Distinctive Use Of Joker's Costume In The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight
(Costume)
Christopher Nolan’s distinctive use of Joker’s costume is greatly significant to the narrative of “The Dark Knight”; it provides insight to the iconic super villain of “The Joker” and highlights how this portrayal is modernised in comparison to past ones, showing how the super villain role has changed in superhero films. As with Jokers in all media types Health Ledger keeps with classic green, orange and purple attire. This strong, bright colour use is used to contrast with Batman’s black darkness, shows the difference between the characters in a basic physical sense. The strong shades of those colors paired together hurt the eye. The effect is garish, painful, off-putting, and even nauseating. By utilizing …show more content…
His actions do not define his own beliefs and emotions, only the actions of others eg. The way he sets up scenarios of conflict: the ferries, bombs on Harvey and Rachel, terrorist threats. This is reflected in our positioning of view when he is in the police car, we don’t see a driver only him hanging out of the back of the car as the car swerves around, showing us that he is in control of others and is ultimately defined by the actions that he brings out of others, like Harvey seeking revenge and that he is just a “passenger” along for the ride, enjoying what he has …show more content…
The Chechen says after seeing the bat signal, “…that is why we bring dogs!” Batman subdues everyone but is hit multiple times and is brutally bitten in the weak spots of his armour by Rottweiler dogs. And are used at other times like when the Joker tries to feed the Chechen to his own dogs and when the Joker sets dogs on Batman during the end battle. Batman suffers injuries from the dogs; this signifies how Batman finds it hard to fight an unpredictable, primal beast. In other situations Batman is shown as meticulous and strategic, said to be “the world’s greatest detective”. However when he is meet by something that cannot be calculated and measured he struggles to manage
(Costume)
Christopher Nolan’s distinctive use of Joker’s costume is greatly significant to the narrative of “The Dark Knight”; it provides insight to the iconic super villain of “The Joker” and highlights how this portrayal is modernised in comparison to past ones, showing how the super villain role has changed in superhero films. As with Jokers in all media types Health Ledger keeps with classic green, orange and purple attire. This strong, bright colour use is used to contrast with Batman’s black darkness, shows the difference between the characters in a basic physical sense. The strong shades of those colors paired together hurt the eye. The effect is garish, painful, off-putting, and even nauseating. By utilizing …show more content…
His actions do not define his own beliefs and emotions, only the actions of others eg. The way he sets up scenarios of conflict: the ferries, bombs on Harvey and Rachel, terrorist threats. This is reflected in our positioning of view when he is in the police car, we don’t see a driver only him hanging out of the back of the car as the car swerves around, showing us that he is in control of others and is ultimately defined by the actions that he brings out of others, like Harvey seeking revenge and that he is just a “passenger” along for the ride, enjoying what he has …show more content…
The Chechen says after seeing the bat signal, “…that is why we bring dogs!” Batman subdues everyone but is hit multiple times and is brutally bitten in the weak spots of his armour by Rottweiler dogs. And are used at other times like when the Joker tries to feed the Chechen to his own dogs and when the Joker sets dogs on Batman during the end battle. Batman suffers injuries from the dogs; this signifies how Batman finds it hard to fight an unpredictable, primal beast. In other situations Batman is shown as meticulous and strategic, said to be “the world’s greatest detective”. However when he is meet by something that cannot be calculated and measured he struggles to manage