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The Dark Knight - Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn: Alfred (Michael Caine) advises Bruce (Christian Bale) about the Joker (Heath Ledger).
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With the help of allies Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and DA Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman (Christian Bale) has been able to keep a tight lid on crime in Gotham City. But when a vile young criminal calling himself the Joker (Heath Ledger) suddenly throws the town into chaos, the caped Crusader begins to tread a fine line between heroism and vigilantism.
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Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine
Director: Christopher Nolan
Producer: Christopher Nolan
Screenwriter: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
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@parallels9010 Год назад

“Some men…just want to watch the world burn…” one of my favorite lines of all time.

@reganator5000 Год назад

Also the earlier 'you hammered to the point of desperation, and in their desperation they turned to a man they didn't fully understand'. Because Alfred already knows that the mob hiring the Joker isn't going to end well for the mafia bosses, because the sort of man who wants to watch the world burn isn't so fussed as to who's in the flames.

@kps.77 Год назад

This! And when Bruce asks how they dealt with the bandit and Alfred said - "we burnt down the forest!"

@MPfit2 7 месяцев назад

Next tattoo

@philippusviridi6527 6 месяцев назад

This sums op the democrat party in a nutshell.

@SamuelBlack84 5 месяцев назад

I know how they feel

@kevinperkins4376 Год назад

“It’s not about money. It’s about, sending a message” ~The Joker~

@TheGoodLuc 9 месяцев назад

"Everything burns."

@TheJoker12323 6 месяцев назад

"Do I look like I care about money, doc? I just want my monsters!" ~The Joker~

@abisheksarkar 3 месяца назад

I thought that was my dialogue during clash of clans. "It's not about the loot, it's about sending a message."

@tronsnow4763 2 месяца назад

That would be the mirror quote/The Joker confirming Alfred’s diagnosis of him…

@CHlNAZI 2 месяца назад

first class criminal 😅

@StepaniM Год назад

One of the most powerful and scary lines in cinema in my opinion. As kids, villains were just villains, and heroes were just heroes. With time, we learned that heroes are flawed and that villains are wounded. This was the first time since childhood that our generation (born in 1990-95) saw one of the best known monsters brought to the big screen and he wasn’t a wounded child or broken man. He was the same kind of monster we knew villains to be as children. Someone who just wanted to watch the world burn.

@t34r 11 месяцев назад

Not every villain needs a sad motivation. Sometimes it's also cool to see a villain who is unapologetically evil.

@zacharytrosch3406 11 месяцев назад

This is deeper than that. The cackling cartoon villains of our childhood were evil because they wanted power, they wanted to rule the world, or they had the specific aim to destroy or take over something. Joker's evil is more terrifying because there is absolutely no driving force behind it, except chaos for chaos's sake.

@christianjimenez199 9 месяцев назад

@zacharytrosch3406 The spiritual realm exist, was Alfred was getting to is so much deeper than we can imagine

@Sanarthain 9 месяцев назад

Not rly, If you see Joker the movie you can get a good point in why this villains are villains too.

@christianjimenez199 9 месяцев назад

@Sanarthain Heath Ledger resembled something different, it displayed reality in some way.

@zvicm Год назад

"some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." - Alfred Pennyworth

@feet9100 Год назад

Agreed 🔥 📛

@reganator5000 Год назад

Though he does kind of overlook the reasonable moral perspective on his example (i.e. a man taking a stance against corruption who couldn't out-bribe the british government. Few people can, given we already stole their money)

@AnkaraMessi-p8g Год назад

Sounds awfully similar to the Terminator

@laughtergang246 Год назад

Entropy

@Wh4L205 Год назад

The Dark Knight Script writer has entered the chat*

@thewanderingronin5433 Год назад

Alfred was spot on. Joker was the first time bruce faced such a pure and chaotic evil, that's was without rhyme, reason, or purpose. The type of person who'll commit atrocities and laughs while doing and when asked why, he'll say " for the hell of it"

@equivalentexchangeisalie5726 Год назад

True. The complete opposite of Ras and his moral code.

