Film: Dark Knight Rises - Genre (Superhero)
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- Film: The Dark Knight Rises - Genre (Superhero)
- Themes
- Power and responsibility
- Past affects the present
- Loss and anger
- Power of hope and belief
- Rise v fall
- Appearance v reality
- Quest for truth and identity - "No-one cared who I was till I put on the mask"
- Personal happiness v duty to masses
- Iconography
- Batman logo, cape, costuming and mask
- Hi-tech gadgetry
- Secret - lifts and doors
- Tablets - "fancy new toys" - cutting edge software - "the clean slate"
- Typical Situations
- Man can fly (or that affect)
- Villain wants to destroy the world
- Villain reveals master plan
- Hero almost dies but saved on the brink
- Countdown to destruction
- City calls for help
- Code opens hidden hideout
- Stock characters
- Flawed hero which super human ability
- Alter ego - wrongfull accused
- Villian with megalomanic plan
- Honest police cheif
- Corrupt politicians
- Rookie/sidekick
- Masked henchman
- Mentor
- Setting
- Sewers
- Urban setting - Gotham city
- Room full of gadgets
- Set pieces - football game
- Style
- Silver, blue monochrome colour palette
- Industrial style - mental adn water
- Themes
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