Okay, here we go! Make we arrange this fight like two big ogbonge film wey jam chest!
Dark Knight vs. Avengers: Endgame
One change how superhero film dey be forever. The other one change the whole money game for cinema. Na like serious rough street gist against wahala wey come from space. Wahala wey get plan vs. Wahala with one big green guy. Make the fight start!
Cinema Money and Film Power
The Dark Knight (2008):
E make over $1 billio! E no just be film wey make money e be like alarm wey wake pipu up. Sharp sharp, superhero film no need to be only about tight cloth and happy face again. This film open road for mature, deep deep thinking superhero. Even if you add change for how money don change over time, e still stand gidigba pass plenty film wey dey come out now. And unlike the other guy, e no need like 20 small small film or five different film jam before am, and e no get animal wey dey talk.
Avengers: Endgame (2019):
This one no just be film. Na like party wey dem do for ten years straight, na like multi-billion-dollar group hug for MCU fans. With $2.798 billio wey e make worldwide, e wear the crown for film wey make plenty money pass for small time. Correct! E make money pass some whole kontri self. Endgame money success no be just about money wey e make, na like whole kain economy event.
Winner: Avengers: Endgame
If na money we dey talk, Endgame na the Thanos of box office you no fit stop am.
How Film Critics See Am and Awards Wey Dem Win
The Dark Knight:
Rotten Tomatoes score? 94%! Confirm correct! Heath Ledger as Joker? Na baba level! E even win Oscar after e don kpai, and the film too good, e ginger the people wey dey give award to expand the space for Best Picture award. Film school pipu dey tear am open like book, dey learn about how dem write the story, how dem shoot am, everything!
Avengers: Endgame:
E self get 94% for Rotten Tomatoes, fans and critics like as e deep and the end pepper. But make we no lie e no even smell Best Picture award side. Na more like big time party for film lovers wey don follow the story for long.
Winner: The Dark Knight
Ledger alone don carry this one well, e dance comot for nurse cloth. Wetin the film achieve for award palaver, nobody fit argue am.
How E Shake The World: Joker Laugh vs. The Snap Wey Everybody Hear
The Dark Knight: No be just film e change the style of film. This film make superhero film cool for pipu wey wear coat and smoke like intellectuals. Film like Logan, Skyfall, The Batman, and plenty plenty brooding vigilante film wey come after am, all of dem copy am small small. Joker memes wey pipu dey use for internet no go ever finish, and that line “Why so serious?” e possible say half of the pipu for Tumblr don draw am for body like tattoo.
Avengers: Endgame: WhateverItTakes! Everybody sabi where dem dey when Captain America carry Mjölnir! Na like joint feeling for everybody pipu cry, shout, and dey vex if pesin spoil the film for dem. The film still be the example wey other film universe dey try copy (and dem no too dey get am).
Winner: The Dark Knight
Endgame gather fans for one weekend. Dark Knight change how dem dey make film forever.
Acting: One Pesin Madness vs. Team Sacrificing
The Dark Knight:
Heath Ledger no just act Joker na him turn to am! Na one of the most fear fear, you no sabi wetin e go do next, and e dey hold eye acting for film history. Christian Bale with him gravelly Batman voice self stand well, and the actors wey follow dem support (Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman) na lesson for how to do supporting role well.
Avengers: Endgame:
Robert Downey Jr. give us one kain sad, soft way to comot as Iron Man. Chris Evans give Captain America the dance wey we no even sabi say we need. But with many many characters like that, e hard for one pesin acting to too shine unless you dey cry because of cartoon animal.
Winner: The Dark Knight
Ledger no just steal the show. E burn am down with petrol and waka comot without looking back.
Direction and How Dem Shoot Am: Make Am Feel Real vs. Change Everything
The Dark Knight:
Christopher Nolan make Gotham feel like Chicago after dem give am one kain dark, criminal makeover and hire Batman as the security man. With big big camera shots, real real effects, and plenty plenty grit, Nolan make one serious big film wey feel real, like crime thriller but with people for mask.
Avengers: Endgame:
The Russo brothers manage like 30 plus heroes, time travel, three different different times, and one purple alien wey think say na God and dem make am work! But the way the film visual dey, na with plenty computer work and green cloth everywhere. The tin big no be small, but the fine fine work na more like just show show pass proper style.
Winner: The Dark Knight
Nolan handprint dey everywhere for the film. The Russo Bros do wetin pipu think say no possible. Nolan make wetin no possible feel like say e dey happen for real.
Film Wey Come After and Wetin E Leave
The Dark Knight:
Na part of three film wey solid like rock, like say even The Godfather respect am. No bad film inside. Batman Begins build the foundation, The Dark Knight build the big house, and The Dark Knight Rises be like the small small shaking pool for top house.
Avengers: Endgame:
Na the real end of one whole time! Everything wey come after am feel like small small story wey come out from am. Endgame na the main big work for MCU. To do film after am be like say you wan make your birthday party better pass your wedding.
Winner: The Dark Knight
One trilogy wey sabi when to stop and comot. The MCU film saga still dey go, sometimes e dey spoil their legacy small small.
Deep Meaning and How Dem Tell Story
The Dark Knight:
Na like Shakespeare story with fine fine toy. E dey ask: Wetin be true justice? How far you fit go for good tin? Wetin go happen when wahala win? E make you think deep, e get many many layer, and e still make sense for this our time wey we dey.
Avengers: Endgame:
The matter of pain, giving up for others, and starting fresh enter well well, especially with Tony Stark story. But make we talk true the time travel tin get hole wey fit swallow person. E full of feeling, but the story line, na just say dem try make it work.
