Whenever I see this commented on, I always wonder about it for a second - and then I remember, not everyone lives in a big city.Dado wrote: ↑August 10th, 2012, 5:32 pmYes, but one thing remains though: Joker was standing in the sidewalk, in the middle of the day, in plain view with his mask off. I assume his figure (make-up, clothes and green hair) would've caught the attention of anybody else who walked past him in the streets.
When you're in a big city (like Chicago, where the movie was filmed), you see these types of guys all the time. You become desensitized to it, and you learn to simply look the other way and move on, because you don't know if they're unstable and you don't want to risk provoking them.
So yes, his make-up and hair might have been "noticed" by people walking past (his clothes were normal) - or they might very well not have been, since we're so used to it. But even if it had been "noticed," so what? Nobody's going to do anything about it or care - there's no law against wearing makeup or dyeing your hair.
Keep in mind, this scene occurs before the Joker's videos sent to the news - there is no city-wide manhunt for him, and he's not well-known. Nobody's going to call in a weirdo clown guy on the street, he's just one of the many homeless crazies wandering around.
Already explained above, but it also bears mentioning that the Joker doesn't *care* if he's "low-profile" or not. Why would he? He's about to get into a car and leave the scene.Not quite "low-profile" for someone who is about to rob a bank.
Even if someone recognized him as a serial bank-robbing clown, and even if someone called the police about it, and even if the police took the call seriously, how long do you think it's going to take the police to respond and send someone down? 20 seconds later, the Joker's gone - nobody's following his car. 15 minutes later, the bank has been robbed.
What can be done to prevent it, and how quickly can it be done? Joker doesn't care.
When I'm driving, I tend not to pay attention to what the other drivers on the road look like. And if I happened to notice that another car was full of clowns, I really wouldn't care - it would be an amusing anecdote at best, not a cause for concern. Usually, when I'm driving, I'm more focused on the road and not crashing than anything else.Not to mention the rest of the gang, driving around in clown masks.
The glass is high enough - and pulverized into small enough pieces - that it would be dispersed pretty widely. I'm not sure anyone would notice at all. But even if they did....Also, the other team blows up a window in a busy part of town. Wouldn't all that glass fall on people in the street bellow?
...so what if they did? Most would not look up - when you're downtown, you're usually busy trying to get to where you're going - but if you did look up, you'd see a few guys crossing on a cable (if the sun didn't blind you and you had good vision). So? That's not necessarily illegal, and even if it was, and even if you cared enough to take some time out to report it (and remember, this is from the pre-smartphone era), what would you call in? How quickly would police respond, if they did?or wouldn't somebody at least notice that glass hitting the sidewalk, look up, and see those guys crossing on the cable?
The robbery's complete 15 minutes later.
Yes. $68 million is a mind-bogglingly large amount of money. That's just math.I thought about that too. The logistics of the Joker's terrorist acts are pretty grand and demanding. He says "gunpowder, dynamite and gasoline are cheap", but in that amount?
Yes, it would require a lot of labor. Fortunately for the Joker, we've seen he has quite an extensive labor force, between the crazies he's recruited and the mobster lowlifes he's co-opted. And the large sums of money required to pay such a labor force, of course.Just to move and place all those explosives (into the precinct, both warehouses, the hospital and both ferries) would require some serious work
Most "authorities" are pretty stupid. Have you been to an American airport? TSA is incredibly moronic - and that's going to have much higher security relative to an overpopulated transit ferry.not to mention that he did it without anybody noticing (how stupid is the people and the authorities of Gotham?)
Joker's not trying to "cause any desired fx," he's just trying to blow up the hospital. The fact that it looks good on screen wasn't because the Joker cared about making it look good on screen, that was just a conceit from the director to make it more fun for the audience. A "happy coincidence," if you will - and given the detonator seems to fail at first, I'm not sure it was actually rigged all that well!One more thing: he would also need an experienced demolition engineer to rig and place the explosives in the right place to cause the desired fx.
Nope, there are plenty of cops that we see in that precinct show up later on in the film.Plus: he blows up the precinct, everybody gets blown but him?
Because he just fell out of a building onto a car. After getting stabbed in the gut. That all tends to knock the wind and energy out of you. One of the premises of the Dark Knight Trilogy is that this is a more grounded take on Batman. He's not a superhero who can rush back into the building right away - his injuries accumulate and affect him throughout the film. That's why his voice gets more gravelly as the film progresses.Here's one: Batman and Rachel fall from the Penthouse, landing on the car. After checking that she's OK, why didn't he rushed back up there to face the Joker?
And if he did, what would be the point, from a storytelling perspective? The movie implies that the Joker didn't find Dent, so decided to move on before a SWAT team shows up (he wasn't interested in holding hostages, he was interested in killing Dent - who he didn't know was in the security room, and even if he did, likely didn't have the tools to get him out easily).
So if Batman rushes in and finds the Joker gone, we've got a boring scene that slows the pacing of the film.