The Dark Knight Rises Deconstruction of film poster

  This film poster is completely black and white which gives us the impression instantly of dark and negativity by the main colour being black. This links to the title of the film , The 'Dark' knight rises. The main source of light in the poster is loitering over the shattered mask on the floor slightly right to the centre of the poster. This mask is obviously Batmans and that makes the audience realise that batman has obviously been hurt/beaten up by (we assume) the large/strong character walking away in the background behind Batmans shattered mask.

This is incredibly powerful as it draws the viewer into watching this movie even more. Also it is raining in the background which is another factor which adds onto the dark and negative atmosphere making the poster as evil as possible. The viewers automatically think that as Batmans mask is broken on the floor means batman has no mask to cover his face anymore indicating that his true identity has been breached (by the Bane , the character in the background). 
This makes us want to watch the film even more to find out what really happens. Bane is shown as dominant and superior as he is tall/muscular and walking away with his back to us hiding his own face/identity from the camera.

The Connotation of the poster is mainly making the audience realising batmans true identity has been found out by the evil chracter in the background that has presumably shattered batmans mask.

The Denotation of this poster is a dark/negative/evil atmosphere with a shattered batman mask on the ground with (presumably) a villain walking away in the background.

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