Winner: The Dark Knight
The Joker no believe in plan, but Nolan clearly get plan! And you fit see am for the film.
How Many Times You Fit Watch Am Again
The Dark Knight:
Every line wey dem talk, every part of the film, every time dem dey question each other and dem just dey stare e just dey make sense well well even the fifth time you watch am, just like the first time. You fit dey quote am steady and e get deep meaning.
Avengers: Endgame:
The part where the door open and pipu just dey come out, na wetin make you fit watch am again and again. But apart from the big big moments, some other parts just feel like say dem just put am there to full space between the parts wey fans go like.
Winner: Tie
Endgame for the fans wey follow the story. Dark Knight for pipu wey like proper fine film. Different reason, but the same popcorn go finish.
The Last Word: And the Winner Na,
The Dark Knight!
Why? Because even though Avengers: Endgame fit be one big historic event, The Dark Knight na one historic film!
E change how dem dey do film for that style, e make critics and normal pipu respect am, and e give us one bad guy wey you no fit forget, even Marvel fans dey admire him for secret.
Endgame na the grand finale of one big show. The Dark Knight na the kind of film wey dem go put inside tin wey dem go bury for ground make future pipu see, and dem go teach am for school wey dem dey learn film.
Plus, make we talk true. Even if you open all the door for this world, e no fit pass the way pencil disappear!
You want more fight like this? Capes, claws, and chaos we just start! Just siddon look, you wey like film too much. The film battle ground never finish!
Key Points
- The Dark Knight scatter ground! E make pass $1 billio for everywhere for 2008, e just con show world say serious superhero film no be only play play again.
- Avengers: Endgame no send! E just scatter nearly all the record for cinema money, make $2.798 billio and con join 11 years of MCU gist like one big party!
- Heath Ledger Joker, ah, that one na confirm baba for bad guy level for film! Na so e good reach, e win Oscar even after e don comot for this world.
- Robert Downey Jr. wey act Iron Man for Endgame, the way him story end, ah! E give fans one kind emotional goodbye wey you no fit forget for all the big film wey don comot!
- The way Nolan handle Dark Knight, make am feel like real street gist, that style ginger many many other superhero film wey come out after am to go dark and serious.
- For Endgame, dem need to carry like many many characters and their different different wahala for head, e make am one of the craziest film wey get plenty actors and story wey dem gather togeda.
- Pipu dey believe strong strong say na because dem do Dark Knight wayo for Best Picture award, na why the people wey dey give Oscar con say dem go add more film to the list from that time.
- Endgame success depend well well on bringing back old memories and small small hints from before, e be like sweet love letter to fans wey don dey with Marvel since mama born pikin.
- Dark Knight stand alone, e just make sense as one film, but Endgame na the final answer, the biggest prize for pipu wey follow the whole film universe for years.
- If you look am well for film side, Nolan film be like tight rope wey get heavy lesson for inside; Endgame na like one big final concert wey everything just jam togeda based on wetin dey touch pipu heart.
Fun Facts
- Imagine! Heath Ledger go lock himself for hotel room like six weeks straight, just dey form the Joker voice, how e dey waka, and that him mad man brain wey like wahala! Na serious work o!
- Guess wetin? For Endgame, na only Robert Downey Jr. them show the correct full script from front to back! All other actors, dem just get piece piece, dem cover some parts! Dem no trust dem? Haha!
- Dark Knight come change the game for how dem dey shoot big film! E be like the first major film wey use that ogbonge big IMAX camera, e just scatter the old style!
- See baff up! That famous line “I am Iron Man” for Endgame, dem just add am when dem con dey shoot some scenes again sharp sharp, just few months to when the film drop! E no dey for the first original script o!
- Christian Bale no dey fear! Many of the dangerous jumps and running wey e do as Batman, na him do am himself! Including when e dey scatter street with motor bike for Gotham chase scene! Baba!
- The Russo Brothers use that computer magic (CGI) to make many characters for Endgame old or young back like when dem show old Cap and young young Hank Pym. Na winch work!
- Heath Ledger even get one kain diary wey e just dey draw crazy things and write bad bad thoughts inside, just to make sure say him brain no comot from Joker mode. E deep like well!
- That final big fight for Endgame wey everybody like, e take dem nearly one whole year just to plan am well well and draw everything out on paper before dem even carry camera! E no easy o!
- Listen! That time wey the hospital explode for Dark Knight, na real explosion o! And because of how much money e cost and the wahala to arrange am, dem only get one chance to get am right! No room for mistake!
- Tony Stark fine pikin girl, Morgan, she no suppose dey for the movie at all o! Dem just put her there because of wetin Robert Downey Jr. dey feel and experience as real life correct papa. Awwwn!
- Michael Caine wey be correct actor, e shock am! As e see Ledger doing the Joker tin for real for the first time, e just forget all his lines for their first scene! That Joker level too high!
- Chris Evans self no hold back! E shed tears when e dey shoot him last scenes as Captain America for Endgame, e just sabi say na the end of one big chapter for him life and for the film world. E emotional sha.
- That kain way Joker dey always lick him lips wey make am unique for Dark Knight, e no follow script o! Na Heath Ledger just dey do am sharp sharp so that the fake mark dem put for him face no shift. Smart move!
- You know that scene for Endgame where dem dey try explain how time travel work? Dem just use that time make serious jest of other films wey don talk about time travel! Na the writers plan am make pipu wey sabi the films laugh small!
- The script for Dark Knight smart! E no put plenty gist about the Joker past, just to keep am like one big mystery! Him story of how e become like that? Na just scatter scatter, no clear answer.
