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@@DiamondBackProject Joker laughs when he feels he's winning, or has the upper hand. He may be falling to his death, but he told Batman during the interrogation that he would have to break his One Rule. We all know Batman's One Rule is no killing. He will break all the other laws to bring people to justice, but he wants to help prove the justice system can be fixed, so he won't kill the criminals. Joker was believing that with his death he would win, proving that in the end he even tore down Batman. This is why the first line he says after being pulled up is, "You truly are...incorruptible." He is acknowledging that even in this, despite everything he had done, he hadn't forced Batman to break his One Rule.
@@matthewskaggs8447 it would've hit harder if Batman hadn't done that exact thing during the "but I don't have to save you" bit of Begins. I love Batman Begins, but it definitely made a mistake in that logic. On the other hand, Joker didn't know any of that.
Seriously I remember when this channel used to be genuine. Now it's click bait and goes through every detail of a movie. Whether they are things that are worthy to be covored or literally pointing out how the joker picks up shattered glass and uses it in the next scene. I even saw in another comment that he won't do planet of the apes trilogy unless they release another movie. That means that he only wants to gain publicity and money. This channel is only in it for the money. He should be ashamed
I think Joker doesn't like describing himself as a "man with a plan" or a schemer, because plans and schemes are born from a desire to achieve something specific. There's always an ultimate goal to every plan and scheme, but in the case of Joker's "plans", there is none. His actions are closer to a performance meant to bewilder his "audience", so a better word would be "choreography", or "script".
I’ve never seen anyone bring this up but Gordon disguising himself as an armed guard is a reference to long halloween when Batman does the exact same thing.
I always loved how Joker said “when the chips are down, these civilized people, they’ll eat each other”. Callback to the fear toxin induced man chomping on the dude in “Begins” and metaphorically with the people turning on each other in “Rises”
Here 19:59 Alfred says that he "prepared a little supper." Bruce doesn't reply and Alfred responds with "very well." Which is a call back to the exact same dialogue from Begins after the Wayne's funeral.
@@davemccombs In your opinion, because objectively and historically this film is at the top of American cinema. But putting TDK in the top 10 best movies of all time is overrated.
the champagne part is mind blowing to me. how I never noticed/thought of that, I don't know, but it makes perfect sense and is such a cool way to show how similar the two are.
Another parallel drawn is Joker burning cash literally while Bruce / Wayne Enterprises’ Applied Science Division is said by Coleman Reece to be figuratively “burning through cash.” That’s the scene when Reese takes his blackmail threat to Fox. He says “What are you building for him now? A rocket ship?” 😂😂. Nope. It’s the cell phone thing. All that burning of cash shows neither values money except for it to be used as a tool to achieve their goals. Bruce tells Fox to type in his name after they have used the sonar cell phone thing to find Joker and when he does, it destroys it - so he burned through money to build it but then he destroyed it - burning the money twice. 👀😂. Bruce could live without his billions just fine and it’s clear Joker doesn’t value money. They’re both about something more. It’s just really cool that the movie is laden with all the duality and parallel motifs. It also brings to mind that I’ve always heard it said that Batman and Joker are two sides of the same coin. Also, I always thought it was well written and well played that Bruce really does have to cross the line morally with the cell phone project and also has to lie to Fox initially as well. When Fox asks about it, he tells him it’s a military contract and he’s playing it close to the chest. The truth of course is that Bruce knows Lucius will not approve of what he’s doing and Bruce doesn’t have time for dissent - so he goes with deceit. ☺️ Just top notch writing and overall use of craft on multiple levels in this movie. One last note: I agree with everything you pointed out as parallels etc. I don’t think you were reaching on anything on that score. Here’s another tidbit: I read that Nolan intended the title The Dark Knight to refer to both Batman and Harvey Dent. Like the poster mentioned, - Dent was Gotham’s White Knight but then because of his negative character arc, he became a fallen hero and a dark knight instead. Always thought it was an interesting juxtaposition because Bruce was always more of a white knight than Harvey even before they both suffered the same loss of Rachel and Harvey went all homicidal maniac while Bruce went so far as to even save Joker’s life.
Harvey’s coin has a year that references when Batman was created. But nobody seems to wonder why there was such a long close-up on the coin when it’s first mentioned.
I can't believe he notices the poster but completely misses the name of the store he enlarged the poster over, Payday... as in the game in which you can rob a bank wearing a clown mask.
@@winstonchurchill7822 I double checked and ya I see your right... now I feel old cause this made me realize the last Nolan batman came out almost a decade ago. It really doesn't feel like its been that long.
@@raziel710 Man, I feel you. I didn't go see this movie in theaters, but I remember the day I went to Blockbuster to rent it. Really does not feel that long ago. . .
