The Dark Night (thriller)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSq9_q0TgDc&feature=related

The dark knight is a mainstream movie with high production values; this allows the director Christopher Nolan to use the best effects and equipment for this thriller.

This clip involves The Joker who is the typical evil doer in this movie who fights against Batman after he has harassed the innocent hostages, one of which is a beautiful woman who out of bravery stands up to The Joker in order to save a man who’s face the audience assume is about to be mutilated, this builds up immense anxiety with the characters as well as the audience, and contributes to the climax of the fight with Batman and the joker.

This specific scene is typical of the thriller genre because it is set at night, in a very suave and sophisticated ball room where a party is taking place with upper class people, and then we immediately see The Joker who is the criminal, enter the room with a hostage and hijack the occasion, he asks for Harvey Dent and classically approaches the weaker people, who are stereo typically young women and also old men, and he scares them with his neurotic behaviour, but then the young woman stands up to The Joker but still has a sense of vulnerability, especially when The Joker comes very close to her and invades her personal space, also the height difference makes the women seem meek. When The Joker starts manhandling her that’s when Batman the hero comes to the rescue which is very typical of the thriller genre.
This clip has no use of non-diagetic sound, and allows the audiences attention to solely focus on The Joker, so the intimidation has full impact on them, only when Batman appears there is the use of repetitive drumming which suggests that the Batman has done this all before, and the fight scene is almost like a dance with the drum beat as the music. However The Joker gets hold of the women he was harassing and holds her dangling from the edge and this has the audience at the edge of there seat, when the Batman tells him to let go The Joker says that it’s a “poor choice of words” indicating his psychotic humour, and the audience feel empathy towards the damsel in distress.