The Dark Knight vs. Se7en
Did you know that the 2008 superhero thriller The Dark Knight is the same story as another movie with Morgan Freeman in a major role? That's right. Seven. This is why they are the same.
An unidentified psychopath (John Doe; the Joker) commits atrocious murders to teach the public skewed lessons on morality (Doe creatively murders people according to the Seven Deadly Sins of Christianity; Joker lives to foil people's plans). He leaves clues for the police to follow his trail (Doe writes the name of the Deadly Sin next to his victims; the police's attempts to stop Joker's plans ironically enable them to happen). An older character (William Somerset; Alfred Pennyworth) tries to advise the main character (David Mills; Bruce Wayne/Batman) to stay within the law during his pursuit of the villain. However, the villain wants the hero to kill him (Doe goads Mills into kill him in order for him to embody the sin of wrath; Joker tries to provoke Batman into killing him to prove that there's no difference between the two of them). Meanwhile, an idealistic law enforcement officer (Mills; Harvey Dent/Two-Face) recklessly takes the law into his own hands (Mills invades Doe's home to acquire evidence against him, but all he finds is hundreds of journals containing evidence of Doe's insanity; Dent interrogates a suspect with a gun and a coin toss to see whether he lives or dies, but Batman informs him that the suspect is a paranoid schizophrenic with now knowledge on the Joker). At a critical point in the story, the villain hands himself over to the police (Doe shows up at the police station covered in blood and demands to be taken to the middle of nowhere; Joker surrenders to the GCPD and demands a phone call), and while in custody, kills the less reasonable protagonist's wife (Doe beheads Mills' wife out of envy and presents her head in a box; Joker blows up two warehouses, disfiguring Dent and killing his fiancée, Rachel Dawes). In the end, the weaker protagonist gives in to his darker emotions and descends to the villain's level (Doe commits suicide by cop, completing the sin list; Dent goes on an extrajudicial killing spree, ending with him getting killed by Batman, who takes the blame for Dent's crimes and goes on the run).
It's the same story!
An unidentified psychopath (John Doe; the Joker) commits atrocious murders to teach the public skewed lessons on morality (Doe creatively murders people according to the Seven Deadly Sins of Christianity; Joker lives to foil people's plans). He leaves clues for the police to follow his trail (Doe writes the name of the Deadly Sin next to his victims; the police's attempts to stop Joker's plans ironically enable them to happen). An older character (William Somerset; Alfred Pennyworth) tries to advise the main character (David Mills; Bruce Wayne/Batman) to stay within the law during his pursuit of the villain. However, the villain wants the hero to kill him (Doe goads Mills into kill him in order for him to embody the sin of wrath; Joker tries to provoke Batman into killing him to prove that there's no difference between the two of them). Meanwhile, an idealistic law enforcement officer (Mills; Harvey Dent/Two-Face) recklessly takes the law into his own hands (Mills invades Doe's home to acquire evidence against him, but all he finds is hundreds of journals containing evidence of Doe's insanity; Dent interrogates a suspect with a gun and a coin toss to see whether he lives or dies, but Batman informs him that the suspect is a paranoid schizophrenic with now knowledge on the Joker). At a critical point in the story, the villain hands himself over to the police (Doe shows up at the police station covered in blood and demands to be taken to the middle of nowhere; Joker surrenders to the GCPD and demands a phone call), and while in custody, kills the less reasonable protagonist's wife (Doe beheads Mills' wife out of envy and presents her head in a box; Joker blows up two warehouses, disfiguring Dent and killing his fiancée, Rachel Dawes). In the end, the weaker protagonist gives in to his darker emotions and descends to the villain's level (Doe commits suicide by cop, completing the sin list; Dent goes on an extrajudicial killing spree, ending with him getting killed by Batman, who takes the blame for Dent's crimes and goes on the run).
It's the same story!
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