A masterpiece. Probably the best superhero movie ever made if not the best movie ever. Kids might not appreciate it bjt when they grow up they will appreciate it
21:17 this part was completely improvised by heath ledger because that was her first time seeing him in full makeup so that entire scene was all true fear from her
Morgan freeman character did not resign. When he was finished he did as batman told him he typed his name inti the machine and hit enter which triggered the machine to shut down and destroy the machine so that way he would be willing to stay at Wayne enterprises.
Yes, they actually blew up the hospital IRL. They also flipped a real truck for that chase scene. Christoper Nolan likes to use practical effects as much as possible.
Fun fact, the scene where joker interrupts Bruce Wayne's party and confronted Rachel the Rachel part was not scripted. You can see the actress look at the director a little worried on what's going on.
In that same scene, the old guy who he says reminds him of his father is democratc senator who is a huge batman fan and has done a number of cameos in various batman movies.
What's messed up is that the Joker told Batman the wrong adresses on purpose because he knew he was go for Rachel, not Dent. The Joker knew Batman would because he hurled himself out of a penthouse window to save her and let the Joker get away. And what's also sad is that when Rachel heard Batman saving Dent over the phone, she died believing Bruce had read the letter she left for him, and was so angry he was her for breaking the promise they made, he was choosing to let her die, not really knowing the Joker tricked him.
To this day stands as one of the greatest comic book films of all time. Really fascinating that when the hospital was supposed to blow up that Heath Ledger improvised his turning around and still trying to blow it up. RIP to the legend!! Hope you enjoy the 3rd movie!
Im glad you recognized that Harvey had a trick coin, and never intended on harming the joker's lackey. Its actually a really important detail. It shows that Dent always had a dark side that comes out when he feels powerless. He was just so accustomed to hiding and controlling that darkness that he only ever used it as a threat, he never felt the need to go "outside the system" to impose what he thinks is "fair", but when he loses Rachel, he feels that his ideals of justice were somehow wrong or incomplete, which is why he failed. That's what drives him off the deep end. He wants to kill the Joker, but that means crossing the moral line that he set down for himself, and it wouldnt fix anything either. He has survivor's guilt, he is suicidal when he is in the hospital which is why he is refusing treatment. The Joker understands that, so he presents Harvey with a very simplified version of his own perspective so it will resonate with him. He is basically telling Harvey that he can hate himself for failing, or hate the Joker for succeeding, but he should really hate the rest of the world for dumping their responsibilities on him, making him into a martyr to pay for their own weakness. That's why it resonates with Harvey, the Joker actually understands even if he is just using that knowledge to manipulate him. The fact that he gives Harvey the gun & tells him to let chaos & order decide, shows us that he isnt just saying that to be compelling, it is genuinely what he believes & how he views the world. He truly believes himself to be a victim of society who is just getting revenge, enjoying the "fun" that he's been denied. He relates to people who society labels "freaks", which is why he is willing to show this vulnerablity & reveal his motivations only to batman, and to Harvey after his "transformation". He frames this same perspective to Harvey as society denying him real "justice", which in the absence of his ethics & ideals manifests as the "dark" side of the coin that he has always denied or "repressed". Heath Ledger always gets honored for his acting, as he should, but Aaron Eckhart also does a phenomenal job showing both the heights & lows of this (arguably bipolar) character, it is a quick transformation but his great acting really sells it to the audience.
BEST BATMAN MOVIE EVER MADE! RIP Heath Ledger. He did one hell of a performance for the Joker, which won him an Oscar and his family accepted it in his memory.
So real opinion question- do u think it’s the best movie because Heath died? Or it would b either way? Cause u know sometimes when ppl die their legacy gets bigger than it may have otherwise just curious about ur opinions.
Best Batman movie ever made is a bit much. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is the superior Batman film. Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill are the definitive Batman and Joker. I love The Dark Knight Trilogy but DC Animation is superior.
@@jules3048 Nah. It was just an entertaining movie. Heath topped Nicholson as The Joker (even though he was still great), in my opinion. I know a lot of people would disagree with me, but meh. Even if Heath didn’t die, I think it would still be an overall great film.
SO MANY little details and stuff in this movie: 1) joker held the hammer cocked the whole time, so Harvey could NEVER had shot him 2) Heath Really took punches from Christain Bale in the face 3) the way joker grabbed rachel by the face was improvised thats why she looked away, sje was looking to the director and crew for help but they kept going 4) the joker news anchor scene was done without most of the crew knowing AND SO MUCH MORE
I have seen this movie dozens of times and that ending gets me every time. The music, Gordon’s monologue, Batman stumbling into the night chased by dogs.
