TRIBUNJATENG.COM -- The Dark Knight adalah aksi Batman melawan Joker di kota Gotham yang dibantu Letnan Jim Gordon dan Jaksa Harvey Dent.
Film The Dark Knight telah tayang pada 18 Januari 2019 pukul 21.30 WIB di Trans TV .
Sinopsis film The Dark Knight menceritakan tentang pahlawan Batman alias milyuner bernama Bruce Wayne .
Film ini berdasarkan komik yang di-publish oleh DC Comics, sedangkan penulisan ulang naskah film ini dikerjakan Nolan Bersaudara ( Jonathan Nolan dan Christopher Nolan).
Dibintangi oleh Christian Bale , Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, dan Morgan Freeman.
Disutradarai oleh Christopher Nolan yang telah sukses dengan berbagai film sebelumnya seperti Memento, Batman Begins, dan The Prestige.
Film ini bercerita tentang pertarungan Batman alias Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale).
Manusia kelelawar ini melawan musuh abadinya yakni Joker ( Heath Ledger ).
Bruce mendapat pertolongan Letnan Jim Gordon ( Gary Oldman ).
Gotham has spent more than four years paying tribute to some of the biggest Batman comics from DC's history, with books like Hush, The Killing Joke, and others getting their own moment to shine. During Thursday night's episode, titled "Penguin, Our Hero," Frank Miller's classic Dark Knight Returns was put front and center.
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for the latest episode of Gotham! Continue reading at your own risk...
Much of the episode followed Selina and Bruce on their quest to the Dark Zone to track down Jeremiah Valeska. After taking the seed to fix her back in second episode, Selina was reborn with a new, dangerous attitude, and she was hell-bent on finding the man who shot her.
On the way to take out Jeremiah, Bruce and Selina were stopped by a malicious gang led by a massive man that was never named, but he was very clearly an homage to a character from Dark Knight Returns. Just one look at the guy and anyone who read Miller's iconic title could immediately recognize him as the one and only Mutant Leader.
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Not only does Mutant Leader have his pitch-perfect look from the comics, but he also delivers one of the lines that made people remember his gang. When first confronted by Selina, the Mutant Leader instructs his gang members to "slice & dice." Unfortunately for him, it was Selina who did the slicing and the dicing, as she decided at the beginning of the fight that she was going to take him down. She succeeded rather quickly and managed to put the Mutant Leader on the ground, trying to get Jeremiah's location out of him by clawing his face with her razor gloves. Even when the guy gave up Jeremiah's whereabouts, Selina continued hacking away, and she likely would have killed him had Bruce not intervened.
It would be surprising if Mutant Leader showed up again at some point later in the season, but it was certainly nice to see a tribute to Miller and the work he did with Batman.
New episodes of Gotham air on Thursday nights at 8 pm ET on FOX.
Widows
Director - Steve McQueen
Cast - Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Bryan Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Liam Neeson, Jon Bernthal
Rating - 4/5
Oscar-winning British director Steve McQueen continues his streak of exposing American atrocities with his feature films. Widows, his follow-up to his 2013 Best Picture winner, 12 Years a Slave, is a nail-biting thriller whose social commentary is often more engaging than its heists.
Working off a script that he has co-written with Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Sharp Objects), McQueen weaves an intricate thriller that feels like it has been made by a first-time director. I say this not as a criticism - Widows is anything but amateurishly made - but more for the passion with which McQueen makes his points. It’s as if he fears losing the opportunity to make another movie, and therefore, is convinced that he must pour everything he has into this one.
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Widows begins with an excellent sequence that wordlessly explains everything we need to know about its gritty depiction of Chicago and the socially and racially diverse group of characters that populates it. A crew of robbers, led by Harry Rawlings (Liam Neeson in an extended cameo), is killed after a botched job, leaving his widow (Viola Davis), like so many women before her, forced to clean up her man’s mess.
Up to her neck in debt, Veronica Rawlings assembles a new squad, made up of all the widows of the ill-fated members of Harry’s team, and puts into motion. It’s a silly idea, but McQueen lassoes it with his own unique sensibilities. He doesn’t let the inherent goofiness of the premise take away from the very real issues he wants to tackle with his film, which leans more towards the gritty melodrama of Heat than the vacuous emptiness of Ocean’s 8.
Academy Award winner Viola Davis leads Widows.
