Monday 13 September 2010

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight is directed by Christopher Nolan who was born in London in 1970, Christopher Nolan began making films at the age of seven using his father's super 8mm camera and a collection of male action figures. He graduated to making films involving real people. Dark Knight really appealed to me because of the action and storyline, the film was both a enthrauling comic book movie aswell as a thrilling crime movie.
Heath Ledger's role in this movie is epic, he plays the joker as if he were him in the real world. making the character is own, this is not easy to do and takes alot of hard work but Heath Ledger perfected this and played one of the greatest roles of all time in my opinion.
I think some of the best scenes in this movie are:

In this scene the joker performs the dissapearing pencil trick. The Joker sticks a pencil in the desk, with the pointed end up and tells the mob bosses in the conference room that he is gonna preform a magic trick and make the pencil disappear. The group of mob bosses think it's a joke, so they send a man to go beat him up and stop waisting their time. The Joker calmly watches the man come after him and slams the man's head down into the pencil. When the dead body slides off the table the pencil is fully inside of the man's head; thus the pencil disappeared. This was significant because the Joker predicted that the mob boss was gonna send one of his men after him when he mentioned the 'magic trick'. By killing the man with the pencil and making the pencil disappear he kept his word, creeped out the mob bosses, and showed them that he could predict their movements in the traditional joker fashion.

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