Batman the Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan...'nuff said. Loosely based off Allan Moore's and Brian Bolland's Batman the Killing Joke, it is a great movie that keeps the spirit of Batman and his fight against Joker. Although it doesn't follow the Batman legacy completely, rather it plants Batman into a more realistic environment but still follows the premise of Batman. For example, The Joker skin hasn't been mutated and bleached white, rather it looks like the Joker in Dark Knight went insane and (poorly) applied make-up to himself.
Like I mentioned before, Batman the Dark Knight is loosely based off of Batman the Killing Joke. The movie Dark Knight doesn't have the Joker paralyzing Gordon's daughter Barbara or kidnapping Gordon and buying a carnival and torturing him or anything. But what the Dark Knight does have is the Joker trying to disprove Batman's moral code and belief that Gotham can change. Trying to show Batman that the people and their so-called "sense of moral" can be crushed and the people would be reduced to animals from the weight of their own code. Batman on the other hand is trying to stop the Joker and keeping his own code intact by not killing the Joker, thus he is a living proof that Joker is wrong and that people won't crack under pressure. Christopher Nolan did a great job of adapting The Killing Joke by showing just how human Batman is and how conflicted he is when it comes to the Joker. Like when Batman contemplates on killing the Joker to save more lives in the future since Joker will just get released when he rides his cycle straight on towards the Joker in the streets of Gotham in Dark Knight.
One can say that the film Dark Knight is an analogy of The Killing Joke and I agree. Christopher Nolan wanted to create his own Batman world and he did a hell of a job doing it. It's just like real comic books where there are different worlds and different stories of Batman and Christopher Nolan just added another story to the Batman legacy. Batman is still trying to make Gothan a better city by ridding it of crime with the Joker constantly trying to show Batman the reality that he can't change Gotham since people are not what they really seem and hide behind their "moral code". Same old, same old and yet oh so different.
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