The Dark Knight Epitome Scene for Joker?

[abcdefz]

Another thing I really liked was during the mob meeting, you can see Joker take a pretty immediate dislike to Gambol from the git-go. Then, for the rest of the scene, his distate is kind of simmering "I'm NOT crazy. I'm noT." So by the time, later on, when he's got the knife in Gambol's mouth doing his "Want to know how I got these scars?" bit, the anger has been building up and it's a genuinely scary moment.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

haha yea. i dunno if anyone else noticed but when gambol puts the price on jokers head he points at him and gives him a look like "you'll be first" then carries on "so when you start taking things seriously....." to the other mobsters. he obviously decides then and there that gambol will no longer be a part of his "plan"

 

[abcdefz]

Yep. It was pretty clear from the very first glance Joker throws him that Gambol's a dead man.

 

[ironwez20]

wait was gambol a guy in the comic book or not

 

[abcdefz]

I don't know.

 

[ironwez20]

i abosolutly love when the judge opned the book and saw that joker card , kind of sigh that he was coming for her. everybody in the theater were all like uh oh.

 

[Valerie_f4]

I don't understand the calling card thing, there is no phone number on it. So how do they contact him? LOL

 

[Goon 2 Goblin]

I'm going to have to go with his formal introduction with Gotham's underworld. Basically for me it was the way he establishes himself as something more dangerous then a collection of Gotham's most dangerous underworld bosses and heads. His intellect and wit comes through, as does his fierce menace. Right there it's kind of the dawn that there is no turning back for Gotham, and that the ultimate "freak" has no staked his claim to the rights to Gotham's underworld. He represents and evil icon and his image inspires a similar reaction out of all these bad guys the way Batman's image inspires fearful reaction from the same people.

 

[tuffenoughtoroc]

haha yea. i dunno if anyone else noticed but when gambol puts the price on jokers head he points at him and gives him a look like "you'll be first" then carries on "so when you start taking things seriously....." to the other mobsters. he obviously decides then and there that gambol will no longer be a part of his "plan"

Also when he gave Gambol "that look," I noticed a bit of impatience on his face, like "will you sit down dammit!?" The Joker commands the upmost attention and does not tolerate interruption.

 

[Valerie_f4]

I was waiting for him to chop his head off at the spot. ......nevermind....

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

The interrogation room scene. From listening to Joker spewing out his insane logic, to him laughing hysterically as Batman hit him repeatedly in anger.

Pure Joker.

Agreed. That, and him walking away from the exploding hospital in the nurse's outfit....

 

[Patty]

One small thing I absolutely LOVED that noone has mentioned yet was after the pig in the armored truck says "hes gonna need something a lot bigger than that" The Joker's look of "OOOH! ...Thank you!" to the guy who hands him the RPG as hes taking it. SO amazing.

 

[abcdefz]

i abosolutly love when the judge opned the book and saw that joker card , kind of sigh that he was coming for her. everybody in the theater were all like uh oh.

I thought her reaction was more like slightly irritated befuddlement. Like, "What's this doing in here?"

 

[DACrowe]

In no particular order:

-His first video with "Look at me" and his constant giggling
-When he is walking over to Batman with the knife.
-Interrogation scene. Simply brilliant.
-Joker sliding down the pile of money and talking about his favorite things to buy.
-His second video with Mike Engul.
-When Joker is on top of Batman and talks about the "Funny world" up to his final laugh in the movie.

 

[Dr.Omega]

when hes laughing as hes plunging to his death, then his final speech to batman = "I guess were destined to do this forever"

 

[FireFlys Enigma]

Agreed. That, and him walking away from the exploding hospital in the nurse's outfit....

I loved the way he walked away from the hospital explosion. He was walking weird and then he tried the detonator. It didn't work until a couple of tries later and he than runs off screen really quick. t:

In no particular order:

-His first video with "Look at me" and his constant giggling
-When he is walking over to Batman with the knife.
-Interrogation scene. Simply brilliant.
-Joker sliding down the pile of money and talking about his favorite things to buy.
-His second video with Mike Engul.
-When Joker is on top of Batman and talks about the "Funny world" up to his final laugh in the movie.

The scene that made me think "this is the Joker from the comics" was him sliding down the money. That was just great!

 

[StylishHokie21]

The interrogation scene and his first video torturing the fake Batman

 

[Goon 2 Goblin]

That video of him torturing the fake Batman is horror movie inspired to the fullest extent. I mean it was genuinely frightening. It took me back to this sick, frightening image I had from 2004 when I saw the terrorist video of those Al Queda members who sawed off that reporters head live on video. But the way Nolan does it is he shows you this terrible mutilated fake Batman corpse, then the terrifying video that preludes screams, and he lets your head do the rest as it pertains to how Joker is terrorizing him thus making it more frightening.

 

[SuperZer0]

How dare you watch such a thing.

 

[Goon 2 Goblin]

How dare you watch such a thing.

Excuse me? I didn't go out actively and seek such a video. I was scared by it to be honest. I was living in a dorm room, and my roomate's sick friend downloaded it off some program and he was like hey watch this with me, so I did not knowing what was about to happen. So **** and get off your soapbox. In retrospect I wouldn't have wanted to see it, but I did. I found it horrifying as I saw it through circumstance, I didn't actually want to see such a thing. So don't judge me before you know the whole story.

 

[TanneRain]

Does anyone know how he actually killed the fake Batman? Or does Nolan leave it up to the viewer?

 

[FireFlys Enigma]

Uhmm? Never really thought of it. I'm trying to scan my memories now, scanning...cake, women, safe combination, New York, Pokemon (wtf?), apples, AH HA The Dark Knight. Wasn't he hung and then found against the window. I don't think a hanging is what killed him but it could have added insult to injury.

I would like to seen something similar to "The Many Deaths of the Batman" (a three part story arc with very little dialogue in the comics). Imagine the Joker just going around killing the fake Batman's just to get Wayne to take off the mask. It would have been rated R if that was the case. t:

 

[Dr.Omega]

Uhmm? Never really thought of it. I'm trying to scan my memories now, scanning...cake, women, safe combination, New York, Pokemon (wtf?), apples, AH HA The Dark Knight. Wasn't he hung and then found against the window. I don't think a hanging is what killed him but it could have added insult to injury.

I would like to seen something similar to "The Many Deaths of the Batman" (a three part story arc with very little dialogue in the comics). Imagine the Joker just going around killing the fake Batman's just to get Wayne to take off the mask. It would have been rated R if that was the case. t:

in the artbook he has a knife sticking out of him with a note attached oposed to the theatrical version where it was a pin,

 

[Goon 2 Goblin]

They had two alternate takes. Sometimes little things like that push the censors to make a film R-rated or not. So they had to use the pinned on version of the Joker card. Also if you notice in the scene where Joker gives the underworld of Gotham his "business card" ... they also used an alternate take of this scene. In the original, he hands them one of his Joker cards and it's this graphic Joker card with a jester holding up a decapitated head, and blood is pouring out of it. The version that made it into the movie has the same image but the Joker is holding the card upside down so you don't see the decapitated head with the blood coming out. Little things like that would've pushed the censors for a very strong PG-13 movie potentially into the R-rated category. That's why they have multiple cuts of some violent and even more distrubing images like that.

 

[Two_Face]

I really love the interrogation scene because a lot of what he said actually makes sense for real life. All around, Heath has top notch acting all the way through.