The Dark Knight is there a metaphorical message behind this movie poster?

[Batman2005]

http://www.majorspoilers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04a/hr_Posters_2.jpg

it is an amazing poster. iconic, and just so damn cool looking. It's my favourite of the many TDK posters out there (I'm using it as my desktop wallpaper and will eventually get a physical poster version).

But on the surface it doesn't seem to have any relevance to the storyline of the movie. To me, it immediately conjures up memories of 9/11 in NYC.

What kind of message do you think it is suggestion?

 

[SuperFerret]

The Joker's actions could be defined as that of a terrorist, as could Batman's (although he doesn't kill innocents to spread his brand of terror, so it's highly debatable given the modern impression of the word "terrorist") thus the image invokes the appropriate feel of the movie.

 

[TheBatman072]

Oh ****. Here we go.

 

[CaptainClown]

the building represents terrorism and batman represents G W

 

[vanson]

everything burnsss...

 

[gwynplaine]

Two-Face is Dick Cheney because he shoots people in the face. On a related note, Cheney would make a great penguint:.

 

[ChocheTheHero]

ONE WORD: "Escalation".

 

[Seen]

Look at the tagline. It pretty much sums up some of the themes for the film, if not the CENTRAL theme.

The Joker represents chaos and anarchy. He is welcoming you to a world without rules, a world where anything -- and anyone -- goes. The flaming bat-symbol on the building is visually analogical and relevant to Batman forcing himself to go outside of his own set of "rules" in order to combat The Joker and his tactics, which he does in the film.

If anything, the poster is highly indicative of the tone and nature of the film and represents what the film is about pretty effectively in my opinion and probably the most effective of any movie poster I've seen in a while.

 

[CaptainClown]

Two-Face is Dick Cheney because he shoots people in the face. On a related note, Cheney would make a great penguint:.

Condoleezza would be Frank Miller Year One Catwoman, Karl Rove would be Riddler, hell someone like Michael Moore could be Reese.

 

[TheDarkJoker]

Not again this 9/11 crap!

 

[November Rain]

to be fair, the picture would have been better if the bat-signal was in the sky and the joker had burnt a happy face into the wall but meh...

or at least have the joker infront using the building as his own batsignal...

although the poster itself looks very cool, i don't get anything from it...

 

[Borat]

Yeaaa its pretty much the best poster made in the entire universe.


lulz

 

[gwynplaine]

Condoleezza would be Frank Miller Year One Catwoman, Karl Rove would be Riddler, hell someone like Michael Moore could be Reese.

Lol.

 

[gwynplaine]

Even though this poster is absolutely beautiful, I never really got it. Who burned that bat emblem in the building, Batman ? The Joker ? The riddler ? Crazy quilt ? It doesn't make sense.
Even though I prefer and love the joker-centric posters there is also another one that I don't get, the one where the Joker is holding a joker card and it's Batman on it with some sort of red smile underneath, it is also beautiful but imo doesn't really make sense either.
The WSS ones, the jokerized Batman, the banner, machine gun Joker and the one where he is standing in the street with his back turned to us should be in a museum they're so beautiful.

 

[p4poetic]

http://www.majorspoilers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04a/hr_Posters_2.jpg

it is an amazing poster. iconic, and just so damn cool looking. It's my favourite of the many TDK posters out there (I'm using it as my desktop wallpaper and will eventually get a physical poster version).

But on the surface it doesn't seem to have any relevance to the storyline of the movie. To me, it immediately conjures up memories of 9/11 in NYC.

What kind of message do you think it is suggestion?

As a New Yorker, never once did the poster conjure any memories of the WTC attacks on September 11th. But thanks for the reminder.

 

[BAILY]

i always saw the poster as Batman standing in 'chaos' and the flaming batsymbol as the 'city's only hope' ..

 

[JaD]

Wait this thread is still open.. I remember debate about this in the original thread for this poster when it came out.

 

[batman11]

I thought it was obvious that Venom caused the fire. Can't you see him in Batman's eye?

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[That-Guy]

Did anyone else hope this was an actual scene in the movie when you saw this, initially? I didn't seriously think that it was, but I remember it got me thinking about what could be happening here. I think it would have been badass if that building had been a mob hideout and Batman did this after taking down a whole bunch of bad guys. Oh, well.

 

[Jonathan Crane]

No, it was obvious that Joker did this (in poster-world, of course).

 

[FNSpidey]

I always saw it this way:

-> First, the building's destruction is obviously a reference to chaos. Due to escalation, Batman is a cause of this chaos (the appearance of Batman brought on the appearance of the Joker), hence the destruction on the building forms a bat-symbol to represent his indirect responsibility. "I see now what I have to become to stop men like him", remember?

-> Secondly, a more direct approach. The Joker calls for Batman to reveal his identity and while he doesn't, chaos ensues due to the Joker's execution of public targets. In this context too, Batman is still the indirect cause of the chaos, hence, once again, the burning bat-symbol.

-> Third, although I'm not sure this was intentional, you can see it as representative of the tarnishing of Batman's reputation. The birth of a Dark Knight, if you will.

 

[Steelsheen]

http://www.majorspoilers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04a/hr_Posters_2.jpg

it is an amazing poster. iconic, and just so damn cool looking. It's my favourite of the many TDK posters out there (I'm using it as my desktop wallpaper and will eventually get a physical poster version).

But on the surface it doesn't seem to have any relevance to the storyline of the movie. To me, it immediately conjures up memories of 9/11 in NYC.

What kind of message do you think it is suggestion?

yeah i said the same thing when i first saw it. whether or not this was done on purpose, the message is clear: the building with the burning hole through it (for this poster it doubles as the symbol of Batman) means the story is about terrorism (which is what the Joker does) and that Batman is in the forefront of trying to stop it.

 

[Borat]

I always saw it this way:

-> First, the building's destruction is obviously a reference to chaos. Due to escalation, Batman is a cause of this chaos (the appearance of Batman brought on the appearance of the Joker), hence the destruction on the building forms a bat-symbol to represent his indirect responsibility. "I see now what I have to become to stop men like him", remember?

-> Secondly, a more direct approach. The Joker calls for Batman to reveal his identity and while he doesn't, chaos ensues due to the Joker's execution of public targets. In this context too, Batman is still the indirect cause of the chaos, hence, once again, the burning bat-symbol.

-> Third, although I'm not sure this was intentional, you can see it as representative of the tarnishing of Batman's reputation. The birth of a Dark Knight, if you will.

Makes sense to me.