@b3n583 Год назад

⁠@@equivalentexchangeisalie5726definitely. He wasn’t like Bane & Ras Al Ghul who wanted to put everyone at an economically & socially equal status. He cared for nobody’s social or economic status. By destroying morals and government, he could unleash humanity’s true nature. And humanity would do whatever it takes, even eating and killing each other, to survive. Joker in a sense reminded of Kim Jong il from Team America.

@FourLuckyLeafs Год назад

When asked he’ll say “because I can”

@thespinosaurus2972 9 месяцев назад

But wasn’t the actions of joker seem like trying to show peoples true selves ? In the boat experiment he expected one group of people to blow up the others,And this is further supported by the intergoation scene I believe.

@thespinosaurus2972 9 месяцев назад

I mean sure he is the most evil out of batmans enemies but he doesn’t seem to be doing this for the hell of it

@jackhsu3458 Год назад

Alfred: "You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand. With respect Master Wayne, Perhaps this is a man you don't fully understand either." Such powerful words, Batman maybe tough and skilled, but compare to what Alfred has been through, Batman has a long way to go.

@theoutlawking9123 Год назад

Alfred is former SAS, a trained killer. Bruce is afraid to spill blood, he's a child, not in Alfred's league.

@martianknight6341 Год назад

@@theoutlawking9123 -high 5-

@TheCHILDRENofTV Год назад

@@theoutlawking9123yes and yes

@mediumchungus9662 11 месяцев назад

@@theoutlawking9123always cracks me up when children like you make comments like that 😂

@seanrodrigues8184 11 месяцев назад

@@mediumchungus9662🤓

@cesaralejandro7725 Год назад

Alfred saying some men just want to watch the world burn is so true. Some people don’t care about money, and just want to hurt people.

@teddybruscie Год назад

Not even hurt people as much as just creating chaos or destroying a system. I think people refer to Ledger's Joker as an Anarchist. I don't know how accurate that is, but if that is the case his goal is destroy the system by any means necessary. Or he's just a chaotic mad man who neither wants to hurt or not hurt anyone.

@juanzingarello4005 Год назад

Its a perfect encapsulation of the type of antagonist the Joker is. Other enemies fit the bill too. I think of Vile from the Megaman X series when he says "Mayhem, Doom, and Destruction. That's what we were built for."

@operator9858 Год назад

that all sounds great...except the bandit wasnt a bandit and was just trying to protect his home and who couldnt be bought, and it was alfred who actually burned down the forest didnt he? and the real magic here? none of you noticed and cheer him as the hero.

@randomfullywonderful Год назад

Democrats.

@cesaralejandro7725 Год назад

@Garda X facts

@pandaman1331 Год назад

I really liked the chemistry between Alfred and Bruce in this trilogy. Christian Bale and Michael Caine aren't just great actors, their dynamic was great. Couldn't have been cast better.

@lordgoro Год назад

Look up "the Prestige"

@pandaman1331 Год назад

@@lordgoro Already seen it multiple times. Great movie, perfect cast.

@equivalentexchangeisalie5726 Год назад

@@pandaman1331 Have you seen the Illusionist with Edward Norton? Watch that too.

@Foxtyl Год назад

Hmmn I think Gerald Butler would of been more amazing as Batman. Michael ahh just spot on. 😊

@pandaman1331 Год назад

@@equivalentexchangeisalie5726 Thanks for the recommendation.

@Seba-yv2sl Год назад

That thief in Birma, how did you catch him? We burned the forest down ~ Alfred

@ronaldgrall8100 Год назад

Burma

@themagroom Год назад

@@ronaldgrall8100Myanmar

@ronaldgrall8100 Год назад

@@themagroom ramree island

@themagroom Год назад

@@ronaldgrall8100The Battle of Ramree Island is the scariest story of all time. Good pull, Ronald!

@ronaldgrall8100 Год назад

@@themagroom F yeah

@DinoJake Год назад

"Some men just want to watch the world burn." The more time goes by, the more I'm convinced how true these words really are.

