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UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE SANTIAGO DE GUAYAQUIL

FACULTAD DE ARTES Y HUMANIDADES

CENTRO DE IDIOMAS EXTRANJEROS

TUTORIAL PROJECT

READING WORKSHOP

name:ERNESTO MONCADA 

INSTRUCTIONS.

I Title

Batman Begins

II Author’s Biography (research about him)

Christopher Nola Biography

Born to an English father and an American mother, Christopher Nolan began at an early age making movies with 8mm camera from his father, although his slight blindness. His short film ' Tarantella ' is distributed in the United States when he was a student of literature at the University of London.

In the mid- 90s, 16 mm wheel in two short films , followed by his first film on a shoestring with an intimate budget and in black and white FOLLOWING. Their success at various festivals lets you, two years later, ' Memento '. With an ingenious construction (a series of flashbacks), which also earned him an Oscar nomination, ' Memento ' is admired in the world. Nolan is then courted by large corporations and in 2002 went to Al Pacino and Robin Williams in ' Insomnia '. The film was a critical and commercial success.

Endowed with an original artistic sense, is responsible for managing the new adventures of Batman, Batman Begins (2005). Trying to restore the hero, darker and more troubled than ever. He chose Christian Bale to play the character, and returns to work with the actor in his sixth feature film, ' The Prestige ', a thriller repesenting the struggle between two wizards in the twentieth century.

Christopher Nolan began focusing on ' The Dark Knight ', after Batman Begins, which opposes the superhero’s nemesis, the Joker. The film is immersed in a dark unusual for this genus. This however did not prevent him achieve an exceptional start to the United States raising over 155 million dollars in a weekend.

His latest film "Origin (Inception) ' combines suspense and science fiction in a world where reality has several dimensions.

III Setting

The movie takes place mainly in Gotham City, which is where Bruce Wayne grew up.  Wayne Enterprises is located in the center of the city.  There is a train that goes through the city that Thomas, Bruce's dad, built to provide cheap public transportation throughout the city.  There are many skyscrapers throughout the city.  The city is an island with bridges that connect the island to the mainland.  These bridges can go up and down.

Bruce also travels around the world acting as a criminal to learn more about how criminals think and work.  He also spends a lot of time in Tibet training with the League of Shadows.

IV Characterization

1. Main Characters (describe each one)

1.Bruce Wayne

Batman’s secret identity is Bruce Wayne, a billionaire businessman and philanthropist of Gotham City. After witnessing the murder of his parents as a child, he swears revenge and combat crime for which it is subjected to rigorous physical and mental training. Adopts the design of a bat for their clothing, their utensils and combat vehicles. Unlike superheroes, you do not have superpowers, uses his intellect, as well as science and technology to create weapons and tools with which applications carries out its activities. Wayne lives in the mansion, whose underground is the Batcaver, the headquarters of Batman.

2. Ra’s al Ghul

Is a fictional character from DC Comics supervillain and enemy of Batman  Its name in Arabic means " the demon's head ." It was created by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams, his first appearance was in Batman N ° 232 ( June 1971) .

1. Secondary Characters (only named them)

• Rachel Dawes(Katie Holmes)
• Hemi Ducard(Liam Neeson)
• Michael Caine (Alfred)
• Cillian Murphy (Espantapajaros)
• Morgan Freeman (Lucius Fox)
• Gary Oldman (James Gordon)

V Plot and Structure

It is a British-American superhero film based on the Batman character in DC Comics, released in 2005. It was co - written and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, RutgerHauer, Ken Watanabe and Morgan Freeman. The film reboots the Batman film series, telling the origin story of the title character, from initial bats of his alter ego Bruce Wayne fear, the death of his parents and his journey to become Batman, until his fight to prevent Ra's al Ghul and the Scarecrow destroy Gotham. It is inspired by classic comic book storylines as The Falling Man, Batman: Year One and Batman: The Long Halloween.

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