The amount of detail in Nolan's films is insane. Not all his movies land of course - and even then they're great - but when they do they're timeless masterpieces. Great video as always and fab work collating all this info. Much better than the "top 10" channels that just copy and paste from the IMDb trivia page
@@heavyspoilers Can you explain why Bruce took the ballerinas sailing? I'd assume is to give him an alibi as he flew to kidnap Lau. But then he left in front of everyone rather than conspicuously. Wouldn't the ballerinas comment on his sudden and obvious departure? Also, why was Alfred disgusted at the thought of applying suntan lotion on the beautiful ballerinas? Perhaps this is a slight indication of Alfred's sexual preference? One last thing: after setting off the bomb in jail, we see Joker driving in a police car followed by many cops. How did he escape while being chased down? Thanks!
13:00 The saying "Will the real ____ please stand up?" actually dates back to the 1950s from the show To Tell the Truth. It was used as an episode title of The Twilight Zone a few years later.
I always thought the scene of Batman driving his Bat-pod toward Joker in the street and not hitting him was a homage to Batman 1989 when Batman is in the Batwing shooting at Joker during the parade and not hitting him with the bullets.
One of my favorite thematic details is the watch Bruce wears, a JLC Reverso. A watch with the ability to flip its face over to hide and protect it from damage. Some models of the watch even have a watch face on both sides. A literal two-faced watch.
“Why so serious?”. You seriously broke down the film in every serious detail. But of course the quote is a rhetorical question referring to this video.
15:14 when The Dark Knight Rises came out I had a theory that the Joker used the Clean Slate to erase his identity. I haven't seen it covered in any videos so I don't know if I'm the only one that thought it.
Interesting story about the Lamborghini. Lamborghini’s are Italian and most of them are named after Bulls. A famous bull in Italy had his life spared by a matador for the courage the bull had shown in the arena, this bull’s name was Murciélago. Which is “Bat” in Spanish So technically the car is named after a bull, again as most Lamborghinis are. A Lamborghini named Murciélago ? I think, it would have been impossible, for Bruce Wayne, not to buy this car!
He actually was asleep, as his eye was first closed and he blinks it a couple of times. The reason he didn't notice right away is because he can barley see out of his left eye.
Just discovered your channel, massively appreciate the work you put into research I've definitely leanred some things about some films I've been enjoying for years. Keep up the good work mate!
I enjoy these videos of deep dives into the film. However, I haven’t seen anyone talk about the misery loves company theory. Meaning, the Joker was some regular law abiding guy who had one bad day too many and snapped. Now, society views him as a freak, crazy, psychopath, outsider, etc. One of the Joker’s main motivations is showing people that they are also one bad day away from being the same thing as him
I’ve always thought the Joker being upside down with white face paint was a Yingying light and dark Motif to the light inside the Batman but hidden behind a black mask.
i know i am a bit late but you earned the up vote within 3 mins for calling his scares a "Glasgow Smile" correctly, im sure it has many other names but since im from Scotland/Glasgow i was pleased t see this little detail as ive seen this done & i know few people whoo have these scares & one of the people i know who has then did it to himself, i know anyne who reads this probly wont think it true but in the uk due to major knife crime people can get compensation if you can prove it was done as an act of crime. alsoo he says he playing it close to his chest, meaning he wanting to hide it basically
Heath Ledger, by far the best Joker in history. Nobody will ever come close to his abilities as an actor and a human being. Rest in peace, brother! We will forever miss you!
Why wouldn’t? Lots of as good actors and as good humans out there... Hyperboles, hyperboles... Think, people, think. Just because he died you don’t have to lie about him. Excellent actor, excellent performance, from what we know, a good man... there are many others.
@@SzokynyovicsNobody is lying about him. Whether he died or not, his performance of the Joker is the best itteration we have of him on screen. He won an oscar for that performance and rightfully so.
*Awesome* breakdown, Paul. Thank you so much. 🙏 For Batman day I did a four movie marathon. Batman (1989) twice (second viewing whilst listening to the audio commentary by Tim Burton) followed by The Dark Knight Trilogy. All in 4K UHD. These movies still hold up after all of these years imo. 😎
Neato. Mine is actually Batman (1989). Not because I think it's better than TDK. On the contrary, I was left speechless when I seen TDK back in theatres on its worldwide release date, and do think it top 89' in many ways. However, Batman 89' stuck with me ever since I first saw it at 5 yrs old on VHS. It was like my intro to movies in general n has never left me since. I will always love it. Otherwise TDK is my 10 fav of all time. Though it may be in that spot, that certainly is far from me calling it sumthing like a 'not-as-good' type of film. Another kinda example is the fact that Pearl is my 2nd fav film yet "The Exorcist" is my fav horror film, but is actually number 6 for in general. Again just becuz it's 6 doesn't mean I think its worse than Pearl or something lol Now anyways
DUDE!!! What an amazing video! Seriously, ive watched so many of these easter egg videos and ur the ONLY person that brought up how Joker told Batman that he will choose who DIES... at least i dont recall anyone else noticing this, REALLY WELL DONE bro! u got my sub, like, comment and share o7 :-) Thank you for the awesome video u absolute legend
The clown masks the Joker and his goons wear could also be a reference to the film “The Killing” by Stanley Kubrick. In a heist scene the robbers are seen wearing clown masks very similar to those worn in the Dark Knight. Also: Ledger originally came up with the Joker’s makeup while self isolating in a motel in preparation for the film. He used cheap drug store makeup, and Nolan liked the look. He then had on set makeup artists replicate the makeup while on set.