@kiplingordon Год назад

Couldn't agree more 👏🏿

@laughtergang246 Год назад

Entropy only goes up

@w_419 7 месяцев назад

Like Harvey said "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

@nomenestomen3452 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, i bet this phrase have 80% of all MAGA's tattooed under their right axle.

@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive 2 месяца назад

Read the Bible and have this knowledge given to you hard and straight: Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes, for example. Or in profound depth in the point of view of people interacting with other humans: Genesis, Exodus, 1st & 2nd Samuel, for example.

@dtay8913 Год назад

It's sadly poetic you guys uploaded batman videos today and we find out Mr. Kevin Conroy has passed. Rest in peace Batman.

@dominictrujillo3323 Год назад

No... Batman is dead? 😢

@bighand1530 Год назад

@@dominictrujillo3323 Unfortunately.

@claudia-uy5gk Год назад

Rest In Peace ❤

@mq5731 11 месяцев назад

Mark Hamil will never do a Joker impression ever again…😢

@JustBobbyZ Год назад

God this scene is so perfect. The way the music builds after Alfred says his speech and it pans to the Joker laughing

@espi371 Год назад

Right? Every shot and use of soundtrack is well thought out.

@GhostEye31 9 месяцев назад

"..My friends and I were working for the local government." Alfred juat casually dropping that he used to be a mercenary without making anything of it.

@aquietone2895 8 месяцев назад

Powerful

@Mirar25 24 дня назад

British Special forces, Burma was a British-India province where there was a lot of potilcial meddling to upset any resistance or dissenters

@silenthunder85 19 дней назад

@Mirar25 yes.. Alfred was SAS, and has seen war, whereas Batman has only seen crime

@OR56 8 часов назад

“We were working for the bandit, the size, of a tangerine. So we went looking for the local government, and in six months, we found a tangerine…”

@Hunts4luv 11 месяцев назад

The greatest part about this scene imo is that Alfred fundamentally misunderstands the thief as well, which is really the entire point of the story. The government was using the gems to bribe the local tribesmen in exchange for loyalty. The thief removes the gems to presumably remove the bribery and in response the government burns down the whole forest in order to catch him. The story reflects the entire movie and adds to the unreadable multilayered aspect of the jokers character. It indirectly reveals his motives.

@easy0828 10 месяцев назад

Wasnt Alfred a British spy? It would make sense that he helps the "government"/junta in Myanmar with corruption, killing freedom fighters and all that.

@danielbetru2826 10 месяцев назад

This is my interpretation also. It's amazing this goes over most people's heads. The bandit is misunderstood.

@dloc3576 8 месяцев назад

But didn't you just repeat what Alfred had already said? Or do u mean AT THE TIME, Alfred didn't understand the bandit?

@horrorking6409 8 месяцев назад

I’m a little confused

@Whoyouwishyouwere 7 месяцев назад

You have no idea if that the bandit actually did that to help the people. If he really desired to have done that then he probably would've made it known that he despised the British regime and wants them gone, but he never did. He just enjoyed raiding and stealing as a hobby.

@Baseds_Backup_Account Год назад

"There's nothing worse than a person with nothing left to lose."

@epic9203 Год назад

"Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn" is probably the most honest thing said about the Joker and is the most accurate. It doesn't matter what his past is nor his backstory of why he is who he is. He just is what he is....

@darania1 8 месяцев назад

Joker is Chaos Incarnate & Batman is Justice Incarnate...

@johnstjohn1987 Год назад

This Movie was a MASTERPIECE. God Bless you Christopher Nolan.

@dontstop2517 Год назад

Michael Caine my god, such a way to tell a story.

@operator9858 Год назад

ya...he can even convinced everyone that the other guy who couldnt be bribed and didnt want to see his land ravaged was a bandit and all things evil while he was the one who burned the whole place to the ground so they could get rich. what a microcosm for our way of life ya?

@lithobreak3812 Год назад

@operator9858 it seems that the bandit in the story was unrelated to the tribal leaders, if he was a freedom fighter he would have used money from selling the stone to fund anti colonial efforts, but that is besides the point, as trying to pin a motivation or alignment on the bandit is missing the whole point of the story

@Nantosuelta Год назад

Michael Cane is one of the greatest actors of all time and this is a great example of his true talent

@TreeckoBro 10 месяцев назад

It's a sad truth that there are indeed people out there that cause misery and suffering for the sake of it. No reason for it. No justification.

