Completely agree, but this wasn't Heath Ledger's final movie. Heath died while filming The Imaginariam of Doctor Parnassus, a wonderful film that I highly recommend.
Fun fact: the actor that played Rachel hadn't seen Heath Ledger in his Joker costume, and when he came up and grabbed her, she was actual terrified cause she didn't know what was happening
Ange: It's so good watching it as an adult and really dissecting what every scene has portrayed. Also Ange: *proceeds to snap chopstick with hands to prove how easy it is to break a pool cue*
Fun fact: The Dark Knight was a big reason the Oscars started nominating more films for best picture than just the standard 5 nominees (from 1944 to 2008. It increased in 2009).
@@calypso4882 Quite probably not. The eye socket's sort of funnel-shaped (to hold not just the eyeball, but also the muscles controlling it as well as the optic nerve) and so the pencil would likely not catch on any side of it to accrue enough force to snap. If anything the socket would most likely direct the pencil straight into the brain stem. Which is horrifying and now I wish I hadn't thought about that 😐
@@stephanniemorin Lobotomies tend to involve the prefrontal cortex more (the bit directly behind your forehead), as you can damage that and produce radical personality changes (mostly by destroying executive function and thereby rendering the person basically a zombie) without killing the patient. "Icepick" lobotomies were/are performed by slipping a long, thing metal rod beside the eye inside the nose-side of the socket and driving it up through the top of the cavity into the interior of the skull. Then, you use the rod like a windshield wiper and scramble that portion of the brain. Takes about 5 minutes, often done while the patient is awake, and recovery is so minimal that the procedure is often done on an "outpatient" basis, like getting a wart removed. The only non-brain injury produced is often just a black eye. Going back from the eye into the interior of the brain, as Joker did, creates serious risk of disrupting fundamental survival systems, like the stuff that keeps your heart beating. Especially dangerous the closer you get to the brain-stem at the bottom rear of the skull. This is why those looking to kill themselves by gunshot often put the barrel in their mouths, rather than, say, under the chin (to the Preacher fans - hi, Arseface!).
Knowing Joker's love of novelty knives, etc, it likely wasn't an ordinary 'pencil' to begin with, especially considering the way he first stabbed it into the table. All part of the 'magic trick', no doubt.
People rightfully praise Heath Ledger for his performance in this, and everyone is great, but man, that part when Gordon says, "We have to save Dent! *I* have to save Dent!" gets me every time. Just the way he says "I." Gary Oldman puts his entire soul into that single syllable.
He is kinda subtle as an actor, which makes him easy to forget. But the more you see of him the more amazed you will be, he can play anything to perfection. I would probably put him in a Top 5 Greatest Actors in history. He would be after Al Pacino, Samuel L. Jackson, James Stewart and Daniel Day-Lewis though. But I kinda want Jack Nicholson there too, it´s a tough pick.
RIP and long live the greatest Joker actor of all time. Heath Ledger (April 4, 1979 - January 22, 2008), aged 28 You will always be remembered as a legend.
The mask the Joker wears to rob the bank at the beginning is a reference to a mask that Cesar Romero's Joker wore in a episode of the 1966 Batman TV series.
Harvey blamed Gordon for Rachel's death because Harvey knew which of Gordon's cops were corrupt and told him but Gordon didn't do anything about it because he didn't want to lose numbers.
Yes the truck flipping scene was done practically They actually flipped an 18 wheeler And the scene when Joker blows up the hospital was improvised on the spot because there was a technical issue with the pyrotechnics that delayed the explosion So when you see Joker confused as to why the building isn't blowing up it is a genuinely real reaction 😄
Nope, the hospital scene was like that in the script. The explosives were meant to be like that. The director Christopher Nolan himself confirmed that it was planned.
Can confirm: the pyro in the hospital scene was set to go off in 2 stages. The first stage was the "cosmetic" explosions as he was walking out. the 2nd stage was the actual building demolition. That was the plan, so as not to blow up Heath as he was walking out lol Also, it was more than "they flipped an 18 wheeler" They flipped an 18 wheeler on the streets of Chicago, and the only CGI used was to edit out the giant plunger in the trailer they used to do the flipping. Also, the straight on camera view of the flip was the only shot in the movie not filmed on 1080P cameras, because they only had one take of it and that camera angle was an "added shot" after they had already set up the other angles. I may have watched the Special Edition bonus features one too many times... lol
I think Harvey Dent was meant to represent the evil inside all of us. Sometimes we’re just one bad day away from becoming the very thing we despise. No one is safe from it. Heath Ledger gets a lot of praise, but I think Aaron Eckharts descent into madness is just moving. That coin scene at the hospital. Bruh.
It's also a joker theme, all it takes is one bad enough day for anyone to become like him. All of us have our dark side that we keep locked away until we break. Harvey isn't important, the fact he was considered uncorruptable and purest of gotham is
In the comics, Harvey Dent was always broken though. He suffered from bipolar, schizophrenia, dissociative personality disorder. The coin he always carries around with him was passed down to him by his abusive father, who’s the reason why he suffered these mental illnesses. He casually flipped the coin as a way to handle stress. But when things get too far for him, “Big Bad Harv” takes over. Heck, even in the comics Sal Maroni is actually the reason why Harvey ends up getting his face scarred.
