...break the law and fight for the power and authority that the citizens have lost due to their rights being taken away. A person must be able to accept the outcomes and consequences of their own actions when they disobey. Being civilly disobedient is not only about breaking a law. The actions of these individuals spread ideas. In the end, the outcome of the struggle may involve a change in a law like the way Cesar Chavez used this method to get the workers a union. In Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, the outcome may be to influence and empower others to change their minds about supporting a law, war, or other action. He wanted others to realize the importance of using one’s individual freedom to fight against government corruption. In Batman, the hero must battle political corruption as well, despite...
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...the Edward Nygma’s descent into Batman’s rogue gallery as the Riddler. In addition to Gotham’s return, we will be seeing several character’s develop their succession onto their iconic roles. Riddler will be showing that Barbara does not have Tabatha’s best interest in heart, she’s still livid about having her hand decapitated by Nygma. He will be making alliances, new friends, such as Barbara Kean. DC Entertainment teases us with a glimpse into what to expect in Season 3. What I love about this series is the complexes created in between the villains. Often, in traditional version of Batman, we would see the caped crusader take on his villains one on...
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...The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Cast: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Director: Christopher Nolan Synopsis: Christian Bale stars as both the classic caped crusader and his billionaire alter-ego, Bruce Wayne. In this third installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman films, Bruce Wayne no longer feels that the City of Gotham needs a hero and goes on a secluded hiatus. However, when a new villain, Bane (Tom Hardy), threatens Gotham City, Wayne dons his cape and mask once more. Review: Christopher Nolan brings yet another adrenaline-filled, comic-inspired movie to the big screen. We see all sorts of familiar faces this time around, but the audience is introduced to a few new characters as well. When crisis threatens Gotham City, Bruce Wayne jumps back into the Batmobile to fight crime. Batman is joined on his quest by an eager orphaned cop (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a seductive cat burglar (Anne Hathaway), and a violent masked villain (Tom Hardy). This film served as great entertainment with its colorful cast and numerous plot twists. Nolan used actors that had either appeared in previous Batman films or in his blockbuster hit Inception, and all of them shone in their respective roles: Tom Hardy was almost unrecognizable in his Bane costume, while Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard were both excellent—and obviously comfortable with Nolan’s directing style and the film’s dramatic tone. The one actor that gave this reviewer pause was Anne Hathaway...
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...someone to look up to. Playboy, Spare Parts Man, alcoholic; does that sound like someone youʼd call a hero? Batman and Iron Man are very different kinds of heroes, but the men behind the masks seem to be very similar on the surface. While Batman has a very strict moral code and refrains from killing anyone when he can, Iron Man has no qualms about killing. Both Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark are billionaires, both seem to be good with the ladies, and both are extremely intelligent. Neither have any real “super-powers,” but both used their intellect to make themselves into heroes. Bruce Wayne outside of his suit could hold his own in a fight with his martial arts background. Tony Stark, on the other hand, seems to have no desire to better himself in hand-to-hand combat. As a child, Bruce witnessed his parents being murdered and swore to keep the city safe. While being held hostage by a group of terrorists, Tony makes the Iron Man suit purely to save himself. After these life changing experiences, both take to the vigilante life but for different reasons: Bruce to protect citizens so that no one else would have to feel the pain he felt, and Tony for the recognition and fame. Letʼs talk about motivation. Batman began because a little boy was left devastated and traumatized. Bruce Wayne was orphaned as at the age of eight after seeing his parents gunned down by a mugger. That same night, Bruce swore to protect the city of Gotham from criminals so that no one else will feel the pain he felt...
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...The Dark Knight- English ESSAY The Dark Knight, released in 2008 and written, directed and produced by Christopher Nolan is 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 criminal mastermind known as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos. Through the use of various visual codes and conventions the central ideas of Chaos vs Order, Heroes vs Villains and Light vs Dark are reinforced during the final scenes of the film. Viewers of The Dark Knight are challenged to respond to the central themes and ideas and explore the in depth characterization within the film. The idea of order within Gotham collapses when Harvey Dent, once seen a symbol of order as Gotham’s elected DA declines rapidly and becomes a representation of chaos or anarchy. This is revealed through Harvey Dent’s dialogue at the ending scene in the film, saying “the only morality in a cruel world is chance”. This dialogue is paired with the symbolic action of flipping a scorched 2 headed coin, signifying Harvey’s change from a symbol of order or Gotham’s “white knight” to his decline into chaos. The Joker is known throughout the film as a agent of chaos as he said during this dialogue with Harvey Dent in the hospital “Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I am an agent of chaos. Oh, and...
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...When you are old and retired, would you still allow yourself to pursue the passions you desired when you were younger? In the graphic novel, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, Bruce Wayne, also known as Batman, stopped being Batman for ten years until the Mutant gang threatened peoples’ lives in Gotham City. The Bat-signal in Bruce Wayne’s heart emitted as the city began to go down. While trying to save Gotham City, Batman is in a losing battle against his old age and the younger villains could easily take him down, but his motivation to save the city was strength in itself (Yehl). The Barrow High School students should read this graphic novel because the graphic novel creates a connection with American history such as the United...
