Another fact is that when Heath Ledger came out of the elevator at the party as the joker, Michael Caine actually had lines, but he never seen Heath in character before, and was taken back by his appearance
@@ColinPoole Actually me either! Just checked comments first and got to this part, and it just hit me 😯😳 So many times re-watched, most popular for me was "It's not about the money, it's about sending a message."...
49:07 During this scene, this was something like the 4th or 5th, Heath Ledger didn't feel that he was channeling the Joker as best as he could, so he quietly asked Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan for Batman to **ACTUALLY** punch him. This scene is that take, and you can see that each blow actually connects every time that Batman hits him. The maniacal laugh wasn't even in the script, he just channeled the hits into it and ad libbed it on the spot, and it was such a perfect laugh that literally defined this whole arc of the movie.
The thing about the joker is, even he doesn’t know which of his backstories is the real one. He actually said in the comics, “If I’m going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice”
personally my choice is on him having had all 3 happened it would explain why he is so unhinged because just one of those options would mess most people up nvm all 3
While the movie is alluding to that, I recently realized that the way this Joker is portrayed shows that he's manipulative in the extreme. He tailors everything he says to fit his current audience. Abusive daddy issues to the gangster, rebellious son to the rich old white dude, lost love to the pretty wpman, a narrative of mutual dependence to Batman, and mad dog chasing parked cars to the guy looking for someone to hold responsible for his tragedy. All while pretending to be an agent of chaos, despite meticulously planning everything 4 or 5 steps ahead. Not all that different from comic Joker really, but with much less whimsy and more rage. He relies as much on theatricality as Batman, which is one reason Two Face is part of this movie, because Joker is the scarred flipside of the same coin that Batman is on.
@@DontrelleRoosevelt better than any recent movie thats for sure. Alot of it seems to go over peoples heads especially if they watch it when they are younger
@@Etticos.they don’t know the lore so it kinda gets lost. A lotta reactors are too busy laughing or speaking & miss a lotta stuff. I say it constantly, if you wanna talk? Pause the movie & unpause when your done talking. It’s not complicated, can’t watch a movie w someone who talks over the movie Not to mention the women who are too busy gawking & freaking out over hot actors to watch the movie. The ONLY time I’ve done that is Margot Robbie in wolf of Wall Street & I was 14. Before you say that’s sexist or whatever, I’ve seen a dozen women do this. “OH MY GOD CHRIS EVANS ARMSSSSSSS, TIGHT SHIRT, BICEPS!!!” Yeah I love Captain America too but let’s watch the movie, im talking reactors on yt btw not women im w in person or women in general
Fun fact the reason Joker keeps licking his lips is because the makeup for his scars kept falling off so Heath had to prod them with his tongue so he just turned it into a facial tick of the joker
Three interesting facts about this movie. 1. The hospital explosion was an actual explosion, but it wasn’t mean to be as big as it was, they used to much explosives. The Jokers reaction when he smacks the remote is real and also improv to the situation right before the secondary explosion happens. The delay wasn’t meant to happen when making the explosion for the movie. 2. Rachael’s reaction to seeing Joker in the party scene where the Joker grabs her face. That’s a real genuine reaction to seeing Heath in the Joker makeup. She hadn’t seen him in makeup until that point. Which was done on purpose to get a genuine reaction. 3. The reason Heath (Joker) licks his lips so much is because of the way the makeup felt on his lips so he just kind of did it out of habit. So instead they ended up making it apart of his character.
I once accidentally cut my myself whilst shaving right next to the mouth. I had the urge to lick that place because as soon as that cut was getting dry, it hurt. I always thought that was the reason why Joke is licking his lips.
@@MrrDecembrist Heath Ledger was a method actor, so it's very likely that was part of it. There were also accounts that the makeup wouldn't properly hold unless he kept licking it like he did.
I saw it as a kid as well in theaters, (23 now) what’s weird is the end scene w Harvey or 2 face is what scared me. Nothing in the movie scared me except that end scene. Will always remember that theater & how I was scared of that scene, even 15 years later
Sadly Heath Ledger acted as he died 6 months before the release of this film but his performance as the Joker won an Oscar which is well deserved. RIP Heath Ledger
@@hypersonic4562 All movies finish filming well ahead of an actual release day. After the actors do their part, there's months of post-production work (sound editing, visual effects, etc.) that need to occur before a film is ready for release. In the case of The Dark Knight, filming took place between April and November 2007. Ledger died in January 2008 and the movie was completed and release in the summer of 2008.
Heath Ledger ABSOLUTELY KILLED IT as Joker! His performance was PHENOMENAL! He should have won Best Actor for it instead of Best Supporting Actor, but he still won an Oscar and that's what matters! Sadly, this was his last role due to his passing several months before the movie was released. RIP Heath Ledger😢💔. Also, I saw this in theaters and that fake Batman hitting the widndow was loud AF. Everyone, including me, jumped about a foot out of their seat.
It wasn't quite his last. He began work on "The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus." He died before filming very much, and friends filled in for him to complete the movie.
