I consider The Dark Knight Rises to be my favorite comic book movie ever and one of the all-time greatest superhero films (I love Unbreakable and The Incredibles even more). Most people think this is inferior to The Dark Knight but I definitely don't agree. In fact, I believe this film redeems its predecessor, a masterfully made movie that was ruined by its morally compromised ending that the ends justifies the means. If I were to write an essay, I would have to include both films because they only work together.
I did not consider The Dark Knight Rises as an indirect adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities, but I haven't read that book either. For whatever reasons, we didn't read Dickens in high school so I read one of his novels (Great Expectations) on my own a few years after graduating and that's it. I might have heard about the connection in the movie's Blu-ray special features, but I don't remember exactly.
Thank you very much for writing this essay.
P.S. Apocalypse Now is one of my favorite war movies and I read Heart of Darkness because of it.
I consider The Dark Knight Rises to be my favorite comic book movie ever and one of the all-time greatest superhero films (I love Unbreakable and The Incredibles even more). Most people think this is inferior to The Dark Knight but I definitely don't agree. In fact, I believe this film redeems its predecessor, a masterfully made movie that was ruined by its morally compromised ending that the ends justifies the means. If I were to write an essay, I would have to include both films because they only work together.
I did not consider The Dark Knight Rises as an indirect adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities, but I haven't read that book either. For whatever reasons, we didn't read Dickens in high school so I read one of his novels (Great Expectations) on my own a few years after graduating and that's it. I might have heard about the connection in the movie's Blu-ray special features, but I don't remember exactly.
Thank you very much for writing this essay.
P.S. Apocalypse Now is one of my favorite war movies and I read Heart of Darkness because of it.
Thank you! It's very unfairly maligned but I think people have come around on it recently