The Dark Knight
THE DARK KNIGHT
Category/Genre: Action, Fantasy
Release Date: 18 July, 2008
Run Time: 2 hrs 30 mins
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Plot Summary
Awards
2008- Golden Trailer Award- Best Action (Won)
2008- Golden Trailer Award-Best Summer 2008 Blockbuster Poster (Won)
2008- Golden Trailer Award-Best Motion/Title Graphics (Nomination)
2008- Golden Trailer Award- Best Summer 2008 Blockbuster Poster (Nomination)
2008- Teen Choice Award-Choice Summer Movie: Action Adventure (Nomination)
Cast :
Actor/Actress |
Role |
| Christian Bale | Bruce Wayne/Batman |
| Heath Ledger | The Joker |
| Aaron Eckhart | Dist. Atty. Harvey Dent/Two-Face |
| Michael Caine | Alfred |
| Maggie Gyllenhaal | Rachel Dawes |
| Gary Oldman | Gordon |
| Morgan Freeman | Lucius Fox |
| Monique Curnen | Det. Ramirez |
| Ron Dean | Detective Wuertz |
| Cillian Murphy | Scarecrow |
| Chin Han | Lau |
| Nestor Carbonell | Mayor Anthony Garcia |
| Eric Roberts | Salvatore Maroni |
| Ritchie Coster | The Chechen |
| Anthony Michael Hall | Mike Engel |
| Keith Szarabajka | Detective Stephens |
| Colin McFarlane | Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb |
| Joshua Harto | Coleman Reese |
| Melinda McGraw | Barbara Gordon |
| Nathan Gamble | James Gordon Jr. |
Production Credits:
| Christopher Nolan | Director |
| Christopher Nolan | Producer |
| Charles Roven | Producer |
| Emma Thomas | Producer |
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Movie Errors
How ever good a movie may be, there are always a few loop holes that can be found out even in the best of the works. Here are a few mistakes of the movie, which probably the director\producers of the movie could not locate, but sharp eyes of the viewers couldn’t miss them.
As Harvey Dent is tied up in the warehouse with the explosive barrels talking to Rachel, if you look in the lower right hand corner of the screen, a green blanket on the floor moves up slightly as Harvey tries to get out of his restraints. It’s too far away for Harvey to touch. During the interrogation scene, when Gordon first enters, as he begins to close the door if you look in the glass reflection on Gordon’s left (screen right), you can see the door open again slightly after he shuts it. In the next shot, its completely shut and locked.Trivia:
The first Batman movie which doesn’t have BATMAN in its title. While the shooting of movie, Christopher Nolan was asked by someone, “Why Heath Ledger as the Joker? He replies, ‘Because he’s fearless’. It was not so easy for Heath Ledger to portray ‘The Joker‘. In order to prepare himself for the role, he lived alone in a hotel room for a month just to formulate Joker’s psychology, voice and his posture etc. He also read comic “Batman: The Killing Joke”, and ‘Arkham Asylum: A Seriuos House on Serious Earth“. His other sources of inspiration were: read more … Goofs For The Dark Knight
Continuity: The cooling ducts on the side of Bruce Wayne’s Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 are closed at the beginning of the scene and are open immediately following a cut. They are motorized but take time to open and close. Continuity: In one of the first scenes with Det. Ramirez, you see her holding a cup of coffee. In between takes she switches between holding the cup with two hands, then only one hand and finally with two hands again. The cuts in the scene are immediate and linear, so she could not have changed how she holds the cup in between cuts.The Dark Knight - Memorable Quotes
Gambol: [to The Joker] Give me one reason why I shouldn’t have my boy here pull your head off.
