This and That on The Dark Knight
Thursday night I saw The Dark Knight for the third time. I am not that obsessed, it just happened. Mary and I got tickets for an opening midnight showing. Mary was tired and had to work super early so she bailed at the last second. I flew solo and showed up for a front row seat just as it began. A week later, Mary wanted to see it, so I went again. It’s definitely worth seeing a second time. Yet another week later, Mary wanted to take a pair of nephews to see it and so I went along and I saw it a third time. I think that the only other movie that I saw three times in the theater was Pulp Fiction. I saw it three times in 1994/95 over a 3 to 4 month period. But now I’ve seen the Dark Knight three times, technically within a two week time span. Yowsa. It’s good … no, it’s great. But not “you should see it three times in a row” great.
One interesting thing that I noticed was that the Gotham license plates looked exactly like Illinois license plates. At first, when the bus backed into the bank at the beginning, I thought that they screwed up and left Illinois plates on the bus. But upon further inspection, they’d replaced the script “Illinois” with a similar script “Gotham”. And the picture of Lincoln from the Illinois plate was replaced with something else. Here’s an Illinois plate:
And here’s the bus plate:
It’s pretty obvious why they designed the Gotham plate to look just like Illinois plates … since it was mostly filmed in Chicago, the license plates on any non-prop cars that sneak into the film will, from a distance, match with the Gotham plates.
I watched them film a few of the big chase scenes in Chicago last summer. Seeing all of the equipment, personnel, security, props, etc. made me just overwhelmed when thinking about planning and project managing a project of this magnitude. Yowsa!
Funny, I thought that the plates looked similar too. Ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
PS. Harvey two face is coming for you tonight , Rob. Be afraid.
Jim, WHY SO SERIOUS?
Let’s put a smmmiiile on that face!
I believe in Harvey Dent.
I’m like a dog chasing cars…. if I caught one I wouldn’t know what to do with it! I just…do things!!!
I want…I want my phone call. I want my phone call.
How many of your friends have I killed………six. You see- I don’t use guns cause guns are too quick. I use knives because when they are about to die they give away their life secrets and all that…so really….I knew your friends better than you ever did.
You see, my father was a drinker. And one night…he got….a little crazier than usual…so my mom got the kitchen knife to defend herself..now dad didn’t like that one bit. So after he got mom with me watching….he came to me and said Why so serious? He pointed the knife at me and said Why so serious? He stuck the knife in my mouth and………Why so serious?———Ok We’ll let you guys join my team..but were gonna have to have…..tryouts….
I love it when he mouths “six?” to the cop when the cop says that he killed six of his friends.
Kill you? I don’t want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, you… you complete me.
I await your commentary on the batman’s gruff voice.
Also, is he called “the batman” or simply “batman”?
Both. I like Batman’s gruffy voice. It makes him sound……. threatening. I like that in a hero.
I still can’t believe that aunt mona wasn’t in the dark night…..
Hey uncle rob I just saw the dark night for the third time with my dad last night……. it was sorta worth it……………..and I thought my jokes were bad.
Wow. Three times. What are you some kind of crazy obsessed dude? Only a nut would see it three times!
“Y’see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little…push.”
Look who’s talking, Nut!
I can do a really good Joker imitation- I even creeped out a couple of my friends doing it it was so good…… I have to show you it sometime…
nice. we’ll have to iChat soon and you can show me!
Yeah but the bad thing is I have to talk sooo quietly to get it right….
But I did bloody tell you.
I believe that….whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you…….stranger.
I guess the Joker guy is as crazy as they say, huh.
Well hello beautiful! Must be Harveys babe.
B.W: Batman has no limits, Alfred. A: Well Bruce Wayne has, sir. B.W: Can’t afford to know’em. A: And what happens on the day you’ll find out? B.W: Well, we all know how much you like to say “I told you so”. A: On that day sir, even I wont say that. Probably.
A: It will be great when Wayne Manor is rebuildt. You can switch not sleeping in a penthouse, with not sleeping in an mansion. Whenever you stitch yourself up, you do make a bloody mess. B.W: I’m learning from my mistakes, Alfred. A: Then you ought to be pretty knowledgeable now, sir.
??? is that u rob?
Nope, Hakon’s not me.
Do you know who? I have no clue—- but he is good at memorizing “The Dark Night” lines.