The backlash from disappointed people after the nominations of the 2009 Annual Academy awards were announced had been phenomenal. All this has been targeted at the fact that The Dark Knight has only been nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
The Dark Knight has been nominated and received many awards recently, including The Golden Globes and The Grammys. It has even received nominations from the producers, Writers and Cinematographers Guild this month. So why has been ignored by the Academy?
Unfortunately this time around, The Dark Knight will not be taking home a Best Picture award or a Best Director Oscar. Heath Ledger has received a Best Supporting Actor nomination, but Chris Nolan missed out on the Best Directors nomination. Amongst all this Oscar hype, people are questioning whether this movie even deserves the nomination that it did, and whether it only received this nomination in response to public reaction to Ledger?s untimely death.
Many people have described this movie as the best movie that they have ever seen in their lives and that it truly deserves more recognition by the Academy. Reaction to the movie has reached a level that no other movie has ever seen before.
Has The Dark Knight done too well at the box office? Has it destroyed or paved the pay for other super hero movies to follow? Will all future movies that fall into this genre be measured against this movie, both in style and content? It?s box office taking will take a lot to beat.
The movie is not just an entertaining, albeit dark, story presented with high production value and as much gritty realism as a comic-book movie can sustain. It is also part of the ongoing cultural production and reproduction of the structural imperatives of the capitalist system. A system that upon monopolizing finance capital, subjecting the power of the state to capital, the creation of criminal classes out of any minority group, the reproduction of internal racial inequality on an international level, and the legitimation of violence in keeping the lower classes divided, subservient, and 'irrational.'
The Dark Knight cashes in on the notion of capitalist dominance and the legitimate militarization of our society against these so-called insane terrorists. It comments on the society that we live in today and the problem with terrorism. It is any wonder that this movie has been such the box office draw that it has been?
Talk has now turned to the next Batman movie, and it?s expectations after the phenomena of The Dark Knight. This movie has taken $997.7 in the Worldwide box office so far, and this is not taking into consideration merchandise and DVD sales. The next in the franchise has a lot to live up to.
The Dark Knight?s executive producer has spoken publicly about the very real possibility of a sequel, and has hinted at a release date in 2011.
The Dark Knight has been nominated and received many awards recently, including The Golden Globes and The Grammys. It has even received nominations from the producers, Writers and Cinematographers Guild this month. So why has been ignored by the Academy?
Unfortunately this time around, The Dark Knight will not be taking home a Best Picture award or a Best Director Oscar. Heath Ledger has received a Best Supporting Actor nomination, but Chris Nolan missed out on the Best Directors nomination. Amongst all this Oscar hype, people are questioning whether this movie even deserves the nomination that it did, and whether it only received this nomination in response to public reaction to Ledger?s untimely death.
Many people have described this movie as the best movie that they have ever seen in their lives and that it truly deserves more recognition by the Academy. Reaction to the movie has reached a level that no other movie has ever seen before.
Has The Dark Knight done too well at the box office? Has it destroyed or paved the pay for other super hero movies to follow? Will all future movies that fall into this genre be measured against this movie, both in style and content? It?s box office taking will take a lot to beat.
The movie is not just an entertaining, albeit dark, story presented with high production value and as much gritty realism as a comic-book movie can sustain. It is also part of the ongoing cultural production and reproduction of the structural imperatives of the capitalist system. A system that upon monopolizing finance capital, subjecting the power of the state to capital, the creation of criminal classes out of any minority group, the reproduction of internal racial inequality on an international level, and the legitimation of violence in keeping the lower classes divided, subservient, and 'irrational.'
The Dark Knight cashes in on the notion of capitalist dominance and the legitimate militarization of our society against these so-called insane terrorists. It comments on the society that we live in today and the problem with terrorism. It is any wonder that this movie has been such the box office draw that it has been?
Talk has now turned to the next Batman movie, and it?s expectations after the phenomena of The Dark Knight. This movie has taken $997.7 in the Worldwide box office so far, and this is not taking into consideration merchandise and DVD sales. The next in the franchise has a lot to live up to.
The Dark Knight?s executive producer has spoken publicly about the very real possibility of a sequel, and has hinted at a release date in 2011.
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