The Joker: How about a magic trick? [pulls out a pencil and sticks it upright into the table]
The Joker: I’m gonna make this pencil disappear. [Gambol's thug walks over to kill The Joker, who slams his face into the pencil and kills him]
The Joker: Ta-daa! It’s… it’s gone. read more …
Movie News
Firm: ‘The Dark Knight’ sets record for debut 16 Sep 2008: LOS ANGELES (AP) - A tracking firm says “The Dark Knight” has set a box office record for a midnight debut. Media By Numbers says the new Batman movie from Warner Bros. brought in $18.5 million Friday from its midnight screening in 3,040 theaters. Box Office: ‘The Dark Knight’ falls from top 5 15 Sep 2008: In its ninth weekend of release ‘ The Dark Knight ‘ has finally tumbled from the top 5, going from #3 to #7 in the wake of four strong opening pictures. Dark Knight leaves gamers in the dark 15 Sep 2008: It’s a puzzle worthy of The Riddler. Why is there no video game based on The Dark Knight? For the first time in the film franchise’s history, the caped crusader soared into movie theaters without a game attached to his utility belt. And despite a plethora of Dark Knight action figuresMovie review
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Detailed Summary of The Dark Knight
The movie opens with an ongoing bank robbery at a mob-owned bank by a gang wearing joker masks in Gotham city. The Joker tricks them into eliminating each other before he finishes off the last one himself just before escaping with the mob money in a bus. That night, a meeting between mobsters and Scarecrow is interrupted by a trio of phony Batman. The real Batman arrives at the scene and apprehends the criminals as well as the imposters but gets injured in the process due to dog bites. It leads to his improvising his Bat suit, making it lighter for better maneuverability. Batman and Lieutenant James Gordon consider whether they should include new district attorney Harvey Dent in their efforts to eliminate the mob. He could be the white knight, the public face of Batman.
Rachel Dawes and Dent go on a date where they happen to meet Bruce Wayne and they end up having dinner together. Wayne likes Dent and he decides to host a fund raiser for him. In another part of the city, mob bosses meet to discuss the Batman, Dent, Gorden when a Chinese accountant Lau informs them about Gorden’s conspiracy to seize the mob money. He then announces that he has already taken care of their money by hiding it and escaped to Hong Kong, out of Dent’s jurisdiction. He also informs them that one of their deposits worth $68 million has been stolen by the Joker. Every one is taken by surprise when Joker arrives at the scene and offers to take out Batman in lieu of half of mob money. His offer is promptly turned down.
At the night of fund raiser, Dent proposes Rachel who puts off answering it. Just then Wayne comes from behind and hits Dent on the head making him unconscious and locks him up in a closet in an attempt to save him from Joker. The fund raiser is interrupted by Joker and his men who are looking for Dent. Joker and his macabre sense of humor leave everyone terrified. He takes Rachel hostage to persuade Dent to come forward. Batman arrives on the scene and asks Joker to let Rachel go. He drops her from the window but Batman manages to save her.
After Batman abducts Lau and brings him to Gotham city, mob agrees to hire Joker to eliminate Batman. Joker shocks everyone by sending body of a dead Batman impersonator with mask en all and announces that everyday people would until Batman reveals his identity publicly and turn himself in to the police. He sends clues in the form of DNA fingerprints of his intended victims. Despite their best efforts, police and administration fails to save Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb and the judge presiding over the mob trails. Commissioner is poisoned and the judge is blown off in a car bomb. His next intended victim is the Mayor of the city. Notwithstanding the best arrangements, Mayor is attacked during a public meeting by Joker in the guise of a soldier and in his attempt to save him, Gorden is shot dead. Joker names Rachel as his next victim. She goes to Wayne’s penthouse, as she considers it to be the safest place in Gotham city. Wayne makes up his mind to reveal his identity as Batman in a press conference. he reaches the press conference but before he can execute his plan, Dent announces that he is the Batman, and is immediately taken into police custody as part of the plan to draw Joker out in the open. Rachel gets upset with Wayne’s silence and Dent’s arrest and leaves penthouse after giving a letter for Wayne to Alfred, his butler.
