Corrected entry: During the interrogation scene, right after Gordon leaves, the lights turn on. But, a split second before batman slams the joker's face into the table, the joker squints his eyes. It's possible that Heath Ledger could've done it because he knows that his head is going to be slammed down so he makes a face to prepare for it.
Tailkinker
17th Oct 2010
The Dark Knight (2008)
4th Apr 2009
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the Joker tries to kill Batman after his racing is off, and someone interrupts him, he says, "Could you please, just give me a minute?" Then James Gordon appears and you can see that his glasses are broken. The next shot, his glasses are not broken anymore. (01:19:20)
Correction: He's wearing completely different glasses in the second shot. He goes from wearing glasses that were more compatible with the SWAT disguise he was wearing (which aren't broken, by the way) back to wearing his regular glasses.
16th Jan 2009
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: The Joker kills one of Gambol's henchmen with a pencil in the kitchen scene. Later, when the Joker goes to kill Gambol, the henchmen is alive, with a gun to his head, on the right.
Correction: Comparing the two individuals in question, it's clear that they're not the same man. See here.
28th Jan 2009
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: It shown that the only entrance to the makeshift 'BatCave' is on a platform which lowers down from a cargo crate. The night after Batman apprehends Scarecrow, Alfred comes down and unlocks a padlock to enter the crate, goes down and finds Bruce stitching himself up, making it clear Bruce has been there all night. Therefore it's impossible that the crate is padlocked, as you'd need to be outside to do it and there's no other way to get into the underground lair.
Correction: The only entrance shown to the underground lair is via the cargo container, but that doesn't mean that there isn't another access point. When Alfred unlocks it, it is a very standard model of cargo container - the maximum width for such containers is eight feet. Given that the Tumbler is nine feet four inches wide, it is clear that another entrance must exist.
15th Jan 2009
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the end of the chase for the armored car, when it leaves the tunnel, the left side of the car appears clean, without any of the bullet signs from the Joker's shots. They appear from inside when Dent is talking with a officer.
Correction: All through the chase sequence, exterior shots of the armoured car shows little sign of damage - the dark paint combined with the poor lighting means that the dents simply don't show up well. The light colour of the interior, combined with the better lighting inside the vehicle, shows up the damage better.
27th Dec 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the Joker blows up the hospital, he enters a bus just as the explosion starts. You can spot a camera in the bus capturing the Jokers reaction to the explosion. This shot wasn't used in the film but can be seen on the two disc DVD version.
Correction: The problem with this submission is really the phrase 'The shot wasn't used in the film'. Movie mistakes are about mistakes that actually appear in the movie - it's pretty specific like that.
21st Dec 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When they are trying to get Reese to safety, going into the alley and out of the building, you can see a cameraman running down the stairs after the police and Gordon.
Correction: Of course you can - you can see him throughout the sequence. Reese, Gordon and his men are being accompanied by reporter Mike Engel and his cameraman - at one point, you even hear Engel specifically telling his cameraman to keep rolling.
21st Dec 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: After The Joker blows up the hospital and sits down on his bus, a crew member in the back can be seen cuing the bus driver.
Correction: That's just one of the Joker's henchmen who took over the bus before he left the hospital and are waiting to pick him up. Joker gets on board, the man at the back who's been holding open the door closes it and gives the go signal to the man in the driver's seat.
21st Dec 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: In the opening when the Joker gets picked up at the corner, he is holding his mask in his hand. The van pulls up beside him in a way that the other robbers would be able to see his face. Supposedly his face is painted prior to arriving to the bank: wouldn't the other robbers already know he is scarred and wears face paint, revealing that he is the Joker from the get-go? I also think that some people would be freaked out if the Joker was standing in the corner in broad daylight wearing face paint with scars on his face.
Correction: The van pulls up past him and he puts the mask on almost immediately. He's also standing with his head down, making it even harder to see his face. They might catch a glimpse of the makeup, maybe, but it won't be detailed. It's also shown in the sequence that some of the thieves don't actually know that the Joker wears makeup anyway, so there's no guarantee that, even if they did see him well, that they'd make the connection. As for the public, yeah, some of them might find it a bit odd, but no odder than dozens of other street performers that you could find on the streets of any major city.
9th Dec 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When Batman cuts out the chunk of wall to retrieve the bullet, it is a square shape with the bullet hole slightly off-center. Then, when he is shooting various sample bricks in his lab, the one he chooses is rectangular with the bullet hole dead-center. When he actually performs the scan to find the fingerprint, he is using the rectangular sample brick, not the square one he cut out of the wall. This means he is somehow able to yield a criminal's fingerprint off a bullet that he shot in his own lab.
Correction: Incorrect. He's scanning the brick that he shot to determine exactly how the test bullet inside broke up on impact, in order to determine the sort of pattern that the segments would end up in. He can then scan the wall section taken from the apartment, examine the dispersal pattern of the bullet fragments within and create a virtual construct of the original bullet, using the data from the test as a guideline.
3rd Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: Heath Ledger wanted to have the Joker's clown makeup to have a "real" quality so he applied the clown makeup himself every day.