Heath Ledger kept licking the sides of his mouth because the prosthetics for the scars would keep coming loose, so he did that to keep them in place. It became a great character tick. But the happy coincidence of it is that if you've ever had cuts on the edges of your mouth you really can't help but constantly lick at them.
My personal opinion about the Joker, and his motivations phenomenal job by Heath Ledger IMO, is that Alfred was closest to the mark in that "... some men just want to watch the world burn.". I knew someone when I was a child/growing up that, outside of a POW camp, had one of the roughest/tragic lives I have ever had the misfortune of knowing about (I learned about the truth of the situation well after the fact). Even more unfortunately the people responsible for his misery somehow managed to conceal it just enough that nothing was ever done. Eventually he got himself ended in a very violent and tragic circumstance. There is a good amount of truth to the saying that "hurt people, hurt people". I like that the movie didn't reveal the Joker's motivations. It's better to leave it up to the imaginations of the audience that way each of us is able to imagine the worst things that fit for us allowing the villian to be just that much worse for everyone. Some stories explain far too much and others far too little, I think this one found the perfect balance regarding the villian. Just my 2 cents worth though, really enjoyed yall's reaction to this masterpiece and am looking forward to the third of the series. Cheers!
This is one of my favorite Batman movies aside from Batman (1989). It’s the best Batman movie Christopher Nolan ever directed, and one of the best Batman movies ever made. Truly peak bat-cinema.
Maggie Gyllenhaal Is Jake Gyllenhaal's sister. Oh and the former Brach's candy factory on Chicago's West Side, which shut down in 2003, was used for the exterior of Gotham General Hospital, and it's the administration building that we see getting demolished for the sequence when the Joker blows it up.
Joker wanted to prove the people is just good and moral because the world allows them to be. If the world changes people will change. He proved it with Harvey dent
this has always and always will be my favorite batman movie and i’m 26 years old 😂 always awesome watching this one. i was watching all your x men reactions and saw this got uploaded today which was super cool!
It doesn't matter how many times I watch it. The Dark Knight elevated both the genre of action movies and comic book movies. *Batman is the best character in comics.* Always was. His origin story, his silhouette (from an artist's perspective), his gallery of Rogues, his supporting characters to include the Gotham City Police department, the bat family, all of it. I am more of a Marvel guy, *but I have said for many years that the best of the (non-cosmic) Marvel universe is essentially riffs on the Batman formula.* This is controversial, but Batman is the Justice League's only _actual_ character. The rest of DC's Pantheon of heroes, is lovable as they are, are archetypes. Not characters. DC's villains tend to be characters that mess with the archetypal heroes. That's why we all love DC's villains. Since Marvel characters are actually characters, you don't even need villains in marvel. A lot of the times, one Marvel hero is another Marvel hero's villain!
Y'all caught that Joker's scar story changes every time. I believe it's a nod to a legendary comic book called Batman:The Killing Joke, where Joker says "If I have to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!"
My fav comic book flick. Such a great movie. Remember me and my bro seeing this like 5 times when it came out. Rip Heath Ledger. Great reaction y'all🤘🤘
Its my opinion that the Joker custom-designs his origin story to terrify the person he's talking to. 1.)His origin was about a nightmarish father when talking to mobster Gambol, b/c, statistically, Gambol probably came from a fatherless broken home which helped direct him to a life of crime and in his heart of hearts Gambol would have liked to have a father. Moral of Joker's 1st story to the gangster: "fear your dreams., son" 2.)His origin about a woman robbed of her beauty which destroys her marriage was for Rachel, a woman beautiful enough to engage a good and important man. If she loses her beauty will her life be destroyed, too? If so, her beauty is her cage and time is her jailer. Moral of Joker's 2nd story to the engaged woman: "fear your dreams, pretty lady."
Playing the Joker may have been an emotional catharsis for Heath Ledger..he was going through a split with his wife and separation from his daughter Matilda... RIP Heath Ledger... Awarded Best Actor posthumously... 🌿🌿🌿
Yes, they blew up an old building in the outskirts of Chicago. It was all over the news leading up to the explosion. And they really flipped that truck in downtown Chicago too.
This movie is the definition of CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE! It's so damn good! I saw it in theaters and that fake Batman hitting the window LOUD AF! Fun fact: the hospital was supposed to blow up all in one shot but the pyro malfunctioned and Ledger reacted in character. Nolan thought it fit the Joker's fractured psyche and kept it in the movie. RIP Heath Ledger, you greatly deserved the Oacar your truly iconic performance in this movie won.