When I first saw the movie a thousand years ago I went online trying to figure out which of the Jokers scar stories was the real one (I was young and dumb) but someone pointed out that they're all wrong and if he had had the opportunity to tell the story to more people they would have continued to be different and all false because he is, after all, The Joker
One of the things often brought up about the Hospital scene is that the Joker had his hand on the hammer which would prevent the shot from being fired incase Harvey pulled the trigger. I spoke to my instructor about this at great length, and he explained that the tremendous amount of force required to hold the hammer down whilst the trigger is being pulled would result in a shot being fired - however I've had several keyboard warriors debate this, so I hope someday some one just tests it out and put the theory to rest.
Loooooool. Yeah someone should 🤣🤣🤣 does the trigger not rely on the spring of the hammer though so the hammer going forward also moves the trigger forward?
@@heavyspoilers The Trigger being pulled would release the hammer, however the way my instructor explained it was that the sheer recoil could easily break the finger if the hammer was being held down. It's one of those things that looks extremely cool and adds another layer of, "Hey look the Joker gives the illusion of choice". However, I think it was not intended to be that way, I think the Joker was pulling the hammer not holding it down - he was letting Harvey know, "Here you go, gun's ready to fire". Like you would rack the slide of a modern pistol to chamber a round. Cheers, bud. Thank you for the video! Stay safe.
Your instructor is VERY wrong. I assume he’s saying holding the hammer DOWN would cause it to put enough pressure on the cartridges primer to cause the round to fire? Two problems with this, the hammer is BACK in the scene. At this point it’s very easy to hold it back. The trigger only releases it forward at this point as the hammer is under spring tension. The trigger doesn’t impart a mechanical advantage on the trigger in this position. Holding the hammer back would prevent the gun from firing. The second problem, the one I think your instructor is hinting at, used to be an actual problem. Originally revolvers could be accidentally fired if the hammer was left down on a loaded chamber. Suddenly jolting the gun, or putting pressure on the lowered hammer would put enough force on the cartridges primer the round could fire. Modern revolvers have either a hammer block safety or a transfer bar that keeps a lowered hammer from making contact with the firing pin and preventing such things from happening. This is has been true since shortly after WW2, especially given the gun he’s holding is (as the video point out) a Smith&Wesson. That problem is the reason truly old revolvers were always carrying with only five rounds loaded so the hammer could be left down over an empty chamber.
@@blakew5672 Let's go and test this theory with a live round. I'll be Harvey Dent and you play the Joker holding the hammer down as I try and pull the trigger.
Either way there is a huge amount of time without anything in the way of the hammer. Joker puts his thumb over it and takes it away throughout the entire scene
I'm pretty sure I've seen The Dark Knight at least 4 times and I've never noticed the extra hole Harvey has on the left side of his nose, above the nostril, after he becomes Two Face.
You touch on it but I think it's worth it's own point: Batman breaks his "one rule" at the end of this film when he kills Two-Face. Throughout the whole film the Joker is trying to get Batman to break his rule and kill him, through what amounts to terrorism. In the face of all that, Batman refuses. But when it comes to Harvey Dent trying to enact some twisted justice by killing an innocent boy, Batman kills him. He does it because he has to, despite the entire film refusing to do so. At the end he has become the villain he always feared, but he embraces it (being the true hero).
Awesome video! Definitely the best Batman movie yet. I’ve always wondered though, when the Joker gets picked up in the beginning of the movie, that he has the mask in his hand, wouldn’t that mean he’s standing there with his joker face already painted on? Wouldn’t the guys picking him up know he’s the joker already?
I assume there was no joker yet, and no one had met him, so might just seem like a random guy with face paint on. He set up the whole deal without ever meeting the goons.
@@heavyspoilers I really love your content. Thanks for replying. As I said, the video is very well done, and sums up the details spread through lots of other places. And is very nice and entertaining. Virtual hugs (with proper social distancing) from Brazil
Something I just noticed now is that the black prisoner with the dreads at 22:08 is one of Gambol's men that was last seen at the mob meeting which Joker attended.
20:59 the joker isn't holding back the hammer of the gun, he just places his fingers over it for a second or two. You can even see this in the clip here, but it's even more evident in the full scene. It's only in a still that it looks like he has the hammer held back (although not in the still here). That's a swing and a miss on that one!
When joker and his goons are in the van discussing the split you can see Joker insert the magazine into his pistol and attempt to chamber a round, only for the slide to stay locked back until he hits the release. That means the magazine he just inserted is empty. I'm surprised nobody caught that lol
The Dark Knight is the best movie of all time in many ways... Nolan is just a genius! Batman Begins: Batman starts his journey. The Dark Knight: Batman falls. The Dark Knight Rises: Batman rises.
