The Dark Knight Joker Interrogation Scene Spoof October 1, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in Quotables.Tags: batman, comedy, interrogation, joker, movie, spoof
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A light moment for a change. A reenactment of the dramatic scene from the fantastic movie:
The Films of Sandy Collora July 29, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in The List.Tags: aliens, batman, predator, sandy collora, Superman
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Sandy Collora produced these two fan short films. The first is a Batman film that quickly turns into a sci-fi crossover. The second is a cross-over between Superman and Batman. Nicely done.
Check out his site.
Batman: Dead End
World’s Finest
Reelz Channel On The Dark Knight July 26, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in Quotables.Tags: batman, chris nolan, christian bale, gary oldman, joker, maggie gyllenhaal, movies, the dark knight
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I rarely dwell on a movie, but The Dark Knight is simply one of the best I’ve seen in some time. Notwithstanding the dark tone and tragic plot, I love how this movie brings out individual characters and conflicts and meshes them together. Truly a great character piece as much as it is an action movie.
Here are a few snippets from Reelz Channel to give you more details, straight from the the people behind the movie themselves:
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Gary Oldman
Chris Nolan
Christian Bale
The Need For A Symbol July 21, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in Quotables.Tags: batman, gotham, harvey dent, joker, movies, symbol, the dark knight
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Those who have seen Chris Nolan’s recent take on the Batman franchise will agree with me on this one: the movie wasn’t about Batman nor was it about the Joker (although both hero and villain were not disappointments to say the least).
The movie was about Harvey Dent.
Yes, Harvey Dent, the young ambitious district attorney of Gotham City who pledges to clean up Gotham’s crime-ridden streets within the bounds of the legal system–something neither Batman nor his ally James Gordon admitted was even possible. The movie begins with Harvey, and ends with Harvey–or at least what Harvey becomes (long-time Batman fans already know this bit of trivia).
The movie has the ingredients of a great tragedy: on the part of Batman, of Gotham, of the Joker, but more than all these sordid stories combined is the tragedy of Harvey Dent–the tragedy of a white knight, a symbol of hope and of righteousness, and how the realities of Gotham or any aspect of human society, can warp and twist such a symbol.
Harvey Dent echoes this pathos in one memorable line:
either you die a hero, or you live long enough to become the villain.
Nietzche has a similar cynical take on this:
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
By the end of the movie, Batman’s last act of heroism isn’t what people expects. This is a heroism not of the direct conventional kind–but of the kind that has deeper implications to society. How important is a symbol that one would have to sacrifice oneself to uphold that symbol? Is a symbol more than man’s action?
Watch The Dark Knight and answer this for yourself.
