and has a lot to say about the world we live in ... That did help give me the confidence to take this movie in directions that, without The Dark Knight, might not have been possible. Yasuhiro Aoki, Shôjirô Nishimi, [67] Nolan decided to avoid divulging an in-depth origin story for the Joker, and instead portray his rise to power so as to not diminish the threat he poses, explaining to MTV News, "the Joker we meet in The Dark Knight is fully formed ... To me, the Joker is an absolute. Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Nolan The ferry scene displays how humans can easily be enticed by iniquity, and how that could lead to potential disaster. in the movie clearly states. He praised the performances, direction, and writing, saying the film "redefine[s] the possibilities of the comic-book movie. $1.24M. But not only that. "Neal Adams: Up Close and Personal". [136], Pandemic Studios was developing a tie-in video game adaptation, Batman: The Dark Knight. La película de Batman de Christopher Nolan “The Dark Knight”, de 2008, fue un éxito en taquilla y recibió la mayor cantidad de votos populares. ", "Movies: In Stetson or Wig, He's Hard to Pin Down", "World Exclusive: The Joker Speaks: He's a Cold-blooded Mass-murdering Clown", "Heath Ledger Says His Joker Has 'Zero Empathy, "Nolan Talks DARK KNIGHT Blu-Ray, a 100,000 Person Screening of the Film (Featuring Live Q & A w/ Nolan), TDK Sequel, and More!! Marlon Brando, Votes: Anthony Michael Hall appears as Mike Engel, a Gotham Cable News reporter, and Keith Szarabajka portrays Gerard Stephens, a detective in Gordon's unit. [84], Warner Bros. chose to film in Chicago for 13 weeks, because Nolan had a "truly remarkable experience" filming part of Batman Begins there. PG-13 $134.22M. There are no shades of gray to him—maybe shades of purple. [174] In 2014, The Dark Knight was ranked the third-greatest film ever made on Empire's list of "The 301 Greatest Movies of All Time" as voted by the magazine's readers. [99] A similar incident occurred during the filming in Chicago, when an abandoned Brach's candy factory (which was Gotham Hospital in the film) was demolished. You can use assets of this armor inside Skyrim SE Nexus as long as you credit our That's part of the whole fabric of how a city is bound together. But that was just the beginning. [59] Goyer, who penned the first draft of the film, cited the DC Comics 13-issue comic book limited series Batman: The Long Halloween as the major influence on his storyline. With all those qualities, Batman Begins turned out to be a hit and opened the path to other movies and sequels, pavementing the way of the trilogy and general superhero movies alike. The engines are located in the hubs of the wheels, which are set 3½ feet (1,067 mm) apart on either side of the tank. Angela Lansbury, Votes: One of the best. Act II (Intermezzo) - The Dark Knight In the film, Bruce Wayne / Batman (Bale), Police Lieutenant James Gordon (Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Eckhart) form an alliance to dismantle organized crime in Gotham City, but are menaced by an anarchistic mastermind known as the Joker (Ledger), who seeks to undermine Batman's influence and throw the city into anarchy. An old Brach's factory was used as Gotham Hospital. Worldwide, it became the fourth-highest-grossing film, the highest-grossing film of 2008, and the fourth film in history to gross more than $1 billion. "[24], According to Nolan, an important theme of the sequel is "escalation", extending the ending of Batman Begins, noting "things having to get worse before they get better". As much as he introduced villains in his movie that never appeared on the big screen (Ra's Al Ghul and Scarecrow), he was eager to fix the messy stuff that the Burton/Schumacker franchise did with the old ones. Klavan claims that, "at some level" The Dark Knight is "a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war". | The "Dark Knight" nickname was first applied to Batman in Batman #1 (1940), in a story written by Bill Finger. & Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Bat-Manga! Stars: The Joker threatens to keep killing people unless Batman reveals his identity, and starts by murdering Police Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb and the judge presiding over the mob trial. A wealthy playboy and a Chicago cop both return to Gotham City where their lives will intersect in unexpected ways. 164 min [164] Paste magazine named it one of the 50 best movies of the decade (2000–2009), ranking it at number 11. "[15], The film introduces the Batpod, which is a recreation of the Batcycle. Director: "[68] Nolan reiterated to IGN, "We never wanted to do an origin story for the Joker in this film", because "the arc of the story is much more Harvey Dent's; the Joker is presented as an absolute. Action, Adventure, Drama. [96] Jon Voight, Votes: Stars: "Gotham is in chaos. 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As the police launch a manhunt for Batman, Gordon destroys the Bat-signal, Fox watches as the sonar device self-destructs, and Alfred Pennyworth burns a letter from Rachel saying she planned to marry Dent. Users in the United States were able to use Facebook Credits to view the film. Directors: | By the end, the whole moral foundation of the Batman legend is threatened. [230] The film came second to Hancock, which was screening in 71 territories in its third weekend. (Nolan, on the theme of escalation)I guess that settles the question.Anyway, no one was expecting a huge return to form of Batman on the big screen, everyone was thinking that the franchise was crippled enough, specially considering the Joel Schumacker mockery, so no one was interested to see another one of these movies. A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist. [243] The Dark Knight was released on 4K UHD Blu-ray on December 19, 2017. The site's critical consensus reads, "Dark, complex and unforgettable, The Dark Knight succeeds not just as an entertaining comic book film, but as a richly thrilling crime saga. Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Votes: | [65] Christopher Nolan referred to Lang's film as "essential research for anyone attempting to write a supervillain". That's where director (or I should say "savior") Christopher Nolan came in... accidentally.Nolan was an unknown for the big public, he only released three films: Following, Memento and a remake of the 1997 film Insomnia, all of them, great flicks with very low budget. [183] Reviewing the film in The Sunday Times, Cosmo Landesman reached the opposite conclusion to Klavan, arguing that The Dark Knight "offers up a lot of moralistic waffle about how we must hug a terrorist—okay, I exaggerate. Dent learns that Rachel is the next target. Sean Young, [9] The Dark Knight Rises, the final film in the trilogy, was released on July 20, 2012. Kane built his creation under Delilah's skin and now, Anne Hathaway is drinking from the same source!And now for my final considerations about this fantastic trilogy.———————FINAL CONSIDERATIONSPersonally, I consider this, one of the best and most successful trilogies of all time. Sam Liu, The Joker interrupts, warns them that Batman is unhindered by the law, and offers to kill him in exchange for half of their money. 2,282,127 We are shown that innocent people died because of Batman—and he falls for it. Although it did not receive a Best Picture nomination, the show's opening song paid homage to The Dark Knight along with the five Best Picture nominees, including host Hugh Jackman riding on a mockup of the Batpod made out of garbage. Director: The Dark Knight : Le Chevalier noir (The Dark Knight), ou simplement Le Chevalier noir au Québec, est un film américano-britannique réalisé par Christopher Nolan, sorti en 2008.Fondé sur le personnage de fiction DC Comics, Batman, il fait partie de ce qui sera appelée la trilogie The Dark Knight et est la suite de Batman Begins sorti en 2005. Composition began before shooting, and during filming Nolan received an iPod with ten hours of recordings. [58] His original intent was for the Joker to scar Dent during the Joker's trial in the third film, turning Dent into the supervillain Two-Face. Retrouvez tout le casting du film The Dark Knight, Le Chevalier Noir réalisé par Christopher Nolan avec Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal. It was constructed from 200 individual pieces of rubber, fiberglass, metallic mesh, and nylon. When you have Gary Oldman, who's one of our greatest actors, and he's in awe of what Heath was doing, it showed what a performance Heath was giving. | "[146] CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade cinemagoers gave the film was "A" on an A+ to F scale; audiences skewed slightly male and older. [157] Denby remarks that the central conflict is workable, but that "only half the team can act it," saying that Bale's "placid" Bruce Wayne and "dogged but uninteresting" Batman is constantly upstaged by Ledger's "sinister and frightening" performance, which he says is the film's one element of success. 571,676 [142], The Dark Knight is regarded as one of the best films of the 2000s and one of the best superhero films ever made. Futoshi Higashide, !The Dark Knight Rises is an epic and exciting conclusion to the story Nolan has begun in Batman Begins. When Christopher Nolan and David Goyer was in the process of writing a script for a possible new Batman movie, WB already discarded the idea of several scripts so, Christopher Nolan, after voraciously research Batman, general ideas and read comics like crazy, finished his first sketch of a script called "The Intimidation Game" and stepped into WB to talk about his vision of Batman. Is to answer the question using your case study material on Four Lions and The Dark Knight Rises. Melinda McGraw. It's thrilling and very meaninful in it's message. Releases include a one-disc edition DVD; a two-disc Special Edition DVD; a two-disc edition BD; and a special edition BD package featuring a statuette of the Bat-pod. And together with the Batman No Man's Land and Knightfall saga and the Charles Dickens book it clearly formed the central idea for the plot of the movie. Alex Proyas [141] The Dark Knight was re-released in IMAX for its 10th anniversary for a week starting on August 24, 2018. Peter Weller, 752,348 Michael Wincott, Director: Jay Oliva Mob bosses Sal Maroni, Gambol, and the Chechen hold a videoconference with their corrupt accountant, Lau, who has taken their funds for safekeeping and fled to Hong Kong. Warner Bros. initially created a viral marketing campaign for The Dark Knight, developing promotional websites and trailers highlighting screenshots of Ledger as the Joker. 153 min [62], After much research, Nolan's brother and co-writer, Jonathan Nolan, suggested the Joker's first two appearances, published in the first issue of Batman (1940), as the crucial influences. [31], Costume designer Lindy Hemming described the Joker's look as reflecting his personality, in that "he doesn't care about himself at all"; she avoided designing him as a vagrant, but still made him appear to be "scruffier, grungier", so that "when you see him move, he's slightly twitchier or edgy". The movie even inspired a WB/DC animation of small films in the anime format, very much in the lines of what the first Matrix did, to connect and expand the new Batman mithology on the movies.But Christopher Nolan was just wiping out the dust and putting things in order again, as the line "why do we fall?" The Dark Knight: Batman DX-“Sometimes the truth isn't good enough, sometimes people deserve more. The film was the first mainstream feature to partially utilize IMAX 70 mm cameras, with Nolan using them for 28 minutes of the film, including the Joker's first appearance. [232] Its highest-grossing market after North America was the UK, Ireland, and Malta, where it earned $89.1 million. Stars: It was a very interesting tie-in.I remember finishing to watch Harvey's interview, the last episode from the web series, moments before I go to the movie theater to watch the movie. and strong elements from the movie "Heat" directed by Michael Mann and starring Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro that Nolan took most of the inspiration, specially considering the urban tone and the Batman and Joker interrogation scene. Batman races to save Rachel, while Gordon attempts to rescue Dent. Though, there's a Robin reference in the movie, as there was a Henri Ducard reference in Batman Begins. It's a great and epic movie with strong characters, great development and surely a milestone from the history of cinema. David Selby. [39] According to veteran Batman artist Neal Adams, he met with David Goyer in Los Angeles, and the story would eventually look to Adams and writer Denny O'Neil's 1971 story "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge" that appeared in Batman #251, in which O'Neil and Adams re-introduced the Joker.