The Dark Knight [Blu-ray]

『バットマン』シリーズ最高傑作との評価もあって興味がありました。 ご存知ヒュー・ジャクソンのジョーカーが 事実上の主役とも言えるストーリーです。 子供の頃に観てた人達が大人向けの ハードボイルド風の作品に見事アップデートしています。 正直、ジョーカーはムショ入りしたものの、 多くを失ったバットマンが敗者に見えなくもない。 そこで打ちのめされてたら明らかな負けですが、 さすがバットマン❗ 辛うじて闘う意思は失ってなかった。

むちゃくちゃ面白い。バットマンの映画なのにジョーカーの映画？ってなるくらい途中からジョーカーの悪役っぷりに惹かれる。映画そこまで見ないタイプだったんですけど他の作品も沢山見たくなっちゃいました!!!

何と言ってもバットマンが格好よかった。 象徴的だったセリフ：You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. ヒーローとして死ぬか、生き延びて悪に染まるか。 セリフとトゥーフェイスの関係 ①「ヒーローとして死ぬ」 ： デントはゴッサムの希望の象徴として「光の騎士」と呼ばれていた。もし火傷を負う 前に死んでいたら、人々の記憶には永遠に「英雄」として残ったはず。（最後にはバットマンがヴィランということにした。） ②「生き延びて悪に染まる」： 火傷で顔が半分焼けただけでなく、ジョーカーの言葉に揺さぶられ、正義感が憎悪へと変わってしまう。結果として「トゥーフェイス」という悪役に堕ちてしまう。 ③「コインの表裏」＝善と悪 ： デントが象徴する「二面性」は、このセリフの構造そのものと重なってる。英雄か悪物か、表か裏か。彼の人生はまさにコインのように二つの可能性を持っていた。 ④「堕落の象徴」：かつて「希望の人」と呼ばれたデントが、ジョーカーの混沌に取り込まれて「悪役」へと堕ちる姿は、映画全体のテーマを体現している。 レストランで語られたこのセリフは後半でデント自身がその言葉通りに「悪役」へと変わることで、強烈な「予言の成就」として響いていた。つまりストーリー上、彼のキャラクターとセリフが二重にリンクしていた。 こう考えると、この一言は単なる哲学的な警句ではなく、デントのキャラクターそのものを象徴する「二面性の伏線」だったと言える。

バッドマンの名作中の名作。

素晴らしいの一言 展開も軽薄な勧善懲悪とは違い、それぞれの登場キャラが謳うそれぞれの正義、それぞれの苦悩が入り混じり、重厚な人間ドラマに仕上がっていました ラストでのブルース・ウェインの漢気に思わず涙が出ました

作品自体のレビューは今更書く事はないので… 今は映画ドラマはサブスクで見放題ですが、やはり物理メディアが好きです。場所もとるし手間も多いですが、好きな作品はやはり持っておきたいです。おすすめです。

数多あるアメリカンコミックの映像化と比べるのが失礼なほどの金字塔的傑作。的確な配役、陰翳深き重厚な演出と映像、深淵なテーマ性。全てが揃った映画史に残る内容はヒース・レジャーの白鳥の歌に相応しい。

I bought this movie as a way to practice listening since a story I know and even though the back of the box reads : 音声 ドルビーデジタル ５．１ ch：英語、日本語。 I only seem to be able to play it in english

