# Batman interrogation scene (The Dark Knight) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 19, 2014, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912 "2014-09-19T06:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/21 "2014-09-19T20:28:57Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > He took it off. There’s a very quick shot of The Joker without any makeup and with his telltale scars. Image here: > > [http://www.chud.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tumblr\_lxap04OmlF1r5yv0zo1\_1280.jpg](http://www.chud.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tumblr_lxap04OmlF1r5yv0zo1_1280.jpg) Hey, he’s still got the safety on! How could he have shot Gordon? There must have been a second shooter. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/22 "2014-09-19T20:34:23Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > People don’t think clearly when angry, you know. DAMMIT! Yes I do! … 😕 Oooops! Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/23 "2014-09-19T20:56:12Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > So, they let him pose for his mug shot in makeup? Is that how it’s portrayed in the film? I don’t remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/24 "2014-09-19T20:57:20Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > They fingerprint him and the prints aren’t in the database. The Joker is a ghost as far as the police are concerned. > > Isn’t the “See?” a reaction from The Joker showing that Batman did it right? No, in the scene the Joker doesn’t react in any way that shows he felt pain at the smashing of his hand. He says “see” to point out that he (the Joker) was correct about not feeling pain after being hit in the head. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/25 "2014-09-22T13:50:22Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Is that how it’s portrayed in the film? I don’t remember it. They don’t show his mug shot being taken in the movie. But it’s a safe assumption that since they’ve already searched him, taken his fingerprints, dental X-rays, and DNA sample, they’ve also taken his mug shot by then as well. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/26 "2014-09-22T14:26:55Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > But it’s a safe assumption that since they’ve already searched him, taken his fingerprints, dental X-rays, and DNA sample, they’ve also taken his mug shot by then as well. How good are GPD at searches? After all they seemed to miss the guy with the bomb in his stomach… ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/27 "2014-09-22T21:19:00Z")
I could have sworn Batman got some of the Joker’s makeup on his glove in one of the comics. I was even thinking it was the interrogation scene from The Killing Joke that was used in The Dark Knight, but I can’t find that panel anywhere at the moment. Maybe I’m remembering wrong. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/28 "2014-09-22T21:28:08Z")
I just discovered that the cop that goes into the interrogation room with the Joker after Batman leaves is the same guy who played Mickey, Robert McCall’s sidekick, on the TV show **The Equalizer** : Keith Szarabajka ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/29 "2014-09-22T21:28:37Z")
:smack: > [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > I could have sworn Batman got some of the Joker’s makeup on his glove in one of the comics. I was even thinking it was the interrogation scene from The Killing Joke that was used in The Dark Knight, but I can’t find that panel anywhere at the moment. Maybe I’m remembering wrong. You’re half-right: that’s the moment in TKJ when Batman realizes _oh, crap; that’s just some guy wearing makeup, which means the Joker is no longer locked up._ ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/30 "2014-09-22T22:41:05Z")
Oops! It’s been awhile, I guess I need to read it again. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/31 "2014-09-22T23:33:35Z")
> [@MaverocK](#): > > Batman fists The Joker’s hand after he smashes the Joker’s head into the table. The Joker feels nothing because he gets “all fuzzy”. Does Batman not know that the victim can get “all fuzzy” so the victim cannot feel the next hit? I always thought Batman was as intelligent as the Joker. How can he make such a mistake? > > Or is it not a mistake? Perhaps, he deliberately wanted to make the Joker fuzzy? If so, why? The reason they did that was it was good visual effects. Batman appears out of nowhere, hiding behind the joker the whole time and attacks him. The Joker’s statement was just dialogue, not a meaningful discussion of interrogation. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/32 "2014-09-22T23:58:44Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > They don’t show his mug shot being taken in the movie. But it’s a safe assumption that since they’ve already searched him, taken his fingerprints, dental X-rays, and DNA sample, they’ve also taken his mug shot by then as well. But **Astorian** said he posed in the mugshot with makeup. How do we know that? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/33 "2014-09-23T00:14:43Z")
There was no scene of a mugshot being taken in the movie, so there are three alternatives. No mugshot, mugshot with makeup, or they made him take off the makeup for the mugshot, but then gave him some greasepaint and lipstick and let him reapply. The first and third seem much less likely than the second. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/34 "2014-09-23T00:23:05Z")
Not really. It’s more plausible that they didn’t take a mugshot than to imagine that they half-assed it so much that they let him take his mug shot in facepaint that completely defeats the purpose of the mugshot. But in reality there’s no plausible explanation. Rule of Cool outweighed common sense. ---
**Author:** ![Reverse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@Reverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reverse)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912/35 "2014-09-23T10:47:38Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > The reason they did that was it was good visual effects. Batman appears out of nowhere, hiding behind the joker the whole time and attacks him. The Joker’s statement was just dialogue, not a meaningful discussion of interrogation. To be a bit more specific, what the Joker is doing in that situation is a thing called “joking”. He got his head bashed onto a table and he responds by critiquing the chosen method of attack. Normally people would be angry or scared. However, polite criticism contrasted with violent attack creates a humorous effect. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-interrogation-scene-the-dark-knight/698912.md?page=1)