The Dark Knight Joker Intro Description...no Bs

It sounds like actual dialogue. I fail to see how you can't grasp the "context" from that report.

But "That which doesn't kill you only makes you stranger"? "I called a bus"?
Those don't sound paraphrased at all. They sound like attempts at puns.
 
At least now we understand more about this pic
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It sounds like actual dialogue. I fail to see how you can't grasp the "context" from that report.

But "That which doesn't kill you only makes you stranger"? "I called a bus"?
Those don't sound paraphrased at all. They sound like attempts at puns.

I thought the 'stranger' line was the best piece of dialogue from the preview. Now if it were as Wizard paraphrased them, I could see how one could say the dialogue is iffy (stronger instead of stranger :whatever: ). Maybe we just have different standards.
 
I'm going to try to show some restraint and wait for I Am Legend or until the footage leaks online, but you guys' reactions make it sound badass.


I know how you feel- i started to read the spoiler and then i stopped. it is so hard not to read it, but I want to experience it firsthand at the Imax in 10 days.

That being said- this is going to be the toughest 10 days of my life!!!!!!! haha
 
Latin review said
A medium shot of the Joker walking down a street and firing a submachine gun.
...nice
 
****ing IMAX i feel as though i live in a pretty big city considering the state i live in (Milwaukee, WI) yet the closest IMAX playing i am legend is an hour and a half away and i have no car.

**** this IMAX thing why can't they just put it in front of all the i am legend prints

i don't give a **** if it is in IMAX or not i don't even like IMAX because to me there is such a thing as too big and if you don't get their first in line and sit in the back you might as well close your eyes and imagine what is there.

but that is neither here nor there because i just wish i could see this footage on any "Big" screen.

damn IMAX
 
Dunno if this has been answered yet but has the issue of Joker's face and it being flesh colored or makeup colored inside the bank been resolved yet in light of the reviews describing the prologue?
 
Dunno if this has been answered yet but has the issue of Joker's face and it being flesh colored or makeup colored inside the bank been resolved yet in light of the reviews describing the prologue?

Yes, Latino Review confirmed that Joker will be wearing face paint, when he pulls of his clown mask:

Sympathizing with the man's plight, the last robber exclaims that he feels "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stranger", before pulling off his mask and revealing himself to be the Joker. Actually its Heath Ledger with white face paint and red lipstick smeared across his lips that are seriously scarred at their corners.

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/the-dark-knight-six-minute-prologue-in-imax-3434
 
Latin review said
A medium shot of the Joker walking down a street and firing a submachine gun.
...nice

Huh? thats in the trailer or was that from the footage?
 
Huh? thats in the trailer or was that from the footage?

That was on this 6 min footage, and it was also shown back in the WW footage.
 
"what doesn't kill me makes me stronger", interesting, so not only is the Joker an anarchist but if he follows the Nitschean doctrine, that would also make him a bit of a fascist too.
 
"what doesn't kill me makes me stronger", interesting, so not only is the Joker an anarchist but if he follows the Nitschean doctrine, that would also make him a bit of a fascist too.

It's "stranger" actually, not stronger.:o
 
It's "stranger" actually, not stronger.:o
Oh, thank you, I got it wrong:o . That's cool actually , I prefer it that way it's more original and more Joker appropriate.
 
I was also surprised they would use a sentence that's been heard a million times in the movies before.


True, but with the Joker twist at the end it doesn't sound as generic.
 
True, but with the Joker twist at the end it doesn't sound as generic.
Agreed, the twist makes it much more interesting. Thanks again for pointing it out.
 
Anyone whining about the dialogue really needs to watch Batman & Robin again.
 
I think this whining about bad lines will disappear quite quickly when we get our hands on that prologue! :whatever:
 
Sounds awesome. I can't wait. Joker shooting a machine gun in a crowd? Sounds badass. I really hope Joker is going to be as great as he's being hyped-up to be.
 
How is "I called a bus" a pun? Anyway, The Joker doesn't say that. He says that he killed the driver.
 
MASSIVE SPOILERS

http://www.wizarduniverse.com/movies/batmanbegins2/006550689.cfm

just saw the Joker.

Tonight, at the Loews IMAX theater on the upper west side of Manhattan, director Chris Nolan debuted the first six minutes of the upcoming “The Dark Knight” movie, a sequel to the Christian Bale-starring, multi-million-dollar-earning “Batman Begins,” to a crowd of about 60 people. Set to swing into theaters July 18, 2008, “Dark Knight” has been hyped for its inclusion of not just one, but two new villains—Two-Face (played by Aaron Eckhart) and the already mentioned, much discussed Joker (played controversially by Heath Ledger).

“I don’t want to bore you,” Nolan joked as he introduced the clip, which will play in select IMAX theaters prior to “I AM Legend” next weekend and was lifted directly from the film. Nolan went on to explain that “Dark Knight” marks the first time a major motion picture utilized the IMAX filming technique.

“I wanted to make the Joker’s introduction a mini film,” added the director. “That’s what this footage is. So we shot it in this higher-quality, more intense format to get across that feeling.” Then, the footage began.

Kicking off with a sweeping shot of downtown Gotham, the camera zooms in above a few buildings before focusing in on a single, traditional skyscraper covered in windows. Suddenly, one window in the skyscraper explodes outward, exposing two criminals inside. Donning clown masks and standing with a rifle, the two criminals shoot a grappling hook across a busy street below to the next building—the Gotham National Bank. The two then slide across using a zip line.
On the street below, a man stands, his face unseen as the shot creeps up from behind, a clown mask slung in his grip. A van suddenly screeches up before he climbs inside and the van hauls off again. Inside, there are now three men, all wearing clown masks. They begin negatively discussing their boss and how he’s sitting out the heist. “The guy thinks he can sit out and get a cut?” laughs one man. “Must be why they call him the Joker!”

Back on the bank’s roof, the two men we first saw now shimmy into the bank’s security wiring while also discussing the boss. “Why do you think they call him Joker?” asks one. “I hear it’s cause he wears make-up,” answers the other. “Like war paint.”

Suddenly, below, the three men blast into the bank, demanding money and commanding everybody to the floor. Back on the roof, the two criminals intercept the out-going emergency alarm set off by an employee. After they cancel its signal, one of the men shoots the other and heads inside for the vault.

Back inside, the clown gunmen hand all the hostages live grenades. “We wouldn’t want your hands free would we?” asks one with a laugh.
At the vault, a clown opens the door, and just then a second clown shoots him in the back. They’re taking each other out so that the cut between them grows higher! And it’s all because the boss, the Joker, has told them to.

Back in the lobby, a bank manager surprisingly begins firing on the clown gunmen with a shotgun hidden under his desk. Turns out this bank belongs to an influential mobster and the manager, fearless and crazed, says as much to the clowns as he walks defiantly at them. He takes one out with a point-blank blast.
Two remain and manage to disarm the manager by shooting him in the arm before one clown turns his gun on the other.

“I’m sure the boss told you to take me out first,” says the one holding the gun. “No,” says the other, his hands in the air as he sways back in forth as if he didn’t care a gun was pointed at his chest. “I called a bus.”

“What?” asks the one holding a gun. And then BOOM, a school bus bursts its back end through the wall of the bank, killing the clown holding the gun! The lumpy driver steps out and asks what’s happened to the gang, just as the clown who’s life he saved shoots him without remorse.

The surviving clown begins to board the bus with bags of money when the bank manager, lying on the floor bleeding, tells the clown he has no idea who he’s messing with and asks why the crooks in this city have no beliefs anymore. The lone clown aborts boarding the bus and instead turns to the manager. The manager asks him dead to his face, “What do you believe in?”

As the clown slowly places a concussion grenade in the manager’s mouth, he removes his mask, exposing his scar-ridden face. It’s the Joker! “I believe that whatever doesn’t kill you simply makes you stronger,” he says before smiling a huge, twisted grin.
The grenade has a string attached to its pin and as the Joker boards the bus, the string goes taut. When he pulls away and the pin comes loose, the manager lays sweating on the floor. Surely his head is about to explode! Instead, the bottom of the grenade emits a gray, harmless gas. It was a joke!

On the street, the bus pulls into traffic along with several others. Before long, sirens can be heard, but by then, the bus is lost in the crowd. The Joker gets away.

Then the footage cuts to several quick clips, including the new Batsuit in a cage, the new Batpod, the Batmobile (aka, the Tumbler), a shot of a fire truck on fire in the streets of Gotham, Batman on a roof overlooking his city and, finally, a clip of Lieutenant Gordon (played by Gary Oldman) using an ax to shatter the Batsignal.
When the lights came up, applause greeted Nolan before he invited everybody to join him in the lobby for cocktails.

Look for the footage to appear before select prints of “I Am Legend” in IMAX starting next weekend. “Hopefully they’ll play up until the movie comes out next summer,” added Nolan, who’s built a bigger, better, more intense corner into his Batman universe. Don’t be a Joker yourselves. Go see it!

Badass..simply, BADASS!:wow: I can't ****ing wait to see this movie, it's unbelievable!
 

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