Joker tries to ambush the police convoy along with his goons but his plan is thawed by the double attack by Batman and Gorden, who was only pretending to be dead. Joker is arrested and taken to police station for interrogation. For his valor and in recognition of his timely action, Gorden is promoted to be the police commissioner.
Later that night, it is found that Dent and Rachel both have disappeared. Gorden allows Batman to interrogate Joker, who is in the custody, to find the whereabouts of both. Joker discloses the fact that they have been abducted by the corrupt policemen and kept in warehouses rigged with explosives, at the two opposite ends of the city. Batman can save only one of them as they are very far from each other. Batman rushes to save Rachel while Gorden along with police force leaves to save Dent. Joker overpowers the policeman on duty inside the interrogation cell and insists that he should be allowed to make a phone call. With that call, he detonates the bomb he had planted inside the police station and escapes with Lau. All along, it was Joker’s plan to get arrested so that he could reach mob money through Lau.
Joker manages to deceive Batman by giving him reverse addresses. So Batman reaches warehouse where Dent is kept, just in time to save his life. But Rachel turns out not so lucky and is blown to death before Gorden and his force could save her. One side of Dent’s face is badly burnt. The death of Rachel drives Dent mad. Extend of Joker’s insanity is revealed when he burns Lau atop the pile of mob money. He then pays Dent a visit in the hospital and incites him to take revenge from corrupt policemen and mob for Rachel’s death. He also holds Gorden and Batman responsible for her death and urges Dent not to spare them.
Driven to insanity by grief, Dent turns into a disfigured, murderous vigilante on a personal vendetta. He tackles corrupt cops and gangster one after the other, deciding their fate by the flip of a coin. Joker makes public announcement that anyone left in the city after the night fall will be subject to his rule. The bridges and tunnels leading to city are already closed due to bomb threat by Joker. Left with no other option, police starts evacuating city by ferrying people. To spread anarchy and terror, Joker rigs two ferries with explosives. One ferry is full of convicts and the other with civilians. He declares that the only way they could save themselves is to detonate the explosives on the other ferry. Otherwise, he would blow both ferries off at midnight.
Meanwhile, Batman finds Joker and restrains him. Joker’s nefarious designs to destroy ferries come to a naught when people on both ferries refuse to kill each other in order to save their lives. Joker concedes that Batman is truly incorruptible and points out that Dent is not so. He reveals that Dent has already unleashed vengeance on the city. Leaving Joker for the SWAT team, Batman goes in search of Dent. In the ruins of the building where Rachel had breathed her last, Batman comes across Dent holding Gorden and his family at gun point. He flips coin to judge innocence of Batman, Gorden’s son and his own. Just when he is about to kill the young boy, Batman tackles him and throws him over the side of the building. Dent dies but, both Gorden and Batman realize that revelation of Dent’s crimes would knock down the morale of the city. Batman persuades Gorden not to tarnish Dent’s image by disclosing that he was the vigilante murderer. He accepts the blame of the murders. A manhunt is launched to nab Batman.
The Dark Knight Reviews
“The best way to sum up the sheer brilliance that is The Dark Knight is to paraphrase a saying from the Comic Book Guy in The Simpsons: Best. Superhero movie. Ever!” - Sean
“The movie is relentlessly paced, as Nolan constantly pushes the film with nail-biting action sequences and resonant dialogue exchanges.” - Adam
“Nolan hasn’t just created another comic book film, but a well crafted solid engrossing thriller”
- Wilson
“A drama about hard moral choices, ‘The Dark Knight’ is ‘The Godfather’ of superhero movies — or, at least, ‘The Departed.” - Tobias
“With only three short words comprising the film’s enigmatic title, it also boasts three epic claims to fame: the role of a lifetime for the late Heath Ledger, one of the best films of 2008 and one of the greatest superhero films of all time.” - Carla
“Far from offering traditional summer escapism…a brainy, action-packed morality play meant to throttle the audience, body and mind, for a solid 152 minutes and haunt them for days and weeks later.” - Mike
“The Dark Knight might be the first superhero movie that exudes a palpable sense of dread and menace that tugs at our nerves in a way that both disturbs and delights us.” - George
“Christopher Nolan’s latest exploration of the Batman mythology steeps its muddled plot in so much murk that the Joker’s maniacal nihilism comes to seem like a recurrent grace note.” - Matt Loder
“The Dark Knight is even more blazingly ambitious than its predecessor, the 2005 Batman Begins.”