The hospital explosion thing is a myth. Long ago debunked by cast and crew. They specifically planned and rehearsed the delay in explosions. The scene happened as intended.
@@Omne118 Then people need to stop spreading lies. Everything I've read about it said it was true. The cast and crew shouldn't have debunked it, it's a much better explanation than it being intentional.
Yeah, just like Bruce Lee with Enter the Dragon. Shame they never got to see the finished product and audience reaction to the films that would ultimately be their legacy.
@@nutz0148 That's actually a myth. It wasn't improvised. There was always supposed to be a delay between the explosions. The pause was planned by Nolan as a means to do the scene practically and keep Ledger safe.
Just my theory: If either of the people on the boat triggered the explosion, it would have blown up their own boat. The Joker lies constantly; he lied about the location of Rachel and Harvey with the oil drums, he lied about his scars, I am sure he was lying about what the remotes would do.
No, this time it's not a lie. He genuinely wanted those people to kill each other, to go down to his level. Whoever come out of that "social experiment" alive, would've been people who have murder another to save themselves. He fought for Gotham's soul, not just killing people.
@@SatrioWibisono-o3m Maybe, but he also said he was an agent of chaos, which could imply a situation where you agonize over choices which in the end don’t make a difference and any control you think you have is an illusion, which is a way of sullying Gotham’s soul, because there can be no moral choices in such a framework. (Kind of like voting, but that’s another argument) But even if you were right, because he is known to be unreliable, you couldn’t trust him, which also makes the choice meaningless, which is still chaos. For all they knew, it could be a 💣 on a timer, and the “trigger” was an off switch. And even that, like we saw at the hospital when his trigger initially malfunctioned, could be unreliable and not work, meaning the Joker wouldn’t even be guaranteed to know if it worked. True chaos, since even he couldn’t know that his own control/controller would work.
Some fun facts: 1) The actor who plays Rachel never saw Heath in makeup or him acting as Joker on set, so at the charity scene when he crashes the party, she was genuinely in shock and fear. 2) Heath's scar makeup kept on falling off, so his tongue lick was to keep them on but it worked so well they didn't edit them out. 3) The old man who says "we will not be intimidated by thugs" during the charity scene was an active US Senator at the time that asked to be in the film because he was such a fan of Batman. 4) The hospital blow up scene was actually real, they used real explosives on a real building. Because of this, they only had one shot to shoot the scene. When Joker was walking away and the explosions randomly stopped, they really malfunctioned. Joker hitting the remote and confused was real but because that was what the Joker would have done in real life, plus they only had one chance at that scene, they kept it in.
The Joker tells a different origin story each time because he tailors the story to who he's addressing, so that he can disturb them and also just to see their reaction. In The Killing Joke graphic novel, Joker says that "if I did have an origin story, I prefer it to be multiple choice"
They were filming this during a comic book convention in Chicago, and during one of the DC panels they told us to be at a certain place in the convention center at a certain time in the morning. We got to the place on the morning and we were given a t shirt, and a note to be at a certain panel later that evening. When we got into that panel, it had Christoper Nolan, Aaron Eckhart, and Gary Oldman, and we were shown the first trailer with footage of Heath as Joker, and Aaron confirmed he was playing Two-Face. Best convention ever. The actor playing the mayor played a character named Batmanuel in the live action Tick series
The funny thing for me that I remember as I was watching it was how kinda of mad😆😆😆 i got with how Joker kept so much ahead of the police😆😆. How Joker was having the police play right into his hands😆
Gambol (Michael Jai White, Spawn himself) actually wasn't supposed to die. He was going to come back seeking revenge on the Joker, That's why you never see his body. When Heath Ledger died, it made sense to have people assume he was killed.
Best movie with Batman in it💪🏻 I still prefer begins and rises for the aspect that batman is actually the main lead for those I still like dark knight but it’s obviously the story was mostly revolving around the start of 2face and joker just being a menace and even with the new batman he’s him for 99% of the movie 😂 and the 1% is emo Bruce.. guardians2 and this even if I have some gripes about it, these are my favorite trilogies and I can have my own nitpicks nothing has to be perfect for everyone shocker 🤯 batfleck was just Batman to me he had the look wasn’t grounded just legit badass Batman but the script and the amount of screen time was diabolical. He was Batman in like 4 movies for a total of 14 minutes 💀 it’s the what could’ve been kills me inside 😩
With Joker, he explained his motivation to Harvey in the hospital - he sees all the "good" people (or people we consider as good) succeeding in Gotham, but even they have their own agendas and those "good" people aren't really all that good - So his motivation is to show Gotham and all the powerful people that just because you've got an agenda, it doesn't make you good... agendas and plans don't make you a good person. Take away the plan and the agenda and let's see how "good" you really are! I suspect in his past that some authority figure or father figure DID mess him up and DID do some nasty things to him and this is him "sticking it to the man" to show them how corrupt they are. Also with that scene where Joker blows up the hospital - where he seems to be having issues with the detonator and he has to hit it a few times - that was 100% for real. On the day of shooting the scene, that detonator malfunctioned and it delayed the explosion which is why he looked confused. The explosion malfunctioned and went off late and it worked so well so they left it in the movie.