Also saw this in theaters, as a kid, 23 now & love this movie, have seen it at least 50 times. Enjoy it every time. Very sad heath died, I also love quite a few other movies he’s in
It was a notorious problem for the 1989 Batman movie that Micheal Keaton could not turn his head while wearing the costume. This is a small homage to that particular problem.
It's largely believed that the studio recast Rachel because the original actress Katie Holmes had begun dating Tom Cruise around the time that Batman Begins got released. It was around this same time that Tom started going nuts, jumping on Oprah's couch and getting rather confrontational over his religion Scientology during interviews. Supposedly, Warner Bros. didn't want the risk of any negative attention their relationship could bring to their big Bat-franchise, so they cut Holmes loose and replaced her with Maggie Gyllenhall. None of this has been confirmed, but that was the rumor at the time.
When you saw Batman ride his cycle through a shop-arcade, and you exclaimed that you knew where that was in NYC, About 90% of this film was on location in Chicago. I lived in Chicago 1994-'02. I had a friend who worked on the technical crew, lights, on the Dark Knight, he told me about the hospital near Univ' Illinois Chicago, that was going to be demolished, so the film crew blew it up -before this film came out. The Bat Cycle went through an underground train station, over by the Chicago Art Institute, that serves trains to Indiana; shops and food arcade. The underground chase, weapons, crashes were done on lower Wacker drive. The Police ceremony, and the flip of the semi-truck, and Bat' vs. Joker duel was on LaSalle St. When the Judge's car was blown up, I'm sure was on Dearborn Ave, I lived in two apartments on that street. "Bat' Begins" was filmed in Iceland, and England, as well as Chicago. The Dark Night, some filming in England, and studio -mostly in Chicago. Director Christopher Nolan, while British, lived for a few years in Chicago IL. 😎
i remember reading stuff online where people on the set legitamately got creeped out by Heath Ledger because he was so deep into his character and additionally Heath asked Christian to hit him for real in the interrogation scene it would have been so exciting to see what he could have done in other movies
Bummer you missed the two-headed coin. It became a two-differently sided coin when Harvey became Two Face. So him flipping it before and after had different effects.
Would say in their history they've probably made things about equal. Not in the Super hero genre. But yeah. As far as super hero things go maybe only like Winter Solider, Civil War and the Infinity movies are up there close to this one
The reason why the Joker kept lucking his lips is because the prostetic upper lip (it was a rubber piece) kept getting loose, so he wetted the inside of his mouth to hold it in place. The director liked it and made it part of the Joker’s persona.
Incorrect; the prosthetics were on the sides of his mouth, and one prosthetic scar on his lower lip. His upper lip was untouched. Ledger licked his lips to keep the bottom and side scars from coming loose, and it developed into a "tic" for the character that they chose to keep.
That's why she has a patreon. Just like all of these other youtubers who want money from the lies they tell us. She is also an actress apparently who makes these videos and sells to us her patreon. The patreon doesn't help any of their youtube channels. Just their pockets.
I love the opening scene. When that banker with a shot gun came out and blasted that first robber, I was like: "Welcome to Gotham, Bitch! Click-Click!"
Batman Begins has the best tone, atmosphere, and depiction of Gotham City so it's number 1 for me. The later films loss alot of this tone and gothic style, out of all the media connected to Nolan's Batman Gotham Knight a series of animated shorts is the most Gothic and comic book feeling loosely connected to the Nolan films.
This one. The Dark Knight. The whole League of Shadows thing always bugged me as implausible. Why would a group of monks on a mountain in Asia somewhere care that there's corruption in a city in America? And of all the corruption and evil in the world, why target Gotham? Why not North Korea or Iran or somewhere like that? These "secret societies that have been controlling the world for centuries" stories always seemed silly to me. If you've really been controlling the world, you suck at it. We live in the real world where corruption and evil happen, and there's no secret society behind it.
Probably the best live action Batman movie. DC is DEFINITELY dark, much more so than Marvel and Batman is probably the darkest character in the DC universe. Thanks for reacting to DC content, it's an amazing multiverse.
I freakin love the Joker. He is one of the greatest villains ever Joker was also amazin in the Batman Arkham games....Akrham Asylum, City, Origins and Knight Espacially Origins Joker was amazing!
Christopher Nolan wanted to avoid going into the Joker's origin story, but he kind of unintentionally made this movie a Joker origin story. When the movie starts, Joker is a gun-for-hire with a flair for the theatrical. When the mob hires him to kill Batman, he agrees to do it for half of the mob's cash. Killing Batman is just another job, then he actually encounters Batman and discovers that Batman is an equal, someone who tests his abilities and keeps him sharp. Joker begins to fall in love with the game he's playing with Batman. Joker fully comes into his character when he burns the cash the mob pays him. Joker realizes that the stakes of the game he and Batman are playing aren't material, but spiritual. They're playing for the soul of Gotham City, and they're destined to play the game forever since neither one of them is willing to kill the other.
The movie would be just 50% of what it is a masterpiece without the music. The intense violin string going higher pitch while the Joker speaks. The intense Batman fighting music in some scenes. Just a masterpiece a work of art. The acting the music the actors top notch. Hans Zimmer is the modern Mozart of movie music a genius.
