It was great. By Adrienne Tyler Published Mar 01, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Related Topics SR Originals the dark knight. Then he had Grumpy place the money in an area too close to the doorway so the bus would run him over. The Joker is using a customized selective-fire Glock 18 which is a 9mm handgun with an extended 31 rounds with standard floorplate, 33 with extended, the normal for this magazine is extended magazine, since the weapon fires full-auto. He uses this handgun in several scenes; it appears to be his gun of choice.
The Joker wields this handgun in the bank heist, on the semi trailer in the convoy chase, at the money burning pile, and in the hospital it is attached with a silencer in this scene. The gun the Joker uses in the convoy chase scene, when he gets out of the truck yelling "Hit me! There is only one real Batman. The other ones are a gang of vigilantes who are inspired by Batman, which is why they wear goalie pads and use guns instead of gadgets. When the Joker is trying to draw Batman out, he starts killing these would-be followers of the Dark Knight.
These impostor "Batmen" were likely inspired by the "Sons of the Batman" a violent vigilante gang featured in Frank Miller's graphic novel, The Dark Knight Returns that formed from a larger gang called The Mutants that splintered after Batman defeated their leader in hand-to-hand combat.
The pencil penetrated through one of the thug's eyes although this is not explicitly shown , as the vulnerable eye is the only possible "point of entry" for the pencil to make an instant kill. Death would result from either the force of the eyeball, the pencil, or both breaking the bone directly behind the eye socket and forcing it into the brain; alternatively, the pencil itself could have penetrated straight through to the brain.
Then again, for moviegoers who can't suspend their disbelief, the pencil itself could have been one of the Joker's deadly props.
The Joker, throughout the character's history, has always had a supply of normally harmless items turned deadly, such as playing cards that are razor-sharp and flowers that squirt acid. The present Joker proves to have the same fondness for malicious gadgets right from the beginning, when he sticks a gas grenade in the bank manager's mouth.
This seems especially plausible given that an ordinary pencil could not be jammed into a table, as the Joker does, without the pencil breaking and thus no longer able to stand up for the Joker's "trick". The secret garage is not connected to the penthouse. Instead it's located underneath a shipping dock owned by Wayne Enterprises.
Even though it's not a canon part of the Nolanverse, Louise Simonson's novelization of the animated Batman: Gotham Knight provides a reasonable explanation of how Bruce was able to modify his penthouse apartment in The Dark Knight boldface added for emphasis : Despite a recent effort by an ex-CEO to take the company public while Bruce was out of the country and presumed missing, Bruce had managed to buy up the majority of the stock.
He continued to own the controlling shares in Wayne Enterprises, which had given him a great deal of leeway when it came to remodeling the corporate headquarters. The Wayne Enterprises building took up an entire city block. It rose in art-deco splendor into the skies of Gotham, just as splendid, in its way, as the taller Aparo Tower. It was one of Gotham's indespensable hubs of financial power and a vital center for public transportation.
Half of its first floor and basement level was a nexus for subway, monorail, and commuter train lines. The building had been badly damaged during the violence that followed the recent outbreak at Arkham. Wayne had used the excuse of much-needed repairs to install a private elevator that ran from his office, through the basement, and into the subbasement level that housed the newly refurbished Applied Sciences Division.
Where does the richest man in Gotham move when his house burns down? For Bruce Wayne, the answer was easy - find the priciest luxury tower in town and buy the entire top two floors. With seven bedrooms, six baths, marble flown in from Italian rockyards, two ballrooms, and panoramic city views, Wayne's new residence represents the ultimate in city living.
Wayne Industries is using the apartment to test out radical new technologies for home use. It's a "digital home" where your every whim - from music to lighting to video and games -- can be granted via fingertip access points. Wayne gutted the interior and invested millions in a renovation. And today was the move-in date.
Curiosity seekers and photographers jostled for a view as Bruce Wayne moved his belongings - thinned out from the fire -- into the penthouse suite at Gotham Century Towers. Two of Gambol's men place the Joker's body on the pool table. The other three were escorting the men who supposedly "killed" the Joker. When the Joker jumps up from the table, we see him reach out with both arms, obviously killing the two men who put him on the table by stabbing them.
This then raises the question as to how he stabbed both of them and managed to get a perfectly clean knife up to Gambol's mouth.
But let's not forget that the Joker carries multiple knives at all times and that he is very fast, as he managed to get the upper hand on Batman twice in the film.
