SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

THE DESIGN SCHOOL

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT


NAME: LIM KAH WAH
STUDENT ID NO: 0316319
FILMS SELECTED: SPIDER-MAN 3 AND THE DARK KNIGHT
WORD COUNT: 684
ENGLISH 2 (ENGL 0205)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE CONTRAST ESSAY
LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA
SUBMISSION DATE: 18th APRIL 2014




Compare Spider-Man 3 and The Dark Knight

Superhero film, a film that always the hero will win when fight against the
enemy in the end of the movie. Superhero movie is a movie that most of the
people watch. This is because superhero film are very popular movie that most of
the people will pay for the cinema ticket and watch it in cinema to get the sound
effect and nowadays is because of 3D. When they were watching these movies
did they try to compare the movie with other superhero movie? These are the
famous superhero movie, Spider-Man 3 and The Dark Knight. These two movies
are the movie that people watch for more than one time. There are many
different between these two movies. Let discuss about it.

Spider-Man 3, directed by Sam Raimi with main character of Tobey
Maguire. This movie was very focus in the superhero and also adventure. The
story of this movie was written by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. The story of this
movie is more based on the comic book. In the other side, The Dark Knight also
known as Batman directed by Christopher Nolan and the main character is
Christian Bale. The Dark Knight is also superhero movie but it is more dramatic
when the Batman save the woman from the enemy. The story of this movie is
written by Bill Finger and the director Christopher Nolan is also story writer. In
these two movies there are no same actors playing in the role of these two movie.

In Spider-Man 3, Tobey Maguire always hide his own identity, he always
fight the enemy with his spider costume and the face are covered with costume
so no one knows who is he and his actual identity even his close friends and the
police. In The Dark Knight there are different, the Batman hide his actual identity
but the Government and police squad know who is he and they are cooperate to
fight against the enemy. The citizens only know there is a hero called Batman
that always fights against enemy with his bat costume.

The other different in these two superhero film is the number of enemy. In
Spider-Man 3, there are three enemies, Sandman, Green Goblin and the Black
Venom. The Spiderman fight three enemies in this movie. The most suffering
thing for the Spiderman is the Black Venom on his body, because the Black venom
tortured him with sticking on his body and very hard to take away from his body.
In the other side, The Dark Knight only has one enemy, Joker. Joker is a playful,
intelligent and cruel guy. Joker even tortured himself with cutting his own mouth.
Joker wanted to destroy everything in city and he kills many citizens in the city.
His actions make the whole country very worried and then the Batman allied with
police squad to take down Joker.

In Spider-Man 3, the duration for the whole move is 139 minutes and 153
minutes for The Dark Knight even the Spider-Man 3 has 3 enemies it only take 139
minutes to defeat all the enemy. For budget, Spider-Man 3 spends 250 million
and debuted with highest budget movie at that time because of the instrument
and the special graphic effect. In The Dark Knight, the budget is only 150 million.
Even these two movies has a big different amount of budget, the outcome of the
movie is almost the same, sound effect, graphic and the 3D effect. These two
movies really make everyone feel the different when they watch compare with
others superhero film.

These are the comparison of the two superhero films. For me, I prefer The
Dark Knight, Batman. This is because The Dark Knight is more interesting and the
enemy is more challenging compare to Spider-Man 3. In The Dark Knight, the
Batman are more cooperative and never fight against enemy by himself this show
that the power of cooperation. In The Dark Knight, the movie is more dramatic
and the female actress is more beautiful. That is all why I prefer The Dark Knight.