Monday 4 October 2010

The Dark Knight

The film ‘The Dark Knight’ genre is action, crime, drama and thriller. The film begins with disequilibrium; the ‘Joker’ plans a bank robbery that takes place in the beginning. Throughout the film there is more violent and terrors in the plot however the ending of the film where the Joker is capture by the authority helped by the ‘Batman’. The equilibrium in the film is during the final phrase of the film when Harvey Dent is killed by Batman who saves a little boy’s life also saving the Gotham society from Joker’s terror.

 According to Vladimir Propp’s theory the role of characters in the film are; the villain in the film is the ‘Joker’ played by Heath Ledger. The donor in the film is ‘Lucius Fox’ played by Morgan Freeman. The helper in the film is ‘Lucius Fox’ played by Morgan Freeman. The princess in the film is film is the Gotham city society and ‘Rachel Dawes’ played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. The dispatcher in the film is ‘Alfred’ played by Michael Caine. The hero in the film is ‘Bruce Wayne / Batman’ played by Christian Bale. The false hero in the film is ‘Harvey Dent’ played by Aaron Eckhart.

1 comment:

  1. Lalit :) Well done, The Dark Knight is one of my favourite films! :D
    www: You spoke about Todorov's and Propp's theory.
    ebi: If you used more media key terms, Such as action codes and enigma codes .
    But overall well done :)

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