The Dark KnightIt's no joke when the knight approaches! Release Date: July 25, 2008 Certificate: 12A Director: Christopher Nolan Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Morgan FreemanBatman (Christian Bale) hopes to hand off his crime-fighting duties to the district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) and yet, when Batman's cards are on the table, the twisted mind that bears the name of the wild card (Heath Ledger), forces the masked vigilante to go against everything he has ever stood for. Director Chris Nolan considered the audience in his shooting method: “The film was shot using a wider lens than usual so it could be shown in I-MAX theaters nationwide. Today's audiences want a larger-than-life experience. We have to make an extra effort to give them that little bit more." Chris Nolan also insisted that the film had to have a distinctive style that included making the film genuinely dark and sinister. Very rarely were the cameras still, instead the cameras used very technical tricks, for example: tracking, zoom. This movie was originally promoted using a very unique style. Instead of paying for advertising they decided to promote the film using an alternative route. One of the ways this was achieved was to deface thousands of fake banknotes by placing the joker's smile over the original face. One sensible but effective way was when many "Batman" recruits placed Joker's corpses in hundreds of books in libraries that had to do with death, this had the desired effect as many people became agitated as to what that meant. The next alternative was to send spam emails to the site named www.whysoserious.com. But when did Batman evolve as part of our lives? It was 1939 when the world was introduced to a new hero. Bob Kane's simple vigilante, Batman. Comics were introduced in electronic format during the 1950s. However, due to comic book censorship, the violence was forced to gradually weaken. The highly anticipated Batman is back in the 1970s. However, to intrigue a wider audience, it appeared more complicated and violent than previous comics. Today's Batman comics show Batman as a real man with realistic and varied dilemmas. Thanks to these changes, Batman is today one of the most original and adored comic book heroes. Nolan's interpretation is a variety of the previous comics. It includes the violence of the first Batman mixed with the complexity and realism of today's modern comics.