The Joker explains that he will let one of the three remaining thugs from Gambol's gang join his gang. Gambol's men are shoved to the ground, and as they recover, they all look at the broken cue, then at each other. He who is the first to grab the pool cue and kill the other two gets to work for the Joker. While later scenes give no additional insight into what happens offscreen, it's generally accepted that the term "try-outs" when used in most contexts e. The Joker has his blade in Gambol's mouth, threatening to cut his cheeks.
And presumably he does, off camera. There is a belief among some fans that you can't die from having your cheek slashed, but it is possible; laceration of the face was listed as a cause of death in the infamous Black Dahlia murder. The shock and blood loss could cause death. It's also possible that the Joker got carried away and went beyond cutting Gambol's cheeks. Since the murder happened off camera, we don't know.
On the other hand some suggested that Gambol did not die at all. Batman uses some sort of hydraulic hand device to snap the gun. If you listen, you can hear a mechanical noise as Batman bends the barrel of the gun.
He also uses this same device on Scarecrow's van. He tries to rip a hole in the side in an attempt to apprehend the villain. After the device jams, Batman is slammed into a wall and Scarecrow almost escapes.
Batman then jumps onto his van from a few stories up, and crushes it. He captures and ties up the Scarecrow, his henchmen, and the fake Batmen.
This is the only time we see this device used, as he gets a new suit shortly after. Batman is able to deploy his cape partially, just enough to slow the fall and prevent serious injury. Because he is holding Rachel, he breaks her fall, too. Since the room isn't soundproof, the Joker could have simply lured someone to him by making a ruckus like trying to break the glass, for example and start talking to whomever is on the other side of the window. Not to mention, with shards of broken glass everywhere, there was a much higher risk of him possibly harming himself, which the Joker clearly isn't afraid to do, given the smile on his face.
It isn't a knife. It was a piece of glass from the two-way mirror that broke when Batman slammed the Joker's head into it. It's far too large to be concealed in a shoe, and it has an extremely reflective surface facing out. Out of Gordon's unit, he was the only one Gordon truly trusted.
Stephens was the one who checked the vitals on Gordon after he was shot by the Joker. Therefore, he knew Gordon wasn't dead. If he were corrupt, he likely would have told Maroni that Gordon's death was faked. Gordon also trusted Stephens to guard the Joker in the interrogation room.
But Stephens let his temper get the better of him, and the Joker was able to take him hostage to escape. It's possible that the bombs were remotely activated only after Batman and the cops were seen rushing out of the Major Crimes Unit.
Hence, the Joker's claims about having "only minutes left" may have been instructions to his men to detonate both bombs if they didn't see Batman or the police rapidly leaving the building by a certain time. Also, they may have been told to detonate the bomb for whichever building the police arrived at, before they entered. The timers on the bombs may have just been a fail-safe, had Batman tried to locate and neutralize any spotters, he wouldn't have had time to rescue whichever target he went after.
It's also possible that the Joker didn't truly know that it wasn't possible for the police to rescue the other hostage, but was simply intending to make Batman have to choose to only rescue one of them personally. Given the abilities of Batman's vehicles, it wouldn't be unreasonable for him to assume that Batman would make better time than the police, and thus waited to reveal his hand until after it was likely that no police cars could make either location in sufficient time.
Not exactly. While the film tries to keep the characters relatively realistic, it still requires us to suspend our disbelief. The left side of Dent's face is soaked in diesel fuel, which is ignited, completely burning and charring the skin on the left side of his face.
His left eyelid is completely burned away as well as most of his cheek, exposing his jaw muscles and the inside of his mouth. This is the unrealistic part: burns that deep would need more prolonged exposure to heat than what would be provided by a thin layer of accelerant on the skin, especially given the fact that Batman was present to pat out the flames. While there are no vital arteries to be destroyed, he would be in an unimaginable amount of pain.
Given the pain, grief and trauma Harvey suffers, it's not difficult to imagine him going insane. Harvey's internal battle, as depicted in the comic books, is the battle between his evil, revenge-driven half and his sane, compassionate half, hence his new name, Two-Face. While a person could reasonably survive the burning, it is worth noting that it is not possible to leave the muscles and eyeballs exposed without the tissue becoming highly infected and necrotic dying.
Immediate surgery and skin would have been required. Harvey also makes facial expressions that are not possible, since his muscles are so badly damaged. It's also not possible for him to speak as clearly as he does, since half his lips and cheek are missing. Moreover, third degree burn victims are also highly susceptible to infection. They are kept in "burn units" in hospitals where the air they're surrounded with can be controlled.
