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Batman The Dark Knight Movie July 18 2008
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On July 18, 2008 Batman returns to the big screen in The Dark Knight, a new feature film from Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures and director
Christopher Nolan.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Producers: Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven
Story by: Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer
Cast
Bruce Wayne - Christian Bale
The Joker - Heath Ledger
Alfred - Michael Caine
James Gordon - Gary Oldman
Rachel Dawes - Maggie Gyllenhaal
Harvey Dent - Aaron Eckhart
Christian Bale is Batman. He was Batman in Batman Begins and is Batman in Batman
The Dark Knight (2008). Christian was born on January 30th, 1974 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales. That's the UK for you American
idiots who can't find a map.
Aside from being in Batman Begins and Batman The Dark Knight, Bale has been in
Killing Pablo (2009),
3:10 to Yuma (2007),
I'm Not There (2007),
The Prestige (2006),
Rescue Dawn (2006: about a downed Navy pilot in 1964 in Laos.
Equilibrium (2002),
Reign of Fire (2002: About a brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth
and begins setting fire to everything, establishing dominance over the planet. No really, don't roll your eyes, it was actually pretty
good!),
and American Psycho (2000).
Heath Ledger was born on the fourth of April 1979, in Perth, Western Australia. Heath first came to the public's attention in
10 Things I Hate About You (1999), where it was too easy to label Heath as a "pretty boy" and an actor lacking depth and potential. ... Boy, he sure proved
everyone wrong with Brokeback Mountain. Since then Heath's been a busy little bee.
As well as playing a psychotic murderer, the Joker, in Batman The Dark Knight, Heith has also played in I'm not There (2007), Candy (2006),
Casanova
(2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005),
The Brothers Grimm (2005),
Lords of Dogtown(2005),
The Order (2003),
The Four Feathers (2002),
Monster's Ball (2001),
A Knight's Tale (2001),
and The Patriot (2000).
Why... here's Heath now as the Joker having a sip of cocoa wearing his favorite hat. ... Nahh, not really. Someone photoshopped makeup on
Ledger in a pic from Brokeback Mountain. But you get to see part of the transformation because once you see him as The Joker... you
soon see that there is no more Ledger. It's all Joker Baby!
Caine was Born Maurice Micklewhite in London, (that's in Europe for all you idiots who don't know nuthin about geometry!).
Michael Caine was the son of a fish-market porter and a charlady. ... though we don't know what a "charlady" is. Amazingly Caine
was in the British army in the Koraen War, where he saw combat. Sheesh! Not even our own President saw combat. Imagine that. Go Michael!
Caine has been in GOBS of movies. Really. In everything from Sailor Beware (1956) to
Jaws: The Revenge (1987),
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) with Steve Martin,
The Cider House Rules (1999) with Peter Parker/Spiderman,
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002),
Batman Begins (2005),
Children of Men (2006) Which you absolutely must see and of course... Batman The
Dark Knight. We used this picture of Michael Caine because... well, I'd like to say because we love his old work, but really, all
the snap shots of dear Michael recently really aren't all that attractive. So, there you have it. This is Alfred from a long time ago... with hair... with no stick up the butt!
Gary Oldman is the son of a welder and a homemaker (god bless mothers!). Oldman won a scholarship to Britain's Rose Bruford Drama
College (why do all the good actors come from England or Australia? Come on, American actors are like Brad Pitt who dropped out of
college and became an actor, which is cool, but jeeze these Brits really can act). Oldman received a BA in Theatre Arts in 1979 and
studied with the Greenwich Young People's Theatre and then went on to appear in a bunch of plays throughout the early 80s.
Now... Gary Oldman is one fine damn actor! You have to see him in the following movies!
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) (for all you illiterates, Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are two characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet. In fact, they are Hamlet's "friends" who Hammies mommie tries to rope into the
play to figure out what the heck is wrong with Hamlet. Duhhhh! Mommie kills Ham's daddy and starts doing the dirty chicken with
Hamlet's uncle, his dead father's brother! Jaysus!! This movie is structured as the inverse of Hamlet, Hamlet is in the way
background and these two characters are brought forward. The duo appears on stage here when they are off-stage in Shakespeare's play.
But I digress... Just go rent the damn dvd.
So, you have to see Oldman in that, as well as Dracula (1992),
The Professional (USA) where he does AN AWESOME job playing Stansfield, a very,
very, very crooked cop. This guy is bad! Awesome flick and you get to see young Princess Amadama (Star Wars) in it.
Let's see, what else... OH.. You just have to see Oldman in The Fifth Element (1997)
where he plays Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg a wicked CEO of a wicked corporation. Awesome, awesome flick!
But, before that he also played Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved (1994),
He did a great job in Air Force One (1997) as Ivan Korshunov a Russian terrorist.
Oh, Lost in Space (1998) was way hokey with whatshisname from Friends, but he does
a great job and Heather Graham is in it and she is freakishly hot in anything she does. And he's Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) but he isn't given the chance to shine, same with
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).
But, he is in both Batman movies and that just ROCKS!
Aaron Eckhart was raised in Cupertino, California and as a teenager, lived with his family in England and Sydney, Australia. See!
Another actor from England/Australia. Yeah, he started out here, but then gets all his training there. So, this guy's apparently
pretty good, but I just haven't seen much, or any of his stuff. He was in
Conversations with Other Women (2005),
Thank You for Smoking (2005) and
Traveling (2008).
And now, Eckhart is playing Harvey Dent. About a billion years ago, Bob Kane, the creator of Batman, was inspired by a movie poster
advertising the Spencer Tracy film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and loved the idea of a villain with a dual aplit personality, and
he came up with Two-Face. Two-Face was once Harvey Dent, District Attorney of Gotham City and was also a close ally of Batman.
In case you didn't know... a District Attorney prosecutes bad guys. (Imagine... FBI Prosecuter Patrick Fitzgerald going after Scooter
Libbey.. you know... Valerie Plame! SHeesh, don't you know anything? That's what a DA does, he busts bad guys so they can be let back
out on the street. It's a perfect match for him and Batman to play Brokeback Mou.... never mind). So, after a criminal disfigured half
of Harvey's face with acid, (happened in a court of law) Dent then went nutsy and became the insane crime boss Two-Face who would choose
to do either good or evil depending upon the results of flipping a coin — a device which was taken from the 1932 version of Scarface.
ooooh, I can't wait!
Here are some shots of the movie Batman The Dark Knight which is hitting you right in the face July 18, 2008.
Batman Posing for GQ
Joker Posing for a Colgate commercial!
Joker after leaving Guantanamo.
Scarryyyy! Must be a Joker Henchman.
Joker (Heath) being filmed.
The BatCycle... Baadddd! Complete with .762 guns.
Running from the cops after Batman dropped a henchman down an elevator shaft! Oops.
That's it folks! Tune in to our blog to see what else we find.
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