@just_another_ 2 месяца назад

It is not sad. Those men show the 'system' and its flagbearers, how vulnerable they really are.

@felipecel Год назад

RIP Kevin Conroy, the batman's definite voice.

@bighand1530 Год назад

He will be messed

@charlygray4166 Год назад

I’M BATMAN

@anthonybraeckman3960 10 месяцев назад

Same with Arleen Sorkin and Richard Moll

@Zombiesnyder13 Год назад

"GREED IS FOR AMATEURS"

@w_419 7 месяцев назад

"Disorder, Chaos, Anarchy... NOW *THATS* FUN!"

@user-FUCKYOU18 6 месяцев назад

US lobbyists don't care about you

@S.D.323 4 месяца назад

I understood that reference

@ianroth7178 Год назад

I saw a tangerine playing with a ruby the size of a child

@25_26 Год назад

akcomar

@RafaelAlmeida-dp1tb 6 месяцев назад

I saw a ruby playing with a child The size of a tangerine

@novemberalpha6023 9 дней назад

There was a character named Tangerine in the movie Bullet Train

@husky3g Год назад

Michael Cain should have gotten an oscar for his performance as Alfred in The Dark Knight. Having actors as good as Christian Bale and Michael Cain lead a superhero film makes them absolutely ludicrous. They're so good. I really believe that the reason these movies were so successful wasn't because it was Batman. It was simply because the script and the actors were perfect. I understand bringing in action stars for these movies - but people forget the reason that people love the characters in comic book films is because of the characters, not the action. If your actor can't portray a realistic version of the character that people believe, sure it can still be fun but it won't give people an experience of being in the situation. I feel like Bale's Batman was 100% thrown under the bus. Sure, they traded a lot of the actual comic canon of the character and the more "detective" nature of Batman to the wind for action and story, but I feel like this character could have been so much more. I am still sad that we've not gotten a Superman film that accurately portrays Clark and gives him a personality. The closest anyone has ever come was Tom Welling and he refused to don the cape ever again after the Smallville finale.

@equivalentexchangeisalie5726 Год назад

That's how superhero movies used to be made. Director and character driven. Spider-Man 2, Dark Knight etc.

@King_Of_Arkham626 Год назад

A line that perfectly describes me when I'm playing GTA

@novemberalpha6023 9 дней назад

GTA : Gotham Tour of Action - Joker

@march.7561 Год назад

There's a cool detail about this movie. Alfred talks about a bandit who stole precious stones (a very valuable currency) and threw them away, saying that some men want the world to burn. Later, Joker stole milllions of dollars and literally burned it.

@chad3232132 2 месяца назад

Not only did Joker burn his share of the stolen money, he mocked the other criminals for not burning their share, speaking about how Gotham deserves a better class of criminals, who aren't motivated by money.

@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 Год назад

One o f the best trilogy ever

@nickmedley4749 Год назад

Still get goosebumps…what a great line.

@Dewebje 5 месяцев назад

Story goes that when Nolan asked Caine to play Alfred, he refused because to him it was just a butler. But then Nolan told him Alfred would be way more and Caine agreed. This scène is an example of why Caine was the right choice.

@justbigstepbro9167 Месяц назад

This line of dialogue honestly taught me a lot. His alfred is def top 3

@smaranbhaktawara3905 Год назад

Chills down my back once Alfred said that quote

@kyufc3s Год назад

*"well. because he thought it was good sport."* the subtle sarcastic tone in this serious quandary is what got my attention, the rest is the sundae with the catch line being the cherry on top.

@princessolmeca2933 6 месяцев назад

"Some men just want to watch the world burn." *In the Minds of Evil begins*

@cthrekgoru Год назад

This is the most awesome description of Joker.. . So simple but so accurate...

@RCaIabraro Месяц назад

The best villains are always simple to understand.

