The Dark Knight (2008)
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Jason Inman
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When people in your life say to you, why so serious, do you immediately suspect them of being on their worst behavior? |
| 0:19.5 | No, but I actually expect them that they're |
| 0:22.0 | getting ready to go to a forensics audition. You remember forensics? You know what I'm talking about? |
| 0:25.5 | We don't have that in my country. And I think it's strange that Americans call it forensics. |
| 0:29.1 | It's weird that it's called forensics. But it's basically where people go to like performance pieces. |
| 0:34.5 | And it is this thing that if you were ever like a forensics judge or helped out or drama |
| 0:39.0 | club judge, I think from like 2000 to 2015 or 2012, you saw two people over and over. |
| 0:46.1 | You saw people doing Ghalm and people doing Heath Ledders Joker over it over and over. |
| 0:51.3 | I could never see here why so serious for the rest of my life and I would be comfortable |
| 0:57.8 | at the same time that I also would admit that I think it is probably one of the greatest |
| 1:03.1 | film performances of all time. |
| 1:05.0 | It won an Oscar for God's sake. |
| 1:06.4 | Certainly. |
| 1:06.8 | And don't dwell on that too much because I'll tease this or we usually tease Patreon later. but our extra this week is going to be ranking the live action Joker performances. So we're going to be we're going to get into that. But we need to get into, here's the real thing. You say something like the dark night. And some people might say, I don't know what that means. Knight is spelled with an end, not a K, you idiots. |
| 1:29.1 | And we have to tell them that it's because of Batman. |
| 1:32.1 | That is Frank Miller's sort of non-de-plume for Batman that Christopher Nolan stole and made the title of his movie. |
| 1:40.7 | Well, the full title of this movie is actually Batman colon, the dark night. |
| 1:44.3 | That's incorrect. We just call it the dark night. That is incorrect. In marketing, it is called |
| 1:48.5 | Batman, calling the dark night. Um, the, again, this could be apocryphal. The thing that I have |
| 1:54.5 | always heard about this movie. Mm-hmm. Is that this is the title that Chris Rinalins wanted to call Batman Begins. |
| 2:02.4 | Oh, I have no doubt. |
| 2:03.5 | And the studio said, no. |
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