Hey, he’s still got the safety on! How could he have shot Gordon? There must have been a second shooter.
DAMMIT! Yes I do!
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Oooops!
Sorry.
Is that how it’s portrayed in the film? I don’t remember it.
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.
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.
How good are GPD at searches? After all they seemed to miss the guy with the bomb in his stomach…
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.
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
:smack:
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.
Oops! It’s been awhile, I guess I need to read it again.
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.
But Astorian said he posed in the mugshot with makeup. How do we know that?
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.
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.
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.