Monday, 11 April 2011

Batman The Dark Knight 'trailer' evaluation

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxKJgOZXEho We open with a view of a tall buildings rooftop, the camera rotates around it before fading out, we are then shown a birds eye view of the streets below to show that this building is HIGH because we can see the tops of over tall building below. The camera follows the same general rotating action until we see Batman standing at the edge of the buildings roof. We then see an over the shoulder shot of Batman looking down before he jumps off the edge into a dive hurtling towards the street, the audience also notices that when the Bat jumps he has no way of breaking his fall no special cape, no harness, no glider, no... Rocket Boots. However we don't get the same sense of dread as we would if a gun was in his face because he's BATMAN and we know he can handle it. The scene then blacks out and an explosion of the film company's involved is shown but those barely last two seconds the camera then fades in to daylight and a swooping birds eye view of the city. After that we here Jokers voice talk about cops and lawyers and are introduced to the main characters of the film The Joker, Detective Gorman (I think), and the soon to be Two Face. This sets the ground for the story because we know that the story will revolve around them. We see the back of Joker just before the bat mobile smashes through the wall in what appears to be a separate scene. The next scene is of Jokers back again so the audience now are determined to see Jokers face and on the line 'we kill the Batman' we do as opposed to what we were thinking clean cut and smart he is actually quite hideous, greasy and has scars coming from the sides of his mouth. The camera then cuts between Joker holding a Joker card and  the streets filled with chaos indicating that he has no restraints but also that he finds it all to be one big joke. Batman is then shown in his civilian state entering a very high class restaurant to find his ex and Two Face, Face says Rachael has told him everything about Bruce with him countering with I certainly hope not so not only is Bruce still the Bat but there is already some tension between these two. We are then shown explosions and Batman riding through the city we already gathered its going to have action but this shows its intense. There is a Romance scene between Bruce and Rachael showing their feelings are still there and there is a love triangle in this film it also implies that the only way he would give up Batman is if he can be with Rachael. There are repeated scenes throughout the trailer where Harvey says something about Bruce which in a way implies his identity as Batman and the scene changes to Batman doing some crazy stunt. The next part is Joker standing up the party and it shows the war has escalated between Batman and Joker. The next ten seconds shows just how crazy and chaotic Joker is, Batman battling his inner demons and Harvey fighting on the side of good. We then see Joker moving through the streets with the words 'here we go' coming from his mouth it is then scenes of the action and hard choices that will be made when fighting Joker. The trailer then ends its daylight and the joke about the Lamborghini is made with it being a gorgeous car.

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