a new batman movie, which follows on from the end of 2005's batman begins. It should be pretty easy to get into this if you haven't seen batman begins, but you might get more out of this if you have. thanks to the advent of the batman, the forces of good in gotham city are starting to clean the place up. they have the mobs on the run, and a new hero in the shape of handsome and clean cut district attorney harvey dent. a man who has a novel way of dealing with hostile witnesses. the mobs, desperate to fight back, turn to a man they can't fully understand. a crazy devil may care criminal in a suit like a clown, who seemingly cares about nothing other than creating havoc. the joker. he's on the side of chaos, and is the complete opposite of everything that batman and the forces of good in gotham stand for. so how can they stop him without becoming bad themselves? first up, this is not really a batman film for children, as it's a grim and dark piece of work. but then the character can be portrayed in many ways, and the dark and grim version is but one of them. it's a version that will please die hard fans of the comics. the movie strives ever so hard to be as realistic as possible, showing how batman would function in a real world environment. in that respect, it's successful. it's refreshing to see a blockbuster that uses next to no cgi and does all it's stunts for real - with the occasional bit of miniature work. not that you'll probably notice. and it does have a moral dilemma at it's heart that offers no easy answers. the aforementioned how far do you go to stop evil without becoming evil in the process? like all good drama it makes the audience think about the topic without trying to provide them with any answers. the cast are superb, although it's a bit of a shame that michael caine's alfred is absent for so long towards the end. maggie gyllenhall is a stronger actress in the role of rachel dawes than katie holmes, who played the part in the first film and who couldnt reprise it due to scheduling commitments, but the character isn't quite as proactive here as she was in batman begins. there are six major action set pieces and all are quite gripping, and shot on imax film for maximum big screen effect. and the score of the film is superb, with a fair few pieces that you can't get off your mind right away. it's one of those movies that you do need to see more than once in order to take everything in, and it's probably a little too long for it's own good. and as you can see from the voting here it's a film that will divide opinion. it's a quality, grown up and intelligent blockbuster, and quite a cinematic experience. the dvd presents it on two discs. the first contains the movie, with direct scene access. and language tracks in english and italian. there are subtitles in english arabic greek hebrew icelandic and italian. on disc two the same language tracks and subitles can be found. and an amount of extras that are rather disappointing in their number initially as they don't appear like much. but once you get into them they do have their moments. the three trailers for the film that played in cinemas, and half a dozen tv adverts for it. galliers: production stills, poster art, concept art, and the joker cards. these four galleries allow you to flick through images showing all of the mentioned items. the joker cards are quite remarkable, with an incredible amount of different designs on display. gotham tonight: these are six all new short films shot in the style of a tv show, most featuring mike engel, a tv reporter who was seen in the film. they purport to be a gotham tv news show, and run for roughly eight to ten minutes each. and each focuses on a various aspect of life in the city, either profiling bruce wayne or harvey dent or jim gordon or reporting on the mobs and life on the street. they're all quite entertaining and worth a look. the dark knight imax sequences presents six action scenes from the film that were shot on IMAX film, and just shows them as individual scenes. there's nothing here that you won't see on disc one, but the picture is large and clear and they're all entertaining enough to make watching them again worthwhile. creation of a scene presents five different documentaries about the making of various aspects of the movie, from stunt work to action sequences to script writing. these are done with stills and production shots, and the cast and crew don't contribute other than in voiceover. they run anything from eight to sixteen minutes, and they're all absolutely fascinating and engrossing. anyone who watched the extras on batman begins will know what an articulate and thoughtful interviewee director christoper nolan is, and his comments here are equally good to listen to. you just wish there were more of them. or a commentary. and that's that for the extras. it's not as good a package as it possibly could be, but the quality of the film makes it well worth five stars as a whole

Like this movie. Plus im a Batman fan..

a must have for your blu ray collection, great sound effects !

