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Character Analysis : The Scene Analysis From The Dark Knight

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The scene that I am analyzing from the Dark Knight starts at 1:25:39. This is the scene where after the joker gets arrested, Jim Gordon and Batman interrogate him at the MCU to find out where Harvey Dent is. This is because they are tired of the Joker killing cops and innocent people, and putting other people’s lives in danger. While Jim Gordon is interrogating the Joker, he plays innocent in this scene as he acts like he doesn’t know where Harvey Dent is to try to get in Gordon’s head revealing there may be some untrustworthy people in Gordon’s unit and saying that Jim Gordon is alone in all this, making Gordon even more angry and frustrated (The Dark Knight, 1:26:10-1:26:30). The darkness around Joker represents evil and the light around Gordon represents good. The joker is taking the more laidback approach as you can tell he really doesn’t want to talk to Gordon, but when Batman shows up you can tell he wants to talk to Batman as the energy and tone in his voice changes. The joker gets in Batman’s head by telling him that he does not want to kill Batman saying Batman is just like him (The Dark Knight, 1:28:25), and that the reason all those innocent people are dead is because of Batman because he refuses to kill. Joker also tells Batman that Rachel has been kidnapped too and that he can’t save both Rachel and Harvey, but only one of them implying that if he chooses one of them he is responsible for the other one dying (The Dark Knight, 1:30:08). Batman is being pushed to his extreme limits trying his best not to kill Joker to get the information of where Harvey is. In this scene, you can see that Batman and Gordon are both frustrated and angry by the tone in their voices, by their facial expressions, and by the way Jim Gordon enters the interrogation room, and by the way Batman violently interrogates the Joker by beating him up. In addition, it is obvious that Batman gets uncomfortable around the joker. This is also evident in other scenes with Joker as Batman doesn’t look like himself. For example, when Batman is destroying anything in his way to get to the Joker (The Dark Knight, 1:19:33-1:21:00), and when he is driving straight at the Joker to run him but decides not to at the last moment and falls off

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