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The Dark Knight - speculation and news

 
  

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Triplets
17:04 / 17.12.07
Yeah, it's strange, this Joker feels incredibly human, in the sense of human fraility and physiciality (the bad skin, the licking of lips, the judders!). Hopefully that'll make his best weapon - a twisted yet incredible mind - that much more potent.
 
 
iamus
17:10 / 17.12.07
Yup, that's one of the things that intriguing me. He doesn't carry shit but knives. And he claps his hands from behind bars while other parts of the trailer blow up.

The bit where the Joker shouts to be hit, but the Batpod swerves and narrowly misses him puts me in mind of Ras' and Bruce's wee talk about compassion not being shared by enemies which is why it's so important, just before he turns his back on the league in Begins. That feels to me like a button The Joker might like pushing until it breaks.
 
 
deja_vroom
19:13 / 17.12.07
...I strongly suspect that business about directors needing to be masters of language is actually specious rot.

Granted, granted, 'tis a bit on the... specious side. I got carried away there. It's not specifically that I've changed my mind about that, but I can see how that was going a bit far, as counter-arguments go.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
21:12 / 17.12.07
Jack: the Joker gives the classic laughter in the quick shot of him driving the truck.

but the scene with the "evening, cooommmissioner" line followed by that close up with him all roughed up gave me the chills; I dunno if it was the recent Morrison prose comic but you can feel that is one crazy person, multiple chaotic thought processes taking place right that instant behind the flaking make-up.

THAT is the Joker. i'm totally sold, who would have known some pages back in this thread?

sure, the preview bits with the mob bank manager, the grenade and the line about honour *were* forced [we've yet to see properly if he guy had his hands tied or not], but the payoff was worth it: the Joker pun and the homage to the 60's series - in the gas grenade and the rubber masks they wore.
 
 
Dead Megatron
22:12 / 17.12.07
And the robery plan - with the goons going all "wabbit season" on each other, not even knowing their boss is disguised among them - is exactly one the Joker would come up with.
 
 
Seth
02:19 / 19.12.07
A day has gone past with no posts. You should all be ashamed. Does nobody care about Batman any more?
 
 
Dead Megatron
08:15 / 19.12.07
Post-trailer hungover
 
 
Spaniel
12:28 / 19.12.07
I care. Seriously.
 
 
The Natural Way
13:00 / 19.12.07
I'm actually sat at this computer dressed as batman.
 
 
Jack Fear
13:10 / 19.12.07
I'm at my computer dressed as Bruce Wayne, secretly thinking about being dressed as Batman.
 
 
Mug Chum
13:16 / 19.12.07
I'm marking down an appoitment with a plastic surgeon to make my chin equal to all film versions of Bruce Wayne. I'll be cubist, beat that.

And I'll fight anyone who thinks they're more serious about Batman than I am. To death (not me, I won't kill, real Batman doesn't and shouldn't kill, but I'll kill anyone who disagrees with that).
 
 
Spaniel
13:24 / 19.12.07
I'm actually sitting in cave. Wearing tights and booties.
 
 
grant
13:34 / 19.12.07
Well, I just hired an out-of-work teamster to shoot my parents in an alley in front of me. We've got tickets to see Zorro tonight!
 
 
Spaniel
13:45 / 19.12.07
I've just pulled my y-fronts over my tights.
 
 
iamus
13:50 / 19.12.07
I'm wearing rubber and playing with toy cars under my shower.
 
 
Seth
13:55 / 19.12.07
I am a bat.
 
 
Mug Chum
13:56 / 19.12.07
(Iamus)Wow, I missed that issue...

(Grant, no worries, everything's set. Tonight is my roleplaying session of 30's Batman-With-a-Gun. Just make sure you guys look at least vaguely villainous, and I'll realize it's wrong and I should change when I point the gun at you)
 
 
Jack Fear
14:33 / 19.12.07
I'm typing this while hanging upside-down by my toes, with a huge stinking pile of my own guano accumulating on the floor beneath me. My children are crying because my high-pitched shrieking disturbs them, but I do not heed them; I want to be ready for this movie.
 
 
Seth
14:35 / 19.12.07
I am a man.
 
 
Mug Chum
14:45 / 19.12.07
I am the night. No matter the time of the day, I'm P.M. I have no A.M.s past six in any of my clocks.

And I paid the clown in my nephew's birthday party to explode a kid. I mourn and gloom until this day. In the dark. In myself. In the night.

But I can't give up. Never, old man. Don't give up.
 
 
Spaniel
14:48 / 19.12.07
I am the Knight. She is my mistress!
 
 
Triplets
14:49 / 19.12.07
What am I doing? Last one minute longer than all of you. That's what.

I am typing this from a hole in my back garden.
 
 
Seth
14:54 / 19.12.07
I am a garden.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
14:54 / 19.12.07
I have changed my name to Batman Joker Heath Bale Nolan Batman Batman Tumbler Alfred Batmanson.
 
 
grant
15:01 / 19.12.07
If Nolan does a third, it should definitely have Man-Bat in it.
 
 
Jack Fear
15:03 / 19.12.07
The ammonia reek of my guano is becoming too much even for me; and so I have to find some other way of showing how excited I am about this movie:

glasgow smile

One must always face the camera with a grin.
 
 
Seth
15:08 / 19.12.07
Kayleigh!
 
 
Shiny: Well Over Thirty
15:45 / 19.12.07
See - I have a bottle of acid, but decisions, decisions, decisions, do I use it to bleach my entire face in honour of this movie, or should I scar just one side, in an act of pre-emptive anticipation for the third movie?
 
 
The Falcon
16:20 / 19.12.07
I have adbucted a young orphan boy and am shouting at him in preparation for this movie.
 
 
iamus
16:32 / 19.12.07
Goddamn!
 
 
The Falcon
16:39 / 19.12.07
The kid is getting to me.
 
 
grant
16:58 / 19.12.07


I did this.

It was... my chemical plant.
 
 
Jack Fear
17:32 / 19.12.07
Fixed it for you...

why so serious

Where's Jack Denfeld when you need him?
 
 
Hieronymus
17:34 / 19.12.07
This whole thing is page 1 of the How-To-Be-Batman manual.

Know it by heart, people.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
17:43 / 19.12.07
I have abducted a young orphan boy and am shouting at him in preparation for this movie.

I was going to get a job in a care home, identify a game, likely lad, then train him up in the ways of righteousness in time for B-Day this summer.

But on reflection, that approach seems needlessly fussy.
 
  

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