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Christopher Nolan is well known for his use of his practical effects in film, and The Dark Knight is no exception. My favorite is the part where Batman is chasing Joker in the semi on his bike. Where he shoots the lines onto the truck and then winds them through the lightposts, flipping the truck. That was a REAL truck that ACTUALLY flipped... If you REALLY pay attention to it during the movie you can see the massive hydraulic pump under the semi that throws it into the air. It's actually super visible if you run it back frame by frame.
59:50 fun fact that was improvised. It was supposed to blow up right away fully. There was an issue. So him shrugging and pushing the buttons actually is 100% improvised but SO AWESOME!
Heath Ledger licked his lips to keep the facial prosthetics applied to his face and sort of just incorporated it as part of the character. It's great, it makes the character even more unsettling.
You made a great point. No jokes, no foolin' around in this movie. Nolan has made a trilogy that has gravitas. I found this series refreshing. No camp either. The seriousness doesn't detract from the entertainment value of the movie, it intensifies it.
So begins this take on the Batman voice.... What was Christian Bale thinking!!! I love me some Dark Knight but man does Batman Begin have a much better atmosphere and depiction of Gotham City. Here we kind of just get Chicago which is a shame. Joker carries this film for me without him I don't think Dark Knight would've been as big as it was. Two-Face was extremally underused Nolan's hyper focus on making everything "grounded" he just removed alot of the personality of the comics that thankfully later films like The Batman have brought back. But overall I still do enjoy this film. Love Bale as Bruce Wayne but not a fan of his Batman so I have a weird mixed relationship with these films. Glad you enjoyed it though and hope you check out other Batman media like the Animated movies, Mask of the Phantasm or the Arkham video games.
He didn't have another knife. At 51:29 if you look you'll notice he has a piece of glass from the window Batman broke with his head. Pretty crazy how that worked out in his plan.
Fun fact, the licking of the lips happened because the prosthetics wouldn't stay and heath just kept doing it on set, also during the Harvey hospital scene the joker also has his hand/finger over the hammer of the gun giving Harvey the illusion of choice
Instant fan. Excellent reaction. I had strong reservations at first, but your commentary was exceptionally cogent. Insightful, kind of funny sometimes, good heart, but dark. Dark but good. Thank you for this. I'm gonna watch a few more and see about subscribing 😊
it was filmed in Chicago, if you look at the cars you'll see an Illinois plate. that place you thought you've been to is the final stop on the Metro. Also the hospital that the joker blew up was really done. that and the truck flip were real effects, no CGI. im from around there and got to watch them film half of it.
@@PyroD3mon_ I honestly didn't think you watched half of the truck flip, but thought the idea amusing -- but I did think you might've meant you watched half of the stunts' setup, etc.
28:06 The Dark Knight was filmed in Chicago, Illinois and Richard Dent played with the Chicago Bears from 1983-1993 who was also the MVP in Super Bowl XX.
I have have the blu-ray collection of these. This is my absolute favorite. "Joker is the ultimate "Batman villain. I love "Batman "Joker and this is my favorite version of 2Face and Catwoman. This one of my favorite movies ever. Very excited to watch this with you "Colette ❤
I am a huge Batman fan and this is my favorite Batman movie, i watch this movie every July 18. My first Batman was The animated series and i watch each episode according to the premier date
There's not much debate on who's best Batman, Michael Keaton. But joker is a usual debate, Heath or Jack! The banker with the shotgun has been in so many amazing movies, particularly Blackhawk Down and the cult classic, Go! 2 things that amaze me from this. None of Heath's dailies were allowed to be watched by the cast. His first appearance scene was the building high up party. The actors Rachel and Alfred were so shook, she said she thought Heath would cut her, and she almost peed herself! Alfred was supposed to have lines in the scene...he said he was so shocked, he forgot them! The hospital scene, the clicker actually malfunctioned! 😮😮 So Nolan and the crew are setting up the hospital room scene. Aaron said Heath was NEVER out of character. He was walking around the room, pacing, mumbling to himself. While the crew camera man Nolan are setting everything up, Heath goes to Aaron's bedside. He said Heath starts talking to him, about acting, the scene, things that piss him off, the scene coming up. They start having a back and forth conversation, about what they should say, or written to say, or what they would say if they wrote this scene. Meanwhile, only Nolan and camera guy is left. Chris tells camera guy real quietly, role film! Meanwhile Aaron and Heath are going off on each other! After about 15 minutes of this, Chris tells everyone in the room, everybody stop! I think we got it! So he and camera guy leave the room. Aaron said Heath leans over the bed, gets close to him face to face, and puts on a big smile. Then he says to Aaron, " Now THAT'S acting!!". And somehow, piece of crud senator pat Leahy got the old silver hair guy with glasses part, at the party!
The Lucius-Reese blackmail exchange is some of my favorite dialogue in the movie. If he's right, Batman's gonna beat him to a pulp. If he's wrong and tries to expose Wayne anyway, Bruce can sue him into the dirt for slander and defamation, and he'll die impoverished and destitute. It's a lose lose situation for poor Reese
Fun little fact if i remember correct and noone has said this before , the reason the Joker keeps licking his lips was about the prosthetic, he needed to keep it in place and licking it like that helped it
I don't know if I'm now broken as a person or something 😂, but when i watch these movies back, i basically agree 100% with the villains. In batman begins, i agree with Ras. A city that is 100% corrupt should be destroyed, and murderers shouldn't be protected by corrupt lawyers. And in this movie, the joker is also right. Batman must accept that he is in effect a killer.
