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    future.” (Bruce Wayne) Harvey Dent‚ white knight‚ saviour and “hero” of the infamous Gotham. Batman on the other hand‚ is the Dark Knight and the troubled hero who chose his identity over the people. Many believe that the movie the Dark Knight‚ communicates to viewers the superficial perspective of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey. However‚ Batman transcends that perspective of true heroism and what it means to be a hero. The underlying message in which the movie argues is that the whole concept of heroism

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    villain." ―Harvey Dent[src] The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman‚ it is the sequel to the 2005 release‚ Batman Begins. The film is directed by Christopher Nolan and stars Christian Bale as Batman‚ Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth‚ Heath Ledger as The Joker‚ Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent / Two-Face‚ Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes‚ Gary Oldman as James Gordon and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. The Dark Knight was released July 18‚ 2008 in the

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    non-simplistic nature of justice is the movie The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight is an effective example of the complicated nature of justice because it uses powerful symbolic scenes to demonstrate the difficulty in finding justice‚ it uses characters as strong symbols for the various natures of justice and injustice‚ and it shows that the obviously just and unjust characters have striking similarities. The Dark Knight’s scenes provide many examples

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    Evaluation the Dark Knight

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    Evaluation of The Dark Knight The Dark Knight is one of the greatest movies of our time. Laremy Legel called Christopher Nolan’s‚ The Dark Knight‚ a masterwork (Dillon Michell‚ "The Dark Knight"). The Dark Knight won plenty of awards: Best Achievement in Sound Editing‚ Cinematography‚ Film Editing in Oscar; Movie of the Year in AFI Award; Top Box Office Film in ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards‚ and so on. The Dark Knight is a film that was so popular and all around loved that it merits evaluation

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    Design 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."[20][31][31] Nolan noted‚ "We gave a Francis Bacon spin to [his face]. This corruption‚ this decay in the texture of the look itself. It’s grubby. You can almost imagine what he smells like."[99] In

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    Schmidt Copa 251 Dark Knight Rises Essay The Dark Knight Rises was one of the top movies in the year 2012. It is all about action and thrilling scenes throughout the movie. The main stars in this movie are Christian Bale as Batman‚ Tom Hardy as Bane‚ Anne Hathaway as cat woman‚ Gary Oldham as the police commissioner of Gotham‚ and Joseph Gordon Levitt as Blake. The hero in this movie is obvious Bruce Wayne who is also the Batman and the villain is Bane. The Dark Knight Rises is a narrative

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    film about a paralysed centipede seeking a profession as a movie star in a play based on a momentous figure of the 20th century. It’s this predictability that is slowly killing the Oscars as something to be excited about…Which brings me to The Dark Knight Rises. The Dark Knight Rises is a brilliant movie and‚ unless The Life of Pi does the complete opposite of what I expect it to do‚ it will be my favourite movie of 2012. The Dark Knight Rises‚ predecessor leaves us at Harvey Dents Death as two

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    FILM ANALYSIS The Dark Knight Rises Director: Christopher Nolan Genre: Action‚ Crime‚ And Thriller Introduction: The movie started with a short clip from the movie The Dark Knight‚ where Commissioner Jim Gordon had a short speech in Harvey Dent’s funeral saying: “I knew Harvey Dent‚ I was his friend and it will be a very long time before someone... Inspires us the way he did‚ I believed in Harvey Dent.” Then a scene comes in where a black van carrying Dr. Pavel and a few mercenaries approach

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    Dark Knight Philosophy

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    BATMAN AND PHILOSOPHY THE DARK KNIGHT OF THE SOUL Edited by Mark D. White and Robert Arp @ WILEY John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. To the memory of Heath Ledger (1979-2008) Copyright © 2008 by john Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. All rights reserved Published by john Wiley & Sons‚ Inc.‚ Hoboken‚ New jerney Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a reaieval system‚ or transmit­ ted in any fonn or by any means. electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying

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    Justice vs. Terrorism “The Dark Knight‚” a movie directed and produced by Christopher Nolan‚ depicts the way a system of justice deals with terrorism. If an archetype is defined as a symbol that exists instinctively in the collective consciousness of the human race‚ the terrorism in Batman The Dark Knight represents an archetype through the violence‚ murder of the innocent‚ mayhem and mass destruction. Governments often lay down laws and procedures for a country to function‚ and to avoid

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