{"id":2797,"date":"2008-07-21T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2008-07-21T16:05:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T16:05:41","slug":"the-dark-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2797","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p height=\"344\" width=\"425\">\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"width\" value=\"425\" \/><param name=\"height\" value=\"344\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q8PPh-C9pRU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q8PPh-C9pRU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Saw the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thedarkknight.warnerbros.com\/\"><strong>The Dark Knight<\/strong> <\/a>yesterday.<strong> Heath Ledger&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0performance lived up to the hype, arguably the best\u00a0movie villain since Hannibal Lecter in <strong><em>The Silence of the Lambs<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0but Ledger\u00a0made an otherwise strong cast look weak by comparison, except for <strong>Gary\u00a0Oldman&#8217;s<\/strong> understated, just an honest cop, rendition of Commissioner Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>While having the <strong>Joker<\/strong> as the point of origin was a nice touch, I thought that the character of<strong> Twoface<\/strong>, one of Batman&#8217;s major villains,\u00a0might have been handled better by compacting the story and leaving a full exploration of Dent&#8217;s mad descent for the next movie in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw the The Dark Knight yesterday. Heath Ledger&#8217;s\u00a0performance lived up to the hype, arguably the best\u00a0movie villain since Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs,\u00a0but Ledger\u00a0made an otherwise strong cast look weak by comparison, except for Gary\u00a0Oldman&#8217;s understated, just an honest cop, rendition of Commissioner Gordon. While having the Joker as the point of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}