44:51 Something that is very subtle about Heath Ledgers' performance of the joker is that when facing down Batman on the batpod, doing his "hit me" monologue, it is the ONLY TIME in the movie that he is standing perfectly straight. Every other part, he's either sitting, or standing with his torso bent a little to the left or right. His stance is chaotic, but when he finally thinks he's broken through to Batman and will make him break his one rule, he stands up straight, the only time he lets order take over as he WANTS to be hit. It's extremely subtle, and I didn't really pick up on it until like the 4th time through the movie, but that is what separates great actors from the once-in-a-generation actors
the reason Heath kept licking his lip is due to the makeup prosthetics that made the knife wounds. Nolan, the director thought it looked very creepy, so he didn't tell Heath not to do it.
I find it odd how many believe the Joker when he says things, his speech in the hospital about not having plans... is total nonsense. The Joker makes plans, the film starts with him having a plan timed to the precise second for a bus to join traffic next to other buses. Even in the cartoons the Joker is always drawing up plans, he has many plans, good ones. His capture of Harvey Dent and getting arrested... planned. Yet despite all the evidence, sooooo many people always buy his speech.
Fun fact, during the party scene its the first time the actress playing Rachel see's heath ledger with all the make up on and she was genuinely terrified
Another fact is that when Heath Ledger came out of the elevator at the party as the joker, Michael Caine actually had lines, but he never seen Heath in character before, and was taken back by his appearance
Blink, and you'll miss it. When Joker gets all the money and burns it, he burns Lao to death on top of the pile.
I've seen this movie so many times and for some reason NEVER realized. Damn. Thanks hahah
@@patrickbock3467 he just slides down idiots
“You either die a hero, or see yourself live long enough to become the villain”; quote was so good it established itself in the English vocabulary
No offense to marvel studios, but this movie is better than all the MCU products
not true but definitely better than most 👍🏼
And yet Marvel has more hits than DC does.
As much as I absolutely love this movie, that's a ridiculous statement.
@@BryanFritchiewhat marvel movie in your opinion is better?
@@Cinemavigilante Infinity War, Endgame, Civil War, MAYBE No Way Home, the Daredevil show, Spider-Man 2 (Tobey), and probably more.
In the comics Joker was confronted with his backstory and said: "I made so many of them I don't even know which one is true".
"You think you can just steal from us and get away with it?"
"Yeah"
LOL always loved that exchange
"If you're good at something. Never do it for free."
Words to live by
*something, never do it for free.
"All you care about is money!"
@@MOBSSTA Nice catch on the contradiction - never connected those dots
Some of the best advice I’ve ever heard. Saw this movie in theaters as a kid & to this day at 23, that line has always stuck w me
@@ColinPoole Actually me either! Just checked comments first and got to this part, and it just hit me 😯😳 So many times re-watched, most popular for me was "It's not about the money, it's about sending a message."...
49:07 During this scene, this was something like the 4th or 5th, Heath Ledger didn't feel that he was channeling the Joker as best as he could, so he quietly asked Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan for Batman to **ACTUALLY** punch him. This scene is that take, and you can see that each blow actually connects every time that Batman hits him. The maniacal laugh wasn't even in the script, he just channeled the hits into it and ad libbed it on the spot, and it was such a perfect laugh that literally defined this whole arc of the movie.
The thing about the joker is, even he doesn’t know which of his backstories is the real one.
He actually said in the comics, “If I’m going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice”
personally my choice is on him having had all 3 happened it would explain why he is so unhinged because just one of those options would mess most people up nvm all 3
While the movie is alluding to that, I recently realized that the way this Joker is portrayed shows that he's manipulative in the extreme. He tailors everything he says to fit his current audience. Abusive daddy issues to the gangster, rebellious son to the rich old white dude, lost love to the pretty wpman, a narrative of mutual dependence to Batman, and mad dog chasing parked cars to the guy looking for someone to hold responsible for his tragedy. All while pretending to be an agent of chaos, despite meticulously planning everything 4 or 5 steps ahead. Not all that different from comic Joker really, but with much less whimsy and more rage.
He relies as much on theatricality as Batman, which is one reason Two Face is part of this movie, because Joker is the scarred flipside of the same coin that Batman is on.
This movie gets deeper and deeper the more you watch it
"The Dark Knight" is always a favorite reaction to watch because hardly anyone expects a DC comics movie to be #3 on IMDb's top movie lists.
Isn‘t Joker in the Top 100 to?
And before anyone says "Top 100 ain‘t impressive“ it is incredibly impressive
This film is great, but there's issues with it. It's overrated, same as The Godfather.
@@DontrelleRoosevelt better than any recent movie thats for sure. Alot of it seems to go over peoples heads especially if they watch it when they are younger
The fact that Harvey was using a two-headed coin completely went over your head. You missed it.
I feel like a lot of reactors unfamiliar with the source material miss this for some odd reason.
