Posts Tagged ‘Heath Ledger’
The Dark Knight | Bank Robbery Prologue
It’s Valentines Day and if you believe in love at first sight then love at first listen shouldn’t be too much of a stretch. It’s truly amazing the impression the first few seconds of a film can leave you with. Just take my previous Batman related Score Your Week as an example. I’ll never forget seeing The Dark Knight in theaters for the first time. It ranks up there with the Star Wars Prequels and Lord of the Rings on my most anticipated films list easily. So, as I sat waiting for the picture to roll I couldn’t help but wonder how it would begin, even if the IMAX prologue had already been released to promote the movie.
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Scene Stealer | The Dark Knight – Interrogation Scene
Christian Bale and Heath Ledger in 2008's "The Dark Knight"
Scene Stealer is new column that will be bringing you a classic, iconic, or just plain awesome movie scene as often as possible. Since Christoper Nolan’s much anticipated film Inception is released this Friday I figured his filmography would be a good place to start. However, most of the iconic scenes in Nolan’s pictures involve heavy spoilers due the plot twists in those stories. So, I had somewhat of a hard time picking today’s first showcase.
The natural solution was as clear as day in the end though. While Memento may be Nolan’s most individual work The Dark Knight is his most successful. Not only because of the classic characters, but the pathos in which they were written, preformed, and directed. Therefore, what scene in the film is the both the centerpiece of the story and the culmination of both Batman and The Joker’s ideals? The Interrogation Scene. Read the rest of this entry »
Batman 3 News Update
Last week film buffs were treated to the incredible news that Christoper Nolan would soon be starting “Batman 3,” along with planing a new Superman film. This is all it took for rumors about these projects start flying around faster than a speeding…well you get the point. Read the rest of this entry »
A Fond Farewell to Mr. Ledger: Review of “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
Say what you will about Terry Gilliam; the man is a visionary. He has created some of the most original (if uneven) films of the past 30 years. “Brazil”, “The Fisher King”, and “12 Monkeys” are just a few of his stand outs, in my opinion. In his latest endeavor he injects a little bit of his previous films with a dash of Monty Python and a touch of darkness. “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” is another interesting work of art for his already extremely interesting resume. Read the rest of this entry »
The Filmdogs Podcast returns in this geektastic 12th episode. We discuss The Hobbit directing situation in the news and defend Nic Cage’s hair in a new segment, In defense of. Holy Featured Topic Batman! That’s right, in our Featured Topic of the Week we discuss would what WE would do in the sequel to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Night. Everything from villains to Robin is dwelled upon here. In other words, we geek out. And to wrap things up we have an amazing One Liner of the Week from Al Pacino in Glengary Glen Ross. It’s an episode so good it would make even Batman himself smile.
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