Alexander Knox: They say he can't be killed. They say he drinks blood. They say...
Lt. Eckhardt: I say, you're full of shit, Knox. Oh, uh, you can quote me on that.
In the alley, Bruce places two roses on a sidewalk and then walks away. But when Vicki gets to the roses, they have changed positions. See more...
Back in the days before computer effects, giant painted backdrops were used, a few of these were used in the large scenes such as city hall and a few others. See more...
Directed by Tim Burton, starring Billy Dee Williams, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Michael Gough, Michael Keaton (add more)
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
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In the fight in the bell tower, when Joker is standing over Batman and Vicky dangling from the ledge, we get a shot of the back of the gargoyle statue. Notice that Joker's hat and jacket are there, but when the shot cuts to Joker, he is wearing his jacket. [This is because the jacket on the statue is Joker's overcoat, which he had taken off when he and Vicki got tot the top of the cathedral.]
When the Joker enters the cathedral, Batman is the next person inside. Later he ends up fighting Joker's goons, but where did they come from and how did they know the Joker was in there? [They saw the Joker go in there, so they decided to go in there too. Remember, the Joker also said "Give me five minutes. Better make it ten."]
In the scene where Napier is getting his bandages taken off, he face is supposed to be white. However, if you freeze-frame as he is running up the stairs, the light swings toward him and his face is flesh tone. [If a movie has to be freeze-framed to see a mistake, then it is not valid.]
When Batman and Vicky are falling from the cathedral and Batman shoots his grappling hook upwards, he and Vicky are falling with their backs to the ground, rotating in a counter clockwise manner. Two shots later, they are falling with their feet to the ground, not rotating at all. [It is possible to change your trajectory/position slightly as you fall if you have plenty of practice, much the same way that skydivers do. Since Batman is very used to "flying" through the air, it would have been no problem for him to achieve the change in position.]
Corrected by Jazetopher
Right after the Joker falls from the cathedral the shot slowly zooms to him lying dead on the ground below, with the laugh box giggling away. Watch his left eye closely and you can see it blink, despite his being "dead". [Involuntary twitches are common in the recently dead, especially if the death was caused suddenly. The blinking eye could have been nothing more than a final twitch as the brain shuts down. For a cinematic reference, look at The Rock, when a body is twitching after being killed, freaking out Nic Cage. It's not often portrayed, but does happen.]
When the Joker points the gun at Bob to shoot him, Bob jumps before the gun is fired. [He is probably startled because the Joker previously told Bob that he was "his number one guy", and now he is pointing a gun at him.]
Corrected by wizard_of_gore
When the Joker is talking to the mob boss and takes out his handkerchief, he wipes some makeup off his head. Look at the white spot he allegedly uncovers.....it is wet and you can tell it is placed on top of his skin. The white came from the handkerchief. [No, it didn't. The makeup department actually figured out a complicated way of allowing Joker to do this. They used a special 'non-stick' silicon based white layer that flesh tone would wipe off easily - that's why Joker looks shiny as he walks around the room: the flesh layer is not dry. Check out the documentary 'from Jack to the Joker' on the new special edition Batman DVD for more.]
Corrected by umathegreatstationarybear
After the Joker gets his face burned off by an acidic substance, you see him playing with the same cards he had before he fell in. [They were probably just the same brand of cards. I'm sure there are two decks out there that are identical.]
In the scene where the Gangsters are at the City Hall and the mimes start to fire, Bruce Wayne's arm is shot, but he doesn't notice and there's no blood. Why? You can see his arm against the under-coat perfectly well. [The bullet goes through the fabric of his jacket, but not his arm.]
Near the end, in the scene where Joker's helicopter throws the rope ladder to him on the roof of the cathedral, there is a small segment that shows his hat falling off the building, even though his hat went missing long ago. [Throughout the scene where Batman is fighting the thugs while Joker dances with Vicki, Joker's hat and coat can be seen hung over a gargoyle in the background. They stay there until the shot shows them blowing off. Joker's hat does not 'disappear'.]
