Dark Knight Trailer
Posted by dailypop on December 15, 2007
The official Dark Knight trailer has been posted here and is rumored to go online next morning.
In short, it looks amazing. There’s always some hesitation with sequels to successful films and to Batman movies as well. This looks like a movie that builds on the strengths of Batman Begins and delivers a blockbuster film that will satisfy fans of the character as well as movie goers who just want to see a great comic book movie.
The trailer depicts Gotham City turned into a war zone and an enigmatic super criminal known as the Joker arrives to add fuel to the fire. This is the Joker that we always wanted to see, a maniacal crime boss who dares Batman to a showdown while spreading chaos and destruction throughout the city… not a foppish clown ruining a parade featuring Prince music (not that I’m biased).
The trailer also insinuates a moral dilemma that Batman must face which was introduced at the conclusion of Batman Begins. In the final scene, Gordan tells the Dark Knight that this emergence of super criminals is a reaction to Batman himself. For every strength that he possesses, his adversaries must rise to the challenge in kind. Caught in the crossfire of this conflict, the innocents of Gotham suffer.
This kind of dilemma, to my knowledge, is new to comic book movies and action films as well. The antithesis of Sean Connery’s great line in The Untouchables ‘they send one of ours to the hospital, we send them to the morgue!’, it acknowledges the dangers of violence in a rather mature way.
In the trailer, Batman’s confidant Alfred urges him to the better man while the Joker urges on the mayhem with glee as the body count no doubt rises.
If the film is a tenth as good as this trailer, we may be up for the best comic book movie since Spider-Man 2.
Trailer below:
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