Audiences of all kinds flock to theaters on the opening day of super hero movies. These movies have the potential to appeal to both younger and older audience members, each gender, and families. Usually, the hero is what draws the crowds. The general public loves an inherently good and well- developed super hero who triumphs over evil. Of course, some over budget chase scenes never hurt either. However, when it comes to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, it is the villain that truly makes the movie. The Joker, who was developed in a way he had never been before this movie, drives the plot and the central meaning of the movie by acting as a foil to the hero, Batman. Heath Ledger’s portrayal of The Joker was incredibly different than anything ever done before. In the 1960 Batman television series, Cesar Romero was the actor behind The Joker. His character was dubbed, “The Crown Prince of Crime”. This Joker was seen as a psychotic, yet harmless killer. At this time, The Joker was thought of as amusing. The audience would have been able to better sympathize with him because he just could not seem to be the villain he wanted to be, no matter how hard he tried. In the 1989 Batman movie, Jack Nicholson was The Joker. At this time, the character began to become a little bit darker. His appearance was less clown like and was said to be a result of a chemical accident. Nicholson was still able to stay true to the comic portrayal of The Joker, which was more of a goofy prankster while starting to exploit the more short-tempered and murderous side of the villain. In contrast, Mark Hammil’s portrayal of the Joker in 1990 was incredibly cold and authoritative. In 2008, Heath Ledger created a Joker that had never been seen before. The Dark Knight’s antagonist was completely psychotic, with absolutely no trace of human reasoning or logic. The character was demonic and frightening. The humorous or jokester aspects of the character were not implemented for any sort of comedic enjoyment, but rather to highlight the exceedingly deranged mind of someone who could never be human. The Joker shows his disgustingly psychotic side many times throughout the film. In his introductory scene, the Joker crashes a mob meeting. We may think that The Joker would want to work with the mob since they are both considered “bad guys” however, the mob mocks the Joker for being a “freak” and The Joker proceeds to kill one of the members with a “disappearing pencil trick” that involves a pencil through the brain. Not only does this act show the audience that The Joker is on a whole other level of evil than the typical bank robber, it is also has a symbolic meaning. The pencil represents education and order, which the Joker uses to kill the man by stabbing it into the most logical part of the human body, the brain. By doing this, the Joker is showing the audience that he believes order and logical thought will never overcome chaos. The Joker is not one to take part in organized crime because he personifies anything but organization. The Joker embodies chaos and disorder. We see this in the scene where The Joker blows up the hospital. He has no reason to blow up that building other than the fact that it contains innocent individuals, and causing a havoc on that specific place will upset the general public. He has no internal motivation to destroy the hospital specifically because he does not possess any form of logical thought. When the camera pans back to show The Joker walking away from the burning hospital in a nurse uniform, it allows us to see that the Joker shows absolutely no remorse when blowing up the building. The camera angle allows us to see the accomplished look in his face and the nurse’s costume adds to the sardonic nature of The Joker. While a nurse can be seen as a figure of health and security, the Joker exemplifies contrasting qualities such as traumatization and danger. The Joker’s characteristics of evil, chaos, and disorder allow him to be a foil to Christian Bales’s character, Batman. Batman embodies a high moral standard and the goodness of people while The Joker is the exact opposite. Batman explains that his one rule is that he will never kill anyone. The Joker explains to him, while dangling from a building in one of the concluding scenes, that he would never kill Batman either. The Joker’s purpose was not to kill Batman, like a typical villain, but rather to de-mask, humanize, and criminalize him, making this movie much more dark, yet incredibly more interesting and unpredictable than others of its kind. The Joker acknowledges that if he were to kill Batman, he would no longer have a purpose. This means that the two characters are destined to fight forever, which drives the conflict of the plot. As The Joker says, “This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.” The Joker is also able to be a juxtaposition to Batman through appearance. Batman is a very large and muscular man whereas The Joker has a very skinny and long frame. While Batman dresses in dark clothing, and prefers to stay in the shadows (like a bat), the Joker dawns bright clothing and makeup that draws attention to his face and scars. While Batman may try to hide his past, The Joker embraces it, telling many different stories of the origins of his scars throughout the movie in order to intimidate people before he harms them. The Joker’s high voice and screeching cackle also contrasts with Batman’s incredibly deep and mysterious voice. Batman is a man of very little words and only speaks when absolutely necessary, while The Joker loves to speak just to be heard. Even when the audience cannot visibly see the Joker in the scene, we can usually hear him or his laugh. In order to know that Batman is in the scene, the audience has to see him first. The Joker enjoys calling attention to himself through his clothing and voice. He does this in order to make a statement. The Joker is trying to force people to see evil as an inevitable and omnipresent human quality which is why he allows himself to be so noticeable through clothing and television advertisements. Batman acts as a more humble juxtaposition who does not want to be seen. The Joker’s laugh also acts as an omnipresent presence which allows that theme of evil to be obvious throughout the entire movie. The overall message of the film is that all humans have the potential to be good in nature and that good will always triumph evil, although the battle is constant. These ideas are constantly challenged by The Joker which drives the plot. The Joker is constantly putting people in places where they have to make impossible ethical decisions in the hopes that they will inevitably make a wrong decision that showcases the evil nature of humanity and make an example of them to the rest of the world. He does this multiple times throughout the film, but his efforts culminate at the finale of the movie when he attempts to pull off his largest scheme. When he forces the two different groups of people onto two different boats, one group of innocent civilians, and the other a group of convicts, to either kill the other ship or die, he expects the evil and selfish nature of humanity to take control of their decisions and blow up the other ship. The ships act as an isolated community, away from the city. The Joker uses the ships as a motivation for the people to leave their human nature behind, in the city, and make and evil decision. Although there is some heated debate on the ships as to whether or not they should push the button that destroys the other ship, both groups decided not to do it. They would rather die themselves than be responsible for killing others. This shows that good overcomes evil and the people on the ship had an inherently good nature. Batman explains this to the joker in one of the final scenes which provides a nice conclusion to the over two hour long movie. There was much competition for the deranged role of “the Joker” in the 2008 Blockbuster, The Dark Knight. However, director, Christopher Nolan, had always had Heath Ledger in mind for the role. It was Ledger’s ability to completely embrace the Joker’s psychotic qualities that contrasted so well with his nemesis, Batman, that drove the plot and highlighted the central meaning of the movie. Without the Joker, there would be no reason for the citizens of Gotham to question their good nature. Thanks to one of the most malicious and immoral villains of all time, the world can rest assured that good will always conquer evil.

Voor een 4k is de geluidskwaliteit ondermaats. Ik heb een bescheiden verzameling dvd, bluray en 4k films, maar dit is onmogelijk om te kijken zonder de afstandsbediening in de hand te houden. Explosies en harde slagen zijn zo luid dat je het volume zo moet aanpassen dat je de gesprekken niet meer hoort. Het ligt niet aan mijn televisie of geluidsinstallatie want het probleem stelt zich enkel bij deze film.