The hospital blowing up scene....Heath actually improvised specifically at the moment it stopped and him pushing the button on the remote multiple times as there happened to be a delay behind the scenes while setting off all the pyrotechnics due to they only had 1 shot and 1 go with the scene and wanted to make sure he would stay in character even if it didn't work out, that way they could digitally finish off the scene in post production....thankfully he did stay in character and they ending up setting off all the rest of the pyrotechnics giving us that great scene and him actually getting a jump scare when they started back up again.
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Cool Video
I like your videos
Cheers 🍻
Amazing video 👍
Thx for that, I am not so serious anymore
The Joker says "in their last moments, people show you who they really are" and when he's falling to his death, he's laughing.
Hahha wish I’d talked to you about this movie before making the video
@@heavyspoilers wouldn’t have hurt ;)
What would you say this reflects in Joker? His maniacal sense? His lack of care of life? His enjoyment of chaos?
@@DiamondBackProject Joker laughs when he feels he's winning, or has the upper hand. He may be falling to his death, but he told Batman during the interrogation that he would have to break his One Rule. We all know Batman's One Rule is no killing. He will break all the other laws to bring people to justice, but he wants to help prove the justice system can be fixed, so he won't kill the criminals. Joker was believing that with his death he would win, proving that in the end he even tore down Batman. This is why the first line he says after being pulled up is, "You truly are...incorruptible." He is acknowledging that even in this, despite everything he had done, he hadn't forced Batman to break his One Rule.
@@matthewskaggs8447 it would've hit harder if Batman hadn't done that exact thing during the "but I don't have to save you" bit of Begins. I love Batman Begins, but it definitely made a mistake in that logic. On the other hand, Joker didn't know any of that.
Heavy spoilers be like: Bruce is walking through the dark, showing he is the dark knight.
Harvey has a dent in his chin, showing he is Harvey Dent
Seriously I remember when this channel used to be genuine. Now it's click bait and goes through every detail of a movie. Whether they are things that are worthy to be covored or literally pointing out how the joker picks up shattered glass and uses it in the next scene.
I even saw in another comment that he won't do planet of the apes trilogy unless they release another movie. That means that he only wants to gain publicity and money. This channel is only in it for the money.
He should be ashamed
@@joshuabuswell9481 I like the channel
In the movie batman breathes and when we see the joker he's also breathing, symbolizing their connection to each other
Omg I never noticed this 😮
Bravo Nolan
Bro!!!!! This is actually f*cking nuts
can't believe I. Never seen that before
Lame
Not with Two-face, though... in the end, this connection stopped.
I think Joker doesn't like describing himself as a "man with a plan" or a schemer, because plans and schemes are born from a desire to achieve something specific. There's always an ultimate goal to every plan and scheme, but in the case of Joker's "plans", there is none. His actions are closer to a performance meant to bewilder his "audience", so a better word would be "choreography", or "script".
Since I cant seem to find a comment with this, RIP Heath Ledger, the greatest actor to play the joker
The greatest joker to play an actor more like
May he find peace, but for the record; Mark Hamill is the best actor to ever have portrayed the Clown Prince of Crime. Just sayin.
No disrespectf to Heath, but the best joker is Mark Hamill
You guys are wack it's obviously Jared Leto
@@lilrab1t839 * *pats you on the head* *
Grown ups are talkin’ pumpkin.
Christopher Nolan's masterpiece, revealing his genius as a director.
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Interstellar is the real answer
Except for the third movie
That is actually Inception
It's 2023 and I still learn new things about this spectacle of a movie. Case in point, the switcheroo in 21:38. Nice work as always, Paul!
I’ve never seen anyone bring this up but Gordon disguising himself as an armed guard is a reference to long halloween when Batman does the exact same thing.
Salam
20:50 “a platypus???”
*puts hat on*
“Perry the platypus!!!!”
In the end Joker corrupted Harvey's way of justice and finally got Batman to break his rule by killing Harvey.
Batman: WHY DO YOU WANT TO KILL ME
JOKER: I DONT WANNA KILL YOU I ACTUALLY WANT TO BE FRIENDS
I always loved how Joker said “when the chips are down, these civilized people, they’ll eat each other”. Callback to the fear toxin induced man chomping on the dude in “Begins” and metaphorically with the people turning on each other in “Rises”
Here 19:59 Alfred says that he "prepared a little supper." Bruce doesn't reply and Alfred responds with "very well." Which is a call back to the exact same dialogue from Begins after the Wayne's funeral.
Patrick Leahy was actually just hospitalized, wish him well
Ah shit, yeah definitely seems like such a nice guy
Damn man that sucks
and he has had a cameo in 5 batman movies and did in episode of the animated series.
This is one of the best movies of all time. A superhero movie like Nolan's will probably never be made again
Heard Nolan is actually coming back and gonna be directing some DC movies
It’s one of the many movies of all time.
