The Dark Knight
- Title: The Dark Knight
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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 (Christian Bale) holds on to what little humanity he has through his close companions Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine) and Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), if not for them he would loose all compassion and be swallowed into his own mask of self-pity and battling ego.
Alfred, is life time friend and butler, keeps it real, he reminds Bruce Wayne from time to time that causalities occur and it’s his role as Batman to endure and move on. Sometimes you have to accept the loss of a few innocents to save the masses. Lucius is Bruce’s right-hand man at both running his company and building him the most recent vehicles, uniforms and gadgets to keep Batman safe on the streets of Gotham. Lucius also does a great job of reminding Bruce when he is crossing over into territory that goes too far in the name of saving Gotham City and its residence.
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The British stage show based on Swedish pop music comes to American theaters. Well, you don’t see that every week. The long-running international musical has made more than a few quid since its premiere in London in 1999. Just how successful? It’s the 17th longest running Broadway show of all-time (beating out little muscials like Sound of Music, The Music Man, and My Fair Lady). It’s been adapted in eleven different languages and has grosssed and estimated $2 billion worldwide.
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.
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