@vengeance3996 Год назад

My childhood Batman 🦇🦇🦇

@LoveHandle4890 Год назад

It’s a cycle of rebuilding and destruction and rebuilding and it never ends either.

@matane2465 Год назад

"Criminals aren't complicated, Alfred. 🎶They're a superstitious cowardly. They plan and plot but always get caught.🎶"

@MattDoesLife539 Год назад

"Did you catch the bandit?" "Yes" "How?" "...We burnt the forest.."

@Baseds_Backup_Account Год назад

"It's a lot scarier when there's no motive."

@KG-kq9tk 4 месяца назад

1:08. I really like Bruce's quick reaction here. Bale's acting choice, wether intentional or not, makes it look like Bruce understood right there, before Alfred was even done speaking. Bruce is smart. It "clicked" eight there, and he immediately looks up at the screen to stare at Joker, realizing what he is. And he lets Alfred finish the story only to confirm the point to himself plus his basic manors and respect for Alfred of course. And then of course filmmaking wise, the audience needs to be told as well. But you can see Brice immediately snap into focus as soon as he "gets it" and realized what he's really dealing with.

@yitivitzen5239 Год назад

This is what makes this Joker and many other jokers scary, they have become an unstoppable force. They are men that have nothing to lose. It is to the point that even death isn't really a factor for them.

@TheWarthogRunGame 2 месяца назад

The joker didn't feel too relevant in 2008 but now in 2024 it really feels like some men just want to watch the world burn

@thesimpsons17 4 месяца назад

Most perfect description of The Joker there has ever been

@kotarofuuma5608 Год назад

Alfred already told him that he can't changed joker, he can't be cured. The longer you let him lived, the more lives he's gonna take. Sometimes killing is necessary. The ideology that bruce trying to keep didn't apply when he's fighting superman, his literal friend just because superman has different ideology.

@theoutlawking9123 Год назад

Exactly, it's funny that Bruce still hasn't learned what he needed to from that story, what Alfred was tryingto tell him: stop giving madmen chances!

@Local_yokels_monsters_myths Год назад

Academy award winning acting, love that “LIMEY”!!! JJ

@libertas_americana Год назад

The irony of Alfred saying that. How was the bandit caught? Alfred and his friends burnt the forest down lol

@cindyr8656 3 месяца назад

Alfred is literally talking about the men in charge of the world in real life. They don’t care about anyone or anything. They just want to make the rest of us miserable. That line stuck with me since 8th grade and I realized how true it is with people around me sometimes.

@JD-ro4qi 10 месяцев назад

i love the parallel. in the gcpd’s desperation they turn to a man they didn’t understand and couldn’t be reasoned with and gotham’s crime lords did the same with joker…

@canadianturtle7240 Год назад

The delivery of that line was perfect. Great work, everyone who was involved in this scene. The actor, writer, director, y'all made cinematic history.

@junior3dc 3 месяца назад

I’m just now realizing that this is almost exactly how Kyle Reese explains the Terminator to Sarah Conner. “Listen and understand: It is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop -ever. Until you are dead.”

@Thoralmir 4 месяца назад

In a world of criminals with "normal" motivations like greed, ideologies, or revenge, the idea that someone being motivated simply to further the cause of Evil in the world seems almost inconceivable.

@jhlasound 11 месяцев назад

Too many times Hollywood comes up with stuff that perfectly describes the real world, while in the real world they don’t believe it. This speech is one of them . Evil is often simple

@CYSYS8993 3 месяца назад

And sometimes it's "want to watch one particular person burn".

@rons1099 6 месяцев назад

Every line every scene in this movie was HEAVY

@johnreeveswilliamson7228 Год назад

I love that bit when Alfred is basically describing an absolute evil psychopath and while he is Bruce is just staring at the Joker on tele and he’s laughing.

@braydenfarrell1177 11 месяцев назад

He isn't describing a psychopath, he is describing an insurgent whi conducted a series of military operations

@JFP1988 Год назад

This line describes the Joker so well. Especially after seeing the joker film and the Jokers origin story it makes so much sense. What would money and fame mean to a man who was rejected by the world, a man who's whole life was a lie, even his own mother betrayed him.