@@Etticos.they don’t know the lore so it kinda gets lost. A lotta reactors are too busy laughing or speaking & miss a lotta stuff. I say it constantly, if you wanna talk? Pause the movie & unpause when your done talking. It’s not complicated, can’t watch a movie w someone who talks over the movie
Not to mention the women who are too busy gawking & freaking out over hot actors to watch the movie. The ONLY time I’ve done that is Margot Robbie in wolf of Wall Street & I was 14.
Before you say that’s sexist or whatever, I’ve seen a dozen women do this. “OH MY GOD CHRIS EVANS ARMSSSSSSS, TIGHT SHIRT, BICEPS!!!” Yeah I love Captain America too but let’s watch the movie, im talking reactors on yt btw not women im w in person or women in general
@@scotthill1600name all 12
@@Polyphemus89 stay mad
@@scotthill1600 gotcha, so you can’t
"Madness is like gravity. All it takes a little push!" 👈 my favourite from the movie.
Fun fact the reason Joker keeps licking his lips is because the makeup for his scars kept falling off so Heath had to prod them with his tongue so he just turned it into a facial tick of the joker
Three interesting facts about this movie.
1. The hospital explosion was an actual explosion, but it wasn’t mean to be as big as it was, they used to much explosives. The Jokers reaction when he smacks the remote is real and also improv to the situation right before the secondary explosion happens. The delay wasn’t meant to happen when making the explosion for the movie.
2. Rachael’s reaction to seeing Joker in the party scene where the Joker grabs her face. That’s a real genuine reaction to seeing Heath in the Joker makeup. She hadn’t seen him in makeup until that point. Which was done on purpose to get a genuine reaction.
3. The reason Heath (Joker) licks his lips so much is because of the way the makeup felt on his lips so he just kind of did it out of habit. So instead they ended up making it apart of his character.
Your number 1 interesting fact here is actually an often quoted myth. You should look into it.
I once accidentally cut my myself whilst shaving right next to the mouth. I had the urge to lick that place because as soon as that cut was getting dry, it hurt. I always thought that was the reason why Joke is licking his lips.
@@MrrDecembrist Heath Ledger was a method actor, so it's very likely that was part of it. There were also accounts that the makeup wouldn't properly hold unless he kept licking it like he did.
I saw Dark Knight in theaters when I was a kid. Heath Ledger Joker scared the heck out of me.
I saw it as a kid as well in theaters, (23 now) what’s weird is the end scene w Harvey or 2 face is what scared me. Nothing in the movie scared me except that end scene. Will always remember that theater & how I was scared of that scene, even 15 years later
Same here in July 17th on my birthday 🤘🏽
I was 8 in 2008. Harvey's face unsettled me.
@@catsandalcohol99 Me too. We're about the same age
Sadly Heath Ledger acted as he died 6 months before the release of this film but his performance as the Joker won an Oscar which is well deserved. RIP Heath Ledger
Acted as he died?
Wait how did he die half a year before the movie came out when he was the main villain?
@@hypersonic4562 He died in january, the movie was released in summer.
@@barbaciante that's what I said
@@hypersonic4562 All movies finish filming well ahead of an actual release day. After the actors do their part, there's months of post-production work (sound editing, visual effects, etc.) that need to occur before a film is ready for release. In the case of The Dark Knight, filming took place between April and November 2007. Ledger died in January 2008 and the movie was completed and release in the summer of 2008.
The joker always said, "if you're gonna have an origin story, why not make it multiple choice?"
Heath Ledger ABSOLUTELY KILLED IT as Joker! His performance was PHENOMENAL! He should have won Best Actor for it instead of Best Supporting Actor, but he still won an Oscar and that's what matters! Sadly, this was his last role due to his passing several months before the movie was released. RIP Heath Ledger😢💔. Also, I saw this in theaters and that fake Batman hitting the widndow was loud AF. Everyone, including me, jumped about a foot out of their seat.
It wasn't quite his last. He began work on "The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus." He died before filming very much, and friends filled in for him to complete the movie.
@@jeffthompson9622 Oh yeah I forgot about that one. It was Depp and McGregor I think that filled in.
He's one of only like 3 or 4 actors with him that have won an Oscar after death. Not bad for sure. But it's too bad he had to be in that category :(
Also saw this in theaters, as a kid, 23 now & love this movie, have seen it at least 50 times. Enjoy it every time. Very sad heath died, I also love quite a few other movies he’s in
@@passionsquietrage Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law.
The ending of this movie still gives me chills
It was a notorious problem for the 1989 Batman movie that Micheal Keaton could not turn his head while wearing the costume. This is a small homage to that particular problem.
you didnt notice but the coin Harvey used before he became 2 face had 2 heads. no tails, it was a rigged coin
Heath and Rachel scene at the party was improvise by heath so Rachel really got scared in reality. Brilliant actor
The Batman >> The Joker >>>> Everybody else. Period!
It's largely believed that the studio recast Rachel because the original actress Katie Holmes had begun dating Tom Cruise around the time that Batman Begins got released. It was around this same time that Tom started going nuts, jumping on Oprah's couch and getting rather confrontational over his religion Scientology during interviews. Supposedly, Warner Bros. didn't want the risk of any negative attention their relationship could bring to their big Bat-franchise, so they cut Holmes loose and replaced her with Maggie Gyllenhall. None of this has been confirmed, but that was the rumor at the time.
