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Narrative

The film begins when various Masked clowns commit a bank robbery.

The Joker runs the robbery but wants the shares all for himself. All of the clowns were going to share the money but they each wanted a bigger share so they started to kill each other to increase their shares. The Joker organised the robbery but was not involved in it so the other clowns didn't think he deserved the money.  There is a Fight between two gangs, one run by the ‘Scarecrow’. Fake Batman interrupts to stop it and then the real Batman shows up.Batman goes to sleep in his Batcave.Harvey Dent, Rachel and Batman all have dinner together but don’t particularly like each other. A Board meeting between the American mafia, the Russian mob and other gangs occurs.The Joker turns up to the meeting to make an offer to the gangs to kill Batman, but there is an angry atmosphere between them all. No agreement is reached and the Joker disappears unscathed, after threatening them with a bomb. Deputy Commissioner Gordon tells Harvey Dent that people in the system are corrupt and work with the gangs whilst this happens Batman goes on holiday disguised as Bruce Wayne.

 

The Joker kills the leader of one gang and threatens the rest to join them. He then reveals things about his background, like his abusive, alcoholic father who gave him the scars on his face. Batman fights with the Japanese gangs and gives the leader over to the police.

The police arrest all of the members of the gangs which is in favour of the mayor as his chances of re-election are raised, and the streets are cleaner from crime. The Fake Batman from the beginning of the film is captured by the Joker and is tortured on a video, he uses this to make Batman reveal his identity or he will kill someone everyday he doesn’t.

Bruce Wayne makes a speech about Harvey Dent in front of the people at a glamorous event. The Police then find DNA on a Joker card and put these people under protection as they believe they are in danger. The Joker kills the judge and the commissioner but Batman hides Harvey in time. The Joker turns up to the event looking for Harvey and intimidates all the guests to get them to tell him where he is.

 

The Joker throws Rachel out of the building, but Batman saves her.

Alfred then tells Batman back in the Batcave that the Joker’s goal is to watch the world burn, he does not want money. The Joker reveals his next target to the police on a newspaper in which he coloured in the Mayor’s face the same as his own. The Joker dresses himself in an official uniform in an attempt to kill the mayor, but Deputy Commissioner Gordon gets shot in the process. Batman goes to a club looking for the guy with bomb. The Joker names Rachel as his next target and Harvey rings her up to warn her. She goes to Bruce Wayne’s house to confide in him.

 

Harvey threatens to shoot a man in the head to get information about the Joker, he flips a coin to decide his fate as the man cries out that he doesn’t know anything. Batman interferes to stop Harvey as he says the man was from an asylum. Bruce Wayne and Alfred pack up all the things in the Batcave. Harvey Dent goes to a conference and people are all arguing to stop Batman and make him turn himself in.

Harvey Dent tells everyone that he is Batman and is taken into police custody. Rachel gives Alfred a letter to give to Bruce Wayne. Harvey is trying to set a trap to catch the Joker. Harvey then gets transported in a S.W.A.T van but there is a truck on fire in the middle of the road that averts their path.

 

The Joker starts to shoot at the vehicles but Batman turns up to try and stop him. Batman’s car is next destroyed so he transforms it into a motorbike and continues to chase the Joker and Harvey. He then ties something around the Joker’s truck and flips it over. The Joker makes Batman fall from his bike and as he is about to kill him, The Deputy Commissioner Gordon holds a gun to the back of his head and arrests him.

 

Deputy Commissioner Gordon returns to see his family and the Jokers kept in a cell. Deputy Commissioner Gordon interviews the Joker but then leaves and lets Batman take over. The Joker says to Batman ‘you complete me’ as he thinks they are very similar and are a pair. The Joker lays a trap to make Batman choose Between Rachel and Harvey.

The Joker outwitted all the others characters as he purposely wanted to be arrested.

 

The Joker then burns billions of dollars and says he doesn’t care about the money but wants the world to burn. The Joker rings into a national news channel and blackmails them to kill a man in 60 seconds or he will blow up a hospital. Other civilians try to assassinate the man so that the Joker doesn’t blow up the hospital. The Joker dresses up as a nurse and goes to visit Harvey Dent in hospital. The Joker blows up the hospital after getting away from Harvey Dent. The Joker takes another video of a civilian being forced to read out something on air.

Harvey Dent then gets out of the hospital, turns evil and kills a man drinking in a pub. Joker has threatened to blow up bridges and tunnels so everyone in Gotham City tries to leave which causes a massive traffic jam. Harvey Dent is going after the mob as he thinks they kidnapped him and Rachel and essentially killed her and burnt half his face.

The Joker gives two boats a choice to blow up the other before midnight or else both of them will blow up, one is full of innocent people and the other full of the criminals Harvey captured.

Harvey Dent kidnaps Deputy Commissioner Gordon’s family and threatens them. The criminal throws the detonator out the window and the civilian on the other boat nearly does it but pulls back at the last minute. Deputy Commissioner Gordon goes to the place where Rachel died and Harvey pushes him over. Harvey takes one of his children ready to kill him but Batman turns up to stop him. Batman then jumps to save the boy after Harvey gambled on all their lives.

He saves him and falls himself after being shot.

 

 

In the dark knight the first two stages of Todorovs theory of equilibrium are flipped so the disruption comes before the equilibrium.

Presentation On Todorovs' Theory of Equilibrium

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