@@davemccombs In your opinion, because objectively and historically this film is at the top of American cinema. But putting TDK in the top 10 best movies of all time is overrated.
the champagne part is mind blowing to me. how I never noticed/thought of that, I don't know, but it makes perfect sense and is such a cool way to show how similar the two are.
Yeah it’s so good
Another parallel drawn is Joker burning cash literally while Bruce / Wayne Enterprises’ Applied Science Division is said by Coleman Reece to be figuratively “burning through cash.”
That’s the scene when Reese takes his blackmail threat to Fox. He says “What are you building for him now? A rocket ship?” 😂😂. Nope. It’s the cell phone thing.
All that burning of cash shows neither values money except for it to be used as a tool to achieve their goals. Bruce tells Fox to type in his name after they have used the sonar cell phone thing to find Joker and when he does, it destroys it - so he burned through money to build it but then he destroyed it - burning the money twice. 👀😂.
Bruce could live without his billions just fine and it’s clear Joker doesn’t value money. They’re both about something more.
It’s just really cool that the movie is laden with all the duality and parallel motifs. It also brings to mind that I’ve always heard it said that Batman and Joker are two sides of the same coin.
Also, I always thought it was well written and well played that Bruce really does have to cross the line morally with the cell phone project and also has to lie to Fox initially as well. When Fox asks about it, he tells him it’s a military contract and he’s playing it close to the chest.
The truth of course is that Bruce knows Lucius will not approve of what he’s doing and Bruce doesn’t have time for dissent - so he goes with deceit. ☺️
Just top notch writing and overall use of craft on multiple levels in this movie.
One last note: I agree with everything you pointed out as parallels etc. I don’t think you were reaching on anything on that score. Here’s another tidbit: I read that Nolan intended the title The Dark Knight to refer to both Batman and Harvey Dent. Like the poster mentioned, - Dent was Gotham’s White Knight but then because of his negative character arc, he became a fallen hero and a dark knight instead.
Always thought it was an interesting juxtaposition because Bruce was always more of a white knight than Harvey even before they both suffered the same loss of Rachel and Harvey went all homicidal maniac while Bruce went so far as to even save Joker’s life.
Harvey’s coin has a year that references when Batman was created. But nobody seems to wonder why there was such a long close-up on the coin when it’s first mentioned.
I feel like that potato peeler is possibly the most disturbing thing you could find on a person like that...
I still can’t believe there was a Spider-Man 3 poster in the movie 😂
I can't believe he notices the poster but completely misses the name of the store he enlarged the poster over, Payday... as in the game in which you can rob a bank wearing a clown mask.
@@raziel710 dont think it was released by this time.
@@winstonchurchill7822 I double checked and ya I see your right... now I feel old cause this made me realize the last Nolan batman came out almost a decade ago. It really doesn't feel like its been that long.
@@raziel710
Man, I feel you. I didn't go see this movie in theaters, but I remember the day I went to Blockbuster to rent it. Really does not feel that long ago. . .
The amount of detail in Nolan's films is insane. Not all his movies land of course - and even then they're great - but when they do they're timeless masterpieces. Great video as always and fab work collating all this info. Much better than the "top 10" channels that just copy and paste from the IMDb trivia page
Cheers Ben
@@heavyspoilers Can you explain why Bruce took the ballerinas sailing? I'd assume is to give him an alibi as he flew to kidnap Lau. But then he left in front of everyone rather than conspicuously. Wouldn't the ballerinas comment on his sudden and obvious departure? Also, why was Alfred disgusted at the thought of applying suntan lotion on the beautiful ballerinas? Perhaps this is a slight indication of Alfred's sexual preference?
One last thing: after setting off the bomb in jail, we see Joker driving in a police car followed by many cops. How did he escape while being chased down? Thanks!
13:00 The saying "Will the real ____ please stand up?" actually dates back to the 1950s from the show To Tell the Truth. It was used as an episode title of The Twilight Zone a few years later.
I always thought the scene of Batman driving his Bat-pod toward Joker in the street and not hitting him was a homage to Batman 1989 when Batman is in the Batwing shooting at Joker during the parade and not hitting him with the bullets.
I'm pretty sure it is.
I mean… I know why he’d have real bullets in a vehicle, but couldn’t that cause collateral damage and thus be too much of a risk to have?
One of my favorite thematic details is the watch Bruce wears, a JLC Reverso. A watch with the ability to flip its face over to hide and protect it from damage. Some models of the watch even have a watch face on both sides. A literal two-faced watch.
This film is an absolute masterpiece and this amazing video just further reinforces that. Thank you Paul! 😃
Thanks Josh 🙌
Great video, just one flaw... In the beginning you said "one of the greatest super hero movies" when you probably meant to say "the greatest movie."
“Why so serious?”.
You seriously broke down the film in every serious detail. But of course the quote is a rhetorical question referring to this video.