- Joe Gibron
“The film is so relentlessly bleak that, paradoxically, its blackness is not given its full due. But this comic-book movie is more disturbing, and has more freakish power, than anything else I’ve seen all year.”
- Steven
“During the summer of 2008, at least, the price of a single movie ticket isn’t likely to buy more on-screen entertainment value and cinematic ambition than The Dark Knight.” - John
“Believe every ounce of the hype surrounding The Dark Knight.”
- Peter
“Supremely satisfying for about a dozen different reasons. A great film.”
- Scott
“Delves so deeply into the darkness that lurks in the hearts of men that it comes almost as a shock, bordering on euphoria, to find that it maintains a tenacious grip onto hope in the human potential for good.” - Morgenstern
“Like a symphony where every note is exactly where it needs to be, or a painting without a brushstroke wasted, The Dark Knight is an unabashed, unashamedly great film.” - Pete Vonder
“Ledger makes the Joker his, imbuing the character with such menace and genuine insanity I finally got a sense of what talent he really had.” - Lissa
“Watching The Dark Knight is like gazing into a mirror on a waning moon night: chilling and mesmerizing.”
- Glen
“Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, The Dark Knight goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind.” - Eugene
“It’s a movie about America, terrorism and the rule of law; about heroism and human nature. The dude in the bat suit is just window-dressing.” - Manhola
“Quite simply, when you see The Dark Knight, you’re going to realize how truly awful the first wave of Batman films were.” - Tom
“Nolan lets the film’s spectacular action scenes seem like the natural consequences of the conflicts between characters, conflicts that build until Gotham becomes less a setting than a stage for a conflict between tortured good and contented chaos.” - Kevin
“Ledger’s performance reigns over Nicholson’s by taking evil to a new level. If you don’t see this in theatres, then you are missing out on one of the biggest and best films in history.” - Ethan
“Dark Knight is epic, frightening, unforgettable, unstoppable, and every inch a classic Batman trial, brought to life with disquieting, mouth-slashing sincerity.” - Brian
“…if, like me, you’ve always thought the Paul Dini/Bruce Timm animated version was tops, you should be pretty happy with what Christopher Nolan has done this time around.” - Tony Luke
“An explosively provocative [film]. … Exhilaratingly straightforward action sequences matched by moral complexity of a sort not usually associated with comic-book movie franchises.” - Lawrence
“The whole thing would be worthwhile if for nothing else than the late Ledger’s brilliant and creepy performance as the unhinged, deranged villain. Hopefully, his achievement will be remembered when film-award season comes around.” - J.Toppman
“Under the fun summer blockbuster sheen lives an unnerving, serious, complex and ambitious crime epic about three good men with the courage to stand against evil.” - D.Stevens
“The Dark Knight succeeds as an action film, character study and metaphor for our own terrorism-obsessed time. Even the hoary device of suggesting a bond between the outcast hero and the outrageous criminal, misused in so many films, makes sense.” - McKarthy
“Dark Knight is epic, frightening, unforgettable, unstoppable, and every inch a classic Batman trial, brought to life with disquieting, mouth-slashing sincerity.” - Medley
The Dark Knight - Goofs
Continuity: The cooling ducts on the side of Bruce Wayne’s Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 are closed at the beginning of the scene and are open immediately following a cut. They are motorized but take time to open and close.
Continuity: In one of the first scenes with Det. Ramirez, you see her holding a cup of coffee. In between takes she switches between holding the cup with two hands, then only one hand and finally with two hands again. The cuts in the scene are immediate and linear, so she could not have changed how she holds the cup in between cuts.
