This article was written by Eoin O’Faolain.
Continuing in our look back on the last decade, Screenhead examines the major movie events of the year 2008.
“As mentioned in the look back on 2007, there seemed to be a dissonance between talent and money in Hollywood, with big budget movies getting critically hammered by critics and public alike. But all that changed in 2008. No one can argue that the biggest and most important film of the year was The Dark Knight. In 2005 Christopher Nolan had won back audiences, after the awful Batman and Robin, with the dark and grittier reboot Batman Begins.
Many analysts claimed that while the film performed well ($370 million worldwide), it only didn’t do better due to backlash against the previous Batman film. So by the time the teaser trailers appeared in late 2007 there was already a salivating fanbase counting the days. Rumours were circulating that Heath Ledger’s performance as Batman’s nemesis Joker was one of cinema’s finest.
When Ledger died in January 2008 (see below) the incident created a sense of foreboding relating to the character, although some felt that the death would be an incentive not to watch the film. By the time the film was released in July, it instantly started breaking box-office records left, right, and centre.”
Read this article from Screenhead.
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