The film stars Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne / Batman) and Micheal Caine as lead actors, Heath Ledger (Joker), Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Morgan Freeman for supporting roles.

• Movie rating: PG-13 (due to high violence)
• Genre: Superhero
• Movie time: 2h 32m
• Release Date: July 18, 2008
• Studio: Legendary Pictures – Syncopy Films – DC Comics – Warner Bros.

Synopsis of The Movie Dark Knight

In the film, Bruce Wayne / Batman, Police Lt. James Gordon, and Prosecutor Harvey Dent form an alliance to crackdown on organized crime in Gotham City. But an anarchist thinker named Joker, who seeks to weaken Batman’s influence, riots the city and…

The Full Story of The Film

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Section 1:

A criminal gang robs Gotham City Bank and kills each other over money splitting, and eventually, all the money goes to the Joker (Heath Ledger). Batman (Christine Bell), Harvey Dent District Attorney (Aaron Eckhart), and Lieutenant James Gordon (Gary Oldman) form an alliance to rid Gotham City of organized crime.

Bruce Wayne believes that despite Dent as Gotham’s protector, he can retire from being Batman and start a normal life with Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

Sal Maroni, Gamble, and Chechnya, who are leading the criminals, hold a meeting in which Lao, a Chinese accountant who hid the criminals’ money, talks to them via video conference. The Joker enters the meeting and offers to kill Batman in exchange for half the money.

The crowd rejects the offer, and Gamble sets a prize for the Joker. The Joker finds and kills Gamble, and as a result, the leaders of the criminals decide to accept the Joker’s offer.

Section 2:

Batman arrests Lao in Hong Kong and allows Dent to arrest all the criminals. The Joker threatens to kill people unless Batman reveals his true identity and threatens to kill Police Commissioner Jillian B. Loeb (Colin McFarlane) and the judge.

The Joker tries to kill Mayor Anthony Garcia, but Gordon sacrifices himself to stop the assassination. Dent realizes that Rachel is the Joker’s next target. Bruce Wayne decides to reveal his secret identity to prevent further murders, but before he can take action, Dent announces to the Joker that he is Batman.

Gordon arrests the Joker and promotes Dent to Commissar while the Joker kidnaps Dent. Batman saves Dent from the Joker, and Batman returns to save Batman.

Section 3:

Rachel and Dent are escorted home with bodyguards, but Gordon later learns that they have never been home. Batman interrogates the Joker and the Joker tells him that he has imprisoned them in two different places with explosives and that Batman can only save one of them.

Batman goes to rescue Rachel while Gordon tries to save Dent. He enters the building but realizes that the Joker has sent him to Dent. Both buildings explode, Rachel is killed but Dent is only injured and loses half of her face.

The Joker escapes with Lao to take him instead of the money, the Joker burns his share of the money and kills Lao and Chechen.

Coleman finds out that Bruce Wayne is Batman and threatens to release the information. The Joker dislikes his intervention and threatens to destroy the hospital unless he is killed within an hour.

All the hospitals have been evacuated and Gordon is leaving to secure the race. The Joker convinces Dent to seek revenge for Rachel’s death by posing as a nurse in a hospital ward.

Section 4:

The Joker claims that the city of Gotham will be under his control until the end of the night, filling two ships with explosives: a warship and a ship carrying prisoners.

Batman, with the help of Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), finds the Joker using a sonar device that spies all over the city. Batman arrests the Joker after a fight, but before police arrive to arrest the Joker, he says Gotham citizens will lose hope when they see Dent’s real face.

Harvey Dent is trying to kill Gordon’s son, claiming that Gordon’s negligence caused Rachel to die. Gordon and Batman go to the building where Rachel was killed and find Harvey Dent trying to kill Gordon’s son. Batman eventually kills Dent and rescues Gordon’s son, but asks him to keep Dent’s heroic character.

Gordon cuts off a signal from a police-built device to communicate with Batman, Fox boosts the sonar, and Alfred (Michael Kane) burns a letter from Rachel telling Wayne he’s going to marry Harvey Dent.

Dark Knight Movie Review

The Dark Knight is a sequel to Batman Begins, which depicts Batman confronting the Joker, the most important criminal among Batman’s enemies. In this film, in addition to focusing on the Batman-Joker-Dent triangle, we find that the important point is the city of Gotham itself, a restless city that may face good or bad.

Heath Ledger plays the Joker in a fantastic way. Despite his grin drawn with lipstick, there are obviously two horrible sores in the corner of his mouth, and the cracked, layered white makeup of his face makes his tears even more apparent.

This film portrays the Joker as a superhero. He tries to lead the people of Gotham to crime; Find Batman or bear my wrath, kill others or kill yourself. He is a ruthless psychic who celebrates in times of chaos and is not afraid of pain and death.

Dark Knight Movie Sales

The Dark Knight movie was made with a budget of $185 million.

The film’s sales were $534.9 million in North America and $469.7 million in other countries, totaling $1 billion worldwide. The film had $199.7 million in sales at the opening of the weekend.

The Dark Knight is the world’s 43rd highest-grossing film, the 2008 bestseller, and the fourth highest-grossing film in history, grossing more than $1 billion.

In order to increase film sales to more than $1 billion as well as increase the chances of receiving Academy Awards, Warner Bros. re-released the film on January 23, 2009, and finally crossed the $1 billion mark in February 2009.

Dark Knight Movie Achievements

• Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger
• Oscar winner for Best Sound Editing for Richard King
• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger
• Grammy Award for Best Film Music for James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer
• Ranked 3rd in IMDb top 250 movies with 9 ratings

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