Phixius

23rd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene of the assassination attempt the Joker, without his makeup, is disguised as one of the police officers who will give the gun salute. Even if we can suspend our disbelief that nobody recognized him specifically as being the Joker (even though he does have the same facial scar), how on earth could he have gotten himself chosen as one of the cops who would give the salute and therefore hold a loaded gun literally next to a high-ranking city official? I'd think that the police force would double-check and then triple-check who got selected to hold a gun in that type of situation. How did he get past that and fool everyone?

Correction: He and his thugs abducted and detained the men who were selected and took their place. He didn't show up at the police station, sans makeup, and apply for a position in the 21-gun salute then, after being legitimately selected, somehow convince the other six officers to fire on the mayor with him.

Phixius

23rd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Alfred is burning documents in the 'batcave' furnace, it starts with furnace open where you can see him shoveling papers into a burning pile. The next shot shows him closing the door to the furnace, except there is no visible flame in the window. In the next shots the flames are visible again through the window.

Correction: Alfred is tossing, not "shoveling", and it's only one schematic that we actually see him throw in. Second, we can't see the flames because of the angle. In the next shot, the angle is different.

Phixius

22nd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Batman is holding the Joker off the edge of a building and the Joker is obviously upside down, the camera angle is showing an very poor upright version of him. It's very obvious that he has a fan blowing underneath him and he is swaying back and forth.

Correction: His cheeks, lips, each individual hair on his head, and his coat all must have strings pulling them up too, then, because all those things appear as they would if Heath Ledger were actually upside down. And Batman isn't holding him either. He's hanging from Batman's zip line.

Phixius

22nd Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Jim Gordon caught the Joker (after the car chase), we can see Gordon wearing "SWAT" glasses, but a few seconds later, he speaks with someone else and now wearing standard glasses.

Correction: Jim Gordon normally wears prescription glasses so he must have put them back on during those more than ample "few seconds" since he didn't need the safety glasses anymore.

Phixius

21st Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the scene where Joker sets fire to his half of the money with Lau sitting on top, where did the money come from? Lau took the mobs' money out of Dent's jurisdiction. Joker had time to kidnap Lau, discover the location of the money, divide it in half and stack it to stage Lau's demise?

Correction: Since you ask, here's the answer: yes. See, Lau never said he took the money out of Dent's jurisdiction, only that he himself could leave Dent's jurisdiction. The money could have been hidden anywhere, even the very warehouse in which it was burned.

Phixius

19th Jul 2008

The Dark Knight (2008)

Corrected entry: In the shot of the construction building where the Joker is watching the boats in the harbor, Bruce uses the cellular waves as a sonar and you can see the S.W.A.T. designs on the back of the officers' vests. This is impossible due to the fact that the S.W.A.T. lettering is flat and would not show up as another color. Instead, almost all surfaces would show up as one color.

Correction: That part of the vest resonates differently due to having the plastic like acrylic paint covering the canvas, and therefore looks different on Batman's imaging device. It is, after all, a fictional technology described only as being like sonar.

Phixius

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