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Dark inspiration: VFX studios Double Negative, Cinesite, Framestore CFC, and BUF honor director Chris Nolan's vision for The Dark Knight.(ExTREME effects)

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The clue Warner Bros.' sixth film in the Batman franchise and director Chris Nolan's second is in the title: The Dark Knight. The Knight is Marvel Comic's Barman (Christian Bale), a crime-fighting superhero who acquires power from his armor and his weapons, not from something supernatural or alien. The "dark" is everywhere: The black comedy that emanates from Joker's (Heath Ledger) dark mind, and Batman himself riding his black-as-night motorbike, the cape on his famous costume billowing like inky smoke behind.

Critics applauded Nolan for looking deep into Bruce Wayne's troubled soul, as we followed the billionaire's evolution from ...

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