The Dark Knight The Dark Knight General Discussion Thread

[Sawyer]

So you can be a method actor without being an *******. Someone should have told Jared.

Honestly, he’s a fair target, but it extends to like 90% of the guys who employ method acting. Pattinson was right, you almost never see someone go method to play a lovely person.

 

[Filmfreak]

Honestly, he’s a fair target, but it extends to like 90% of the guys who employ method acting. Pattinson was right, you almost never see someone go method to play a lovely person.

Well, Leto does use method acting as an excuse to be a prick in general, but he was also Heath's successor as the Joker after all, that's why I pointed out the difference between them in basically playing same character. Not because there aren't other intolerable people like him.

 

[Sawyer]

A Lucius Fox figure before Gordon or Ra’s is still so wild to me.

 

[Herofan]

Does it make sense that a lot of people love Batman Begins or The Dark Knight but not both? Do they kind of feel like from different writers and directors or from or with different film philosophies, with BB explaining everything about Bruce's origin and motivations and TDK nothing about Joker's?

I also saw a video that interpreted Joker's hospital scene with Harvey as being another lie/disingenuous from him, just manipulating Harvey rather than being at all sincere about his own views, I think most viewers do think the hospital scene and the interrogation scene as literal and authentic, as being the only times (aside from also the hanging down dialogue) Joker was being authentic.

 

[The Joker]

"When you and Rachel were being abducted, I was sitting in Gordon's cage. I didn't rig those charges"

Anyone who thinks Joker wasn't trying to play Harvey in that scene is kidding themselves. Even Harvey called him out on that; "Your men. Your plan". Also what movie were you watching where we got no explanation about the Joker's motives? There was several. Alfred's story about the bandit in Burma. Joker burning the pile of money making a statement that he doesn't care about it, that Gotham needs a better class of criminal like him. His final scene with Batman talking about the battle for Gotham's soul.

 

[Sawyer]

lol okay.

 

[Herofan]

Pretty sure the Joker actually does want to kill Batman, even if he did change things forever.

 

[The Joker]

If he wanted rid of Batman he would have let Reese spill the beans about Batman's identity.

 

[Sawyer]

I’m nostalgic for the image and the initial reactions were, of course, completely insane… but I will be somewhat fair and say this really doesn’t give much of an indication of how great their Joker would really end up looking.

 

[Gothamsknight]

I remember when that image first dropped and I was kind of speechless because it was so different than what we are used to. Now it's one of the most instantly recongizeable faces in film history.

 

[blue scholar]

I remember when that image first dropped and I was kind of speechless because it was so different than what we are used to. Now it's one of the most instantly recongizeable faces in film history.

Yeah, I remember my eagerly anticipation what kind of Joker we were going to get; from the first few set photos (the blurry pictures of Heath in costume for the bank heist scene) to the teaser trailer. It was a fun time to be a Batman nerd on the internet.

 

[Kane52630]

I’m nostalgic for the image and the initial reactions were, of course, completely insane… but I will be somewhat fair and say this really doesn’t give much of an indication of how great their Joker would really end up looking.

I remember all my friends in high school hated that pic and hated that pretty boy Heath Ledger was cast, but I was the only one who said to give it a chance.

I think everyone kinda got on board when that Empire Magazine reveal photo came out.

 

[Gothamsknight]

one day somehow my dad heard about Ledger being cast as The Joker, and he laughed it off saying "no way". After the film came out, I'm pretty sure it became my dads favorite film performance in decades. And the film was the talk of my high school the following fall.

 

[The Joker]

This is the pic that got me excited for Heath's Joker. It was part of the amazing marketing campaign. This shot didn't even end up being in the movie.

 

[Rick190293]

I remember when those early Joker pics were released. I went nuts. Best hype ever!

 

[J.Drangal]

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This is the pic that got me excited for Heath's Joker. It was part of the amazing marketing campaign. This shot didn't even end up being in the movie.

This was my favorite image of the Joker before the film release.
Really reminded me of that famous sinister look in the comics:



Also, still feel its vibe is closer to the roughness and rustiness of Batman Begins than to the cleaner, sharper look of the actual final product.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

I’m nostalgic for the image and the initial reactions were, of course, completely insane… but I will be somewhat fair and say this really doesn’t give much of an indication of how great their Joker would really end up looking.

Oh the memories. Between the Cloverfield and the I Believe In Harvey Dent Too website, no one does viral marketing that good anymore.

Longlegs is up there with them, but it's still a rarity.

 

[Sawyer]

Love this poster.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Sawyer]

Real.

 

[Herofan]

What if Batman had just let Joker fall to his death, had either just been too recovering from the fight or had, probably without directly saying it, reiterated his I also don't have to save you/him belief?

 

[The Joker]

I love that the stunned look on Michael Caine's face there isn't acting.

 

[Sawyer]

I love the angle on this. It’s as if Gordon snapped a pic on his phone just as soon as he managed to pry the door open.

 

[Kane52630]

Anybody want to turn back time?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+dark+knight+filming+before%3A2008

 

[J.Drangal]

Anybody want to turn back time?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+dark+knight+filming+before%3A2008

The Rory's First Kiss era...

That's the period I started coming to this very board we're on. I was following the production on TDK through a French film site and seeing that pretty much all the news and rumors were coming from here I though: why not go straigth to the source?

It still took me another 6 years to register, even though all these years, I was here pretty much every day... lurking in the shadows...