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...There was not much wrong with the plot of the film, but there is one huge mistake that slipped through all of the writers. The plan of the villains in the film was to dump a toxin into the water supply of the city, then evaporate all the water, with microwaves, so that the toxins would be inhaled and in turn, take effect in the body. This may not seem like a bad plan, but for the weeks that the toxin was being poured into the water supply, was there not one person in all of Gotham to boil water or take a hot shower? By doing either of these things, a citizen would inhale the toxins and soon the whole city would know that the water supply is bad. Aside from this major mistake, Batman Begins was fundamentally sound in terms of the...
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...Ruben Baez Professor Ward English Comp. 3/28/15 The Dark Knight Compare and Contrast Essay In the movie The Dark Knight we have Bruce Wayne (Batman) which is basically the hero of Gotham City. With every hero of course there has to be a villain also. The villain of Gotham City is in fact the Joker. I believe Batman and the Joker are one of the best hero villain combos out there, they go together perfectly and their both fit for each other, it wouldn’t be the same if the joker wasn’t around and if batman wasn’t around with the joker. On the other hand though they are far different from each other they have many different qualities, different things that motivate them to do what they do, and their personality and what approaches they make towards things. So in this case I’ll be talking about the similarities and the differences of both the Batman and the Joker in the Dark Knight movie. Batman’s character in the movie is obviously more the hero type, he is serious about protecting his city from crime, he covers his true identity but in reality his obviously a very wealthy person which allows him to have the things he owns like his powerful suit, his indestructible car, and all the gadgets he uses while his fighting crime. The joker on the other hand in my eyes is the perfect villain, his a complete psychopath in the movie, he dresses like a clown and wears make up to make him look a bit disturbing, he had a rough past, his a pyromaniac, he has no cares in the world, and he...
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...here for your meeting with Master Wayne? Unfortunately he is occupied at the moment, so please take a seat and relax. Oh goodness, where are my manners. Would you care for anything to eat or drink? No? Then welcome to the gorgeous Wayne Manor, home of the one and only Bruce Wayne. I am Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth, the valet of Wayne Manor, but you may just call me Alfred (“Alfred Pennyworth”). After a valiant career as an intelligence agent, I was employed at Wayne Manor after poor Thomas and Martha Wayne were brutally murdered, which was seen by young Bruce. “ Thomas and Martha were walking home from the Monarch Theater one night with their son, when they were held at gunpoint by a mugger who demanded the pearl necklace that Martha was wearing. When Dr. Wayne refused to surrender it, both he and Martha were shot dead in the streets” (“Batman – Bruce Wayne”). From here, young Bruce made an oath to protect the city of Gotham, traveling the world to train himself physically and mentally. Now, let me tell you about the “real” Batman; the one behind the mask. After his parents’ death, Bruce began to travel the world at the age of fourteen, not to see the beauty in the world, but to train himself into physical and mental perfection. During this time, Bruce “[learned] and variety of crime-fighting skills, including chemistry, criminology, forensics, martial arts, gymnastics, disguise and escape artistry” (“Batman – Bruce Wayne”). Although Bruce had all the tools to fight Gotham...
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...methodological features in terms of form and content. In this humble research we will try to shed the light on the aspects of mythology in batman as a superhero and a legend taking the dark knight trilogy as an example to examine how mythology is represented in this masterpiece by the brilliant director Christopher Nolan. The dark knight trilogy consists of 3 movies: batman begins (2005), the dark knight (2008) and the dark knight rises (2012). The three of them was directed by the filmmaker Christopher Nolan and were inspired from the batman character created by Bob Kane. ``Batman Begins`` movie was basically about the origin of the batman legend as a force of good in Gotham city. In the light of his parents tragic robbery murder (Bruce Wayne) took a journey around the globe looking for meaningful values and tools to fight injustice and criminals. He was taken in by a strange instructor called Ducard and taught him how to become a ninja in what is named the League of Shadows after that he came back to Gotham and uncover his masked crusader (Batman) in order to start fighting gangsters to end their rule in his native city streets. In the second movie ``the dark knight`` batman continues cleaning up street from the organized crime this time. The emergence of Gotham's new district attorney Harvey Dent with his determination to destroy the higher rings of crime that is not easy urges him to make an alliance with both batman and the incorruptible lieutenant Gordon. Their alliance...