The bad guys are all driven by inherently human traits, apart from the joker really. The riddler is egotistical and jealous, Mr freeze is trying to save his wife, harvey is a broken spirit. they're not just bad for kicks.
Yes, the truck flip was real. Nolan used a steel ram powered by TNT to throw the back of the truck 54 feet into the air while a stuntman was driving it.
@@Dave_of_Mordor Most film makers use cgi; Nolan's preference for using practical effects wherever possible is unusual these days. Worth noting that the Batmobile in this movie was a real vehicle, and that to film the hospital explosion they blew up a real building - albeit one that was going to be demolished anyway.
@@benkelly2024 i knew the batmobile was a real vehicle, but the building? they blew up a real building? holy shit...even if it was going to get demolished anyway, how much money did they spend for all that dynamite? I'm still glad he did it that way, though.
@@Dave_of_Mordor Do you not remember what the Joker said? "I'm a fan of dynamites, gunpowder... and GASOLINEEE. It's not about the money, it's about.. sending a message." All jokes aside haha, this movie had a huge budget, blowing up an old building isn't all that too surprising. Adding on to the lack of CGI, for a while I had thought the scene where the Tumbler that Batman drove head on into the trash truck to eliminate Joker's henchmen was CGI. That was actually done practically, but obviously not by driving the actual Tumblers into a head-on collision. But rather they used miniature replicas of both trash truck and the Bat Tumbler. They even built the surrounding environment like bridge, pillars and side buildings as miniatures just to film it without CGI.
You sounded fine. Hope you're feeling better. Just curious... do you stop the movie when you do your commentary? I can't imagine you being okay missing that much of the action because you definitely pay attention to nuance and detail by much of your commentary. Great job on the edits and the reactions. Keep it up. 🙂 Aloha & take care 🤙 (PS... I think it's known as a cowl. The "mask" or "thing" he's wearing.)
Hi, Angelina. The character named Mr. Reese who tried to deduce the identity of Batman during the conversation with Lucius Fox. He is an Easter Egg for The Riddler because his name sounds like 'Mysteries' if you pronounce his name. The appearance of The Riddler had the question mark symbol to serve as his visual motif. The original name of the villain is "Edward Nigma" which was derived from the word "Enigma".
That strange tick of licking his lips was actually improvised by Ledger because the scars they put on his cheeks kept getting loose. So he would lick them to keep them in place and it became a character tic for the Joker but it worked so well
Fun fact: For anyone who doesn’t know or is interested the thing with the plane is a real thing. The Fulton surface-to-air recovery system commonly referred to as operation skyhook was a real thing thing that they used from 1965 to September 1996 when the practice was terminated due to advancements in helicopters and other aircrafts.
Interesting info, thanks! Skyhook also had a bunch of operational restrictions (eg. even if you can get permission for the airspace, you gotta fly something relatively slow and low to do it, which is not great if MANPADs or AA might be about, and you need relatively open terrain to do the pick-up without bashing your passenger to pieces on the nearby landscape features, etc.). Also, even with the full-body harness to distribute the impact, apparently instantly going from 0 to at least 150+ mph really, really, really fuckin' hurts. A very cool technique given the limitations of the time, though! Talk about lateral thinking.
Not certain of it, but I've heard Michael Caine was also seeing Heath in full costume for the first time there, and he was so shocked that he forgot the lines he was supposed to give. Which is a hell of a feat to accomplish, considering it's friggin' Michael Caine, who I'm pretty sure would still deliver his lines perfectly even if he were on fire.
@@michaelccozens It was also good to pick up on that, by Nolan and the rest of the post-production team, and make it the final cut. Having the feel for small decisions like that is what makes it possible to transcend greatness.
favorite is batman begins. It sets the right tone. You have the best reaction channel. Your energy is pure fun addictive awesomeness. MVP!!! Should definitely be at 500K + subscribers.
It's strongly theorized that Rachel was recast because Katie Holmes was attracting some unusual and unwanted press after her relationship with Tom Cruise went public, and he started jumping on Oprah's couch like a weirdo and pushing some of his Scientology beliefs during interviews. Joker's lip-licking and lip-smacking came about from Heath's discomfort with the prosthetic "scars". He found them very uncomfortable to wear on his cheeks and lips, so he would lick at them reflexively. Yes, that truck flip was completely practical. They actually flipped a real truck on LaSalle Street in Chicago. They had to be super-precise when they did it, because if they were off by just a little bit, the truck would've struck the buildings on either side of the street and caused lots of property damage.
1:40 fun fact that mask (the one the joker wears) is actually an homage to the very first ever depiction of a live-action joker (caesar romero) in the 1966 batman tv series the joker is introduced wearing facepaint in that mask's design (episode title "the joker is wild")
The pencil may have gone straight through that poor chap's eye ball. That's why didn't snap. Very scary but Bad S. Joker went full John Wick on that poor guy
Interesting side note, most people know Gordon's daughter becomes Batgirl, but the son you were so worried about becomes a horrific serial killer as an adult. So, in a way, Harvey nearly saved a bunch of people there.
