"Blackmail Him?" THE DARK KNIGHT Scene (2008) DC 

This ''kid'' thing put it like that is so damn funny!

He had to learn the hard way later from being targeted due to others finding out he knows too much.

“If they don’t have brains they have no guts”- The fool (Me)

I feel like there are a lot of people like this. They have figured something out, but have not taken the time to think it trough, or getting a real understanding of it, before acting on it.

@@Telruin, yep! He reached the end of the rainbow but didn’t consider there was a Leprechaun who could kick guarding the gold.

To be fair he did. There was a whole plot point of him going to expose who Batman is and joker ordered him dead, otherwise he would blow up a hospital

@@danzansandeev6033which is great writing. He doesn’t want to know who batman is, does not care at all. Every time joker finds out he goes to some boring normal life

Wait so Superman is actually a journalist?, who knew 😂🤣

This reminds me of an interesting fan theory/canon that suggests that most mid to top tier criminals and villains in DC know who Superman, Batman, and other heroes' secret identities, or have a pretty decent enough idea. But they don't act on it, nor do they allow their underlings to even know, even eliminating those who find out. Simply because if someone did try to use it against said hero, the hero would drop their inhibitions and utterly destroy them and their enterprises. Its just not good for business to out Batman as Bruce Wayne or Superman as Clark Kent. Wayne and Kent have normal people responsibilities they have to juggle that occupies their time and attention. If that was exposed, they could go full time as their crime fighting persona. Or if they felt threatened, as stated above would go down a path no one, hero or villain wants.

My favorites are the lines that imply that, just because they now know Batman is Bruce Wayne, they could now easily beat him in a fight.

​@@taemien9219 makes sense..even criminals knows that there's a need for time to do crime...if the heroes go full time then the criminals won't have the time.

Damn fucking right, f bro, need a comic books based group asap​@@taemien9219

Studying acting in college, students were constantly told “try to make your scene partner look as good as possible.” When both people in a scene like this do that, magic happens, it’s plain to see.

Then he goes and says he knows who Batman is on live TV only to have a bounty on his head if he reviles the name by the bad guy. The realization of who saved him was just as funny. Both actors looking at each other saying nothing out loud but their faces saying a lot to each other.

I was scanning through the comments looking to see if someone made this exact observation. I’m glad I found yours, summed it up perfectly 🫡

Absolutely. His transition from mocking the next potential project, the rocket ship, to demanding what it'll take to keep quiet is perfect. His whole dialog feels natural and unforced.

Damn I came here just to say this

It's pretty much a given. It's the same with the Mafia and organized crime. Most people know who the bosses are and who did what crime. Going to the judge and testifying on the other hand, is often so dangerous is basically a death sentence. So what do you do when you know who the boss of a Mafia is and who he killed. You shut your mouth and move to another country. And continue life.

Also, Bruce can just sue him.

He implied both things lol either he will bear the crap out of you or no one wil buy your story since he has all the influences

That’s only part of the threat. He also mentions how wealthy and powerful Bruce is, he’s basically saying Bruce is going to sue your a** into the ground for defamation, slander, malicious business interference, trade secrets, etc. while using his influence to make sure you are never hired by anyone every again, that is, unless he doesn’t just decides to beat the sh*t out of you in the middle of the night.

​@@Nainco07 Or possibly both 😂😂

Or just like, use his immense wealth to hire some fixers.

Bruce Wayne has done such a good job of making his public face such a harmless twit that that's all Reese knew and all Reese considered -- rich idiot messing around, should be easy to push around. But Batman, oh . . . he's a different story altogether and Reese does not want to mess with the Bat. Even knowing intellectually that they're the same person, his brain can't quite catch up until forced to look at what it would mean to blackmail him if it's true.

​@@calliarcale and let's not forget that Fox started off with "the richest man in the world" so even if he was wrong, Bruce could still sue him into oblivion, or pay some guys to take him out of the picture

@@tbush6657 "One of the wealthiest . . ."

Yes but considering this veiled threat and the fact that Bruce Wayne literally saved his life a little while later probably helped in keeping his mouth shut.

Yeah you'd have to be a super scummy person to have someone save your life and then you betray them, luckily Reese is not the scum of the earth. Though in all honesty who would believe Reese if he said Bruce Wayne was batman.

You see him in the news later spilling the beans, I think in the third movie It's been a while, it's a background thing

@@Meganought I don't think so, Joshua Harto is not listed on the cast list for The Dark Knight Rises. You might be misremembering the scene later in The Dark Knight where he is on TV and trying to spill it, only to be interrupted by the Joker.

When keeping it real goes wrong.

Another one: "That went better in my head"

I thought the exact same thing.

Well that was the theory for a while, had Heath Ledger not died the third movie likely would've been quite different. No one can really say for sure though. That said, Mr. Reese being the character trying to blackmail Wayne here is very close to, "Mysteries."

Being overwatched by a huge corporation is one thing. Being overwatched by a NOTORIUSLY VIOLENT hiper resourceful vigilante with clear signs of genious intellect is something else entirely.

I would’ve said it differently instead of like black mail

He went in expecting some cash, returned with bullseye painted on his back

Lots of folks like that. Insanely smart .. totally unusable due to their arrogance.

