December 19, 2007
Video of the Day: The Dark Knight's Gotham
The latest in the Batman canon, The Dark Knight, is poised to be next summer's blockbuster hit, and ex-Brooklynite/current Manhattanite Heath Ledger seems to be stealing the show. A trailer recently came out with plenty of focus on Ledger's Joker character, and you can watch it below (MTV also has a shot-by-shot analysis). Does he outshine Jack Nicholson's 1989 Joker? We're excited to see this new take on the crime clown.
As with 2005's Batman Begins, most of The Dark Knight's Gotham City was filmed in Chicago. According to the movie's IMDB page, Gotham City has been likened to both New York and Chicago, as well as Detroit and New Jersey. Architecturally designed after New York City, where Batman lived until 1941, this tourist map states it was created to resemble “Manhattan below 14th Street at 11 minutes past midnight on the coldest night in November.” Read more about the history of the fictional Gotham and its ties to the real New York, here.
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the last two movies have shown lower wacker drive as a prominent location for the gotham underworld.
also, i don't deny the geography is totally lower manhattan, but the city of chicago is so prominently featured in the last movie and in this upcoming one people might start to rethink the word gotham.
"the last two movies have shown lower wacker drive as a prominent location for the gotham underworld."
sorry i meant to say the last movie.
I saw the IMAX preview over the weekend and it was awesome. Six minutes of that was better than the 100 minutes of I Am Letdown.
Heath Ledger's voicing reminds me of the way Mark Hamill does it in the cartoons.
I think Ledger will surpass Jack as the best Joker on film. His laugh, the style, seems so much more on point.
Jack's joker has not held up well over the years. Too fat, too "Jack", not psychotic enough.