The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight
9/11/15

     The Dark Knight is the second Batman movie by Christopher Nolan and stars, Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, and Heath Ledger. The movie was released in 2008 and had a movie budget of 180 million and has made a gross net of 534,858,444.
     Christian Bale plays billionaire Bruce Wayne, whose alter ego is Batman (shocking I know). When a 
new villain appears whose ulterior motive is unknown to Batman and his allies, the Gotham City Police 
Department and their Chief Gordon and Harvey Dent the district attorney. When the new villain
(Heath Ledger) who call himself the Joker, starts to cause and up rise in anarchy and crime, Batman 
has to decide whether he will give into the Jokers demands or do his best to fight against him. 
Eventually there is a face off between hero and villain that is memorable and a very surprising twist ending.

     This movie is one of my favorites, and is a very good movie. The effects are spectacular and eye catching.
Heath Ledger (RIP) is my favorite part about this movie he portrays the Joker so perfectly and made me
consider the Joker the greatest villain of all time. The movie has many cool gadgets, that Batman has his 
company head (Morgan Freeman) create for him.      

    Some of the negative things about this movie is that it is a very dark movie, with many scenes that are not child friendly, there is a lot vengeance in the movie which causes people to make many rash decisions. The Joker is insane which means that he says some pretty dark things which might cause you think about life in a negative way. The Joker also has a sick sense of humor which includes his famous line, "Do you want to know how I got these scars?" and "Why so serious".

     If you can handle the dark humor and gritty scenes, then I highly suggest this movie.
Interesting fact about movie: Heath Ledger designed the Joker make-up himself, using white clown makeup and cosmetics from a drugstore, reasoning that since the Joker himself would design and apply it, Ledger should do so as well. Once his design was approved, the makeup team was responsible for replicating the look each day for filming.