Has anyone else read the novel besides myself? I just got done reading it and man was it a blast. Heres a few add ins that didn't show in the movie that I found rather interesting:
- After scarecrow got tazered by Dawes, he wakes up not remembering what happened with the horse. He ends up lost, with no shelter and nowhere to go and finds an inmate, one of his patients, His patient gives him a place to stay. In that place to stay he starts developing his drugs allowing him to live in his own place.
-Shows the early days of Harvey Dent. He was rather lonely in school. He never attended prom, or any dances, or any football or basketball games, but he studied hard and earned scholarships. His father left him and his mother alone. His only explanation was, "I can't stand the sight of either of ya." Harvey worked at a local drugstore. One night, as he left the drugstore around 10, he went home to his apartment to find both of his parents dead. His mother was left hanging and his father sitting in a kitchen chair, with a gun in his hand, had his head shot with blood everywhere
-The "beginning of the Chechen". The Chechen was a Russian who rather despised his parents. He made his way through dealing cocaine, and he found himself killing cops. He hacked through bank accounts and had the money to live in Mexico City. Soon after Mexico City, he decides to go to Gotham after hearing of corruption there. He hears of Maroni and wants to make deals with him. The Chechen, however, knows that he must prove himself. So he does after burning down buildings and taking over a drug lord ring. Him and Maroni become the co-operators of the business and the Chechen wants to kill Maroni, but decides to wait for later until he gets to know America better
-In the Gambol pool scene, after the joker stands up alive he throws two knives at each of the chests of Gambol's men.
-After crashing the party scene, the joker left the scene in a SUV(more than likely the viral picture shown of joker sitting in the back seat with the goon driving that never showed in the movie). He touched a streamlet of blood running down his makeup-smeared chin with a forefinger, licked it, and said, "Yummy! Did you see that ? Did you love it a great big bunch? I tossed the lovely bird into the wind and out Bats went. I wonder...would the Bats thake a header for everyone? Or is taht pretty little birdie someone special? Either way, we know one thing for sure now.. Batman will always try to save the innocent, and how that will be his downfall! The driver asked what about dent, and the joker smiling said, "Oh, I'm a man of my word. "
-After Bruce saves Rachel, when he takes the fall for her, Alfred inspects Bruce's body. His back muscle was pulled, left wrist sprained. Alfred tells him , "When you dived out that window, did you have a plan?". "If I'd stopped to plan, both Rachel and I would be dead. I didn't have time to do anything but act, and hope my reactions would be the right ones. I had to trust to the moment. It's something Ra's al Ghul taught me." "Just how trustworthy is the moment?" Bruce laughed,"Not very. A negative factor-a gust of wind, say and you'd be planning my funeral." "You seem to feel that this sort of thing might get you killed." "This sort of thing will get me killed, sooner or later, if things keep going the way they are.."
-In the Sal Maroni case, it is just slightly different. The gun is referred to Dent as "Ceramic, .28 caliber. That's how it beat the metal detectors. Made in China I believe." Turning back to Rossi, Dent said, "Mr. Rossi, I recommend you buy American." In the movie, the gun is carbon fiber and he tells Maroni to buy american and not to Rossi.
-When Bruce was in Hong Kong about to handle Lau, he finds himself touring Hong Kong and remembers the time he spent there when he was exploring the criminal underworld during Batman Begins.
-When Dent and the mayor are talking in the office, the fake dead batman has a playing card, a Joker, pinned to his chest with a knife(the leaked picture that was out along with the joker cop and nurse pictures). In the movie, there was no knife at all.
-Shows Bruce Wayne going into investigation of Harvey Dent. He isn't sure if Harvey is what he says he is, or just another crook. Upon investigating, he couldn't do it as either Bruce Wayne or Batman, so he goes into another alter ego, as Charles Malone. He donned a red wig, with a red moustache, adopted an aggressive strut very different from the walk of either Wayne or Batman. His alter ago was a freelance journalist supposively doing an article for Harvey Dent. He first goes to New York to talk to Grooms. Grooms is the police man that worked on the case of the murders of Harvey Dent's parents. Grooms tells Charles Malone(I never thought he would have a third alter ego! lol), that Dent was at work when the murders happened so there was no way he would've been involved. Bruce Wayne continues to go under his alter ego as Charles Malone and continues to investigate Harvey by talking to his teachers, classmates, old & recent girlfriends, fellow posecutors, defense lawyers, even convicts. He even checked his school transcripts as far back to junior high. Bruce finally tells Alfred that he gives up and says, "I was wrong. The guy is a paragon. A much better man that I." "Care to elaborate, Master Bruce?" "He and I were dealt the same rotten hand. Parents dead through violence. But I had advantages...I had you and Rachel and now Lucius. I had a huge house and every option in the world. My financial resources were virtualy unlimited." Alfred replies, "May I remind you that not everyone who pretended to be your friend was." "You mean Earle? Yeah, he was a bad one, and there were a few others. But suppose they'd succeede in getting my family's companies away from me? Do you think I'd've found myself begging for quarters on street corners? No, I'd've still lived very comfortably. BY now, I'd be married to Rachel, and we'd have three kids and be deliriously happy." "You can't be certain of that," replies Alfred.
-Showed how Rachel and Harvey got things going. Rachel at first wasn't interested in him because of his "good looks". She thought that all beautiful men just loved to spend time having their partner brag about how great he was. She didn't like that. One day in court, the attorney in her had to admire his easy command of case law and the assertive way he presented his cases. He seemed totally focused on the business and Rachel loved what she saw.
That would've been sweet to see! hehe