Continuity: In the Hospital scene between Harvey Dent and The Joker; when The Joker holds the gun to Harvey’s head, he cocks the hammer. When the camera faces Harvey, The Joker’s finger is over the hammer, when it’s facing The Joker, it’s not.
Continuity: In the scene where Batman is beating The Joker in the holding cell, The Joker’s hands change position as Batman is pinning him to the wall. When the cameras are facing The Joker, his hands are gripping Batman’s arms from below with the fingers pointing up, whereas while the cameras face Batman, The Joker’s hands are holding Batman’s arms from above with his fingers pointing down.
Crew or equipment visible: In the final shot of the film, several non-illuminated lights can be seen at the end of the ramp. They are Bebee Night Lights, which were used to light most of the night chase scene.
Crew or equipment visible: In the opening shot of the film, the reflection of the edge of the helicopter in the building’s glass is visible on the left edge of the shot.
Continuity: When Batman is interrogating The Joker, we can see The Joker’s suspenders on his left shoulder. The scene cuts to Batman, then in the next shot of the Joker from the same angle the suspender is back under his vest and can no longer be seen.
Revealing mistakes: As Gordon walks into the interrogation cell to question The Joker, after he shuts the supposedly heavy iron door, it can be seen swinging open again in the reflection of the mirror on the right, revealing that not only did it not latch, but that it is obviously not as heavy-duty as it looks. 
Revealing mistakes: The administration building for the old Brach’s Candy factory in Chicago is used as “Gotham General Hospital”. Windows were replaced to make it look more operational for the movie. But, when the building is going up in flames, the aerial shot swings around to the one side, and you can see that windows were not replaced on the back side, and the interior of the building is gutted.
Continuity: When the seaplane lands right next to Bruce Wayne’s yacht in Hong Kong Harbor, the plane leaves a large wake, but in the cut to Bruce and Alfred talking on the yacht - which immediately follows - the wake has completely disappeared, never rolling under the boat.
Revealing mistakes: In the beginning when the school bus backs up into the bank, it hits the building hard, coming almost half way into the building. When The Joker drives it out there are no scratches or dents on the bus at all.
Continuity: When Bruce picks up one of the gauntlets being provided to him by Fox, the blades are in the closed position. Bruce opens the blades and accidentally fires them off. When he puts it back in the drawer, the blades are back on the gauntlet and again in the closed position without ever being replaced.
Continuity: (Possibly only visible in IMAX) Immediately after the Joker’s “magic trick,” there is a part of the table that is covered in dimples from the actor repeatedly stabbing the pencil into it.
Revealing mistakes: When the Joker drives the bus out of the bank and into the line of school buses, you can hear children screaming and cheering. However, if you look carefully, there is no one in any of the buses.
Continuity: In the opening bank heist sequence, after Joker shoves the grenade into the bank manager’s mouth, he proceeds to remove his mask with his right hand. In the next shot (the close-up reveal), he takes off his mask with his left hand.
Continuity: In the opening bank heist sequence, it can be observed through Joker’s mask that he does not wear any makeup on the eyelids (during the “I kill the bus-driver” line). However, in the following sequence, when he removes the mask, he can be seen wearing black makeup over his eyelids.
Trivia For The Dark Knight
The first Batman movie which doesn’t have BATMAN in its title.
While the shooting of movie, Christopher Nolan was asked by someone, “Why Heath Ledger as the Joker? He replies, ‘Because he’s fearless’.
It was not so easy for Heath Ledger to portray ‘The Joker‘. In order to prepare himself for the role, he lived alone in a hotel room for a month just to formulate Joker’s psychology, voice and his posture etc. He also read comic “Batman: The Killing Joke”, and ‘Arkham Asylum: A Seriuos House on Serious Earth“. His other sources of inspiration were: A Clockwise Orange’s Alex and Sid Vicious.
