WHY SO SERIOUS ? ….  

 

 

This year would be a SuperHeroes Movie Year with all good and bad superheroes movies lined-up to try and break the Box Office Record. But one thing for sure, all of them couldn’t match the enthusiasm of the movie-goers for the next upcoming movie of BATMAN series in a title of Dark Knight. Batman vs Joker is like ‘lagu’ and ‘irama’ or Tom and Jerry that we can’t separate its. (for a good or a bad cause)

                                                                     

The x-factor for this movie is it arrives in a blaze of publicity of the most unfortunate kind, caused by the untimely death of Heath Ledger in January 2008 suspected of ‘overdosed’. The star was chosen to play the super-villain the Joker after the director Christopher Nolan admired his “lack of vanity” in Film of Brokeback Mountain, and his total absorption into the role of the gay cowboy. Some speculated, after Ledger’s accidental overdose on prescription pills, that the absorption went too far.

 

This Joker is, in Ledger’s words, a “psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy”, far removed from Jack Nicholson’s Cheshire Cat portrayal in the 1989 blockbuster. To achieve the necessary mental dislocation, Ledger spent a month alone in a hotel room, working on his character, his voice, and an unhinged cackle that sends a shiver up the spine. His inspirations included A Clockwork Orange and Pete Doherty, and his slowly decaying make-up, with a livid red lipstick slash and heavily blacked-out eyes, make him look like some doomed indie-Gothic junkie-poet.

 

Michael Caine, who again plays Batman’s butler Alfred, said Ledger’s performance was so frightening he sometimes forgot his lines. Christian Bale, who plays Batman, found a kindred spirit – another actor prepared to undergo an extreme mental and physical transformation for his roles.

 

 

From the fussed around and the trailer and comment from the early screening and other clips I would say this Dark Knight Movie will completely isn’t just the best Batman movie ever made, this is one of the best movie ever made.

A guy from Netherland who watched the Pre-Screening for this movie said this.

Bale marvels as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Ledger has made The Joker in to an iconic movie villain. His performance belongs there at the top with Hopkins’ Hannibal Lecter”. The Joker has finally been portrait properly on film, He has earned his place between the big boys in movie villandom. This is the true Joker every Batman fan knows, loves and fears. Ledger deserves any and every movie award known to man for this brilliant display.

Nolan (the Director) has made his “I will always be remembered” movie, this is the crown jewel in his portfolio. Perfect directing, perfect story, perfect balance between action and drama, everything is perfect.

For one thing for sure, even if you hate Batman, you will love this film.

 

So, please don’t forget this date : 17th July 2008 (MOVIE PREMIERE)

 

Pls click this link for more info

Pls click this link for Movie Trailer

 

Synopsis : (warning spoiler content) : Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos. Batman’s struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to “confront everything he believes” and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes.

 

Director : Christopher Nolan

 

Writing Credits :

Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, Bob Kane

 

Cast :

Christian Bale as  Bruce Wayne / Batman

Heath Ledger as The Joker

Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent / Two-Face

Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes

Gary Oldman as Lt. James Gordon

Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox

 

 Source : Imdb, Times Online