The Dark Knight; Starring the Joker
Why so serious?
Put a smile on that face…
That one of the blurbs to the latest Batman flick “The Dark Knight” and that’s exactly what the movie does; it puts a smile on your face in a Gothic kind of way, compliments of Heath Ledger who does a brilliantly evil personification of the joker. It is to die for…
“The Dark knight” puts the other Batman Movies in the shade; the concept has stepped up a notch above the simplistic comic book plots utilised before.
The plot has twists, turns, and surprises, Watch out for the appearance of the gruesome “two face” character and how he becomes villain number two of the movie.
The star of the movie is not Christian Bale as the Batman, Yes he is the Dark Knight, but he is over shadowed by Heath’s ghoulish Joker.
The joker is tight! Check out his pencil disappearing trick, this morbidly humorous clown is really effective. Some how he manages to inject a comical flair into evil deeds like blowing up a hospital. The Joker’s make up is intriguingly imperfect and it adds to his ghoulish mystique.
Maybe what makes the joker so brilliantly fascinating is the knowledge that since Ledger died just before the movie’s release, there would be no sequel to his performance.
Did you see Heath’s in the controversially gay “Broke Back Mountain”? I didn’t, from what I heard about the movie it did not sound like something I could stomach. Therefore my first introduction to ledger as an actor turns out to be his farewell performance, as the joker in the Dark Knight…
Why so serious? put a smile on that face…. Go out and see “The Dark Knight”
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August 25th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Heath Ledger deserves to get an oscar nomination for his joker portrayal
August 25th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Brilliant
unbelievably good
I went to the cinema first time for many years
I did not plan to go -but I WAS IN THE AREA and decided to see what it was like inside of the cinema. The fare is too much for one film-though
I remember the days when I paid 50 cents to go to the cinema 50 cents for the PIT in the Plaza , Empire ,Globe and OLYMPIC /VISTA
January 20th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Not to say I don’t agree with the Heath Ledger did awesome performance, its just that everyone in that movie did well. I am so glad that Nolan has decided to go away from the cheesy batman crud and stepped it up to a whole new realistic approach.