The new film that Christopher Nolan is dedicated to Batman The Dark Knight – The Dark Knight in Latin America, The Dark Knight in Spain, a title which prevents its director Roman numerals add to the previous installment, Batman Begins (2005) , thus moving away from managing the consequences which is characteristic of such franchises.
Used to get out of complicated scripts, I think Memento (2000) and Insomnia (2002) – The London faces the challenges of Nolan The Dark Knight with an undeniable skill and fluent style, intelligent film.
Are we facing a masterpiece of action movie? Without doubt, and also to a powerful drama, gritty, at the crossroads other genres. Against odds, here are evolving impeccable ingredients taken from the gangster film, and detective films of the seventies and eighties.
All actors, including side-are stunning. Heath Ledger overwhelmed in his incarnation of the Joker. It is no coincidence that in his eyes we can measure the temperature of dementia and evil chemically separated.
Moreover, his is a psychological stress that although it is thought, is also a natural part of Batman. The Christian Bale suggests a careful interpretation, in which no gesture is left to chance. Not even when, dressed in his bat suit, participates in spectacular pursuits.
Given the structure of The Dark Knight, the mysteries surrounding the plot posed by the extension of an even deeper mystery: that Wayne, tired of being a guard, drag in another. Not going ahead the development of this inner conflict, but believe me: a tragedy presents us with an adult, fever, we might take as a model for future superhero movies.
In the corkboard where cuts Nolan digs its pages there are numerous cartoons. I invite you to review them in the next paragraphs. With freedom, of course, the less comic fans go directly to the second half of this article, because that is where we enter back into the film industry.
Undoubtedly, the comic provides unprecedented interest. Bob Kane and used the title of Dark Knight on an adventure of Batman published by DC in 1940.
Another visionary graphic novel, Frank Miller, launched in 1986 its miniseries The return of the Lord of the Night ( Batman: The Dark Knight Returns ), where Bruce Wayne is presented as a fifty-something, bitter to the dramatic shift that has taken Gotham City: a city with bad vibes about him, besieged by gangs and corrupt from the ground by a few politicians and media in vertiginous decline.
This Batman Miller, violent, tortuous and a gene for survival, led to an uneven sequel ( Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again , 2001), and eased the way for other comics that further complicated the psychological profile of the man bat.
Conforming to this new ethic, Nolan Batman has designed his film like a gentleman furious that would sink in a vacuum but for his perfect sense of justice.
Is Miller the only precedent of which relies Nolan? Obviously, no … A little to analyze Batman Begins and The Dark Knight is clear that the script is also tax both the comics in the mid-seventies, dedicated to the character the writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams.
No doubt the work of O'Neil and Adams is fundamental to understanding the drift of superhero comics dark post as Death in the Family ( Batman: A Death in the Family , 1988), Jim Starlin and Jim Aparo, Identity Crisis (2005), by Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales, and especially, The Joke killer ( The Killing Joke , 1988), written by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland splendid form, Arkham Asylum (1989), with text by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean illustrations, and Batman Year One ( Batman: Year One , 1987), written by Frank Miller and Dave Mazzuchelli bulleted.
The last three titles are, in my view, essential to understand the aesthetic and dramatic orientation of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight . And not just in regard to Bruce Wayne himself or secondary figures as Commissioner Jim Gordon. Also The Joker, in the skin of Heath Ledger, remains a fool would-be tough-as-understood Bob Kane and becomes a psychopath whose synapses clack. In sum, addicted to murder, as in Arkham Asylum.
More references: the highest contributor to Nolan, David S. Goyer, established a plot of both films using as time reference Batman Year One , and that involves taking into account two other comics influenced by the comic book by Miller and Mazzuchelli: The Long Halloween ( The Long Halloween , 1996) of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, and The Falling Man ( The Man Who Falls , 1989), Dennis O'Neil and Dick Giordano.
