Day 1: The Dark Knight

[John Conley]

What makes this Dark Knight Opening Scene great for me is the story that the sequence tells the audience. The story of the Introduction of a Strategic Villain.

Scene Arc: From the kick off of the heist to the reveal of our Villain who cleverly gets away with ALL of the money.

Situation: A bank heist where each of the member are assigned to kill one another off after the completion of their special task.

Conflict: The Bank Manager, protecting the money.

Moving the story forward: A bank is robbed by the Joker, now Batman has to go after him.

Entertainment Value: Each killing off the other.

Setups/Payoffs: The Joker as mentioned in the car on the way to the bank. Payoff, we meet the Joker as the last member of the team of bank robbers.

Intro to World: A Lawless Gotham City where Villains were clown makeup underneath a clown mask.

Lead Character Intro: The Joker and his iconic flip of a cliché: What doesnt kill ya, only makes you stranger.

2nd Time

Challenging Situation: Robbing a bank.

Intrigue: Which Robber is going to survive and will he be killed off by the Joker?

Interesting Action: The Bank Robbers killing off one another, and a Bank Manager wielding a shotgun.

Intriguing Dialogue: Allowing a line of dialogue: (I know why they call him the Joker.) to lead us into the Next Scene, & the line of dialogue: (Why do they call him the Joker?) AND
Flipping the cliché: (I believe what doesnt kill you only makes you stranger.)

Tone: Dark and playful.

Lures us into the story: The killing off of one another.

Twist at conclusion of the scene: We meet the Joker. He's been on the heist from the start.

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