≪다크 나이트≫에 나타난 조커 공포증과 바이러스

Abstract

Christopher Nolan, who is the director of Batman Begins, directs its sequel, The Dark Knight in 2008. When it came out, it has immediately grasped both people's tremendous interest and huge success. The reason why it could make that much of success is that Nolan created the most thoughtful Batman movie ever. Nolan's Joker has been praised for the best evil figure and the Batman is the psychologically cracked and traumatic human hero, so many psychology and philosophy scholars have done in-depth studies of the relationship between Nolan's Joker and Batman as the extremity of their doubleness. In this thesis, first of all, I would like to research about ‘fear of clown’ in order to analyze where and what generates the phobia of the Joker, after than I am able to approach psychologically the atom of evil. Secondly, I would like to study if or not the Joker is anarchist and make and introduce a new term, the Joker Virus, for defining and explaining the Joker's three distinguished evil characteristics which are unoriginality and variability, imperishability by comparing virus theory. By studying the film in these two ways, I could analyze what the origin and figure of the evil, and how it can be described effectively in the film. Then, this study will broaden the field of philosophical and psychological film analysis, especially in Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy.