The Dark Knight Joker Intro Description...no Bs

[Batman>all]

It doesn't look like Heath has the makeup on under the mask, i only see skin, no black around the eyes...i hope im wrong, without the makeup this could be disappointing

i know... this is the big Joker entrance too...

 

[Dark Sentinel]

ok well i know i'm late but oh my dear sweet freaking GOD!!! i am SO seeing that prologue!!

 

[The Caped Knight]

MASSIVE SPOILERS

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

Spoiler

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!

HOLY

 

[TheBatman072]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nolan, Bale, and Ledger are coming over to your house, in costume, to give you a four-way.

 

[coastiematt]

I think the best line the Joker could have come back with (what do you believe in?) would simply be this:

I believe in Harvey Dent.

 

[Voyeur]

Why did I read this? Damn...DAMN!

 

[Voyeur]

I think the best line the Joker could have come back with (what do you believe in?) would simply be this:

I believe in Harvey Dent.

That seems to be the theme of the film.

 

[gwynplaine]

Two questions.

1. Who were those 60 lucky motherf*****s ?

2. Wasn't that prologue supposed to chronicle the Joker's rise to power.

Anyway, it sounds wonderful and I can't wait. (Love the dialogue.)

 

[Bat Bond]

Absolutely awesome. Can't wait to see this for myself.

 

[turtlefocker]

I hope Joker is at least wearing make-up in this scene when he takes the mask off.

 

[TheBatman072]

Why did I read this? Damn...DAMN!

Haha! I still haven't read it!

 

[Gotham]

That does sound very cool. And I believe the other fifty-nine in the screening room were for IESB, AICN, and basically all the well known sites.

 

[Silver Souper]

Dialogue is kind of iffy, IMO.

yup

Agreed. Some parts also sound a bit strange, like the bus part.

i hate movie stuff like that. i get that joker is insane when the gun is pointed at him- no problem, but the idea that the bus breaks through at the right moment- to the second, or joker would've been shot...c'mon. also, that the bus happens to run over, and kill, the henchman with the gun. CUNvienant.

Dialogue really didn't sound that good, in my opinion.

hey boom- you're a dialogue stickler. i remember from some of your previous posts and thought you might chime in. and that's good. i hate simplistic dialogue. and i agree it seemed like a high schooler wrote the dialogue. Joker's was a lame first line too. Hopefully it's different or at least sounds much better on screen

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[SpinyNorman]

Still going with the "obviously summarized, and badly" angle on the dialogue.

 

[turtlefocker]

yup



i hate movie stuff like that. i get that joker is insane when the gun is pointed at him- no problem, but the idea that the bus breaks through at the right moment- to the second, or joker would've been shot...c'mon. also, that the bus happens to run over, and kill, the henchman with the gun. CUNvienant.



hey boom- you're a dialogue stickler. i remember from some of your previous posts and thought you might chime in. and that's good. i hate simplistic dialogue. and i agree it seemed like a high schooler wrote the dialogue. Joker's was a lame first line too. Hopefully it's different or at least sounds much better on screen

I think it is just the way the guy wrote it, let's wait for a more detailed description.

 

[jimmy]

Nolan, Bale, and Ledger are coming over to your house, in costume, to give you a four-way.

This is an open letter:

To shaqueel o'neal and eddie vedder!

Ayoo!

I wanna have a three way!

You know me, and I'm not gay

But I'd like to **** kid from kid 'n' play!

Hey hey hey hey, do you wanna come to my house?
Do you wanna come to mah house?

 

[Silver Souper]

I think it is just the way the guy wrote it, let's wait for a more detailed description.

i will only be nervous if the prolouge itself sucks. for now it just makes me a little skeptical, but not worried.

 

[Motown Marvel]

sounds pretty cool. and i think the joker will be wearing the make up. remember that one photo from long ago of them filming this scene, and the joker is behind that foggy glass, you can clearly see he's wearing the make-up.

 

[sasquatchs]

yup



i hate movie stuff like that. i get that joker is insane when the gun is pointed at him- no problem, but the idea that the bus breaks through at the right moment- to the second, or joker would've been shot...c'mon. also, that the bus happens to run over, and kill, the henchman with the gun. CUNvienant.



hey boom- you're a dialogue stickler. i remember from some of your previous posts and thought you might chime in. and that's good. i hate simplistic dialogue. and i agree it seemed like a high schooler wrote the dialogue. Joker's was a lame first line too. Hopefully it's different or at least sounds much better on screen

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Agreed The dialogue is too close to the sides to blame it on the article. Now I just have to hope it's executed so well it won't matter

 

[rpenguin]

The dialogue sounds AMAZING.

 

[pimpster200390]

whooooo this is going to kick azz

 

[Motown Marvel]

the dialogue actually sounds pretty forced as portrayed in the summary, but im assuming it will sound better when played out in the proper context.

 

[Killing Joke926]

Simply mind-blowing. I'm saving up my money just to head to the IMAX and watch the clip.

Alas my fellow members, the waiting has ended and we now have the Joker we've been waiting for.t:

 

[TPS1000]

Got this link from the IMDB boards:

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1575671/20071203/story.jhtml

 

[Micah12345]

The dialogue sounds great.

to anyone who doesn't think so I challenge you to come up with superior dialogue.