At 16:23 when you talk about Harvey reflipping the coin, I don't think you realized this, but that's a rare mint coin that has two "faces" or "heads", one on each side. So Harvey was bluffing. It was never going to come up tails, but the psychopath didn't know that. It's a reference in the comics to Janus, the Roman god, who had two sides and represented beginnings & ends, journeys & transitions, and duality. In the comics after Dent becomes scarred, the coin is deliberately marred and defaced, to represent Two-Face and his obsession with chance, whereas I think this movie just understates that the coin was defaced by the gasoline explosion.
A few things i love about this was 1. He licks the wounds on his face cause the makeup wouldnt stay on so he licked it to put it back in place and that became Jokers tick 2. When he blew up the hospital the explosions failed but it wasnt on purpose instead of cutting the scene he kept hitting the controller and it eventually blew up So many things couldve gone wrong but he stuck thru it and it worked in his favor
I can't help but sigh a little every time people cheer Bats saving James Jr, because that little boy grows up to be a pretty horrifying serial killer in the comics 😬
Crazy fact I finally found out a few weeks ago: from Joker's reveal here 2:37 , the music notes from the rise and fall are notes that rep their chord letters. The rise being D and the fall being C. *DC COMICS* (My god Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard were something else) 😌👌🏾 Thank you Angelina for the commentary to my all-time fav film 💙
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!! This is by far my favorite super hero movie of all time, no debate! Heath Ledger deserved that Oscar he received! The subtle (and not so subtle) commentaries. Joker’s maniacal nature in all things. Dent’s demise. All the family members of patient’s hospitalized trying to kill the Reese to ensure the safety of their loved ones. The prisoner tossing the detonator into the water. These are just a few of countless moments Nolan perfected in this masterpiece! I appreciate all that you do Ange, much love for these!
Joker didn’t consider what he did “a plan.” He just introduced chaos and waited to see what would happen. He had a pretty good idea what the outcome would be, but as we saw, some things did surprise him. The cool thing is he still technically won because he took away Gotham’s white knight and the dark knight and a chunk of the city’s hope
4:45 Maggie Gyllenhaal was cast as Rachel because Katie Holmes turned it down for a movie called 'Mad Money'...... If you haven't heard of it, then you know why her career went downhill 🙈
This brings me back, I saw this 6 times in the movie theater when this came out. Fun fact The jokers voice isn’t Heaths real voice. Heath imitated Tom Waits the singer. If you watch a interview with Tom waits and listen to the joker, they sound identical. Thanks for reminding me of the good days. No one since has played the joker this good! Rest In Peace Heath Ledger. You are missed! 🤡
So excited for you! I personally don't really enjoy her music all that much but I'm super stoked that you get to see someone you love! Have safe travels and have a great time!
Katie Holmes chose to do another movie, called Mad Money, instead of The Dark Knight, hence the recast of Maggie Gyllenhaal. Not Holmes’ best decision…..
At 13:19, that's Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont. He's such a Batman fan that he has appeared in several Batman movies and productions over the years.
RIP Heath Ledger. Your talents were never appreciated in your time, but you will always be our Joker! Also the Joker actually stabbed the pencil in the guys eye socket, that's how we did lobotomies way back when...scary times *shudder*
I was waiting to watch your comentary on this one, because I always remember how he fights ehen you do the elbow thing, this batman literally uses your moves of elbow as a fight style
There's a film that has another villain who uses a coin to decide peoples fate, his name is Anton Chigurh and he is without a doubt the most psychopathic person in cinema history! The film is called, "No Country for Old Men" and it's a true masterpiece. Javier Barden's performance will give you the real creeps as Anton. I highly suggest watching it for it's nihilistic and pessimistic views on life and how a deadly cat & mouse chase can play out good vs. evil.
Hey, Ange! Great reaction as usual! MCU in this film stands for Major Crimes Unit. Yes, the title reveals the Dent and Batman are kind of polar opposites fighting the same battle, hence Harvey being the White Knight, and Bruce being the Dark Knight. Dent's foreshadowed his own fate with the line at the restaurant: "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Dent died the villain, but Batman lived long enough to make himself from hero TO villain so that Harvey's reputation could be protected and hope in Gotham could thrive. The boat scene when I first saw it surprised me - can regular people be as sadistic as a crazed madman when their life is on the line and they're about to be blown up? You expect the prisoners to do the wrong thing, and you almost expect the citizens out of fear to do the same.....neither of them blew up the other boat because they're both human, and that's the whole point. And no, the Joker doesnt really "plan" - well, okay he does to a degree - but his agenda is always chaos. Alfred was right again - Joker wasnt looking for anything logical. The Gotham mafia tried to buy him, he took over and burned his share of the money. Batman beat him to get info out of him, and he still didnt save Rachel. Dent was horribly disfigured, and without Rachel, he lost everything. Joker saw that and tipped him over the edge into madness when Dent was already a bit unhinged when Rachel was threatened. Mostly, the Joker failed, but if Batman, Gordon and even Dent hadn't been there, Gotham would've been even worse off, and more citizens would've died. I think one of the greatest Batman writers of the comics, Dennis O'Neal said that the only real motivation the Joker has to do what he does is that he believes there's not enough laughter in the world, but unfortunately for the Joker, what makes him laugh is other people's suffering. He's a mentally unstable individual who could laugh himself tired while beating you to death with a crowbar.
