Film Analysis: The Dark Knight Rises
Christopher Nolan is a very smart and creative director. In the hit series batman the film “The Dark Knight Rises” grabbed the audiences attention, and for good reason. In his opening seen of the movie Nolan already creates the readers to get a feel of what the theme of the movie is going to entail. The initial 0:35 seconds of the movie Dark Knight Rises focuses on a van driving through an open field. The shot at the beginning of this scene sets the idea of isolation and suspense for the rest of this clip. This sets up the audience to realize if something went wrong there would be no one around to help them. This is directly followed by a long shot of a government agent. The agents’ attire is characterizing him as a weaker and vulnerable
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The agent pulls the villains to the edge of the plane and tells them he is going to shoot them if they don’t speak up which is representing his power. At 1:09 of this scene they show a point of view shot of the agent holding his gun to the face of the villain. At 1:34 the director puts in a reaction shot to show power of this villain. He is the only one that talks and wasn’t any of the villains’ getting interrogated. I think the director did this to prove to the audience that whoever this villain is may be a very important character. Then at 1:56 they show a close up shot of the villain after taking off the bag over his head. This happens to be Bane the most powerful character in this film. They directly cut to the agent looking into banes eyes who appears to be a little shaken. At 2:02 the roles of the revealed bane and the agent have changed the deception of the characters. In this certain shot Bane is shown at a low angle and is the main detail of this shot. This shows the power he now has compared to when he was trapped. After this they show a pan shot at 2:07 of the plane they are on going into the dark skies, that could hint at something bad is going to occur. Around 2:35 they start to show close up shots of the armed guards and pilots. In there facial expressions you can tell something appears to be
The agent pulls the villains to the edge of the plane and tells them he is going to shoot them if they don’t speak up which is representing his power. At 1:09 of this scene they show a point of view shot of the agent holding his gun to the face of the villain. At 1:34 the director puts in a reaction shot to show power of this villain. He is the only one that talks and wasn’t any of the villains’ getting interrogated. I think the director did this to prove to the audience that whoever this villain is may be a very important character. Then at 1:56 they show a close up shot of the villain after taking off the bag over his head. This happens to be Bane the most powerful character in this film. They directly cut to the agent looking into banes eyes who appears to be a little shaken. At 2:02 the roles of the revealed bane and the agent have changed the deception of the characters. In this certain shot Bane is shown at a low angle and is the main detail of this shot. This shows the power he now has compared to when he was trapped. After this they show a pan shot at 2:07 of the plane they are on going into the dark skies, that could hint at something bad is going to occur. Around 2:35 they start to show close up shots of the armed guards and pilots. In there facial expressions you can tell something appears to be