Jul 20 2008
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan has finally given comic book fans the Batman movie we’ve been waiting for. This isn’t just an excellent comic book to movie, like Iron Man, it’s an excellent movie in it’s own right and it’s the first batman movie to thoughtfully and sucessfully incorperate several different writers’ interpretations of Batman: Frank Miller, Alex Ross, Alan Moore, etc.
In the first twenty minutes of the movie, there was even a reference to one of my favorite Alex Ross works:
Will Heath Ledger be nominated for an Oscar? Probably.
Does his performance deserve a nomination? Definitely.
I was on the edge of my seat the entire movie and Ledger’s performance had a lot to do that.
But I think the media’s obsession with Ledger’s death has distracted from the movie’s other great performances.
Aaron Eckhart’s portrayal of Harvey Dent/Two Face, was also wonderful. You watch him rise, you watch him fall, and it’s done so well, that it felt like a character study in a Shakespearean tragedy.
I honestly wondered if the movie would end like a Shakespearean tragedy; with everyone dead, and only a few the wiser for it. But the story was so tightly put together, and the characters so well portrayed, I didn’t care how it ended. I was fascinated and entertained, and I hope everyone else will be too.