$10mil a year is nothing to Batman lol

That’s fine. Bruce Wayne net worth’s is $10B so even if he lives another 70 years that’s only $700M aka 7% of his wealth over 70 years

​@@jd0879and that's assuming Wayne's wealth doesn't grow over those 70 years.

@@professormetal4411Ya exactly

Imagine how much money he could have made of he said he knew who batman is and wanted to help.

The problem is that even knowing The Secret he hadn't really accepted it intellectually. He KNOWS Bruce Wayne is a rich, harmless twit who pays people off rather than deal with problems the hard way. That's public knowledge. So blackmailing him seems safe and sensible. But what he hasn't really processed until that moment is that if he's threatening Bruce with the fact he's the Batman... ...HE'S THE BATMAN. And everything he thinks he knows about him is completely wrong.

Amused with a bit "please try it."

One of the best days of my life was back in November 2020 when my local Imax showed all three movies from the Nolan Batman films back to back.

he did say 'what are you making for him now a rocketship? implying that he knows Bruce is using Fox's tech for his batman mission

and even Joker caught wind of Reeses knowledge of Bruce being Batman and that's why he threatens Reese because he's gonna expose Bruce's secret identity

Exactly, this has always bothered me. I mean it is obvious they are giving batman tech but Lucuis confirms Bruce is batman

To be fair, it made very little difference. Even if Bruce wasn't Batman, Bruce could simply claim that his tech was copied or that he was threatened into handing it over. And on the off chance the guy *did* manage to take the case to court, Batman wouldn't be too happy in losing his main source of tech.

Actually, I'm sure, Reese figure it out himself. How could Fox get away using that much money without the boss punishing him... unless he work for the boss himself?

"You don't understand Mr Reese, I am not worried about legal liabilities, I am worried about you since you know what you should not have known. Either you want to live or you want to be a sacrificial lamb for a noble cause. Your choice ".

@@Hari-kx2er "I've done my research Mr. Fox. You can no more frighten me with idle threats than I could succeed at blackmailing Mr. Wayne or The Batman. I was paid to discover such discrepancies, that's what I found in the month covered by my retainer. Do pass my offer along to Mr. Wayne won't you? Oh and keep the file, it'll help you clean up that mess if my offer is ignored."

Or when you roll a Nat 1 on intimidation

He was killed by the people for trying to expose Batman

@@HMBRTOABLE No he wasnt

@@dvader3000did you not see the movie… joker killed him

@@itsmeprasad1987that was Lao not Reese.

He Must have realizes even If Nobody believes him getting famous by makig the Claim Is enough to get a sweet book Deal or whatever

@@ZgermanGuy. I was under the impression that he mostly just believed it to be right.

​​​​​​​@@dubbekingyou're right, the movie makes it clear that Reese was likely going to keep his mouth shut until people started dying at the Joker's hand, and the casualties continued to mount because Batman wouldn't turn himself in/give into the Joker's demands. He decided that he could bring an end to the killings if he went through and exposed Batman anyway. (Haha, no). So he arranges to expose/divulge Batman's identity with a news station. However this would spoil the Joker's fun, because then Batman wouldn't have a reason to submit himself/give into the Joker of his own free will and choice. So to prevent this, Joker tells the public to kill Reese before he can "spoil all the fun" or he'll blow up a hospital. In an interview scene with a news guy, that is advertising the future interview, Reese is shown saying that he planned to keep quiet, and hoped Batman would do "the right thing", but can't wait anymore. He tries to expose Batman, believing that he has a moral obligation to do so, or at least that's the public justification that he's giving for it. (Based on his characters other actions in earlier scenes like this one there are certainly other motivations like wanting to gain fame or wealth from exposing Batman that also probably feed into his decision, but the character only claims a moral obligation. However, if this was his only motivation he might've done it less publicly/more securely, by pre-recording his expose and sending that to the news, while also preparing it to be released online with some kind of dead man switch, so that even if his live interview failed/was covered up the evidence and testimony would still be released to the public. So perhaps there is some merit to the belief that he also did it for fame/wealth, and was counting on the publicity a news interview would give him, more than a secure leak.)

Right, because said bidder won't delete him AFTER getting that info...

Realistically you would never believe bruce is the batman but more likely bruce or other wealthy people are funding him.

Well blackmailing IS a crime. And he beats purse snatchers to a pulp too. That is not all the issue: if you seriously believe you can blackmail someone with that kind of money you dont live in our societies.

@@felipeduggan2812 honestly I would never blackmail someone. But if I did, that’s how I would have responded. If you’re gonna do something, do it right. Also just saying, if you think that blackmail doesn’t work in the real world you’re mistaken. I’m sure it definitely does. Maybe not all the time but definitely does. And to people with millions or even billions. Trump is currently in a hush money trial and it’s clear he did it. While not blackmail I think that’s blackmail adjacent imo. So it definitely happens. And yes that’s incredible sad and disappointing.

@@artieo5339 well first of all trump is a presidential candidate and they always have a corruption case. Probably most of his supporters still believe is all "fake news" so it doesnt really affects him? There is a difference between hush money & blackmail but i dont wanna go into that. This dude has more money that trump and he literally spends his nights in a bat costume beating criminals to a pulp, im not sure if you can even negotiate with someone like that. My point being is that if they dont put a bounty on your head is because you dont have intel they are really worried about. Take julian assange as an example of what power can do.