The gang violence in Chicago is so notorious that several reports suggest more Americans have been killed there than in wartime Iraq and Afghanistan. This poor reputation has inspired the unfortunate nickname Chiraq, which was made more popular by a Kanye West lyric and a Spike Lee joint.
Acclaimed documentarian Steve James even made a film about this in 2011, called The Interrupters. It was about a group of Chicagoans who - being survivors of gang violence themselves - literally interrupt street warfare, to steer young men and women away from this (self) destructive path.
From police violence and corruption to dynasty politics and modern America’s racial tensions, McQueen finds a way to make it all accessible. Widows is powerfully acted, tightly constructed, and in one scene in particular, frighteningly topical. Viola Davis has a tendency to go overboard with her performances, and there are moments in Widows in which her famous snot makes an appearance, but no one can deny her immense screen presence, especially when she’s working with an ensemble. She exudes Denzel Washington-level charisma in the role.
Widows is a new classic in the Chicago crime subgenre.
Harry had the bright idea of stealing from the mob, one of the many elements that connects Widows to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, which, despite being set in the fictional Gotham City, is perhaps one of the best Chicago crime movies ever made. Colin Farrell’s accent here will remind you of Heath Ledger’s from that classic, as will the many filming locations and Sean Bobbitt’s meticulous cinematography.
But perhaps the most prominent connective tissue between both films is Hans Zimmer’s lean, industrial, and (ironically) very masculine score. While his work in The Dark Knight trilogy was lush and expansive - keeping with his general reputation as Hollywood’s go-to composer for epic themes - he has written only about 30 minutes of music for Widows, which is about what McQueen usually uses in his films. For about an hour, the movie plays almost silently, relying on mood and dialogue more than anything else, but as it hurtles towards its propulsive conclusion, it builds into a what can only be described as noisy clanging - metallic, jarring, perfect.
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There is little warmth to this story, but this is true for most of McQueen’s films. They’re about people struggling to escape their environments; they’re about cruelty and betrayal and unfair twists of faith. But they’re also about redemption. Widows may appear to be dressed for a funeral, but peel back the layers and more shall be revealed.
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First Published: Jan 18, 2019 08:49 IST
Remembering the beloved young actor on the anniversary of his passing.
It's been 11 years since Health Ledger's death, but he's remained on the mind of fans all that time. His posthumous Oscar win for his unforgettable role as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" — awarded more than a year after his death — helped solidify his status as one of our favorite actors, gone too soon. What is it about Ledger that we remember so fondly, even today? Here's what his fans have had to say about him over the years…
"There are people born into this world with light, it radiates through them as they grow; brightening the lives of everyone. Heath Ledger was one of those people... He was intense in a way that made other people want to be intense too. He didn’t believe he had much time here, so he wanted to soak it all in." — Ashley Dye
"Heath Ledger's Joker performance is so good that you forget he's Heath Ledger. 'The Dark Knight' remains forever rewatchable." — Adam Joseph
"Ledger himself disappeared completely into the role (I still can't believe that's the same guy who was Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain). He makes you want to know more about his character, but also makes you afraid of what that might entail. Every time he's on the screen, you can't take your eyes off him. His screen presence is so great, that you feel him even when he's not on screen." — Reddit user MarcusHalberstram88
Has it really been ten years today since we lost Heath Ledger!! His nuanced performance in Brokeback Mountain still haunts me. #HeathLedger pic.twitter.com/rexCLGsAL4 — Sarah Luke (@Lulugreen) January 22, 2018
When I was fresh out of middle school, I saw #TheDarkKnight and I was completely blown away by #HeathLedger's performance. His #Joker felt like he could be anywhere and do anything. I've never been as paranoid as when I was sitting alone at home after. #ThrowbackThursday — Toy Camera (@ToyCamera4) January 17, 2019
"I met Heath one night on the town in Perth. The one-degree of separation rule in Perth made him a friend of a friend. We had a brief and quiet chat. What struck me was his calm in the face of his monstrous burgeoning celebrity. With both of his feet planted firmly on the ground, he seemed to be facing the publicity with stoic resolve." — Adrian K.
It's absolutely heartbreaking to think of all the things #HeathLedger could have accomplished if he were still here. pic.twitter.com/8gZF7HYXI1 — Heather (@HeatherFish76) January 19, 2015