15:14 when The Dark Knight Rises came out I had a theory that the Joker used the Clean Slate to erase his identity. I haven't seen it covered in any videos so I don't know if I'm the only one that thought it.
Ah that’s a really good one
Mister Reese = Mysteries, the plural form flows well for a Riddler reference.
5:21 Fun fact, that is actually the real Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat 3 (1995). Appearance of John Turk!
Interesting story about the Lamborghini.
Lamborghini’s are Italian and most of them are named after Bulls.
A famous bull in Italy had his life spared by a matador for the courage
the bull had shown in the arena, this bull’s name was Murciélago.
Which is “Bat” in Spanish
So technically the car is named after a bull, again as most Lamborghinis are.
A Lamborghini named Murciélago ?
I think, it would have been impossible, for Bruce Wayne, not to buy this car!
20:50 Harvey could've been under some form of anesthesia, so to him, the white paint could've looked like sunlight to his drugged eyes
He actually was asleep, as his eye was first closed and he blinks it a couple of times. The reason he didn't notice right away is because he can barley see out of his left eye.
The guard of honour drill he performs without his make-up perhaps alludes to his history as a soldier.
cool that you call it a glasgow smile. ive always called it a chelsea smile
Just discovered your channel, massively appreciate the work you put into research I've definitely leanred some things about some films I've been enjoying for years. Keep up the good work mate!
I enjoy these videos of deep dives into the film. However, I haven’t seen anyone talk about the misery loves company theory. Meaning, the Joker was some regular law abiding guy who had one bad day too many and snapped. Now, society views him as a freak, crazy, psychopath, outsider, etc. One of the Joker’s main motivations is showing people that they are also one bad day away from being the same thing as him
I was just popin a knights tale nostalgia boinger yesterday.
Nice.
One of the greatest films of all time. This is what a DC movie should always be like. I love that it's darker than Marvel.
I wonder if joker being dressed like female medical personnel is a Harley Quinn reference.
Superb video! Beautiful work
I’ve always thought the Joker being upside down with white face paint was a Yingying light and dark Motif to the light inside the Batman but hidden behind a black mask.
i know i am a bit late but you earned the up vote within 3 mins for calling his scares a "Glasgow Smile" correctly, im sure it has many other names but since im from Scotland/Glasgow i was pleased t see this little detail as ive seen this done & i know few people whoo have these scares & one of the people i know who has then did it to himself, i know anyne who reads this probly wont think it true but in the uk due to major knife crime people can get compensation if you can prove it was done as an act of crime.
alsoo he says he playing it close to his chest, meaning he wanting to hide it basically
One extra Easter Egg. The hospital explosion was mostly practical, it was an old Hershey Chocolate factory in Illinois
*My Top 5 superhero movies :*
1. Spiderman 2
2. The Dark Knight
3. Logan
4. Infinity War(1+2)
5. Days of Future Past
All classics and the x-men franchise in general is massively underrated
@@heavyspoilers true
I’m so glad someone pointed out that he had his finger on the hammer of the gun! I noticed that right away!
Heath Ledger, by far the best Joker in history. Nobody will ever come close to his abilities as an actor and a human being. Rest in peace, brother! We will forever miss you!
Why wouldn’t? Lots of as good actors and as good humans out there...
Hyperboles, hyperboles...
Think, people, think.
Just because he died you don’t have to lie about him. Excellent actor, excellent performance, from what we know, a good man... there are many others.
@@SzokynyovicsNobody is lying about him. Whether he died or not, his performance of the Joker is the best itteration we have of him on screen. He won an oscar for that performance and rightfully so.
Mark Hamill?
@@darrylbrianclose but no cigar…
I don't feel like reading through the comments but Dent is constantly shown with shadows over half of his face throughout most of the film
You definitely deserve a thumbs up bro
His tortures gave him that smile
"You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain", I use this quote all the time. Especially when talking about Ron Jeremy.
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Excellent breakdown as always man. Well done.
Thanks 🙏
Heath is still my favourite live action Joker.
Yeah he’s amazing
@@heavyspoilers Totally! I love re-watching his scenes in the film especially. So damn quotable.
Thanks for this Paul! Man, it's so great to revisit this masterpiece!
Cheers for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video
The arm gauntlets scene is a jab at 007 movies. Q always wants Bond to read the manual, but he instinctively knows how to operate every gadget.
Thanks so much for doing this.
Will have to watch more than once to digest fully🦇🙏
*Awesome* breakdown, Paul. Thank you so much. 🙏
For Batman day I did a four movie marathon. Batman (1989) twice (second viewing whilst listening to the audio commentary by Tim Burton) followed by The Dark Knight Trilogy. All in 4K UHD. These movies still hold up after all of these years imo. 😎
Notice when Harvey is tied up, he looks like an Angel with light behind him and then he falls - fallen Angel.
Thanks for doing this. This is my favourite movie of all time
Yeah it’s a classic
Neato.