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...BATMAN LIVE WORLD TOUR Batman Live Tour The plot of this play is about Batman as most of us know is a marvel comics super hero who dresses as a bat. This story tells of how Batman had come to be. It also tells the story of how young Dick Grayson who eventually becomes Robin grows up and eventually becomes the trusted and legendary sidekick of the fearless Batman to be Batman’s trusted sidekick. After young Bruce Wayne’s parents are murdered he turns to a life of fighting crime in the city of Gotham. Along his way after Batman has been fighting crime for years battling villains such as the Joker or the Scarecrow and all the armies of low life scum they recruit to help take over Gotham he is faced with a new dilemma which commissioner Gordon ask as a personal favor to him. This being taking care of a young boy whose parents were murdered in the same manner as young Bruce Wayne’s. After taking young Dick Grayson in he soon discovers the hidden life of Mr. Bruce Wayne. In that he is in fact Batman. This excites young dick and makes him eager to help Bruce battle crime. Alfred who is Bruce’s butler and best friend thinks this would be good for Bruce and Dick as well as they both share similar childhood experiences with the murder of their parents. As Bruce and Dick bond they start to realize that they are similar and Bruce decides that Dick should harness his rage of revenge for good and teaches him how to be the crime fighter we know as robin. ...
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...SOC/105 - INTRODUCTION TO POPULAR AMERICAN CULTURE 12/7/2011 ROBERT ANDERSON The man behind the mask the one that comes out at night to fight all the bad villains some know him as the bat but we know him as Batman. Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939) created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. Robert Kahn was born in New York City, New York born on October 24, 1915(1915-10-24) and died on November 3, 1998 Robert was first work with dc comics on the superman comic when he was asked to make a new super hero that is when he made batman. William "Bill" Finger (February 8, 1914 – January 18, 1974) was an American comic strip and comic book writer he has two award which are Jack Kirby Hall of Fame, 1994 Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, 1999 Bill first meet Bob Kane at the DC nascent studio in 1938 were they both work on Batman comics. Who is Batman? Batman is just a man like u and me. He does not have super powers he did not get bit by a spider like Spiderman he just has super cool gear and technology that is why he is so amazing because he can be anybody and u will never know but in the comic’s we do know who he is his name is Bruce Wayne a millionaire after seeing his mom and dad being murdered he swear he would get revenge on crime, an oath tempered with the greater ideal of justice. Mr. Wayne trained himself mentally, physically and intellectually, he gets the ideal to become Batman after having the fear of bats in his early childhood, most of...
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...criminality is psychological or biological, have had a long standing debate. Which path has the correct answer to this question or at least the most promising evidence and where does it all start? Although there are many good cases arguing for both there is no clear answer to this question. In the fictional realm of superheroes and supervillains, there are numerous reasons as to why the latter of the two chooses a life of crime. The psychological ramifications of nature versus nurture are an everpresent idea that shapes the hero versus villain dynamic as we know it. In the article “Does Cartoon Violence Beget Aggressive Behavior in Real Life? An Opposing View” by Fran Blumberg et.al, states that showing younger people violence in a way that can be considered to be funny, changes the way that they think about crime concluding that criminality starts at a younger age. For example, Krcmar and Hight (2007) found that “preschoolers who watched an action cartoon or super-hero image…were more likely to...
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...tone/atmosphere does the opening scene set? W eget introduced to the villian/terrorist. Action-packed. 2. What kind of place is Gotham City? (what does it look like?) Much like New York. 3. Make a character sketch of Batman/Bruce Wayne and focus on his development. To what extent can Batman be said to be a vigilante? Quite withdrawn. Not very social like he was in the movies before. He sees that Gotham is under attack and even though he has retired, he feels a commitment to protect his city. Batman is definitely a vigilante. Takes matters into his own hands. 4. Compare Batman to Bilbo. They are both on a mission. Which similarities/dissimilarities do you see? Batman is more like a ”serious” and obvious hero. Fighting hard with incredible powers. Bilbo is a more nice and ”lucky” type. Most of the things he experiences is accidentialy. 5. We know that adventurous blood runs in Bilbo’s veins (the Took side). What ’drives’ Batman on his mission? He is sort of the citys protector. He has a responsibility. 6. Characterise Bane (briefly) Pretty determined and intelligent. Ruthless. 7. What similarities/dissimilarities (in The Hobbit and The Dark Knight Rises) do you notice when it comes to villains? The fact that The hobbit is whole other genre compared the dark knight rises. The white orc is more primitive, but still powerfull where Bane is powerfull too but making use of electronic devices etc. 8. What is Blake’s role in...
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...are better because their status is more realistic and attainable, they are more popular among the children, and DC characters work hard for their strengths and powers and use them for good. There are two categories within DC: the gods, such as Wonder Woman and Superman, and the iconic underdogs, such as Batman and Green Lantern. The gods are from another planet or universe and are normally the ruler’s child. They use their powers to protect their land. The underdogs are the favorite in any story and work the hardest. They are not born with any powers, but they want to help so they make a way. The underdogs are the people we look up to and admire the most. They are good men and/or women whom we strive to be like. Everyone looks up to Bruce Wayne because he is a good guy who wants to turns the bad events in his life into profit for others. Marvel literally has no characters that work for their superhero status. People love Marvel and support it and they wonder why their children do not want to work for what they get. Children start acting like the atmosphere around them and Marvel gives off a “you do not have to work hard” vibe. DC has this vibe surrounding it that draws kids to their characters. They are slightly older than Marvel which gives them an innocence which most children are attracted to. Marvel has more scenes you have to skip over and their characters are not as set apart in the field of innocence....
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