As in Batman Begins , this new installment in Christopher Nolan huddled around an awesome deal. Just to quote Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Gary Oldman, the box office seems necessary step.
As if that were not enough, we talk about the last film that was able to complete Heath Ledger, who died on January 22, 2008, shortly after filming was over.
Filmed on location in Chicago and the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, the film generated a significant buzz thanks to the excellent viral campaign designed by Warner Bros.
In any case, it is clear that this is not a blockbuster with the advertising as the sole basis.
Undoubtedly, the shoot was meticulous, especially in regard to interpretations. Is now part of Hollywood's imagination the way Ledger developed a role. Locked in a hotel, started writing a diary and notes of madness was adding its interpretation to find the key needed: a hybrid between the protagonist of A Clockwork Orange and singer punk Sid Vicious.
It is undeniable that Ledger's fortune to get this role is overshadowed by its end. In any case, no doubt many others competed for his post. For example, Jack Nicholson himself, Steve Carell, Robin Williams, Paul Bettany, Lachy Hulme and Adrien Brody.
Seen on screen, the Joker played by the Australian looks like a clown grunge . A very fast paced criminal, stridently defended every line of his record and that would never get out on bail.
If we take as a comparison the Joker played by Jack Nicholson, this lack of sympathy. Quite the opposite: here the character is imbued with resentment, and gives a feeling of abandonment, as if he had been educated base gun butts.
Two great performers, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who plays Rachel Dawes and Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent / Two Face, complete the team of actors, it sucicientemente powerful for the resulting sophisticated level of interpretation and even dazzling.
Screenwriter David S. Goyer, a copy of The Long Halloween on his desk, wrote the first treatment of The Dark Knight soon to end Batman Begins .
From the beginning it was clear that the central plot had to present a realistic career killer Joker and Two-Face origin unfortunate.
Although the character of harlequin sociopath (the Joker, as it is called in Mexico) is defined in naturalistic terms, Christopher Nolan and his brother, the writer Jonathan Nolan also spoke with a veteran of the DC, Jerry Robinson, in order to maintain consistency of a character so excessive that looks more like a cliché.
In the calendar of Warner Bros., the July 31, 2006 was marked as the starting date of this production. From the first script, it was always clear that it should be a story of intrigue and rivalry interwoven parallel: 1) In the night and the underworld, Batman had to deal with the Joker. And 2) In the rooms of good standard and in private life, while reporters were firing their flashes, Bruce Wayne should pass its apparent ally, Attorney Harvey Dent's admirable, at a safe distance. And that relies heavily on Wayne Dent as a white knight to be free of rot Gotham (comic book readers already know why this trust is tragically frustrated).
As of April 18, 2007, and over the thirteen weeks that the team spent in Chicago, Christopher Nolan showed the style you want to print the film: the dirty realism of the darkest thrillers and elegant years nineties, in the line of Heat (1995), directed by Michael Mann.
For reasons that escape him any film buff, this aesthetic is doing exceptionally well at another scenario: the financial district of Hong Kong, where the team remained between 6 and 11 November of that year.
Like Batman Begins , musicians commissioned to compose the soundtrack for The Dark Knight were Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. No doubt form an unusual team-training and both have a very different style-but I must admit that their creativity is many carats, and it is also evident in this case.
Synopsis
The Dark Knight , then the action hit Batman Begins , reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who plays again the role of Batman / Bruce Wayne.
In The Dark Knight , Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the criminal organizations that plague the city streets.
The partnership proves to be effective, but soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker.
Heath Ledger, nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for Brokeback Mountain , plays the chief villain The Joker, and Aaron Eckhart plays Harvey Dent attorney.
Maggie Gyllenhaal joins the cast in the role of Rachel Dawes. Other actors in Batman Begins returning are Gary Oldman as Lieutenant Jim Gordon; Oscar winner Michael Caine ( The House Rules The Cider ) as Alfred; and Oscar winner Morgan Freeman ( Million Dollar Baby ) as Lucius Fox.