Correction: Film-making requires strict continuity, particularly with regard to makeup and other items that can easily change during a scene. With scenes shot over multiple days, there is no way an actor would simply be allowed to slap the makeup on themselves. They have makeup people skilled in maintaining continuity for that sort of thing.
30th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When Gordon comes back, he taps the Joker and when the Joker looks up for a split second, you can see that he doesn't have a scar on his face. Upon turning back, the scar is there.
Correction: This shot is not done in close-up - there's simply not enough visual information to state that his scar is missing. Having watched for this specifically during my last viewing, the Joker looks no different from any other shot in the film.
11th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: Batman cuts out the bullet hole from the wall to look for Joker's fingerprints, but Joker wears gloves.
Correction: Joker usually wears gloves, yes, but that doesn't mean that he wears them every hour of every day. While it makes sense that he'd wear them while out creating mischief, to avoid leaving his fingerprints, there's no particular reason for him to wear them when hiding out and preparing. Bruce is hoping that the Joker wasn't wearing them when he loaded the bullets into the magazine, something that turns out to be correct.
11th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: The events of this film take place immediately after the events of 'Batman Begins'. In the previous film, Lucius Fox introduces and describes the 'Tumbler' to Bruce Wayne as a military prototype 'bridging vehicle', designed to jump across ravines and chasms to drag lines which would then be used to pull bridges across. The vehicle is then used in that film is ways that are consistent with the expected features of such a vehicle. However, in this film the Tumbler (now officially the 'Batmobile') suddenly acquires the ability to shed its outer skin, revealing the motorcycle-like vehicle from within. Not only does this serve no conceivable purpose for an intended 'bridging vehicle', but that ability would preclude the interior passenger space shown quite thoroughly in the previous film. Also, there has not been any time between the two films' timelines in which to make the modifications necessary for such a feature, even if they only recently decided to add it.
Correction: Incorrect. The Joker makes reference to it having been a year since the mob had it all their own way, Harvey Dent has risen to prominence and has had the time to start what's an ongoing relationship with Rachel (they're at the point of talking marriage), Bruce has set up a sophisticated underground lair, Gordon is now senior enough in the Gotham Police to be selected as the new Commissioner, despite only being made a lieutenant at the end of the previous film. Clearly some considerable time has passed since the first film, a year at an absolute minimum. Plenty of time for Fox to have tinkered with the Tumbler. Not that the feature couldn't already have been there anyway. Think about it - you're designing a military vehicle to leap across rivers into what could well be hostile territory. Designing a system that would allow the driver to escape swiftly in the event of terminal damage to the vehicle makes perfect sense. And given that we really don't know exactly how the 'eject' system works, your assertation that it would preclude the internal space seen in the first film is flawed at best.
6th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When in the interrogation room after The Joker says, "Good cop, bad cop," Batman is about to push his head down, and the Joker closes his eyes and looks as if he were hurt the second before he actually gets hurt.
Correction: It looks more to me like he's reacting to the sudden bright light rather than any pre-emptive pain from Batman ramming his head into the table. Remember, he's just gone for near-darkness to bright light. A somewhat pained reaction is quite understandable.
4th Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When the Joker blows up the police station, in order to help him escape, everyone around and close to him, including his hostage, gets knocked out with the impact of the explosion, except him.
2nd Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: When describing ways to fly into Asia, "South Korean smugglers operating out of Pyongyang" was a possibility. However, Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea, not South.
Correction: So they're smugglers from South Korea who operate out of North Korea. Hardly implausible.
1st Aug 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: Lau, who is video conferenced in the mobster meeting, seems to see the Joker. But how? All we have is a TV set in the room; where is the camera?
Correction: Just because the camera isn't immediately visible, it doesn't mean that there isn't one there; Lau would hardly set up a video link conference where he couldn't see the other participants. Lau wishes to control the meeting - given that, he would conceal the camera, making sure that none of the mob bosses could switch it off, cutting him out of proceedings.
30th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: After Batman dives to save Rachel when Joker drops her from the party for Harvey Dent, we don't see what happens to the Joker and his henchmen who are still up in the penthouse terrorizing party guests. It's left unaddressed how the Joker gets away.
Correction: Something being left unaddressed is not a mistake. Think about it for a minute. The Joker and his armed minions are left behind in a room full of notably unarmed Gotham socialites. Who is there for them to 'get away' from? Once the Joker, who you may recall is there specifically looking for Harvey Dent, established that his target wasn't present, they just left. There's nobody there to try to stop them.
30th Jul 2008
The Dark Knight (2008)
Corrected entry: Joker, being a notorious criminal, would be placed in lock-down/isolation in the county jail away from the rest of the everyday criminals.
Correction: This is an opinion, not a mistake. It's made entirely clear throughout the film that Gordon doesn't trust the staff down at County. While he's not entirely sure if he can trust his own men either, at least if he keeps the Joker nearby he can keep an eye on things personally. Plus the Joker's only in custody for, at most, a few hours, barely enough time to process him, let alone send him packing off down to County, even if Gordon was happy with the idea.
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Correction: Well, you try sitting in a really dark room and then have somebody switch on the lights. You'd squint - everybody squints. It's a natural reflex under those circumstances.
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