...“Dark Knight, The” the Joker, comic-book character and arch-nemesis of DC Comics’ superhero Batman. The Joker is noted for his clownlike appearance and sick humour. The Joker, initially portrayed as a small-time crook, was disfigured and driven insane by an accident with toxic chemicals. He was depicted with chalk-white skin, ruby-red lips permanently fixed in a demonic grin, and bright green hair. He was created in 1940 by illustrator Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger; their collaborator Jerry Robinson also claimed credit for the character’s inspiration. Early stories portrayed him (post-accident) as a homicidal psychopath, but by the mid-1950s he had been softened into a thief whose crimes were also gags. In the 1960s the character devolved into outright camp in a farcical Batman television series. In the 1970s, writer Denny O’Neil and artist Neal Adams revitalized the Joker’s image, making him once again a wickedly menacing killer. Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s 1988 story The Killing Joke revised and complicated his origin, ultimately suggesting that he might be not only lying about his past but unsure of it himself. Stories from this era focused on the Joker’s insanity and explored his relationship with Batman, suggesting that the two were equally insane but channeled their energies in opposite directions. The Joker has appeared in many media incarnations of Batman. Among the notable actors to portray him were Cesar Romero in the 1960s television series, Jack Nicholson...
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...I. Batman and Joker represent each other’s opposite who help balance and define one another through their values and beliefs, abilities, and actions. II. Values and beliefs a. Justice vs. Injustice I. Roots 1. Tragic loss of parents lead to Batman a. “It took the tragedy of losing your parents to buy you that life” – Hush (Dini 13) b. “i swear, by the spirits of my parents, to avenge their deaths by spending the rest of my life warring on all criminals” – Bruce Wayne (“Chill”) 2. Tragic loss of (pregnant) wife leads to Joker c. “But I can’t do anything tonight. Th-there’s no reason anymore…Jeannie’s dead” – Joker (Moore 23) b. Moral vs. Immoral II. Batman cannot kill (Joker) 3. Afraid that he will not stop d. “If I allow myself to go down to that place, I’ll never come back” – Batman (Red hood) 4. Against his morals e. “your role models. The beliefs they instilled in you. And think of how the joker could never understand that” – Gordon (Loeb) f. “you and I have seen more than our fair share of tragedies and thirsted for revenge. If batman wanted to be a killer, he could have started long ago” – Gordon (Loeb) III. Joker takes lives, assaults, to get results 5. Jason Todd g. “You’re thinking about when I died. How there’s blood on your hand because you couldn’t...
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...Brandon Gallo PSY 202 Extra Credit Paper “Dark Knight” was a smash hit for it’s fame, explosions, and chase scenes, but what really had me on the edge of my seat was perhaps the most riveting villain I had ever seen. The Joker. The Joker is a mob-backed terrorist with suicidal tendencies and According to the DSM, the joker would be given the diagnoses of Antisocial personality disorder. He is not reasonable, he’s not afraid of anything, and the last thing he cares about in the world is himself. As Alfred explained to Bruce, “Some men just want to watch the world burn Individuals with an Antisocial Personality Disorder show a lack of concern toward the expectations and rules of society and usually frequently become involved in at least minor violations of the rules of society and the rights of others. A popular term for this type of individual is “sociopath”. Although the diagnosis is limited to those persons over eighteen years of age, it usually involves a history of antisocial behavior before the age of fifteen. The individual often displays a pattern of lying, truancy, delinquency, substance abuse, running away from home and may have difficulty with the law. As an adult, the person often commits acts that are against the law and/or fails to live up to the requirements of a job, financial responsibility, or parenting responsibilities. They tend to have difficulty sustaining a long term marital relationship and frequently are involved in alcohol and drug abuse. To be diagnosed...
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...way to stop Bane from killing people every night is too expel him from the prison. A few days later, Bane was banished out of Pena Dura prison. With nothing but his clothes, Bane decides to make shelter in a cave in the woods. As he sleeps, the nightmare still haunts him. Every night, he would get up and go kill wild animals because it eases the pain. Bane was not happy of his actions but it was the only way he can survive. The animals provided him with food and energy for survival. After a few days of wondering around, he found himself arrived at a place called Gotham City. With no money and shelter, he went around asking people for help and food. All of a sudden, he ran into a man by the name of the Joker. The Joker took him in and gave him food and shelter. Bane told the Joker about the...