In the scene where Vicky Vale and Knox are looking into the mirror and wandering around Bruce Wayne's armour room, after Bruce leaves them it shows them being video-taped by a camera through the mirror, which is completely sound-proof. However, in the next scene, it shows the tape playing and you can very clearly hear their foot-steps as they walk around. [The camera room is sound-proofed, however, it is fairly obvious that the room itself must be bugged. It wouldn't have been that hard for a mega-millionaire to purchase and place a small microphone in each of the exhibits. Judging by the scene with Commissioner Gordan and the fact that he can be heard quite easily, one can assume that the entire mansion is wired for both video and sound.]
It would appear that the aiming mechanism on the Batplane could use a bit of fine tuning. During the scene where Batman is flying the plane towards The Joker, he gets Joker in his crosshairs and fires, however, the bullets simply hit the ground on both of Joker's sides in a very theatrical manner instead of hitting the man himself. While this was obviously done for the sake of getting a fantastic visual, there isn't much sense to it. [Actually, it makes quite a bit of sense - when setting up a multiple gun system, the guns will be fixed so that the bullet streams converge at a pre-selected range, passing through the crosshairs at that point. As such, in order to hit a target, the subject needs to not only be in the crosshairs, but must be at approximately the correct range. If the target is closer than that range, as the Joker apparently is in this case, the bullet streams will not have had time to converge, so they'll hit on either side of the target, exactly as shown.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
When Vicki wants to learn more about Bruce Wayne, she quickly leaves the office to follow him. If she was in such a hurry, why does she change both her dress and hairdo before going? [Who says she was in a hurry to follow him? She gives the file to Knox and walks off in frustration, then it cuts to a later shot of Vicki waiting outside Bruce's house. Nowhere is it implied that Vicki is in a rush or pressed for time. She could have changed her clothes if she wanted.]
When the purple poison gas is being pumped into the art gallery, the waiter falls unconscious before he actually inhales the gas. He simply looks at it, and then faints before the gas actually reaches his mouth or nose. [It is possible that the poison is very concentrated, and only a bit needs to reach him to make him unconscious. We would not necessarily see the little bit, but just the big cloud.]
In the shot where Batman crashes in on Joker's dinner in the museum, you can see the wire he's hooked to (as he crashes through the skylight). [This is not a mistake. Batman can't fly on his own and needs a wire or rope to make it seem like he is flying. Sometimes the people around him would see the wire and sometime they wouldn't, but in either case it's not a mistake.]
Corrected by Mobrien316
Before the fight scene in the bell tower, the Joker sprays acid all over the bell and it falls all the way down to the first storey. However, the bell is up in the tower again when Batman is fighting the big guy. [There was more than one bell in the bell tower.]
When Batman steals Joker's balloons, one of the buttons on the control panel is labelled "volume." It is also visible when he arms the machine gun and the missiles to shoot at the Joker. [There are a number of reasons and uses for a volume button, even in a fancy superhero jet.]
When Vicki grabs the device off Batman's belt to be pulled up to the catwalk, she is barefoot, but when she climbs over the railing, she has white shoes on. [Vicki isn't wearing shoes when she's climbing the rail. If you zoom in you can see that she's still barefoot. The white on her feet is the light reflecting off of her foot.]
When the gangsters come out of the courthouse and Joker throws a feather into one of their necks, there are two policemen standing on the steps behind the dead man. Despite the fact that the crowd reacts to this blatant public assassination the two coppers do absolutely nothing. They don't attempt to apprehend the Joker or hold back the crowd. They don't even look surprised. They just stand there. I know Gotham's cops are ineffectual but come on. [The two police officers are not really officers because they work for the Joker. They are actually two of the Joker's goons pretending to be officers.]
When Batman is in his plane and stealing the Joker's balloons, he flicks 3 switches to close the claw around the cables. If you look closely, you can see that the red light next to these switches is labelled "volume" - not really anything to do with the claw; and more to do with his stereo. [The red light has no labeling anywhere near it that says 'Volume', nor do any of the switches that he hits.]
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