Story Analysis: Batman Watchmen, the Dark Knight Return and Dark Knight Film

STORY ANALYSIS: BATMAN
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(December 15, 2011)
Story Analysis: Batman Watchmen, the Dark Knight Return and Dark Knight Film
For the purpose of this assignment I will analyze the stories The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen both were published in the same year and are comical books. In both stories are sophisticated and has high quality stories with evidence of originalities of the Dark Age. Although it is believed that The Dark Knight Return copied sophistication and quality from Watchmen, The Dark Knight Return story is based on Bruce Wayne who was a billionaire at the time he was being featured in the book. The book represent his ten years in retirement which is termed as his second life as “Batman”. As a Batman he used to roam at roof tops and streets of Gatham city during the night with an intention of fighting crime (Miller, 2011). While, his long time friend Jim Gordon is about to retire as the Gang Mutants are wreaking havoc in the city and Harvey Dent is who is also his about to be released from psychiatric institution.
Both stories The Dark Knight Return and Watchmen share similarities of retired heroes returning to action as well as aging which is evident in both stories. The superheroes in the stories are outlawed and the central characters are very brutal and violent. It is also evident that they are psychologically damaged in both stories and as the superheros on earth they are working hard to the president of the United States. The aspect of being in position of controlling people is addressed in both stories such that people should always be having leaders who take charge of their lives and controls them. Such controls are done through governed structures which ensure that there are rules to be adhered to in both stories. The main challenge is how those who are being lead are controlled to ensure they adhere to the rules. In Watchman and The Dark Knight Return the reader can witness violence as people try to defy the rules being set by being gangs who are terrorizing and stealing from people in the cities this are the main challenges which the heroes had to control in the societies they were living to ensure that they co-exist peacefully.
However, Watchman is being limited by three issues which are intelligent cinematic art layout and design, ambivalent and nuanced means of understanding role of humanity and good writing. This is contrast to the characters which are in The Dark Knight Return which are inscrutable and motiveless. In the story The Dark Knight Return the characters and inscrutable and motiveless, the villains in Watchmen demonstrates the understanding of humanity and even characters of justifiable motives. The hero’s do not have any form of personality or motive they are just killing people senselessly and just act as the plot demand them to do. The story does not provide a clear indication on why the batman behaves the way he does yet being a billionaire he does dress up like a bat and end up beating people while there are other meaningful things he could be doing in the world despite of living a life of traumatizing other people and damaging properties.
As a superhero he had psychological problems as compared to Moore’s depictions on human motivations. This is the point which the author had to provide explanations on their psychological effects. The author has documented that the parents were liberal just like him. This provides a better understanding of his character but it’s not yet evidence on what...