Where is the praise for Aaron Eckhart?
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nathaliaSunday, July 27
6:19pm
Where is the praise for Aaron Eckhart?
I hate critiquing a movie in one take because I have to think about everything and so I can't focus on one thing in particular which is why I'll do it in many parts unless I get bored of it before I'm done.
Everything I had heard about the movie as of now was how awesome it was. I was almost annoyed at the amount of praise Heath Ledger was getting. His performance is stellar but I think that people who see the movie focus on him because he is dead. Would ha have been this universally praised had he not died?
Don't get me wrong, I loved it but I feel that I should have heard many more people saying how fantastic Arron Eckhart was as Harvey "Two-Face" Dent. He did an amazing job. I understand that he doesn't need as much critical praise or attention as Ledger because although he is a fantastic actor as well, he is alive and well and will do many more projects while this was the end of Ledger's very interesting career that ended after his death.
I was amazed at Eckhart's performance. He starts out as a cocky, ambitious man, a rival to Bruce Wayne in the affection of Rachel Dawes. He cares about her more than anything and the scene where he keeps telling her that they will get her and not him is simply incredible as is his descent into madness that I followed in awe. It was totally believable that he was so much in love with Rachel that it would send him over the edge.
I had not expected Harvey or Two-Face to be featured this heavily in this movie; I thought they were setting him up for the villain in the next part (I strayed away from spoilers or trailers or just about anything; in fact, I almost missed that Heath Ledger had died in doing so) and I loved it. I loved that not Batman was the better man but Harvey and that the Joker saw that and therefore decided to break him.
It shows that not everything in Gotham is about Batman. That Batman is simply a part of Gotham, her self-declared defender. But he isn't the only one. There are others like Jim Gordon and Harvey Dent and Harvey was the most ambitious, idealistic and this is why he was so dangerous when he went over the edge.
I enjoyed the idea that he didn't leave anything up to fate, making his own luck by tossing a two-faced coin and contiuing to use it but due to the lack of reason, the chance that factors into anything, he decides that everything is about fate and he can't do anything about it. I don't think it's exactly like this in Two-Face's actual origin but I loved it and how it was integrated into the movie instead of having an origin movie for it. It was fitted into the storyline in a fantastic, admirable way.
I enjoyed the portrayal of Dent as Gotham's ultimate hero and his legacy having to live on by all means necessary, something both Gordon and Batman realize. And if that means making sacrifices, then that's how it will be done...
tags: 2008, london, movies, dc, comics, alphasmart
6:19pm
Where is the praise for Aaron Eckhart?
I hate critiquing a movie in one take because I have to think about everything and so I can't focus on one thing in particular which is why I'll do it in many parts unless I get bored of it before I'm done.
Everything I had heard about the movie as of now was how awesome it was. I was almost annoyed at the amount of praise Heath Ledger was getting. His performance is stellar but I think that people who see the movie focus on him because he is dead. Would ha have been this universally praised had he not died?
Don't get me wrong, I loved it but I feel that I should have heard many more people saying how fantastic Arron Eckhart was as Harvey "Two-Face" Dent. He did an amazing job. I understand that he doesn't need as much critical praise or attention as Ledger because although he is a fantastic actor as well, he is alive and well and will do many more projects while this was the end of Ledger's very interesting career that ended after his death.
I was amazed at Eckhart's performance. He starts out as a cocky, ambitious man, a rival to Bruce Wayne in the affection of Rachel Dawes. He cares about her more than anything and the scene where he keeps telling her that they will get her and not him is simply incredible as is his descent into madness that I followed in awe. It was totally believable that he was so much in love with Rachel that it would send him over the edge.
I had not expected Harvey or Two-Face to be featured this heavily in this movie; I thought they were setting him up for the villain in the next part (I strayed away from spoilers or trailers or just about anything; in fact, I almost missed that Heath Ledger had died in doing so) and I loved it. I loved that not Batman was the better man but Harvey and that the Joker saw that and therefore decided to break him.
It shows that not everything in Gotham is about Batman. That Batman is simply a part of Gotham, her self-declared defender. But he isn't the only one. There are others like Jim Gordon and Harvey Dent and Harvey was the most ambitious, idealistic and this is why he was so dangerous when he went over the edge.
I enjoyed the idea that he didn't leave anything up to fate, making his own luck by tossing a two-faced coin and contiuing to use it but due to the lack of reason, the chance that factors into anything, he decides that everything is about fate and he can't do anything about it. I don't think it's exactly like this in Two-Face's actual origin but I loved it and how it was integrated into the movie instead of having an origin movie for it. It was fitted into the storyline in a fantastic, admirable way.
I enjoyed the portrayal of Dent as Gotham's ultimate hero and his legacy having to live on by all means necessary, something both Gordon and Batman realize. And if that means making sacrifices, then that's how it will be done...
tags: 2008, london, movies, dc, comics, alphasmart
