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13 years and two Batmen later, Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Dark Knight<\/strong><\/em> remains the ultimate Batman movie. With Heath Ledger\u2019s Oscar-winning performance as the Joker and some of the greatest IMAX action sequences ever shot, The Dark Knight<\/em> is not only the greatest Batman movie of all time; it\u2019s one of the greatest movies ever made. Tim Burton\u2019s gloomy expressionist Batman<\/em> movies<\/a> were groundbreaking gems that redefined Bruce Wayne and there are a couple of great animated features about the Caped Crusader, but The Dark Knight<\/em> is the movie that best encapsulates the Batman character and what makes him tick.<\/p>\n

The atmospheric, noir-tinged trailers for Matt Reeves\u2019 The Batman<\/em><\/a> suggest that the franchise is in very safe hands with the Cloverfield<\/em> director. Fans are excited to see Robert Pattinson\u2019s brooding take on a relatively inexperienced Batman and, frankly, the less their take tries to directly emulate Nolan\u2019s movies, the better. But there are still a couple of crucial lessons that The Batman<\/em> and all of the Bat\u2019s future big-screen outings can learn from the successes of The Dark Knight<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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For starters, a Batman movie is only as good as its villain. Batman has one of the most iconic rogue\u2019s galleries in comic book history, and to see the opportunity to translate any of those icons to the big screen squandered \u2013 like Batman & Robin<\/em>\u2019s triple whammy of Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, and Bane \u2013 is heartbreaking. A huge part of what makes The Dark Knight<\/em> the ultimate Batman movie is its villain.\u00a0Heath Ledger\u2019s\u00a0Joker is regularly ranked as the greatest on-screen portrayal of a Bat-foe<\/a>, the greatest on-screen portrayal of a comic book supervillain, and one of the greatest villains in movie history in general, alongside Nurse Ratched and Darth Vader. The Joker poses a psychological threat \u2013 it\u2019s always interesting to see the Bat face an enemy he can\u2019t defeat with brute force alone.<\/p>\n

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Ledger collaborated closely with Nolan to bring the most terrifying Joker of all time to the screen. Ledger took cues from Malcolm McDowell\u2019s harrowing portrayal of the sadistic Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange<\/em>, while Nolan\u2019s writing and direction<\/a> positioned the Joker as a grand metaphor for the fear and threat of terrorism in a post-9\/11 America. This incarnation of the Joker was brought to life so effectively that he\u2019s seared into audience\u2019s brains. Two Jokers later, no actor has come close to topping Ledger\u2019s hypnotic performance.<\/p>\n

In addition to giving audiences one of the best ever representations of Batman and the Joker\u2019s opposites-attract dynamic, The Dark Knight<\/em> nailed another key aspect of Batman stories: its depiction of a crime-ridden Gotham City<\/a>. After opting for a more Burtonesque Gotham with steampunk gothic visuals in Batman Begins<\/em>, Nolan was inspired by Michael Mann\u2019s gritty noir-infused take on Los Angeles in his crime epic masterpiece Heat<\/em> to present a more realistic Gotham in The Dark Knight<\/em>. Shooting around Chicago, Nolan turned Gotham into a grounded, authentic modern American city.<\/p>\n

Also, a major factor in any Batman movie is its action. The Dark Knight<\/em> has plenty of action set pieces that show off the character\u2019s varied arsenal of gadgets and vehicles, like when he extracts Lau from a skyscraper with a plane or when he leaves the rest of the Tumbler behind and takes off on the Batpod. Nolan used IMAX cameras to realize some of the most spectacular action sequences ever filmed<\/a>, like the breathtaking opening bank heist. The movie has minimal CGI, because Nolan uses practical methods wherever it\u2019s possible. For the scene in which Batman flips an 18-wheeler on its head, the stunt team flipped an 18-wheeler on its head. For the scene in which the Joker blows up a hospital, the special effects team blew up an abandoned building dressed up to look like a hospital.<\/p>\n

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One area in which a lot of Batman movies stumble \u2013 and The Dark Knight<\/em> excels \u2013 is in the secondary villain. Since Tim Burton introduced the Penguin and Catwoman in Batman Returns<\/em>, almost every Batman movie has had two major villains. But in a lot of these cases, the secondary villain feels perfunctory or tacked-on. Nolan himself did this with Talia al Ghul in The Dark Knight Rises<\/em><\/a>, a rare example of a tertiary villain. The Dark Knight<\/em> uses its secondary villain effectively, as turning Harvey Dent into the amoral, murderous Two-Face is crucial to the Joker\u2019s plan to destroy Batman\u2019s optimistic ethos.<\/p>\n

The ultimate takeaway from The Dark Knight<\/em> is its definitive portrait of Batman himself. The Joker upstages Batman in a lot of his scenes, because Ledger\u2019s performance is so mesmerizing, but The Dark Knight<\/em> uses the Clown Prince of Crime\u2019s reign of terror<\/a> to create the quintessential character arc for Bruce Wayne. The Joker claims to be an agent of chaos, but he does have an agenda: he wants to prove to the citizens of Gotham that law and order is an illusion. He does so by demonstrating that the police are ineffective against his army of goons and corrupting Harvey Dent, but his ultimate goal is to remove the city\u2019s last shred of hope by getting Batman to break his only rule.<\/p>\n

Zack Snyder and Ben Affleck\u2019s subsequent take on Batman<\/a> was initially promising: Affleck nailed the rage simmering beneath the surface of a grizzled, aging Bruce Wayne\u2019s false identity, but we only got to see it in glimpses as Snyder was more interested in showing off his shotgun-toting Batman than exploring the broken man behind the mask. With The Dark Knight<\/em> (and the other movies in\u00a0his trilogy), Nolan made sure to spend as much time with Bruce Wayne as Batman in order to depict both sides of the coin and contrast them with each other. Bruce is faced with a barrage of ideological crises throughout The Dark Knight<\/em> as the Joker gets in his head and makes him question every decision he\u2019s ever made. A villain \u2013 especially the Joker \u2013 taking over Bruce\u2019s life, consuming all his thoughts, challenging his moral code, is the ultimate Batman story. Batman\u2019s sacrifice in the film\u2019s unforgettable final scene, taking the fall for Dent and vilifying himself to preserve\u00a0Dent\u2019s image as Gotham\u2019s symbol of hope, is the kind of sacrifice only Batman can make.<\/p>\n

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