Great and funny reaction! In regards to the pencil scene, the only way it would go through the guys head is that it actually went through the guy's eye/eye socket and right in to his brain! Yeesh, crazy yet gross! LOL Can't wait for your Dark Knight Rises commentary!
"Please tell me they actually flipped the truck on set!" It was an actual street in Chicago, not a set. Yes, the truck flipped, by a big pneumatic piston inside the trailer. And Christopher Nolan was wearing a t-shirt that read, "CG is for wimps."
From what I heard, the reason why Rachel was recasted was because Tom Cruise didn't want Katie Holmes being around another man during production. In other words, Tom Cruise was a bit too clingy.
The plane grabbing a balloon thing was part of a CIA program. They used it for cargo and grabbing satellite film while Soviet subs waited to recover it if they missed. They never made it particularly safe for human use.
I don't watch superhero movies but all I remember is when this was filmed my dad worked in Chicago and they were filming right outside his office. Even though I personally don't watch these films in my free time, I love watching you watch anything
I was in high school when this came out, and all of a sudden everyone was trying to be the joker, and I didn't get it. I saw the movie, and it was just a regular movie to me. To this day I still don't get it.
Funny thing is that all the stunts done in the movie were real. Nolan used very little CG if at all. He used practical effects. They actually flipped over the truck and the motorcycle trick was apparently very difficult to execute. The Harvey make up was CG
Angelina: "No, they joined tables. If it wasn't originally a double date, don't do it guys." Me: "True, but if it's the owner of the place HELL YEAH. We about to get sponsored. It's okay. He's got the bill now. Add some selfies with Bruce Wayne to that and his signature on all the cheques for my charities, he's gonna regret sitting next TO ME!"
Which Batman movie is YOUR favorite?
I love it
Definitely this one but I can’t wait for the new one
This one right here!!!
Batman 1989
Batman returns🦇
RIP, Heath Ledger. He posthumously won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the Joker. He did a hell of a good job
I love it
Beyond what we could give him credit for. Miss him alot
Completely agree, but this wasn't Heath Ledger's final movie. Heath died while filming The Imaginariam of Doctor Parnassus, a wonderful film that I highly recommend.
Fun fact: the actor that played Rachel hadn't seen Heath Ledger in his Joker costume, and when he came up and grabbed her, she was actual terrified cause she didn't know what was happening
Really what did she say
@Anonymous Talker The old man he grabbed was the original joker from the Batman series. That’s why he said you remind me of my father.
@@c-mac9902 Do you mean U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont? The original Joker is a completely different person, Cesar Romero, who died in 1994.
@@c-mac9902 youre talking out of your ass
Katie Holmes from Dawsons Creek!
Ange: It's so good watching it as an adult and really dissecting what every scene has portrayed.
Also Ange: *proceeds to snap chopstick with hands to prove how easy it is to break a pool cue*
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA
@@ANGELINAA 😂 fR
Fun fact: The Dark Knight was a big reason the Oscars started nominating more films for best picture than just the standard 5 nominees (from 1944 to 2008. It increased in 2009).
Also fun fact: the Oscar’s are going to be pushing themselves further and further into irrelevance starting next year
6:57 well your right, a pencil probably wouldn’t be durable to break through the skull. And that’s why Joker does it through the eye socket.
I love that she thought it went through his head 😂. Would still probably snap going through an eye though.
So Joker gave the guy a lobotomy?
@@calypso4882 Quite probably not. The eye socket's sort of funnel-shaped (to hold not just the eyeball, but also the muscles controlling it as well as the optic nerve) and so the pencil would likely not catch on any side of it to accrue enough force to snap. If anything the socket would most likely direct the pencil straight into the brain stem. Which is horrifying and now I wish I hadn't thought about that 😐
@@stephanniemorin Lobotomies tend to involve the prefrontal cortex more (the bit directly behind your forehead), as you can damage that and produce radical personality changes (mostly by destroying executive function and thereby rendering the person basically a zombie) without killing the patient. "Icepick" lobotomies were/are performed by slipping a long, thing metal rod beside the eye inside the nose-side of the socket and driving it up through the top of the cavity into the interior of the skull. Then, you use the rod like a windshield wiper and scramble that portion of the brain. Takes about 5 minutes, often done while the patient is awake, and recovery is so minimal that the procedure is often done on an "outpatient" basis, like getting a wart removed. The only non-brain injury produced is often just a black eye.
Going back from the eye into the interior of the brain, as Joker did, creates serious risk of disrupting fundamental survival systems, like the stuff that keeps your heart beating. Especially dangerous the closer you get to the brain-stem at the bottom rear of the skull. This is why those looking to kill themselves by gunshot often put the barrel in their mouths, rather than, say, under the chin (to the Preacher fans - hi, Arseface!).
Knowing Joker's love of novelty knives, etc, it likely wasn't an ordinary 'pencil' to begin with, especially considering the way he first stabbed it into the table. All part of the 'magic trick', no doubt.
People rightfully praise Heath Ledger for his performance in this, and everyone is great, but man, that part when Gordon says, "We have to save Dent! *I* have to save Dent!" gets me every time. Just the way he says "I." Gary Oldman puts his entire soul into that single syllable.