@weirdo1060 6 месяцев назад

Joker villain from The Dark Knight and the Arthur Fleck from the Joker are not similar. The former is cunning and ruthless whose damage came from careful planning. The latter is impoverished and deranged whose damage came from circumstance.

@Rust_Rust_Rust 3 месяца назад

Those are two different jokers. Those movies don't take place in the same universe

@aphapppaa 5 месяцев назад

Even afrer so many years I think this is the best film adaptation of Joker. The Joker is pure chaos. Every seemingly elaborate and genious plot is merely means to an end. Sow more chaos and mayhem. Truly "some men just want to watch the world vien"

@mcnyregrus Год назад

Although that song is played at a different place in the film, the song "Watch the world burn" is also the best song on the soundtrack.

@Romnonaldao 8 месяцев назад

In a Batman movie the most important casting is Batman. The second most important casting is Alfred.

@Pengouinn Год назад

That why im tired of these people pretending that the joker is misunderstood. He's the chaos incarnate.

@IcedDog 5 месяцев назад

What a brilliant scene, Michael Caine is great

@RCaIabraro Месяц назад

This is arguably the most important scene in the film.

@ziggy8253 Месяц назад

Bruce: Who’s side are you on, Alfred? Why don’t you make me some coffee!

@connorkane1542 10 месяцев назад

Michael Caine was such an amazing Alfred, glad I saw him in my lifetime

@lolosghost1643 8 месяцев назад

I like how Alfred tells a story from his past that kinda suits the situation there in now

@Baseds_Backup_Account Год назад

"And you know the thing about Chaos? It's fair."

@Baseds_Backup_Account Год назад

"All it takes is one bad day to drive the sanest man to lunacy."

@Baseds_Backup_Account Год назад

"That's how far away I am from the rest of the world, just one bad day."

@lukassielert9718 10 месяцев назад

“Some men just want to see the world burn” Alfred.

@janneheimonen2595 8 месяцев назад

alfred is right someone thinks about money and someone dosent care about money❤

@jokur7 11 месяцев назад

The Joker is the most iconic villain there is. You can't understand him, you just have to deal with him.

@psychoticball1 8 месяцев назад

Michael Caine is the only real Alfred. I don't care what anyone says. He is utterly perfect in this role.

@Baseds_Backup_Account Год назад

"Targeting me, won't get their money back." Bruce, this is far more than just about money at this point.

@Titus_Vespasianus 6 месяцев назад

Sounds like he's describing Donald Chump..."they turned to a man they don't fully understand..."

@ghostyface44 11 месяцев назад

Gonna miss his iconic acting

@Julius_The_Lego_Man 3 месяца назад

Yes some people just wanna watch the world burn but I think we should also look at the fact that those people he was talking about didn't care about money and the rubies, that just proves that money has no value

@Stevesautopartsify 2 месяца назад

My absolute favorite dialog in the movie and perfectly describes Heath Ledgers joker performance and an doubly excellent Micheal Caine performance!

@Nayops23 Год назад

1:17 ^ Alfred’s been spitting facts❕👏🏼

@Myrdden71 Год назад

Epic story and delivery by Michael Caine.

@exposethenwo6491 2 месяца назад

Perfect summary of how the world is these days. My paternal grandfather was a truck driver during World War || serving in India and Burma

@mauganra2838 4 месяца назад

This is a striking scene but I can never quite get over just how quickly Alfred glosses over the actual reason for the bandit stealing all those gemstones. The gems are being used by the military dictatorship of Burma to make bribes to local leaders, presumably for corrupt ends or ones that harm the local communities (you don't bribe local leaders to do things that are *good* for their people). By stealing those gems, the bandit is preventing the dictatorship from achieving its goals. He's not a "bandit" he's a rebel and political revolutionary, one who doesn't even profit off his work. Alfred says that some men just want to watch the world burn, but it isn't the bandit who burned the forests - it was Alfred and his friends, working on behalf of the military dictatorship.

@clowncargaming8046 Месяц назад

This relates back to how Alfred and Bruce think the Joker wants to watch the world burn, but the joker has much more grand motivations

@wanderfloof Год назад

Some men just want to watch the world burn

@hutyra_509hutyra4 Год назад

What makes it even better is that Joker admits to this later in the movie.

