What made The dark Knight (2008) movie so popular?

The Dark Knight is one of the finest films ever made. Directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. The film is the second part of Batman Begins. It’s an entertaining comic-book movie, a compelling drama, a thrilling action picture and a brilliant observation of the ambiguity of justice. The film properly showed the darkness of Dark Knight while still showing the humanity of Bruce Wayne and his struggle of carrying the weight of Gotham on his shoulders.

I saw The Dark Knight about seven years ago. And I still remember their acting, dialogues, the camera work, the story, everything. It is the movie worth seeing. The way the film opens with the group of clowns robbing a bank and during the job each member begins to kill one another one by one. The remaining robber reveals himself as Joker. A crazy super villain.

The stories usually focus on the journey of the main character and in The Dark Knight the protagonist’s journey is defined by his antagonist. There’s a same right a hero is only as good as villain and that’s true to a certain extent. While villain contributes a huge factor to the movie it does not mean that if he’s a well-developed character the movies going to be a winner. It’s not about how each character is individually but how each character pays off the other. The Dark Knight is a brilliant film due to the role Batman and Joker play with each other and how they influence and respond to each other’s choices.

But when I think about why The Dark Knight works so well, the answer always seems clear the Joker (Heath Ledger). He was not a star before this movie but became a legend after it. His acting was incredible. The way he delivers dialogues hit a person properly. Some of his best dialogues:

“We stop looking for monsters under the bed when we realize they are inside us”

“Why so serious? Let’s put a smile on that face”  

His unpredictability. One minute he is hilarious, harmless prankster and the next an inhumanly brutal savage. There has been psychopathic villain before but there is something special about the Joker. Now, what makes him best antagonist? How he become the perfect opponent of The Dark Knight? For that watch the Dark Knight.

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