He was being a proper soldier willing to put Gotham before himself.
This is why batman trusts very few cops. But gordon is one of them
He is kinda subtle as an actor, which makes him easy to forget. But the more you see of him the more amazed you will be, he can play anything to perfection. I would probably put him in a Top 5 Greatest Actors in history. He would be after Al Pacino, Samuel L. Jackson, James Stewart and Daniel Day-Lewis though. But I kinda want Jack Nicholson there too, it´s a tough pick.
Everyone in this movie did amazing, it’s just that Heath was so much better he overshadowed everyone.
RIP and long live the greatest Joker actor of all time.
Heath Ledger (April 4, 1979 - January 22, 2008), aged 28
You will always be remembered as a legend.
The mask the Joker wears to rob the bank at the beginning is a reference to a mask that Cesar Romero's Joker wore in a episode of the 1966 Batman TV series.
Cesar? George is Night of the Living Dead.
That's right, @@Mwoods2272. Thanks for the correction. My bad.
Fun fact: Maggie Gyllenhaal is Jake Gyllenhaal's sister. Jake is the godfather of Heath Ledger's daughter, Matilda.
What a twist!!
The clown mask is actually a call back to a 1966 Batman episode featuring the Joker
Angelina: you can’t kill a man with a pencil!
John Wick: 😏
Hahaha😂
This reaction was the one we needed but not the one we deserved.
"This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object". Best line ever 🖤
Harvey blamed Gordon for Rachel's death because Harvey knew which of Gordon's cops were corrupt and told him but Gordon didn't do anything about it because he didn't want to lose numbers.
Ange showing off the guns! Remind me never to get on your no, no list 🤣 Great commentary Ange and love the Batman voice
Yes the truck flipping scene was done practically
They actually flipped an 18 wheeler
And the scene when Joker blows up the hospital was improvised on the spot because there was a technical issue with the pyrotechnics that delayed the explosion
So when you see Joker confused as to why the building isn't blowing up it is a genuinely real reaction 😄
Nope, the hospital scene was like that in the script. The explosives were meant to be like that. The director Christopher Nolan himself confirmed that it was planned.
Yup Ethan is right. That’s just an urban myth that was shut down in an interview with Nolan
@@seanlinehan1136 yep.
Can confirm: the pyro in the hospital scene was set to go off in 2 stages. The first stage was the "cosmetic" explosions as he was walking out. the 2nd stage was the actual building demolition. That was the plan, so as not to blow up Heath as he was walking out lol
Also, it was more than "they flipped an 18 wheeler"
They flipped an 18 wheeler on the streets of Chicago, and the only CGI used was to edit out the giant plunger in the trailer they used to do the flipping. Also, the straight on camera view of the flip was the only shot in the movie not filmed on 1080P cameras, because they only had one take of it and that camera angle was an "added shot" after they had already set up the other angles.
I may have watched the Special Edition bonus features one too many times... lol
But do you know what happened when Aragorn kicket the helmet?
I think Harvey Dent was meant to represent the evil inside all of us. Sometimes we’re just one bad day away from becoming the very thing we despise. No one is safe from it. Heath Ledger gets a lot of praise, but I think Aaron Eckharts descent into madness is just moving. That coin scene at the hospital. Bruh.
It's also a joker theme, all it takes is one bad enough day for anyone to become like him. All of us have our dark side that we keep locked away until we break. Harvey isn't important, the fact he was considered uncorruptable and purest of gotham is
In the comics, Harvey Dent was always broken though. He suffered from bipolar, schizophrenia, dissociative personality disorder. The coin he always carries around with him was passed down to him by his abusive father, who’s the reason why he suffered these mental illnesses. He casually flipped the coin as a way to handle stress. But when things get too far for him, “Big Bad Harv” takes over.
Heck, even in the comics Sal Maroni is actually the reason why Harvey ends up getting his face scarred.
Anyone going into the movie that knows, knows harvey is 2 face.
Best Eckhart's performance in His underrated actor career.
The bad guys are all driven by inherently human traits, apart from the joker really. The riddler is egotistical and jealous, Mr freeze is trying to save his wife, harvey is a broken spirit. they're not just bad for kicks.
19:35 Yes, they actually flipped a truck on the set. If it can be done without CGI, Nolan will do it without CGI. Part of his charm.
23:58
Something that often gets overlooked is that Lau (Mr. Good with Money) is sitting on top of the pile of burning money.
Which essentially meant that was all of the money and not just his "half" that he burned.
Also joker on him getting his scar's story is always different and I like how he changes it
Yes, the truck flip was real. Nolan used a steel ram powered by TNT to throw the back of the truck 54 feet into the air while a stuntman was driving it.
Do we still do this now or is everything being cgi?
@@Dave_of_Mordor Most film makers use cgi; Nolan's preference for using practical effects wherever possible is unusual these days. Worth noting that the Batmobile in this movie was a real vehicle, and that to film the hospital explosion they blew up a real building - albeit one that was going to be demolished anyway.
@@benkelly2024 i knew the batmobile was a real vehicle, but the building? they blew up a real building? holy shit...even if it was going to get demolished anyway, how much money did they spend for all that dynamite? I'm still glad he did it that way, though.