She turned them down to do some other movie, can't even remember what it was called
When you saw Batman ride his cycle through a shop-arcade, and you exclaimed that you knew where that was in NYC, About 90% of this film was on location in Chicago. I lived in Chicago 1994-'02. I had a friend who worked on the technical crew, lights, on the Dark Knight, he told me about the hospital near Univ' Illinois Chicago, that was going to be demolished, so the film crew blew it up -before this film came out. The Bat Cycle went through an underground train station, over by the Chicago Art Institute, that serves trains to Indiana; shops and food arcade. The underground chase, weapons, crashes were done on lower Wacker drive. The Police ceremony, and the flip of the semi-truck, and Bat' vs. Joker duel was on LaSalle St. When the Judge's car was blown up, I'm sure was on Dearborn Ave, I lived in two apartments on that street. "Bat' Begins" was filmed in Iceland, and England, as well as Chicago. The Dark Night, some filming in England, and studio -mostly in Chicago. Director Christopher Nolan, while British, lived for a few years in Chicago IL. 😎
i remember reading stuff online where people on the set legitamately got creeped out by Heath Ledger because he was so deep into his character
and additionally Heath asked Christian to hit him for real in the interrogation scene
it would have been so exciting to see what he could have done in other movies
Bummer you missed the two-headed coin. It became a two-differently sided coin when Harvey became Two Face. So him flipping it before and after had different effects.
Congrats on getting the role!! So so so happy for you.
Bruh I was waiting for someone to acknowledge how crazy it was for the joker to be historically laughing while falling to his death
59:40 Gotta admit, the Joker knows how to rock a nurse's uniform. 😀
Disney can have all the money in the world
But they'll never top this movie's level of quality
Yeah because Christopher Nolan is THE GOAT Disney can’t get any directors as good as him 😂
@@coolinnnnn no, they can get good directors
They just don't allow them to be this good
I don't think Disney even knows what quality is anymore.
Would say in their history they've probably made things about equal. Not in the Super hero genre. But yeah. As far as super hero things go maybe only like Winter Solider, Civil War and the Infinity movies are up there close to this one
The reason why the Joker kept lucking his lips is because the prostetic upper lip (it was a rubber piece) kept getting loose, so he wetted the inside of his mouth to hold it in place. The director liked it and made it part of the Joker’s persona.
Incorrect; the prosthetics were on the sides of his mouth, and one prosthetic scar on his lower lip. His upper lip was untouched. Ledger licked his lips to keep the bottom and side scars from coming loose, and it developed into a "tic" for the character that they chose to keep.
@@jokercard98you basically said the same thing lol
I think it was more Ledger incorporated it into the character rather than just Nolan liking it
Regarding the "knife" in 51:25, it was a piece of glass from the broken window(?) behind Joker
This ain't her first time
That's why she has a patreon. Just like all of these other youtubers who want money from the lies they tell us. She is also an actress apparently who makes these videos and sells to us her patreon.
The patreon doesn't help any of their youtube channels. Just their pockets.
agreed.
I love the opening scene. When that banker with a shot gun came out and blasted that first robber, I was like: "Welcome to Gotham, Bitch! Click-Click!"
which is your favorite Batman movie in the Trilogy?
I like all the Batman movies in history, I would like you to make a reaction video to the classic Batman movies, a video would be great 😊💖
All of the above
My favorite is the Batman Begins
Batman Begins has the best tone, atmosphere, and depiction of Gotham City so it's number 1 for me. The later films loss alot of this tone and gothic style, out of all the media connected to Nolan's Batman Gotham Knight a series of animated shorts is the most Gothic and comic book feeling loosely connected to the Nolan films.
This one. The Dark Knight.
The whole League of Shadows thing always bugged me as implausible. Why would a group of monks on a mountain in Asia somewhere care that there's corruption in a city in America? And of all the corruption and evil in the world, why target Gotham? Why not North Korea or Iran or somewhere like that? These "secret societies that have been controlling the world for centuries" stories always seemed silly to me. If you've really been controlling the world, you suck at it. We live in the real world where corruption and evil happen, and there's no secret society behind it.
Probably the best live action Batman movie. DC is DEFINITELY dark, much more so than Marvel and Batman is probably the darkest character in the DC universe. Thanks for reacting to DC content, it's an amazing multiverse.
Still the greatest comic book movie of all time
The irony is that for the Joker to create so much chaos he had to plan and execute everything in great detail.
Thanks for sharing your reaction to this, Collette. Michael Jai White(Gambol) once starred in his own comic book movie, "Spawn."
39:09 actually, the coin was double headed. Hence why Harvey said, "I make my own luck" at the beginning
59:46-1:00:04
This late bombing was an accident that Heathe Ledger used to improvise Joker's disappointment on the spot. This movie is legendary!
fun fact Cristian Bale actually punched Heath Ledger during an interogation scene, Heath asked him to do so it would seemed more real
"You complete me" is a famous line from Jerry Maguire, I believe...
This is the best sequel in this trilogy.
