PREVIEW: Backer Bonus Ep10 The Dark Knight (2008)
I Don't Speak German
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
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This time, Daniel and Jack embark on a chat about Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman movie The Dark Knight. You know, it's the one with Heath Ledger as the Joker.
In a development that is depressingly less surprising than we wish it were, it turns out we have so much to say about this silly movie that this episode morphs into Part 1 of a two part discussion before our own astonished and frankly ashamed faces as we talk.
This episode focuses mainly on how the movie is a structural mess and a sometimes bafflingly incompetent bit of filmmaking. The next bit gets more into the themes and ideology.
Part 2 along soon.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | IDSG bonus episodes are a regular extra just for Patreon backers of myself or Daniel. Here's a |
| 0:06.4 | preview of the new one. Again, to point out that this is like a synectic for larger problems is |
| 0:11.6 | opposed to like, we're nitpicking here. Like, um, the ending of that sequence is, you know, Batman |
| 0:18.7 | falls off the bike. The rolling over, yeah. So Batman refuses, okay, we could talk a lot about |
| 0:25.6 | Batman's morality in this. And hopefully we will get into that at some point. This might be a |
| 0:30.2 | two-part bonus episode. There is so fucking much in this fucking movie. Anyway, so Batman swarves |
| 0:35.9 | to avoid the Joker. Can I just say one thing? Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Batman does not fall off the |
| 0:40.7 | bike. But no, no script stage. No. Just like you, you see that and you think like this, this can't be |
| 0:50.0 | this, this can. Like that was some other character, right? You know, they're big chunks of this |
| 0:56.3 | where I would like to see things on the, on the rewatch specifically to do this podcast and go, |
| 1:01.8 | let me rewatch that and make sure I just saw the thing that I thought I just saw. You know, because |
| 1:06.7 | it's very easy to kind of, you know, I'm watching the film. I've seen this a few times. Let me check |
| 1:11.0 | Twitter, etc. Glance back over and then Batman fell off the bike and then you go, hold on, rewind |
| 1:16.0 | 45 seconds. Man, Batman just fell off the bike. You're correct. Now, in defense of the film, |
| 1:22.4 | again, just to just to give it its due, Batman is supposed to be kind of new with this at this point. |
| 1:27.0 | You know, like I think that like we as an, again, the difference between we as an audience who |
| 1:32.0 | are used to Batman being this unstoppable, like, you know, crime fighting machine versus like |
| 1:38.5 | in text, I think it's pretty clear that Batman has been at this for like a year or something. |
| 1:43.3 | Like, I don't, I don't think there's a, you know, there's a, I don't think there's a reason to |
| 1:47.5 | assume otherwise. And so this could be like a marker of like young Batman. I think that there's |
| 1:53.9 | kind of a Batman year one element that is clearly referenced. Certainly, a Batman begins. There's |
| 1:59.2 | a, you know, that's a literally like Batman just got started and here it's not supposed to be that |
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