@@Dave_of_Mordor Do you not remember what the Joker said? "I'm a fan of dynamites, gunpowder... and GASOLINEEE. It's not about the money, it's about.. sending a message." All jokes aside haha, this movie had a huge budget, blowing up an old building isn't all that too surprising.
Adding on to the lack of CGI, for a while I had thought the scene where the Tumbler that Batman drove head on into the trash truck to eliminate Joker's henchmen was CGI. That was actually done practically, but obviously not by driving the actual Tumblers into a head-on collision. But rather they used miniature replicas of both trash truck and the Bat Tumbler. They even built the surrounding environment like bridge, pillars and side buildings as miniatures just to film it without CGI.
filmed this while i was still a bit sick so pls dont mind my congestion friends ~
You sounded fine. Hope you're feeling better.
Just curious... do you stop the movie when you do your commentary? I can't imagine you being okay missing that much of the action because you definitely pay attention to nuance and detail by much of your commentary.
Great job on the edits and the reactions. Keep it up. 🙂
Aloha & take care 🤙
(PS... I think it's known as a cowl. The "mask" or "thing" he's wearing.)
Hi, Angelina. The character named Mr. Reese who tried to deduce the identity of Batman during the conversation with Lucius Fox. He is an Easter Egg for The Riddler because his name sounds like 'Mysteries' if you pronounce his name. The appearance of The Riddler had the question mark symbol to serve as his visual motif. The original name of the villain is "Edward Nigma" which was derived from the word "Enigma".
Heath Ledger obviously steals the show, amazing performance.
That strange tick of licking his lips was actually improvised by Ledger because the scars they put on his cheeks kept getting loose. So he would lick them to keep them in place and it became a character tic for the Joker but it worked so well
If I remember correctly when the joker has the handheld and killing the batdude, ledger was given complete control over what happened
The final scene with Joker erupting into laughter looks a great deal like a pivotal panel in Alan Moore's seminal Batman tale, "The Killing Joke".
The fact that your glittery eyeshadow looked like a tear every time you made a self-deprecating joke made it that much funnier.
Did she ever react to the dark knight rises or was that called off?
Can’t find if
I’m so glad you made a video on this movie lol
Ange: I’m Batman (in deep voice)
Me: literally laughing out loud
Fun fact: For anyone who doesn’t know or is interested the thing with the plane is a real thing. The Fulton surface-to-air recovery system commonly referred to as operation skyhook was a real thing thing that they used from 1965 to September 1996 when the practice was terminated due to advancements in helicopters and other aircrafts.
Interesting info, thanks! Skyhook also had a bunch of operational restrictions (eg. even if you can get permission for the airspace, you gotta fly something relatively slow and low to do it, which is not great if MANPADs or AA might be about, and you need relatively open terrain to do the pick-up without bashing your passenger to pieces on the nearby landscape features, etc.). Also, even with the full-body harness to distribute the impact, apparently instantly going from 0 to at least 150+ mph really, really, really fuckin' hurts.
A very cool technique given the limitations of the time, though! Talk about lateral thinking.
When you were talking about the skinny cam, that was Maggie Gyllenhall's first time seeing Heath Ledger in full makeup so her reaction was genuine.
Not certain of it, but I've heard Michael Caine was also seeing Heath in full costume for the first time there, and he was so shocked that he forgot the lines he was supposed to give. Which is a hell of a feat to accomplish, considering it's friggin' Michael Caine, who I'm pretty sure would still deliver his lines perfectly even if he were on fire.
@@michaelccozens It was also good to pick up on that, by Nolan and the rest of the post-production team, and make it the final cut. Having the feel for small decisions like that is what makes it possible to transcend greatness.
I seriously doubt they went with the very first take to get that genuine reaction, scenes will usually take many takes before they get it just right.
Fun fact that almost everyone knows: The hospital was an abandoned building that they actually blew up on set.
favorite is batman begins. It sets the right tone. You have the best reaction channel. Your energy is pure fun addictive awesomeness. MVP!!! Should definitely be at 500K + subscribers.
It's strongly theorized that Rachel was recast because Katie Holmes was attracting some unusual and unwanted press after her relationship with Tom Cruise went public, and he started jumping on Oprah's couch like a weirdo and pushing some of his Scientology beliefs during interviews.
Joker's lip-licking and lip-smacking came about from Heath's discomfort with the prosthetic "scars". He found them very uncomfortable to wear on his cheeks and lips, so he would lick at them reflexively.
Yes, that truck flip was completely practical. They actually flipped a real truck on LaSalle Street in Chicago. They had to be super-precise when they did it, because if they were off by just a little bit, the truck would've struck the buildings on either side of the street and caused lots of property damage.
during that pencil scene I think he made it go through the guy's eye that's why it went through
:o
Yeh there's a hole in you ocular cavity for the optic nerve to traverse, it's not super durable.
When Joker says he doesn’t have a plan he really means he doesn’t have a real end goal, he’s just doing things to cause chaos
So they really did the truck flip. No joke, they flipped that semi truck in reality.