I still wonder which detonator went to which boat. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were to their own boats. That’s what’s fun about good character building, though. They didn’t need to answer that question, and it adds even more to the Joker’s enigmatic image.
7:55 He doesn't want to take more damage but be faster, he wants to be faster so that he can avoid taking more damage. That's why he wanted to drop the weight of the heavier suit. The tradeoff for being faster and more agile meant that he wasn't as protected because of the spacing between the armor. The other larger, heaver suit was all enclosed. Interesting, though, in real life, his newer suit was actually heavier than his old one.
heath ledger's joker had a personal epiphany: social order will not keep you safe and happy. something broke him. but his misery wants company. so he's become obsessed with teaching the same lesson to everyone in gotham, by every method possible, including lies, murder and terrorism. and the only way to teach a person that the rules and principles that keeps them civil are utterly pointless is to find that proverbial "one rule" that they won't break and trap them in an impossible predicament to force them to break it. sadly, harvey dent became the joker's master's thesis.
The best Batman live action movie of all time and one of the best superhero movies of all time Heath Ledger is the Joker and that's no knock on Jack Nicholson version Plus Two Face theme is iconic
His tic of licking his lips, was and is an accident. His lip prosthetic was coming loose. So he would lick his lip to keep it on. Turned it into a performance
The one thing that disappointed me in this movie is we are not going to see the ultimate ending of The Joker because of Heath Ledger's passing. He died before the finished film and he was supposed to be in the 3rd movie too.
Already seen it on patreon but that was a lil while ago, kinda drunk on my 2 days off from work too, so let’s give it a rewatch. Watched this in theaters at 8 years old w the fam, already loved batman before that but this movie pretty much solidified it. Batman is goated, I’d put batman w prep time up against just ab anyone
The Joker movie that you guys watched wasn't meant to go along with the rest of this series. I don't think it was the ACTUAL origin story for THIS particular Joker.
This version of the Joker, is so relatable, if you’ve been through pain in your life. Just as with every hero and villain story, they’re usually two sides of the same coin…they just chose two different paths to deal with the pain. Joker wanted destruction and Batman wanted goodness. Most of us, end up choosing a path closer to the Joker than to Batman; It’s why he’s the hero…someone who we’ll never actually be, but wish we were. The Boat Scene Notice that the civilians actually voted to blow up the criminals’ boat… The only difference between convicted criminals and civilians is… Civilians are just criminals who haven’t been caught yet.
It's more than just wanting to preserve the symbol. The reason Batman took the fall for Harvey Dent is because if they knew Harvey Dent was going around committing murders they would've freed all of the criminals that were arrested and prosecuted as a result of Harvey Dent and they would all have to be retried in the courts in a corrupt city. Also I watched CyberChase all the time as a kid on PBS. I always hated math but I loved that show. 🙂
The Dark Knight, The Godfather 2, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, Winter Soldier, X2, Spiderman 2, Aliens. I might add Dune Part 2, and Across the Spider verse after the third ones get released
30:23 They only have one chance to do this practical stunt in real street. Not in a studio of cgi. 40:38 There was an actually practical explosion and there's one explosive didn't go off and Ladger just play along when the delayed explosion happens like it was planned.
@@-zerxvil-5208 The following has been said by Christopher Nolan, the director, himself about this scene: "Chris [Corbould] and his guys, working very closely with the demolition team, they were able to come up with a scenario in which Heath [Ledger] could actually be walking out of the building. Because what Chris worked out is if we put in a little beat where the first set of explosions stops, as if something has gone wrong, and the Joker just takes a second to look around, surprised, like the audience is surprised, then the major demolition comes in, and he jumps straight in the school bus. In that way, he was able to come up with a practical scenario in which we could actually take a principal actor, walk him out of a building that's about to be destroyed, and literally drop a building to the ground." and... "We rehearsed endlessly with Heath that morning. We walked him out, going through exactly what he was going to do. Chris Corbould calling the explosions where they would take place. We rehearsed it, I think, about 12 times, I think, we literally walked him out, videotaped the rehearsal, and looked at it from different camera angles. Heath was such a perfectionist to be so precise in what he was doing, which was essential because this was obviously a one-take thing, and the angle I knew that we really needed, despite all of the other cameras we set, we really needed that close shot on him walking out to work perfectly. He did it very, very precisely. I don't know how he resisted looking back, you know, all of the explosions and lightweight material that the special effects guys were blowing behind him. I think he winded up with bits in his hair at the end of it, so close he was to everything that was going off."
