DARK KNIGHT
Batman Begins:
Bruce figures out what he HAS to do. what he HAS to be. and what he HAS to give up (to Tom Cruise...)
Dark Knight:
Bruce wants out, he thinks he can get there by replacing himself with someone everyone thinks is a HERO. He is the anti-hero hero. This batman is much better than the 1950's WHAP! BAM!! KAPOW!!!! batman by 20,000 leagues. I loved what he did with his voice. I loved how well he knows his people, and how to keep them around (the computer spy program using cell phones self destruction.) I loved how well they knew him. I fucking LOVED HIS VOICE CHANGE. that was probably the best effect. sorry, but subtlety like that going throughout the movie really makes a difference.
And Heath? He played a JOKER to the T. The joker in a deck of cards can be anything you WANT it to be, need it to be, and it trumps ALL. and he did. in every way shape and form. he didn't have a purpose. no goal. he explained it to people what, 4 times? Like in Hearts when you throw the BITCH down, he LIVES for that moment. that spectacular reaction to what he's just done. He plays off it. He plays people off each other. and his intelligence and grasp of the language and the vocabulary he used and the diction. phenomenally written part. I loved the leaking makeup. I loved the licking of the lip/flicking of the tongue. I LOVED the house of cards effect he used to rob that bank in the opening scene... closing it up in one clean neat pile of bodies.
and it closes with Batman accepting his fate as the hunted, not the hero, but the vigilante, the necessary evil. The NECESSARY EVIL....
THAT is a proud station in life. THOSE RANKS are my heroes. Tools? maybe, but the end goal, the cause they stand behind, the people they protect..... that is the motherfucking shit right there.
http://www.cinematicwallpaper.com/movie-pictures/wallpapers/Batman_Dark_Knight_wallpaper/Dark_Knight.jpg fuckers don't share pics online.
