Our ‘Knight’ In Shining Armor
- Title: The Dark Knight
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Though there are plenty unsure of him, it’s made clear at the beginning of The Dark Knight that Batman (Christian Bale) has done a lot to clean up Gotham since the events in 2005’s Batman Begins. But he never saw a foe as strange and evolved as the Joker (who you are probably pretty aware was played by the late Heath Ledger). Like a virus that evolves to survive the new antibiotics that is Batman, he’s a permutation of the typical criminal unpredictable, gets results and worst of all, seems immune to the power and threats of the Caped Crusader.
It makes for terrible timing – it was just looking like the day Bruce Wayne could quit his night job was within sight, with the newly elected Gotham District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) looking like a serious figure to unwaveringly enforce the law onto a corrupt city. A real man to serve the city is going to be easier to follow than a grown man playing dress-up. But by the time the Joker settles into front page news, it’s clear that Gotham’s never been worse off.
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In a summer of super heroes and villains both on screen and off screen The Dark Knight rises above and knocks all of them off the charts. This film will stand the test of time going darker and deeper into a world of crime and punishment than anybody ever has for a comic book film. The Dark Crusader (
Diehard fans of The Dark Knight have long since given up on a cinematic treatment that gives us a definitive Batman. We all long to forget Adam West’s camp-o-rama, Burton’s Batman was just weird and violated some central tenets of the Batman mythology, and Schumacher? Well, the less said the better. (Two words: Bat Nipples). So news that Christopher Nolan was giving us a Batman: Year One tinged reboot of the series was met with equal anticipation and dread. Nolan is certainly a genre-fan favorite, considering the success of Memento, but he’s otherwise unproven, and the superhero film is not an easy one to get right.
The return of Bruce Wayne’s (