The Joker is a fictional character who appears in Christopher Nolan's 2008 superhero film The Dark Knight, based upon the DC Comics character and supervillain of the same name. He was portrayed by Australian actor Heath Ledger. A psychopathic criminal mastermind and mass murderer with a warped, sadistic sense of humor, the Joker is hired by Gotham City's mob bosses to kill the vigilante Batman (Christian Bale), and also comes into conflict with Batman's allies, Gotham police officer James Gordon (Gary Oldman) and district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). The Joker embodies themes of chaos, anarchy and obsession: throughout the film, he expresses a desire to upset the social order in Gotham through crime, and defines himself by his conflict with Batman.
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The Dark Knight is a 2008
superhero film directed, produced, and co-written by
Christopher Nolan. Based on the
DC Comics character
Batman, the film is the second installment of Nolan's
The Dark Knight Trilogy and a sequel to 2005's
Batman Begins, starring
Christian Bale and supported by
Michael Caine,
Heath Ledger,
Gary Oldman,
Aaron Eckhart,
Maggie Gyllenhaal, and
Morgan Freeman. In the film,
Bruce Wayne / Batman (Bale), Police Lieutenant
James Gordon (Oldman) and District Attorney
Harvey Dent (Eckhart) form an alliance to dismantle
organized crime in
Gotham City, but are menaced by an
anarchistic mastermind known as the
Joker (Ledger), who seeks to undermine Batman's influence and throw the city into anarchy.
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