The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight is the second movie in the Batman trilogy and is widely popular with many different kinds of people.  It is about Batman’s biggest rival, the Joker, terrorizing the city without any sort of motive.  His biggest goal is to corrupt the batman.  He robs, kills, and bribes people throughout the city in order to hurt the mob bosses who think they are running the city. Batman then fights back in order to protect his city from a psycho maniac; the Joker kidnaps the mayor of the city and tries to ransom him back but Batman helps him get free.

            This movie is very popular for a number of reasons like its action, its character, and many people just like batman.  But there are some hidden features that make it great as well, like color, sound effects and dialogue, the acting, and the director’s style.  Each movie depends of certain qualities to separate it from the rest, but each movie also has some things that take away from it.  In this movie I believe that the sound effects and dialogue, the acting, and the director’s style all help bring the movie the success it has.  Whereas I believe that the color in the movie was not what it could be.  I thought it could have been better to make the movie even better than it was.

            Color, although it did the job, I believe that it could have been better.  I think that the director depended too much on the action scenes in the movie to make up for the color and lighting.  The movie could have used more surrealism to give it a little different perspective throughout.  But the expressionism was used well to show the true personality of the characters, especially the Joker, that is a tough role to portray correctly but I believe they did well with it. 

            Sound Effects and Dialogue are very important in this movie.  Sound Effects are always important in action movies, but it a movie like this where the hero most go through so much, it is important to have strong sound effects.  The best part was when the underground tunnels started blowing up.  The sound effects made the explosions sound so real and so up close.  The dialogue is also important because it helps us understand the plot.  I believe that the dialogue was good as well because I got the messages that were being sent and the plot throughout.

             The acting was phenomenal, Christian Bale did and amazing job as Batman always keeping his identities separate and staying relate able.  Heath Ledger also did an amazing job as the Joker.  That is one of the most difficult roles to fill in batman, but he did it without hesitation.  There were times in the movie that without strong actors the movie would have struggled.  Without these guys who did so will the movie would not be able to be where it is at right now. 

             The director’s style was good as well because he kept it like a true/real action movie and the way he set up kept my attention all through the movie.  I like the way he portrayed the characters and their own individual style.  I also believe that without the quality of the director the movie may have been extremely poorly put together.