Dark Knight Rises Analysis

Dark Knight Rises

About The Film

Christopher Nolan is a well respected Director and Producer, he has been proven to be a very successful director as his films have always done very well in the box office stage. He has been involved with many films such as Inception, Memento and The Prestige but Christopher Nolan is known best for his 'Superhero movies' such a The Batman Trilogy and Man Of Steel.

Christopher Nolan has managed to get a fan base addicted to the Batman Trilogy that has finally come to an end, The Dark Knight Rises was the final instalment of the trilogy and didn't fail to amazing. With the sad loss of Heath Ledger a new villain had to be casted a Tom Hardy didn't fail in the high pressured role as he played a huge villain called Bane that would cause the Batman to fight hard that every before. Anne Hathaway played Catwoman first working against The Batman but then helping near the end of the film. Due to the all star cast they each brought their own fan base to the film.


Budget $230 million after tax credits

Box Office $1,084,439,099


Target Audience

The Dark Knight Rises is mainly aimed at a male audience, this is because the theme of Superheroes is typically aimed at boys and men, it appeals to young children as they would have seen the cartoons and magazine but also appeals to teens and full grown men because of the action through out the film with a huge amount of money being spent on pyro. The male audience would also enjoy Catwoman in the skin tight suit. The young half of the audience would be in full time education still either school, sixth form or college, the other half of the target audience would be full grown men with an average job such as working in an office, they would be of working class.


Representation

In Dark Knight Rises, you could apply the Laura Mulvey's Theory, this is because in the film Wayne Bruce is the dominant character. He is rich, powerful and is represented  to be a womaniser, he is the Batman and is the hero which you become use to seeing in  a majority of programmes. You could also apply this theory because of how Anne Hathaway (Cat woman ) is portrayed. Although in the film she is in many fight scenes she is a dominant figure she still is inferior to the Batman, this is because in scenes she relies on him to save her. She also uses her sexual attraction to get the best of the male characters in the film which is very stereotypical thing you seen when the female character is attractive in a film, in the film she also where a skin tight leather black suit and the first time you seen her in it the camera tilts up slowly so you can she how the tight suit compliments her body, so although she is a aggressive female character she is still seen as a sexual object.

The film is set in a very established city, with sky scrapers, expensive cars and a lot of rich characters, in contrast to a social realism films both genres contain the theme of violence, gangs and criminals yet Dark Knight Rises is set in an upper class city that hasn't been vandalised nor neglected it is just a regular city like New York.

In Social Realism films there is a strong theme of unity, that if your in a gang you must stick together and loyal to one another, its about being in it together where as in Dark Knight it is more of a individual battle against on another, there is a scene in the film where Batman goes to attack Bane in his hide out surrounded by his army of criminals yet the only ones that fight are them two. The only time there is some form of unity is near the end, this is  because the citizens of Gotham City ( the city in the film) are put into considerable danger, they are in an US VS THEM situation that brought groups of people together that wouldn't normally associate themselves with one another to overcome a bigger task.

Analysis


In the Dark Knight trailer the first thing you notice is that editing, the editing. At the beginning it starts of slow but builds in pace towards the end showing the actions showing to be very intense and a lot to be at stake. The use of straight cut and fade to black are used very well to allow the trailer to run smoothly even though their are scenes from all parts of the film put together.


In the trailer you also see the use of CGI, the CGI would be used to attract fans from additional fan bases, people that enjoy watching actions films would see this and be interested in the film as it grabs your attention as it combine with enhanced sound effects as explosions go off.

Christopher Nolan uses a the characters conversations from the film to narrate over the trailer, he makes a compilation of lines characters say to set the scene as it is a follow on from  Batman Begins, he predominately uses the voice of the Batman and the Joker which the die hard fans would know who is talking.

In the trailer you get to understand that the Batman is actually Brue Wayne multi-millionaire, at first it makes the audience think he can be the Batman because he is rich and can afford it, but in theory does Christopher Nolan suggest to the audience that the rich can do as they please and are above the law ? Because what allows the Batman to go around beating up people even if they are criminals.