Mine is actually Batman (1989). Not because I think it's better than TDK. On the contrary, I was left speechless when I seen TDK back in theatres on its worldwide release date, and do think it top 89' in many ways. However, Batman 89' stuck with me ever since I first saw it at 5 yrs old on VHS. It was like my intro to movies in general n has never left me since.
I will always love it. Otherwise TDK is my 10 fav of all time. Though it may be in that spot, that certainly is far from me calling it sumthing like a 'not-as-good' type of film.
Another kinda example is the fact that Pearl is my 2nd fav film yet "The Exorcist" is my fav horror film, but is actually number 6 for in general.
Again just becuz it's 6 doesn't mean I think its worse than Pearl or something lol
Now anyways
I thought Harvey put his seatbelt on right before car flips not off
DUDE!!! What an amazing video! Seriously, ive watched so many of these easter egg videos and ur the ONLY person that brought up how Joker told Batman that he will choose who DIES... at least i dont recall anyone else noticing this, REALLY WELL DONE bro! u got my sub, like, comment and share o7 :-) Thank you for the awesome video u absolute legend
Ah thank you! Yeah you know it’s a good movie when 12 years later stuff is still being discovered, thanks for the comment
I love the term Glasgow smile. There's also a Glaswegian kiss, which is a headbutt. I love the Scots.
Amazing video. Please do Batman Begins too. It is highly underrated.
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@@heavyspoilers The Harvey Line can be used for Bale too. He lived long enough to become Gorr, The God Butcherer in Love and Thunder.
I love how the first time Joker really loses is when Gotham proves him wrong. There is so much he does by correctly predicting human behavior tho...
The clown masks the Joker and his goons wear could also be a reference to the film “The Killing” by Stanley Kubrick. In a heist scene the robbers are seen wearing clown masks very similar to those worn in the Dark Knight.
Also:
Ledger originally came up with the Joker’s makeup while self isolating in a motel in preparation for the film. He used cheap drug store makeup, and Nolan liked the look. He then had on set makeup artists replicate the makeup while on set.
When I first saw the movie a thousand years ago I went online trying to figure out which of the Jokers scar stories was the real one (I was young and dumb) but someone pointed out that they're all wrong and if he had had the opportunity to tell the story to more people they would have continued to be different and all false because he is, after all, The Joker
One of the things often brought up about the Hospital scene is that the Joker had his hand on the hammer which would prevent the shot from being fired incase Harvey pulled the trigger. I spoke to my instructor about this at great length, and he explained that the tremendous amount of force required to hold the hammer down whilst the trigger is being pulled would result in a shot being fired - however I've had several keyboard warriors debate this, so I hope someday some one just tests it out and put the theory to rest.
Loooooool. Yeah someone should 🤣🤣🤣 does the trigger not rely on the spring of the hammer though so the hammer going forward also moves the trigger forward?
@@heavyspoilers The Trigger being pulled would release the hammer, however the way my instructor explained it was that the sheer recoil could easily break the finger if the hammer was being held down. It's one of those things that looks extremely cool and adds another layer of, "Hey look the Joker gives the illusion of choice". However, I think it was not intended to be that way, I think the Joker was pulling the hammer not holding it down - he was letting Harvey know, "Here you go, gun's ready to fire". Like you would rack the slide of a modern pistol to chamber a round. Cheers, bud. Thank you for the video! Stay safe.
Your instructor is VERY wrong. I assume he’s saying holding the hammer DOWN would cause it to put enough pressure on the cartridges primer to cause the round to fire? Two problems with this, the hammer is BACK in the scene. At this point it’s very easy to hold it back. The trigger only releases it forward at this point as the hammer is under spring tension. The trigger doesn’t impart a mechanical advantage on the trigger in this position. Holding the hammer back would prevent the gun from firing.
The second problem, the one I think your instructor is hinting at, used to be an actual problem. Originally revolvers could be accidentally fired if the hammer was left down on a loaded chamber. Suddenly jolting the gun, or putting pressure on the lowered hammer would put enough force on the cartridges primer the round could fire. Modern revolvers have either a hammer block safety or a transfer bar that keeps a lowered hammer from making contact with the firing pin and preventing such things from happening. This is has been true since shortly after WW2, especially given the gun he’s holding is (as the video point out) a Smith&Wesson. That problem is the reason truly old revolvers were always carrying with only five rounds loaded so the hammer could be left down over an empty chamber.
@@blakew5672 Let's go and test this theory with a live round. I'll be Harvey Dent and you play the Joker holding the hammer down as I try and pull the trigger.
Either way there is a huge amount of time without anything in the way of the hammer. Joker puts his thumb over it and takes it away throughout the entire scene
fantastic analysis,very well done sir.
Awesome video Sir 🦇🦇🦇🦇🤡🤡🤡🤡❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks Rohit
Too bad you didn't watch Jonah Nolan's Person of Interest, Paul. There was so much connection between that and Chris Nolan's Batman.
I'm pretty sure I've seen The Dark Knight at least 4 times and I've never noticed the extra hole Harvey has on the left side of his nose, above the nostril, after he becomes Two Face.
