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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh and American actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
The movie opens with a car chase between Batman and Robin and the Joker and Harley Quinn after the Joker stole an expensive piece of art from the museum. After a while Joker and Harley get out and Batman chases Harley while telling Robin to go after Joker. Robin manages to catch up to Joker and tells him to hand over the painting Joker steps back and when Robin runs at him Joker puts out a pistol and shoots Robin in the face. Years later in 2014 Bruce is retired and now Gotham is flooded with crime. Meanwhile Jim Gordan is having trouble with a new crime organization calling themselves the League of Assassins that came to Gotham 4 months ago and are already on top of organized crime in Gotham. During Robin's funeral Bruce told Jim that he is Batman and is retiring so knowing that Jim goes to Bruce and asks him to be Batman once again. Bruce says no the first few times but after him home is broken into by an assassin named Deathstroke Bruce decides to become the caped crusader once again. The movie goes on with Batman trying to stop the league while fighting Deathstroke their best trained assassin. Bruce eventually defeats Deathstroke who still gets away and finds the leader of the League Ras Al Ghul and his daughter Talia. Bruce fights Ras in the spirit world and eventually takes him down. Bruce gets the League to leave Gotham but before that Talia spends the night with Bruce.