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...opening sequence of the narrative starts the chain of cause and effect and establishes characters. 2. Explain how Harvey Dent is established as a character at the beginning of the film. 3. Explain how the character of Bruce Wayne, and his relationship with both Rachel and Harvey Dents, is developed further using a combination of production elements (00:18:34-00:20:46) 4. Explain how The Joker is developed as a character using a combination of production elements when he meets the mob bosses (00:20:47-00:25:05). How does Nolan use stereotypical characterisation throughout this scene? 5. Explain how Nolan uses the structuring of time to compress Bruce Wayne’s journey to Hong Kong (00:27:27-00:28:23) 6. Explain how The Joker is developed as a character when he kills Gambol. How does Nolan engage the audience in this scene? (00:28:23-00:30:24) 7. Explain how Nolan uses the structuring of time when Dent tries the mob bosses and their associates (00:37:56-00:38:56). 8. Explain how Nolan uses a combination of acting, mise-en-scene, camera movement and music to develop the character of The Joker in the video of him tormenting the Batman impersonator (00:40:43- 00:41:46) 9. Explain how multiple story lines are used to develop the narrative during the fundraising party for Harvey Dent. 10. During the party scene scene, a number of characters are developed and the relationship between characters is developed further, explain: how the relationship between Bruce Wayne and Rachel Dawes...
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...that plague Gotham City until a mysterious criminal mastermind known as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos. Through the use of various visual codes and conventions the central ideas of Chaos vs Order, Heroes vs Villains and Light vs Dark are reinforced during the final scenes of the film. Viewers of The Dark Knight are challenged to respond to the central themes and ideas and explore the in depth characterization within the film. The idea of order within Gotham collapses when Harvey Dent, once seen a symbol of order as Gotham’s elected DA declines rapidly and becomes a representation of chaos or anarchy. This is revealed through Harvey Dent’s dialogue at the ending scene in the film, saying “the only morality in a cruel world is chance”. This dialogue is paired with the symbolic action of flipping a scorched 2 headed coin, signifying Harvey’s change from a symbol of order or Gotham’s “white knight” to his decline into chaos. The Joker is known throughout the film as a agent of chaos as he said during this dialogue with Harvey Dent in the hospital “Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I am an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair.” Throughout the film the key concept of fairness or ‘chance’ is explored and is reinforced during the Harvey’s final moments in the ending scene. Earlier in the film when the joker is being interigated there is a definite sense of tension and escalated anarchy...
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...“with possibilities of an academy award nomination, but ultimately it did not receive this honor”. Another possible change could be where it reads “but it’s popularity and ability to elevate the comic book film, which is rarely associated with quality storytelling, remain” could read “It is a rare quality of storytelling that has the ability to elevate the comic book film’s popularity the way this film did.” Moving onto the second paragraph, the main change needed is to eliminate the run-on sentence that takes up over half of the paragraph. This sentence should read “Specifically the films writer and director, Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer. Heath Ledger earned an academy award for his role as the Joker in this movie; sadly it wasn’t till after he had passed away. The Joker was one of Heath’s last roles and an excellent performance it was.” In the third paragraph instead of again listing the actors, the writer could have written; “While in most comic book movies the actors are not given any moments to showcase their acting abilities, this particular list of actors, while impressive, where able to showcase while excelling in their roles as well.” The fourth paragraph is again a combination of run-on sentences. Maybe they could have written “Following the established look of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight used a more restrained visual style then what was seen in the late 80s and 90s. This particular style was created by the use of subdued colors and a lot of darkness. The...