I remember being in the theater when this came out and how everyone gasped and yelled about "the pencil trick"
1:40 fun fact that mask (the one the joker wears) is actually an homage to the very first ever depiction of a live-action joker (caesar romero) in the 1966 batman tv series the joker is introduced wearing facepaint in that mask's design (episode title "the joker is wild")
The pencil may have gone straight through that poor chap's eye ball. That's why didn't snap. Very scary but Bad S. Joker went full John Wick on that poor guy
Interesting side note, most people know Gordon's daughter becomes Batgirl, but the son you were so worried about becomes a horrific serial killer as an adult. So, in a way, Harvey nearly saved a bunch of people there.
At 16:23 when you talk about Harvey reflipping the coin, I don't think you realized this, but that's a rare mint coin that has two "faces" or "heads", one on each side. So Harvey was bluffing. It was never going to come up tails, but the psychopath didn't know that. It's a reference in the comics to Janus, the Roman god, who had two sides and represented beginnings & ends, journeys & transitions, and duality. In the comics after Dent becomes scarred, the coin is deliberately marred and defaced, to represent Two-Face and his obsession with chance, whereas I think this movie just understates that the coin was defaced by the gasoline explosion.
A few things i love about this was
1. He licks the wounds on his face cause the makeup wouldnt stay on so he licked it to put it back in place and that became Jokers tick
2. When he blew up the hospital the explosions failed but it wasnt on purpose instead of cutting the scene he kept hitting the controller and it eventually blew up
So many things couldve gone wrong but he stuck thru it and it worked in his favor
I can't help but sigh a little every time people cheer Bats saving James Jr, because that little boy grows up to be a pretty horrifying serial killer in the comics 😬
Me too. Everytime I watch the Dark Knight, I'm like :"Harvey! F the coin flip! Off this kid!"
You’re just reacting to ALL the good stuff 👌🏼
Yes th-cam.com/video/MCeYdH50apo/w-d-xo.html May i ask what name of the movie in video opinion what year is
How did you not watch this piece of art?!?!
I was really hoping you’d show more of the interrogation scene it was my favorite scene in the movie but great reaction as always
Crazy fact I finally found out a few weeks ago: from Joker's reveal here 2:37 , the music notes from the rise and fall are notes that rep their chord letters.
The rise being D and the fall being C. *DC COMICS*
(My god Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard were something else) 😌👌🏾
Thank you Angelina for the commentary to my all-time fav film 💙
Wow!
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!! This is by far my favorite super hero movie of all time, no debate! Heath Ledger deserved that Oscar he received! The subtle (and not so subtle) commentaries. Joker’s maniacal nature in all things. Dent’s demise. All the family members of patient’s hospitalized trying to kill the Reese to ensure the safety of their loved ones. The prisoner tossing the detonator into the water. These are just a few of countless moments Nolan perfected in this masterpiece! I appreciate all that you do Ange, much love for these!
The scene with Joker in the trailer always makes me think of the phrase 'You can't spell Slaughter without spelling Laughter' 😄😂😂
When are you gonna do the last movie
You snapping the wooden Chopsticks lmaoooooo
The best batman movie so far, love your reaction as always !
Lol you're so hilarious! This is the second video of yours I watched.... Very different from others I watch. Subscribed!
My favorite TH-camr ❤
Just seen your last batman movie reaction and then, this notification appears.
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10:41 I’ve never, after watching this film hundreds of times, noticed what the card said!
Uhm, where is the third?
Joker didn’t consider what he did “a plan.” He just introduced chaos and waited to see what would happen. He had a pretty good idea what the outcome would be, but as we saw, some things did surprise him. The cool thing is he still technically won because he took away Gotham’s white knight and the dark knight and a chunk of the city’s hope
Yeah the Joker claiming to be like a dog chasing cars is another one of his deceptions. He’s highly calculating.
Hey Angelina! Found your Star Wars reaction and now this! Love your content! Keep it up! This series is really the best.
4:45 Maggie Gyllenhaal was cast as Rachel because Katie Holmes turned it down for a movie called 'Mad Money'...... If you haven't heard of it, then you know why her career went downhill 🙈
I really love your commentary, it’s so entertaining and you have such a nice personality.
This brings me back, I saw this 6 times in the movie theater when this came out. Fun fact The jokers voice isn’t Heaths real voice. Heath imitated Tom Waits the singer. If you watch a interview with Tom waits and listen to the joker, they sound identical. Thanks for reminding me of the good days. No one since has played the joker this good! Rest In Peace Heath Ledger. You are missed! 🤡
So excited for you! I personally don't really enjoy her music all that much but I'm super stoked that you get to see someone you love! Have safe travels and have a great time!
it was super fun! ❤️
Katie Holmes chose to do another movie, called Mad Money, instead of The Dark Knight, hence the recast of Maggie Gyllenhaal. Not Holmes’ best decision…..
She was married to Tom Cruise at the time... so clearly she had terrible judgement back then, both professionally and personally.
The way your holding the shark plushy at 30:23 😂
Will you be doing The Dark Knight Rises?
The close caption! Hi Andrew! Love your channel.
SO EXTRA
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You know, the skull is pretty resistant, a pencil could never pierce it.
Except in one point... the eye socket...
At 13:19, that's Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont. He's such a Batman fan that he has appeared in several Batman movies and productions over the years.
This isn't the best Batman movie, this is the best JOKER MOVIE..