ENDGAME might be the highest-grossing superhero movie of all time
But TDK is the ULTIMATE superhero movie
I freakin love the Joker. He is one of the greatest villains ever
Joker was also amazin in the Batman Arkham games....Akrham Asylum, City, Origins and Knight
Espacially Origins Joker was amazing!
25:27 "If I have to know my history, I prefer it to be multiple choice" Joker from the comics
Christopher Nolan wanted to avoid going into the Joker's origin story, but he kind of unintentionally made this movie a Joker origin story.
When the movie starts, Joker is a gun-for-hire with a flair for the theatrical. When the mob hires him to kill Batman, he agrees to do it for half of the mob's cash. Killing Batman is just another job, then he actually encounters Batman and discovers that Batman is an equal, someone who tests his abilities and keeps him sharp. Joker begins to fall in love with the game he's playing with Batman. Joker fully comes into his character when he burns the cash the mob pays him.
Joker realizes that the stakes of the game he and Batman are playing aren't material, but spiritual. They're playing for the soul of Gotham City, and they're destined to play the game forever since neither one of them is willing to kill the other.
51:26 he got it from Batman;when he was beating Joker in interrogation his head smashed the mirror glass
The movie would be just 50% of what it is a masterpiece without the music. The intense violin string going higher pitch while the Joker speaks. The intense Batman fighting music in some scenes. Just a masterpiece a work of art. The acting the music the actors top notch. Hans Zimmer is the modern Mozart of movie music a genius.
Christopher Nolan is well known for his use of his practical effects in film, and The Dark Knight is no exception. My favorite is the part where Batman is chasing Joker in the semi on his bike. Where he shoots the lines onto the truck and then winds them through the lightposts, flipping the truck. That was a REAL truck that ACTUALLY flipped... If you REALLY pay attention to it during the movie you can see the massive hydraulic pump under the semi that throws it into the air. It's actually super visible if you run it back frame by frame.
59:50 fun fact that was improvised. It was supposed to blow up right away fully. There was an issue. So him shrugging and pushing the buttons actually is 100% improvised but SO AWESOME!
Heath Ledger licked his lips to keep the facial prosthetics applied to his face and sort of just incorporated it as part of the character. It's great, it makes the character even more unsettling.
You made a great point. No jokes, no foolin' around in this movie. Nolan has made a trilogy that has gravitas. I found this series refreshing. No camp either. The seriousness doesn't detract from the entertainment value of the movie, it intensifies it.
So begins this take on the Batman voice.... What was Christian Bale thinking!!! I love me some Dark Knight but man does Batman Begin have a much better atmosphere and depiction of Gotham City. Here we kind of just get Chicago which is a shame. Joker carries this film for me without him I don't think Dark Knight would've been as big as it was. Two-Face was extremally underused Nolan's hyper focus on making everything "grounded" he just removed alot of the personality of the comics that thankfully later films like The Batman have brought back. But overall I still do enjoy this film. Love Bale as Bruce Wayne but not a fan of his Batman so I have a weird mixed relationship with these films. Glad you enjoyed it though and hope you check out other Batman media like the Animated movies, Mask of the Phantasm or the Arkham video games.
Loved how you realised he switched the addresses before the reveal nice eye to detail 🤙🏾
Finally!! I was half way through the first time!!!
Thank you for reacting to one of the best films of all time! I can't wait for you to reaction to more Nolan! Amazing analysis as always😊
Joker is my favorite character in this movie. His dialogue and talking style is powerful and amazing 👏 ❤❤
He didn't have another knife. At 51:29 if you look you'll notice he has a piece of glass from the window Batman broke with his head. Pretty crazy how that worked out in his plan.
Heath Ledger forever the Joker rest in peace my hero 🕊
Fun fact, the licking of the lips happened because the prosthetics wouldn't stay and heath just kept doing it on set, also during the Harvey hospital scene the joker also has his hand/finger over the hammer of the gun giving Harvey the illusion of choice
Heath Ledger's Joker is my fav villain out of every media ever. Bless him
Instant fan. Excellent reaction. I had strong reservations at first, but your commentary was exceptionally cogent. Insightful, kind of funny sometimes, good heart, but dark. Dark but good. Thank you for this. I'm gonna watch a few more and see about subscribing 😊
Yes, "Buyer Beware" is really a good song. The power combination of composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard.
it was filmed in Chicago, if you look at the cars you'll see an Illinois plate. that place you thought you've been to is the final stop on the Metro. Also the hospital that the joker blew up was really done. that and the truck flip were real effects, no CGI. im from around there and got to watch them film half of it.
How do you "half" flip a semi tractor and trailer? I would think that'd be all or nothing!
@@bigdream_dreambigI watched them film half of the entire movie not just that scene. thought that wouldn't be to hard to understand but ig not.
@@PyroD3mon_ I honestly didn't think you watched half of the truck flip, but thought the idea amusing -- but I did think you might've meant you watched half of the stunts' setup, etc.
28:06 The Dark Knight was filmed in Chicago, Illinois and Richard Dent played with the Chicago Bears from 1983-1993 who was also the MVP in Super Bowl XX.
44:05 its merchandise mart in Chicago. Not new york. And the underground is lower Wacker drive.
