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The Dark Knight

Christopher Nolan · 2008 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Gotham's new district attorney is winning cases against the mob with help from a masked vigilante and a lieutenant who makes the arrests, so the families hire a man in face paint who robs their bank and then offers to solve the problem for half of everything. He starts killing officials on a schedule, promising it stops when the vigilante unmasks. Ledger's posthumous Oscar and the film's snub made the Academy widen best picture.

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Attributes

Genre
Crime / NoirThrillerTragedy
Theme
Good vs EvilJustice & RevengeSacrificePower & Corruption
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Anti-HeroShadowTricksterTragic Hero
Plot structure
Ironic ReversalTragic ReversalOvercoming the Monster
Symbol / motif
The MaskThe CityFireThe Game / Cards
Conflict
vs Personvs Society
Mode / tone
NoirTragicEpic
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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