@randomfullywonderful Год назад

He said "men" instead of "zers" and "thems", this movie couldn't be made today!

@ryanames2442 Год назад

One of the greatest movie scenes of all time

@jakehanson216 7 месяцев назад

I love how Alfred casually talks about his mercenary days

@leandrobotchkarev7693 8 месяцев назад

Some men see a cup with water and see it half empty. Others see it half full. The Joker is the guy that tips the cup over

@SnacxAttac Год назад

I love how he says 'some'. Alfred has been through all out the world, and all that he's seen, it's only the 'some' that shook him.

@LoveHandle4890 Год назад

As of 2020, a lot of people wanna watch the world burn.

@FordAdventures 5 месяцев назад

It’s crazy when you think about it because most movie villains always have a motive, whether it’s for revenge, targeting someone or trying to achieve domination. But the Joker had no motive. This takes me back to Scream when Billy Loomis said “it’s a lot scarier when there’s no motive”. And he was right..

@3rdEyeWide 17 дней назад

The Joker does actually have a motive. He wants to prove that if people are pushed far enough - if the circumstances are bad enough - most people are not beyond committing acts of evil/extreme violence/psychopathy. It's to justify the his own existence, the evil actions he carries out throughout his life. This is what he was trying to prove with the bombs on the ferries - he expected at least ong group of people to blow up the other to save their own skins, but the people took the high road and proved him wrong. This motive is why in most Batman media the Joker is always trying to provoke Batman into killing him (see The Killing Joke), he wants to prove if pushed far enough Batman would be just as evil/psychopathic as the Joker himself. Batman and the Joker are two sides of the same coin. Batman went through great tragedy in his life but he came out stronger/a hero, it's always implied the Joker also went through great tragedy but he came out a morally weaker/a villain.

@camerondyess8329 7 месяцев назад

Some men want to watch the world burn🔥🔥 🔥

@DaScorpionSting Год назад

If Ra's was alive he would've told Bruce to just kill the joker

@nossenkanter Год назад

Of course, that's the brilliance of this sequel. It's showing the sacrificial path Bruce has to take to uphold his creed, after rejecting that of the League of Shadows.

@crypt0sFX Год назад

Then he would be no different from Ra's.

@theoutlawking9123 Год назад

@@nossenkanter Yes, his hands remain clean but his city suffers. He remains the "good man" while the innocent bodies pile up.

@theoutlawking9123 Год назад

@@ajitadonismanilal9105 Then Bruce is one guilty SOB.

@archsyntropy6547 11 месяцев назад

@@ajitadonismanilal9105 All ideologies are prisons in an infinite universe.

@TheAwesomeDarkNinja Год назад

It's sad seeing how much this reflects real life. There's misery and suffering for the sake of it. Because people can do it - they will do it. For no reason.

@Cherryxboxgaming 4 месяца назад

I freaking love this line thank you so much Alfred and Christopher Nolan!!!

@L0rd_0f_War 11 месяцев назад

Michael Caine deserved an Oscar for just this one scene. (Of course Heath Ledger also deserved it for the same movie - and rightfully got it).

@Wherethehellarewegoing 11 месяцев назад

Not only was the line an instant classic and would've been even outside the meme/social media generation but the delivery of it is stunning

@OatSoap 3 месяца назад

“Some men just wanna watch the world burn” -Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight 2008)

@ΩωΩ-ψ4φ 3 месяца назад

"Some men just want to watch the world burn."

@stevem.2311 Год назад

^^^This line and the line from Begins: "You've never tasted desperate..." - Falcone Are my absolute favorites! I still use and think of these lines in my daily life.

@LoveHandle4890 Год назад

Destruction: Just about the only thing that mankind will ever be good for.

@vrex 7 месяцев назад

Everyone takes these words for granted and points to how Alfred is a true mastermind who can really read Joker like an open book when, in reality, he couldn't be further from the truth, and this scene is supposed to paint Alfred as a pompous know-it-all.