You touch on it but I think it's worth it's own point: Batman breaks his "one rule" at the end of this film when he kills Two-Face. Throughout the whole film the Joker is trying to get Batman to break his rule and kill him, through what amounts to terrorism. In the face of all that, Batman refuses. But when it comes to Harvey Dent trying to enact some twisted justice by killing an innocent boy, Batman kills him. He does it because he has to, despite the entire film refusing to do so. At the end he has become the villain he always feared, but he embraces it (being the true hero).
Hi! Very nice video👍🏻
But just a quick point, you mispronounced the C in murciélago which sound like the soft th- English sound.
Great video for my 2nd favourite movie ... cheers bud.
Cheers mate
What's your first?
Believe it or not, the 1989 Batman movie is my absolute favourite.
Superman The Movie (1978) is my top movie@@stefanpoirier6810
Awesome video! Definitely the best Batman movie yet.
I’ve always wondered though, when the Joker gets picked up in the beginning of the movie, that he has the mask in his hand, wouldn’t that mean he’s standing there with his joker face already painted on? Wouldn’t the guys picking him up know he’s the joker already?
I assume there was no joker yet, and no one had met him, so might just seem like a random guy with face paint on. He set up the whole deal without ever meeting the goons.
Very nice video. Not new on most statesments, but yet very good
Yeah, honestly I’d be surprised if most of them hadn’t been found yet. Bit difficult with the movie being 12 years old but thanks for the comment
@@heavyspoilers I really love your content. Thanks for replying. As I said, the video is very well done, and sums up the details spread through lots of other places. And is very nice and entertaining. Virtual hugs (with proper social distancing) from Brazil
Something I just noticed now is that the black prisoner with the dreads at 22:08 is one of Gambol's men that was last seen at the mob meeting which Joker attended.
20:59 the joker isn't holding back the hammer of the gun, he just places his fingers over it for a second or two. You can even see this in the clip here, but it's even more evident in the full scene. It's only in a still that it looks like he has the hammer held back (although not in the still here).
That's a swing and a miss on that one!
I love coming home from work to a newly uploaded HeavySpoilers video
Heath Ledger And Joaquin Phoenix are the Best Onscreen Jokers
Who are offscreens?
Siddharth Biswas Mark Hamill
@@Carboxylated ok thanks
Ceasar romero!
Phoenix was not the clown prince of crime. Should've been a regular movie about a troubled guy. Great performance... Not The Joker
Fascinating very interesting! 👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks
You're welcome.
When joker and his goons are in the van discussing the split you can see Joker insert the magazine into his pistol and attempt to chamber a round, only for the slide to stay locked back until he hits the release. That means the magazine he just inserted is empty. I'm surprised nobody caught that lol
Thank you for your work with this vid, very enjoyable!
Thanks
I always assumed Joker knew about Batman identity in that interrogation scene.
I love your vidoes. It always puts me in a good mood.
Thanks
Nicely done! I love these movies
The Dark Knight is the best movie of all time in many ways...
Nolan is just a genius!
Batman Begins: Batman starts his journey.
The Dark Knight: Batman falls.
The Dark Knight Rises: Batman rises.
Genius is Nolan
Yeah such an incredible trilogy
at 18:21 when joker confronts dent in the hospital while dressed as a nurse,he has the 'DENT' Logo/campaign card on his uniform
Yup! Good catch
And people say Oppenheimer is Nolans finest work 😂😂😂😂
Just rewatched these and you put out this video perfect ⏱!!!
There’s never a bad time to watch the trilogy, so glad I hit on one of those time 😅
The hospital blowing up scene....Heath actually improvised specifically at the moment it stopped and him pushing the button on the remote multiple times as there happened to be a delay behind the scenes while setting off all the pyrotechnics due to they only had 1 shot and 1 go with the scene and wanted to make sure he would stay in character even if it didn't work out, that way they could digitally finish off the scene in post production....thankfully he did stay in character and they ending up setting off all the rest of the pyrotechnics giving us that great scene and him actually getting a jump scare when they started back up again.
I loved the idea with the S-Laughter, I actually laughed like a maniac. So simple... yet to brilliant
I love the idea that Mr Reece is the riddler! 15 years of watching it and I'd never thought of that!
When the joker is dressed as a nurse he has a harvey dent campaign sticker on!!
ofc this video comes out during one of my rewatches of the trilogy. Perfect timing
Ey hope you enjoy it
I think this video, and possibly your other videos, would be better if you showed a counter which went up by one with every detail explained.
RUclips isn letting me save this so I’m commenting and liking in case I forget to come back
Again and again another amazing video... do u even rest ? Thanks for sharing
Ey thank you, my editor did this so I’m lucky to have him
5:36 Joker uses dogs Chechen successfully used before on Batman. Joker literally got the Chechen dogs he was talking about before.
This channel deserves more subscribers ffs
Haven't watched whole video yet, but curious if you point out that both bruce and joker dont drink alcohol while Harvey does