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...asdawdawdaBatman in popular culture Since his introduction, Batman has become one of the most famous comic book characters, and is known even to people who do not read the comics. In addition to DC's comic books, he has appeared in movies, television shows, and novels. Batman is known as being an unusually (though not uniquely) grim superhero, particularly for a Golden Age character. He is driven by vengeance, and wears a frightening costume to scare criminals. The contrast to characters like Superman is stark. The grimness is not a constant; in some incarnations of the character (notably the television series of the 1960s, and many of the comic books from the 1950s and 60s), it evaporates into camp and even comedy. In fact, during the 1950s (when the popularity of superhero comics had declined considerably), Batman and Robin engaged in a number of science fiction adventures that resembled the comic book stories of Superman of the time. They had a number of time travel adventures, traveling into outer space regularly; and Batman even acquired a crime-fighting mascot (Ace, The Bat-Hound) and an annoying extra-dimensional imp named Bat-Mite, who had powers similar to Superman's own Mr. Mxyzptlk. In 1953, the book Seduction of the Innocent by psychologist Frederic Wertham used Batman and Robin, among several examples, to attack the comic book medium. He insinuated that Batman and Robin had a pedophilic relationship, and asserted that the bare legs in Robin's costume encouraged homosexuality...
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...important technique used in The Party Scene is the Camera Work. Half way through The Party Scene, The Joker is seen holding a knife to Rachel’s head, as he recounts his terrifying past. The camera in the scene circles around the two, with a slight low angle, and blurs out the rest of the party guests. These three camera techniques create a feeling of sickness, fear and intimidation as the audience can only focus on the Joker, much like Rachel. Rachel is presented as a very strong character throughout the film, yet trembles in the Jokers presence in this scene. These camera techniques show the audience how the Joker can instil fear into even the strongest and most respectable characters. Whilst the camera work in The Party scene helps develop the audiences understanding of the Joker, it also helps the audience understand Batman, and why he is so feared by Gotham’s criminal society. Towards the end of The Party scene, Rachel is thrown out of a window in the top floor of one of Gotham’s many skyscrapers. Without hesitating the Batman follows Rachel out the window. The camera follows Batman out the window, and shows the full height and size of the drop. This helps show the audience how fearless Batman is, and really demonstrates hiss selflessness and will to save those he loves The editing pace during The Party scene plays an important part in conveying themes and ideas. While the Joker is on screen in this scene the pace is very slow, while...
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...Batman Dark Knight Project In the movie the movie Batman: The Dark Knight there are many overlapping complexities between characters in the movies. For example, Harvey Dent believes in bringing forth justice which can also been seen in the characteristics of batman. However, Harvey Dent conforms to society and follows the law (in the beginning) like Inspector Gordon. One key characteristic that Inspector Gordon has is that he is incorruptible like Batman himself. Batman doesn’t conform to society, he’s an outcast like the Joker. Also Batman and the Joker share another similarity which is they mask there identity. Lastly Harvey Dent at the end is physically two sided which can be seen in Bruce Wayne whose personality is two sided by being batman. In the movie I feel Bruce Wayne represents an actual dark knight. Bruce is a true knight at arms for he wields his weapon to protect the weak and fight the evil. He protects them out of sense of responsibility not for gain. He sacrificed his personal life for the good of people making him a true knight. He's dark because of his persona, manner and style. He wears all black and I feel that his style of justice is found unethical in today’s society and one may say his tactics are “dark”. With all this being said Bruce Wayne embodies the features of a “Dark Knight". Batman’s ideologies and philosophies consist of being a hero who is willingly to sacrifice everything, even himself, for city of Gotham and its people...
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...know as "Batman. Batman would serve justice and keep Gotham a safe place. In the movie "The Dark Knight", Bruce faced conflicts with an individual, a group, himself and reality. Bruce Wayne's nemesis as Batman is The Joker. The joker is the individual who Batman conflicts with most in this movie, The Dark Knight. The Joker targets the people of Gothem to reveal the identity of Batman. The joker's only concern throughout all his actions is only Batman. He is not afraid to kill or put people at risk for his purpose and will use any method or trickery to do so. Batman is a man of justice who can't watch it all happen before his eyes but he cannot reveal his identity as easily (relating to the conflict with himself). Joker threatened to kill many people and used many methos, for example, killing a man an hour until Batman is killed and blowing up a whole hospital. This individual uses Batman's weakness (his love interest) Rachel Dawes as part of his threats as he threatening her life but also tricked Batman into saving the wrong person and letting her die. The conflict is resolved when thhe Joker was finally taken into custody for good. Batman other nemesis is a group, the people of Gothem. Batman faces conflict with a group, the people of Gothem. The joker is threatening to kill people of Gothem if Batman doesn't reveal himself, so the people wants Batman to sacrifice himself to save everyone else. Obviously Batman cannot do that for various reasons and there are a lot of...