RIP Heath Ledger. Your talents were never appreciated in your time, but you will always be our Joker!
Also the Joker actually stabbed the pencil in the guys eye socket, that's how we did lobotomies way back when...scary times *shudder*
This has quickly became one of my favorite reaction channels.👍😁
I was waiting to watch your comentary on this one, because I always remember how he fights ehen you do the elbow thing, this batman literally uses your moves of elbow as a fight style
You are the first reactor I've seen who caught Joker's "FIREtruck" joke.
3:25 ...pepper spray? This is Scarecrow we're talking about, haha.
There's a film that has another villain who uses a coin to decide peoples fate, his name is Anton Chigurh and he is without a doubt the most psychopathic person in cinema history! The film is called, "No Country for Old Men" and it's a true masterpiece. Javier Barden's performance will give you the real creeps as Anton. I highly suggest watching it for it's nihilistic and pessimistic views on life and how a deadly cat & mouse chase can play out good vs. evil.
she clearly not seen john wick to know how deadly a pencil is.
I love how the Hot Toy for Joker comes with that disappearing pencil. LOL
He got em in the eye with the pencil ✏️ 😂😂 best magic trick ever
Hey, Ange! Great reaction as usual!
MCU in this film stands for Major Crimes Unit.
Yes, the title reveals the Dent and Batman are kind of polar opposites fighting the same battle, hence Harvey being the White Knight, and Bruce being the Dark Knight.
Dent's foreshadowed his own fate with the line at the restaurant: "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Dent died the villain, but Batman lived long enough to make himself from hero TO villain so that Harvey's reputation could be protected and hope in Gotham could thrive.
The boat scene when I first saw it surprised me - can regular people be as sadistic as a crazed madman when their life is on the line and they're about to be blown up? You expect the prisoners to do the wrong thing, and you almost expect the citizens out of fear to do the same.....neither of them blew up the other boat because they're both human, and that's the whole point.
And no, the Joker doesnt really "plan" - well, okay he does to a degree - but his agenda is always chaos. Alfred was right again - Joker wasnt looking for anything logical. The Gotham mafia tried to buy him, he took over and burned his share of the money. Batman beat him to get info out of him, and he still didnt save Rachel. Dent was horribly disfigured, and without Rachel, he lost everything. Joker saw that and tipped him over the edge into madness when Dent was already a bit unhinged when Rachel was threatened.
Mostly, the Joker failed, but if Batman, Gordon and even Dent hadn't been there, Gotham would've been even worse off, and more citizens would've died.
I think one of the greatest Batman writers of the comics, Dennis O'Neal said that the only real motivation the Joker has to do what he does is that he believes there's not enough laughter in the world, but unfortunately for the Joker, what makes him laugh is other people's suffering. He's a mentally unstable individual who could laugh himself tired while beating you to death with a crowbar.
Heath legder is a legend playing the joker
fun fact heath ledger is licking his lips like that to stop the scars from falling off
Great and funny reaction! In regards to the pencil scene, the only way it would go through the guys head is that it actually went through the guy's eye/eye socket and right in to his brain! Yeesh, crazy yet gross! LOL Can't wait for your Dark Knight Rises commentary!
"Please tell me they actually flipped the truck on set!"
It was an actual street in Chicago, not a set. Yes, the truck flipped, by a big pneumatic piston inside the trailer. And Christopher Nolan was wearing a t-shirt that read, "CG is for wimps."
Yo where’s the dark knight rises reaction tho? 🤔
A pencil is not stronger than your skull, but it can go right through your eyeball jelly.
:’o
@@ANGELINAA Though I wouldn't advise it if you're one of those people who's careful about health
From what I heard, the reason why Rachel was recasted was because Tom Cruise didn't want Katie Holmes being around another man during production. In other words, Tom Cruise was a bit too clingy.
It was actually a normal pencil… and it went through his eye socket!! 💀 LOL
The plane grabbing a balloon thing was part of a CIA program. They used it for cargo and grabbing satellite film while Soviet subs waited to recover it if they missed. They never made it particularly safe for human use.
They copied that move from the movie "The Green Berets" with John Wayne.
I don't watch superhero movies but all I remember is when this was filmed my dad worked in Chicago and they were filming right outside his office. Even though I personally don't watch these films in my free time, I love watching you watch anything
Fun review! Next one please.. "The fire rises."
I was in high school when this came out, and all of a sudden everyone was trying to be the joker, and I didn't get it. I saw the movie, and it was just a regular movie to me.
To this day I still don't get it.
This reaction is what we dont need and dont deserve
Funny thing is that all the stunts done in the movie were real. Nolan used very little CG if at all. He used practical effects. They actually flipped over the truck and the motorcycle trick was apparently very difficult to execute. The Harvey make up was CG
Angelina: "No, they joined tables. If it wasn't originally a double date, don't do it guys."
Me: "True, but if it's the owner of the place HELL YEAH. We about to get sponsored. It's okay. He's got the bill now. Add some selfies with Bruce Wayne to that and his signature on all the cheques for my charities, he's gonna regret sitting next TO ME!"
hahhahahaa truuuuuueeeee
13:44 this was actually an electric guitar. And yes it's one note going sharp.