Police officers were taken from Chicago, Elyria OH, Hammond IN, Buffalo Grove IL and Joliet IL
It was a shocking truth for the fans that were eager to watch movie when Heath Ledger dies on January 22, 2008. But luckily, all his scenes were complete.
An explosion scene was filmed at Battersea Power Station in London. It made the people to believe that a terrorist attack had been occurred.
The Joker make-up was composed of three pieces of stamped silicone, which took less than an hour to apply to Heath Ledger on each day of shooting. Ledger described it as “new technology which is much quicker to apply than regular prosthetics”; he felt he was not wearing any make-up at all.
Aaron Eckhart enjoyed wearing the Two-Face makeup and warned: “When you look at him, you should get sick to your stomach. It’s like you would feel if you met someone whose face had pretty much been ripped off or burned off with acid. There are fans on the Internet who have drawn versions of what they think it looks like, and I can tell you this: They’re thinking small. Chris has gone way farther than people think.
Off-duty Chicago Police Officers along with Officers from Elyria OH, Hammond IN, Buffalo Grove IL and Joliet IL played Gotham Police officer extras.
Holds the record for reaching the $400 million mark the fastest, after 18 days. The former record holder was Shrek 2 (2004) (43 days).
The nine-minute suite composed for the Joker is based around two notes, D and C. Interestingly enough, Batman’s comic book company (who also produces the film) is DC Comics.
The film uses numerous elements of the Joker’s first appearance in “Batman” #1, published in 1940. In both “The Dark Knight” and “Batman” #1, the Joker publicly announces his crimes before committing them, removes his make-up and disguises himself as a police officer to gain access to a person he threatened to kill, uses a powerful bomb smuggled into jail to escape, steals and kills not for personal gain but simply to create chaos and disorder, and infringes upon the city’s old-fashioned mobsters.
Heath Ledger improvised when he started clapping inside his jail cell in a mocking and sardonic capacity as Gordon is promoted. The clapping was not scripted but Christopher Nolan immediately encouraged the crew to continue filming and the sequence was included in the film.
After his transformation, Two-Face flips his coin eight times. It comes up on the “good” side five times (for the Joker, Sal Maroni, Detective Ramirez, Dent himself, and Gordon’s son) and the “bad” side three times (for Detective Wuertz, Maroni’s driver, and Batman).
Early in the film, a witness on stand pulls a gun out on Harvey Dent (Two-Face) during the trial and tries to shoot him. This is nod towards Two-Face’s original origin story in the comics where in a similar trial scenario, crime boss Sal Maroni is on stand and throws sulfuric acid in Dent’s face resulting in his scarring.
There are many elements from various Batman graphic novels, either verbatim or slightly recast. In “The Long Halloween” Batman, Gordon, and Dent fake Dent’s death. In “The Dark Knight”, Gordon’s death is faked. Also in “The Long Halloween”, Batman poses as a SWAT officer. In the movie, Gordon does. The Joker’s reference at the end of the film to “pushing Dent over the edge” mirrors his “social experiment” with Gordon in “The Killing Joke”, in which The Joker attempts to drive Gordon insane by making him have “a really bad day”.
While filming both the bank and Police Department scenes at the Post Office, an unrelated fire broke out in a top floor mechanical room and many onlookers believed that the smoke and fire was related to the filming.
Set a new record for the biggest opening-day gross at the box office with $66.4 million. Former record holder was Spider-Man 3 (2007).
The “Batman” theme is heard only twice in the film, as Composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard decided that a heroic theme that a viewer could hum would ignore the complexity and darkness of the character. Hearing the tune only twice would create what Zimmer calls “a musical foreshadowing.”
An explosion was filmed at the Battersea Power Station in London. The fireball created calls from panic-stricken local residents, who assumed a terrorist attack had occurred at the out-of-use Station.
Christopher Nolan cites the film Heat (1995) as a major influence on this movie. William Fichtner played in Heat and in the scene in The Dark Knight that was obviously inspired by Heat.