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Triumphant: The Dark Knight
EDITOR'S NOTE: ... aaaand we're back. Okay, down to our last two sets of reviews -- Ritch and Hannibal. Sorry about the delay. Right, well, on with it, then.
FINAL DRAFT
The Dark Knight is a phenomenal movie, but it excels where it strays from Spider-Man films and the plotting instead apes contemporary noir like LA Confidential. The Joker is like Fight Club's Tyler Durden. His goal is to illustrate how empty and cruel humanity is, and how prone to chaos the masses can be. Where Batman fights through the night for order the Joker brings chaos in broad daylight. In the noir genre the Joker is the serial killer who is always one step ahead of the cop/Batman. Gordon is the cop who bends the rules to stop the threat of the Joker; Harvey is the guy in the middle of this battle between order and chaos trying to make sense of it all.
People are killed, buildings are blown up, and Batman does a fair amount of punching people in the face. The movie twists as everyone tries to understand the Joker, who is a master at breaking rules to the point where plans become opportunities to fail. The film manipulates your fears that a man like the Joker is loose in the population and, at the same time, you gleefully enjoy the carnage he inflicts. Heath Ledger brings his "A" game while the other actors play catch up, including Bale, who is often asked to appear "out of his depth." Bale does the role with an element of James Bond swagger when he's Wayne and a little too much John Wayne gravel when he's Bats. In sum, if you are a fan of noir fiction, where men are destroyed by their sense of duty and the secrets they keep, or if you like movies about men who put on armor to punch bad men in the face, you will enjoy the film.
FIRST DRAFT
The Dark Knight is a phenomenal movie, but it excels where it strays from Spiderman films and the plotting instead apes contemporary noir like LA Confidential. The Joker is like Fight Club's 'Tyler Durden.' His goal is to illustrate how empty and cruel humanity is, and how prone to chaos the masses can be. Where Batman fights through the night for order the Joker brings chaos in broad daylight. In the noir genre the Joker is the serial killer who is always one step ahead of the cop/Batman. Gordon is the cop who bends the rules to stop the threat of the Joker; Harvey is the guy in the middle of this battle between order and chaos trying to make sense of it all.
People are killed, buildings are blown up, and Batman does a fair amount of punching people in the face. The movie twists as everyone tries to understand the Joker, who is a master at breaking rules to the point where plans become opportunities to fail. The film manipulates your fears that a man like the Joker is loose in the population and, at the same time, you gleefully enjoy the carnage he inflicts. Heath Ledger brings his "A game" while the other actors play catch up, including Bale, who is often asked to appear "out of his depth." Bale does the role with an element of James Bond swagger when he's Wayne and a little too much John Wayne gravel when he's Bats. In sum, if you are a fan of noir fiction, where men are destroyed by their sense of duty and the secrets they keep, or if you like movies about men who put on armor to punch bad men in the face, you will enjoy the film.
NOTES FROM EDITOR HANNIBAL TABU
My question here is "out of his depth" -- why quotes? What are you trying to communicate here?
Oh, also, you're missing commas in many of the quotes, capitalization is inconsistent ... you're making me work a lot harder than I should.
What the heck is this assignment again?
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