Nevertheless, it's not difficult to suspend our disbelief for the character, especially when he exists in a comic book fantasy.
Many viewers put down his survival and ability to function to an adrenaline rush. It's also worth noting that the character does not live for very long after the accident, so his ability to survive in the long term need never be a problem in terms of realism.
Dent even says "You think I want to escape from this? So it seems that Dent knew he was a dead man by leaving the hospital and simply wanted vengeance before his passing. The Joker has himself arrested so as to get to Lau and discover the location of the money.
After doing so, he has all the money and is therefore in a strong position to demand his fee. Bruce Wayne indicates to Lucius Fox that he has budgeted a large amount of money to a government telecommunications project. When Lucius asks, Bruce indicates that he is "playing this one pretty close to his chest. Later in the film, it becomes clear why Bruce did not tell Lucius, who is upset by Batman's spying. It is not known exactly how Batman equipped every cell phone in Gotham with sonar technology.
It is simply presented as possible, in order to advance the plot. In order to assimilate or approximate a three-dimensional space, sound waves must come in consistent stereo pairs; cell phones have a single speaker for resonating sound and a single microphone for receiving sound. Further, in order to process sound differently than they are equipped, the cell phones would need to have both their hardware and software upgraded. It is highly improbable that Bruce, even with a government telecommunications project, would be able to forcibly upgrade the cell phones of every resident in Gotham simultaneously without a single person noticing.
Therefore, we can assume that it was a gradual process that Wayne started as soon as he realized the implications of the sonar technology. He could have simply provided the upgraded phones to Gotham citizens purchasing new phones. Over a period of months or even weeks, a significant number of Gotham citizens would have them.
If the cell phone was a significant technological advance, people would have been lining up to buy new ones regardless of the age of their current phone. Just look what happened when the iPhone was made available. Another strong possibility is that the project had nothing to do with new phones, merely new phone software. As anyone who buys a cell-phone knows, you can easily download software applications to your phone; the phone company that carries your service also can download software to your phone, and in fact does so when initializing a phone for activation.
Wayne's project may have been software that was distributed to cell phone users across Gotham, and designed so that it would not be known to the phone users that new software had been installed.
This explanation makes sense in context: Lucius states that Wayne has "converted" every phone in the city, not replaced the phones with new ones. And Batman relies on the Joker using a cell phone that would send a signal-which would only make sense if Batman had distributed software to every known number in the city, and not had to rely on the Joker buying a new phone.
In the first fight, in Bruce Wayne's penthouse, Batman was fighting multiple opponents at once. The Joker stood back and observed the best time and position from which to attack. Still, he didn't exactly get the upper hand on Batman. In the final fight at the end of the movie, the Joker sends Rottweilers to attack Batman.
While Batman is trying to fend off the dogs, the Joker starts frantically beating him with a pipe. This causes Batman's sonar to malfunction, leaving him blinded and open to attack.
Ra's al Ghul was responsible for being on the monorail and he also is the one who destroyed the controls in the belief that Batman was trying to stop the train, when in fact, destroying the controls actually aided Batman in his plan. Batman threw the Joker off of the building himself. In the first case, Ra's put himself in the situation which resulted in his death, whereas in the second case, had Batman not saved the Joker, he would be solely responsible for murdering him.
Doing so would have been a violation of his one rule, "I will not be an executioner. The Joker even makes it a point after Batman saves him to say "You truly are incorruptible. A number of reasons: 1.
When Dent had Gordon's family at the place where Rachel died, the police had a border already set up. By this time, Joker was in custody. Had they blamed Joker, everyone would have known they were lying. That would prompt an investigation into the other deaths. Batman and Gordon wanted to preserve Dent's image as the "White Knight," giving the citizens of Gotham hope. Batman wouldn't want to falsely pin crimes on even someone like the Joker.
After the events of The Dark Knight, Batman can no longer allow himself to be affiliated with Gotham Police without risking more deaths. By "rebranding" himself, he not only severs all ties to authority, he is also "becoming the villain. Dent's phrase, "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Harvey Dent is a leading prosecutor. If word was to get out that he's a crazy killer, all the crime bosses in prison would have sufficient grounds for appeal. All the convictions of all the cases Dent has ever tried could be overturned, and all the crime bosses would be back on the street.
The movie mentions this a few times. In their first meeting, the mayor cautioned Dent that he had better watch himself, because all they need is a little dirt on him and all the cases would crumble.