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...different types of roles people portray in both personal life and in a work place setting. Some of the different roles are, The Joker or the class clown, they tend to keep the mood light and jokes flowing, even sometimes when they really shouldn’t. The devil’s advocate or instigator which can sometimes be similar to the Joker but tends to create problems in the good setting just to get a rise out of people. The Critic or backseat driver is always the first one to point out the issues going on or to say his or her own negative opinion but never offers a good suggestion on how to fix the problem. There’s always the cheerleader or supporter that will just cheer about anything in general it might not even be good process being made but something is going on so the cheerleader is cheering. The outsider or rebel typically sits there alone not joining in, doesn’t try to fit in to the group or conversation. The leader or Alpha is the one the final decision has to be approved by. They might not always be the spear head of the situation but before anything gets decide they need to give their approval for it to happen. Those are only six of the roles you can find yourself in, sometimes it’s based on your personality other times you’re just put in that role and just forced to make it happen. There sometimes can be more than one person in that role such as the joker or cheerleader they typically even find themselves becoming closer since they have that in common. However you can have more...
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...Christopher Nolan’s and the book “The Stranger” by Albert Camus gives great examples of people who live the life of extensialist. Living an extensialist life comes with many consequences. Good or bad it doesn’t really matter. “I guess the joker is as crazy as they say” (Nolan). In the movie the Dark Night a man who works for the joker says how the joker is actually crazy like everyone says. Now in the story the stranger Mersault is crazy when he doesn’t cry or grief because his mother has passed away. They look at both of these characters as crazy. But are they actually crazy? Or are they crazy because society says they are? In a society many people see who is crazy who is not, but in these both stories they really aren’t, the joker just does things as they come and people are the ones who actually cause the crazy ness he just takes the blame for it, well that’s how I see it. In the book Mersault doesn’t cry for his mother’s death because he says they never really had any relationship at all. Society says he’s a jerk and he’s heartless for not doing so but he’s an estensialist and they really don’t show emotions at all. An extensialist does things as they come, they don’t plan things out they just do them. “He has no limits” (Nolan). The joker has no limits, he doesn’t care who he hurts what he destroys as long as he does what he believes. Dying to him is like a game. At one point the game will finish and there will be nothing left just memories. Mersault is the same he had no...
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... Chronic PTSD is associated with the left superior parietal lobule's ability to receive sensory and visual input (Bergland, 2005). This disorder was theorized to be diagnosed to The Joker by the fantasized Gotham City Police. The Joker's PTSD with the possibility of the character being a former soldier. The familiarity with military-grade weaponry, his antigovernment stance, and his references to the words "war paint" and "truckload of soldiers" gives an analytic viewer the idea that there is more to the character's background than most...
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...When working in a group it’s critical for roles to be defined in order to reach a successful outcome. Whether in personal or professional settings, at some point we all fall into a particular role in a group. According to our textbook there are 11 roles one can play in meetings. They are: the Joker who tries to break the ice or insert disguised barbs; the Gatekeeper (not always the leader) who tries to keep to the agenda; the Devil’s Advocate who regularly challenges an emerging consensus; the Critic who sees the problems with others’ ideas but has none better to offer; the Agenda Setter who regularly puts new ideas and issues on the table; the Consensus Builder who draws others’ ideas together into a course of action; the Cheerleader who encourages any sign of progress; the Mimic who always echoes others’ comments; the Monomaniac who rides the same hobbyhorse at every meeting; the Outsider whose comments and body language convey detachment or contempt; the Leader (not always the person running the meeting) who all tacitly agree has the final word (Hattersley, M). However, these roles can be called by different names but still reflect the same meaning. For instance, the textbook refers to the person who puts out new ideas as the “agenda setter”, but the article Strategies for Cultural Change call the same role the “initiator”(Retrieved June 2016). Yet, both roles function in the same manner. According to Gupta, “In formal groups, roles are usually predetermined and assigned to...
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