God the soundtrack in this film is top tier
Joker just wants chaos
"Depending on the time, he may be in one place or several."
Several means his body will be blown into several pieces and places if they're late lol
I have have the blu-ray collection of these. This is my absolute favorite. "Joker is the ultimate "Batman villain. I love "Batman "Joker and this is my favorite version of 2Face and Catwoman. This one of my favorite movies ever. Very excited to watch this with you "Colette ❤
The Joker right about one thing, that madness is like gravity all it takes is a little push. Crazy line
I hate how I understand two face. I lost my mother and father when I was only 9 and recently I lost my eye.
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these "first time" reactions are so good
I am a huge Batman fan and this is my favorite Batman movie, i watch this movie every July 18. My first Batman was The animated series and i watch each episode according to the premier date
“The way he licks his lips, I don’t like that.” 😂
There's not much debate on who's best Batman, Michael Keaton. But joker is a usual debate, Heath or Jack! The banker with the shotgun has been in so many amazing movies, particularly Blackhawk Down and the cult classic, Go! 2 things that amaze me from this. None of Heath's dailies were allowed to be watched by the cast. His first appearance scene was the building high up party. The actors Rachel and Alfred were so shook, she said she thought Heath would cut her, and she almost peed herself! Alfred was supposed to have lines in the scene...he said he was so shocked, he forgot them! The hospital scene, the clicker actually malfunctioned! 😮😮 So Nolan and the crew are setting up the hospital room scene. Aaron said Heath was NEVER out of character. He was walking around the room, pacing, mumbling to himself. While the crew camera man Nolan are setting everything up, Heath goes to Aaron's bedside. He said Heath starts talking to him, about acting, the scene, things that piss him off, the scene coming up. They start having a back and forth conversation, about what they should say, or written to say, or what they would say if they wrote this scene. Meanwhile, only Nolan and camera guy is left. Chris tells camera guy real quietly, role film! Meanwhile Aaron and Heath are going off on each other! After about 15 minutes of this, Chris tells everyone in the room, everybody stop! I think we got it! So he and camera guy leave the room. Aaron said Heath leans over the bed, gets close to him face to face, and puts on a big smile. Then he says to Aaron, " Now THAT'S acting!!". And somehow, piece of crud senator pat Leahy got the old silver hair guy with glasses part, at the party!
The Lucius-Reese blackmail exchange is some of my favorite dialogue in the movie. If he's right, Batman's gonna beat him to a pulp. If he's wrong and tries to expose Wayne anyway, Bruce can sue him into the dirt for slander and defamation, and he'll die impoverished and destitute. It's a lose lose situation for poor Reese
That airplane part was the Skyhook reference from when Batman was viewing the new equipment scene...
You either die hero or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain
I was watching this reaction the other day. Then I think the Joker did a magic trick and -BAM- it was gone mid-watch!
42:41 The crazy and one of the important parts is how the stunt driving is incredible how Joker is driving which is incredibly scary but so brave.
10:31 Yes a very good line. You called it and you're correct. 👍
heath ledger gave one of the best performances of all time in this wish he was still alive
Fun little fact if i remember correct and noone has said this before , the reason the Joker keeps licking his lips was about the prosthetic, he needed to keep it in place and licking it like that helped it
I really enjoyed everything you had to say. I love that you understand all of it. Very impressed 👍
I don't know if I'm now broken as a person or something 😂, but when i watch these movies back, i basically agree 100% with the villains.
In batman begins, i agree with Ras. A city that is 100% corrupt should be destroyed, and murderers shouldn't be protected by corrupt lawyers.
And in this movie, the joker is also right. Batman must accept that he is in effect a killer.
This was obviously not your first time watching the movie.
44:51 Something that is very subtle about Heath Ledgers' performance of the joker is that when facing down Batman on the batpod, doing his "hit me" monologue, it is the ONLY TIME in the movie that he is standing perfectly straight. Every other part, he's either sitting, or standing with his torso bent a little to the left or right. His stance is chaotic, but when he finally thinks he's broken through to Batman and will make him break his one rule, he stands up straight, the only time he lets order take over as he WANTS to be hit. It's extremely subtle, and I didn't really pick up on it until like the 4th time through the movie, but that is what separates great actors from the once-in-a-generation actors
the reason Heath kept licking his lip is due to the makeup prosthetics that made the knife wounds. Nolan, the director thought it looked very creepy, so he didn't tell Heath not to do it.
I find it odd how many believe the Joker when he says things, his speech in the hospital about not having plans... is total nonsense. The Joker makes plans, the film starts with him having a plan timed to the precise second for a bus to join traffic next to other buses. Even in the cartoons the Joker is always drawing up plans, he has many plans, good ones. His capture of Harvey Dent and getting arrested... planned. Yet despite all the evidence, sooooo many people always buy his speech.
The Joker changes that mouth scar story every time he tells it, it's his signature line for sure...
Loved your reaction!
Fun fact, during the party scene its the first time the actress playing Rachel see's heath ledger with all the make up on and she was genuinely terrified
51:27 He didn't have a knife. That's a piece of glass from where Batman slammed his head into the mirror.
I watch that back to back.... to back