Is Micheal Keaton the best Batman? Yes. Is jack Nicholson the best joker? Yes. But this is a very iconic film. But type in here, Michael Keaton gives a Batman commencement speech! And yes, the clicking bomb clicked was addlibbed. Yes, the hospital scene where harvel and joker are talking........was a series of taped conversations. Afterwards, Chris says, i have enough. Heath turns to Aaron and says," Now THAT'S acting!". He died before the movie is is over, some of his bits are CGI!
Typically, Robin has been a hard character to bring to the screen. He has one of those costumes that doesn't translate well to RL (or an even slightly grounded Batman movie). I mean, classic Robin basically wears a red polo tucked into a belted green speedo, an outfit he finishes with green elbow gloves, green elf shoes, and a short yellow cape. If you're a filmmaker, try to make THAT make sense in a movie where Batman spends 90% of his time stealthing through shadows and leaping into/out of the darkness. Every scene would have to start with Batman saying, "Robin, you wait in the car..." or else every fight scene would start with a criminal saying, "Hey! Who's that kid in the bright spandex trying to sneak into the room? And, yo, there's Batman right next to him! Shoot them!"
The Joker was a nihilist, but he ultimately was a master manipulator. I’ve always believed Joker, despite his proclaimations of being an “agent of chaos” and a “dog chasing cars” had a method to his madness. He never intended to actually kill Batman but rather the idea of the Batman. At the start of the film, Batman has become something of an urban legend who has inspired others to stand up to the criminals of Gotham. Joker wanted to show that Batman could be corrupted just like any other man under the right circumstances. When he actually realized that he couldn’t corrupt Batman, he turned his attention to Harvey Dent. Ironically, by Batman choosing to take the fall for Two-Face’s crimes, the public’s trust in Batman eroded, thus kinda making Joker’s mission to destroy the image of Batman somewhat of a success. A complete side note… too many reactors keep thinking Dent’s downfall was solely because of Rachel’s death. It wasn’t. Dent really broke because the system he fought hard to defend helped put him and Rachel in harm’s way (the two corrupt cars who basically gave Rachel and Dent to the Joker). People need to remember that first interaction Dent had with Gordon; he had already referenced a precious investigation of those very two cops during his time in IA and he made his apprehension of those cops being in Gordon’s MCU known. Gordon made it clear that he had to make do with the resources he was allowed, and while that was true, for Dent, it could’ve been interpreted as indifference, negligence, or flat-out cowardice. THAT’S why he held Gordon responsible for Rachel’s death, and because he believes Gordon was at fault for keeping those corrupt cops around, he believed the only apology Gordon could muster is if he actually knew it felt like to lose someone. Two-Face’s actions were reprehensible, but when you actually rewatch the film and see things from a different lens, his feelings WERE justified.
You should watch the 1966 "Batman" movie. And brace yourself for major culture shock to discover the image that the public had of Batman back then (when I was a little kid).
Joker said he plans nothing....yet from the time the Chinese guy was caught, untill he freed himself, all planned. The gangster in the boat, in Friday, and president in fifth element! The tv announcer.... sixteen candles, weird science, breakfast club!
Batman existed long before Robin. In the comics, Batman took on the kid when his parents died and the kid became Robin. But he was Batman long before that happened. So there are lots of stories with just Batman before Robin ever existed.
The older gentleman at the party? The one Joker says reminds him of his father? Actual U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont. He loves being in Batman movies (even doing VO in cartoons).
Saw this on an Air Force base in Kyrgyzstan in late 08 after a deployment to Afg. It was great but, damn if that screen didn't suck. Didn't do the film justice.
R. I. P Heath Ledger. Best joker there ever was. Just putting it out there. Another great Christopher Nolan movie you guys should check out is *The Prestige*
Joker definitely has some beefs: the mob, does not like it when he is called freak, society, clear anger seen when his social experiment didn't go as planned. Its not about money, its about sending a message. Crime should be done for the joy of crime. Batman adds a worthy foil as mob fools are easy to undercut (they are motivated by money) and the police are boxed in by rules (schemers/planners he can take control from). One theory I think has a lot of merit is Joker is former military and became jaded because of it. It explains his know-how of all sorts of weapons and tactical ability.
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