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    Neftaly Garrido English 121‚ Ms. Bell Argumentative Essay November 4‚ 2013 Corrupt Ways “The Dark Knight” directed by Christopher Nolan‚ is a film where Batman fights the psychopathic and crime hungry Joker‚ who tries every way to corrupt and end Batman’s life. The Joker tries to take Batman down by exploiting his weakness such as his love and family. One of the big things the Joker does in this movie is he corrupts people or makes more corrupt. This film displays many examples of corruption;

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    In the deep and dark shadows of Gotham city is a hero‚ The Dark Knight‚ or as many people know him: Batman. The Dark Knight is the second film in the Batman trilogy. The story follows the relentless conflict involving Batman and his nemesis‚ “The Joker.” He ends up teaming up with the mob in Gotham against Batman‚ to take him down. The Joker attempts to lure Batman out by saying he’ll start killing people if he didn’t reveal himself. Recognizing that Batman wouldn’t do it‚ District Attorney‚ Harvey

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    Jiggy Patel COMM3321: Critical Reading & Writing Section 103 Janet Bertsch “Why so serious?” Is the catch phrase that Joker uses from the movie The Dark Knight. (Nolan‚ 2008) The scene that is being analyzed is when the Joker crashes Harvey Dent fundraiser party and is looking for Harvey Dent. Prior to the scene‚ Harvey Dent is the District Attorney of Gotham City and was responsible for locking up half the mob in a single day. The Joker main goal was to wreak chaos in Gotham City and wanted

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    Ryan Small 3/2/17 English 101-16 Assignment #4 In this closing scene of The Dark Knight‚ Gordon and Batman use cause and effect to justify lying to the general public about the events that took place that resulted in the deaths of five citizens of Gotham. Batman believes that if the word gets out that the Joker corrupted the once heroic police captain Harvey Dent‚ then all of the inspirational work Dent accomplished would stand for nothing. Batman further explains that the people deserve to have

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    JP In Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight gothic elements such as suspenseful violence‚ mysterious heroic outsiders‚ and freakish villains are used in order to catch the attention of society. The use of suspenseful violence in Nolan’s production is a significant contribution for the overall mood of the movie. For example‚ the Joker sets up a social experiment in which two ferries‚ one full of passengers and the other full of prisoners‚ each have a bomb rigged. The detonator for each bomb however

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    The film ‘The Dark Knight’ directed by‚ Christopher Nolan‚ is a film about a League of Shadows that has been destroyed‚ but when a criminal mastermind who calls himself The Joker comes in to takes over the crime mob. Batman returns to battle his greatest threat yet. But with half the police force opposing but‚ as usual Batman manages to finish it off. The Dark Knight clearly shows and proves the theme of Vigilante justice and the main idea people or a group of community should not take laws on their

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    Justice vs. Terrorism “The Dark Knight‚” a movie directed and produced by Christopher Nolan‚ depicts the way a system of justice deals with terrorism. If an archetype is defined as a symbol that exists instinctively in the collective consciousness of the human race‚ the terrorism in Batman The Dark Knight represents an archetype through the violence‚ murder of the innocent‚ mayhem and mass destruction. Governments often lay down laws and procedures for a country to function‚ and to avoid

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    Batman: The Dark Knight Batman: The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan is non-stop action thriller that continually did the unexpected. The film is based off of the original Batman comic book but additionally changes the perception of the everyday world as good to naturally bad. Throughout the movie‚ Batman stands for honesty and goodness while the Joker is a symbolism of chaos and evil. Both sides are forced to make quick-witted decisions in order to stop the opposing vigilante from doing

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    In the movie The Dark Knight Rises‚ lots of typology of architecture was featured. The underground architecture -such as the sewage were Bane and his followers hid from the Police in the beginning of The Dark Knight Rises and the famous cave under the Wayne palace were Bruce (Batman) hid his Batman costume‚ weapons and means of transportation (car‚ motorcycle and plane)-played an important role in the movie. Also in the movie‚ there was architecture from different eras. For example the Wayne palace

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    Harvey Dent‚ from The Dark Knight‚ was Gotham Cities white knight. He was the district attorney and made it his had the same mission as Batman: to shut down Gotham’s organized crime. Throughout the film‚ Harvey uses a two-faced coin in order to “make his own luck”. Near the end of the film half after laying in oil‚ half of Harvey’s face and one side of his coin is disfigured/burned in an explosion. Harvey Two-Face then pursues and murders those he felt responsible for Rachel’s death. The Batman’s

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