The title of this film - The Dark Knight - marks the first time a Batman film has not featured the character's name in the title note although the Dark Knight is one of the epithets for Batman. It also became the first comic book film to win an acting Academy Award when Ledger was posthumously given the honor of Best Supporting Actor. While Ledger's performance and commitment to the role earned praise on their own, public opinion was also undoubtedly informed by his untimely death while the film was in post-production.Īt its peak, the film was the second-highest-grossing film of all time in the United States (behind Titanic (1997)) and the fourth-highest worldwide (behind Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest). The Dark Knight burst Out of the Ghetto, receiving an overwhelmingly positive critical reception as a serious drama, thanks in large part to the tour de force performances of its cast - notably Ledger as the Joker. He aims to destroy Gotham City from the inside out, and part of his "plan" involves attempts to corrupt the city's two heroes (Batman and Harvey Dent) by making their lives hell until they snap. The city's mob leaders become so afraid of Batman and what he represents that when a scarred psychopath in clown makeup shows up and offers to kill Batman, they hire him.īut once he's backed by the mob, The Joker ( Heath Ledger) decides that simply killing Batman won't satisfy him. The Dark Knight (2008) is the second entry in Christopher Nolan's Batman film trilogy, The Dark Knight Trilogy.Ī year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman ( Christian Bale), Lieutenant James Gordon ( Gary Oldman), and District Attorney Harvey Dent ( Aaron Eckhart) have achieved real success in taking down Gotham's organized crime by hitting the mob where it hurts: their money.
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