During the scene where Dent threatens the fake honor guard who was actually a paranoid schizophrenic, Batman warns Dent that killing him would put all the cases in jeopardy. Batman reiterates this to Gordon at the end. During their final confrontation, the Joker explains that Batman's weakness is his adherence to rules. Why abide by a code when your enemies obviously don't? Pinning Two-Face's crimes on Batman is sending a message to the public, and it's not a terribly positive one.
This also plays into his psychological dilemma evidenced by the line "I've seen what I have to become to stop men like him. The point is made that the criminals are not scared of Batman because they know he won't kill, making him less effective. By pinning Two-Faces crimes on Batman, it changes that perception, striking even more fear into the criminal mind.
Giving Batman a villainous public image should prevent any further copycat batmen harming themselves and others. Since he began his fight on crime, Batman has, inadvertently, become the glue that holds Gotham together. Alfred tells Bruce after the Joker shows up that he can't quit, and that he would have Bruce endure because he can make the choices no one else can make. Harvey Dent's role in the film is to be presented as "the perfect guy" or rather, "Gotham's White Knight".
He is an honest person bent on fighting corruption to make a better future for everyone, and was trusted by Batman, the Mayor, and Gordon, as well as earning some affection from Rachel. This "perfect" person is used by the Joker to make a point to Gotham.
With all of the people's spirit based on Harvey as their saviour from the climate of fear created by the Mob, his corruption would make "their spirit break completely", which is the Joker's prime intention.
He knew that Batman would go after Rachel when given the choice, so switches the addresses, and Harvey is pulled out of a building alive, with the one he loves dying instead. The Joker then visits him in the hospital to shift the blame off himself, and leaves Dent to descend into insanity, killing cops and, later, innocent people. As is seen throughout the film those most explicitly in the ferry scene , the Joker wants to turn good people into bad people, to make "fair" chaos. By taking "the best of us" and "tearing him down", the Joker can show that everyone can be corrupted.
The Joker saves his final act for Batman. Although it can be said he didn't break his one rule with Harvey Dent, it is quite obvious that he pushed both him and Gordon's son off the edge of a building, saving only the son. Everyone is eventually corrupted by the Joker. Sign In. The Dark Knight Jump to: FAQs 49 Spoilers Who created the character of Batman? Bob Kane is listed in old pre media including the comic books as creating Batman on his own but new media made after shows him as co-creating the character with someone called Bill Finger, so what's all that about?
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Why didn't Katie Holmes return as Rachel Dawes? Does Jack Nicholson have a cameo in the film? Where is Gotham City located? How did the Joker come to be 'the joker'?
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How does Two-Face come to be "two-face"? If the Joker is "a man of his word" as he keeps claiming, why does he keep screwing people over? What model was the Lamborghini that Bruce Wayne drove? How many screens does Batman's "high-frequency generator-receiver" cell phone scanner have? Is that Cillian Murphy as a security guard in the prisoners' ferry at the end of the film?
How does the Joker manage to get so much done so quickly? How does the movie end? What happened to Mike Engel? What happened to Lau? What really happens when Batman is given the choice to save one person or the other?
Didn't Batman violate his code of not killing his enemies? Who does Two-Face flip his coin for and what are the outcomes? Why did Alfred destroy Rachel's letter? Is there a secret scene after the credits? How did Heath Ledger's death affect the film? Are there any deleted scenes? What are the references to "Batman" comic books? Is there a prequel to 'The Dark Knight'? Which scenes were shot in IMAX? Where can I read the screenplay? How many editions of the film are available on video?
Does the Blu-ray presentation feature a variable aspect ratio? The FAQ items below may give away important plot points. How did the Joker escape from the benefit after throwing Rachel out a window? When the 2 robbers pick up Joker at the beginning of the movie, he isn't wearing his mask until after they pull up and he clearly has his Joker makeup on already.
I guess I am not coming back. The gifted actor died Jan. It was speculated at the time of his death that Ledger went total method to become The Joker, which took a toll on his mind-set. Heath was playful.
Even when there was a day player or people in shorter roles, naturally they tend to give him his privacy and space, but Heath would be on the one initiating the conversation. He was that type of guy. And I asked Christoper Nolan what we were shooting after lunch and he said we would finish up with our half of the room. White notes as an aside he is not a fan of his Spawn film.
And no one had ever done that before. Not one actor in my lifetime had asked my opinion in that way. And that taught me to do that with others, to not succumb to my ego. White is a straight shooter. He does not mince words when asked what or whom he looked to when preparing to play Gambol. As for where the film rates in his book, White says he is extremely proud of the work everyone put in on the Batman film.
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