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Trivia

Takashi Miike's 2001 film 'Ichi The Killer' is a major influence on the aesthetic of this film. Early script drafts had Batman becoming even more violent than he ever had before, with the early death of Rachel Dawes and is matched by a sadistic Joker. The villain of 'Ichi the Killer' - Kakihara - with his trench coats, humour, anarchic logic and self-inflicted facial scars (particularly Glasgow kiss) majorly inspired Heath Ledger's Joker.



Quotes

Grumpy: Three of a kind, let's do this!

Chuckles: That's it? Three guys?

Grumpy: Two guys on the roof. Every guy gets a share. Five shares is plenty.

Chuckles: *Six* shares. Don't forget the guy who planned the job.

Grumpy: He thinks he can sit it out and still take a slice?

Dopey: I know why they call ...



Goofs

(at around 1h 17 mins) During the SWAT chase scene, the Joker fires several rockets at the SWAT caravan. The final rocket is intercepted by the tumbler after it jumps over a car. In the shot where the tumbler gets hit, the SWAT truck is present and right next to the airborne tumbler. In the next shot when the tumbler hits the ground, the SWAT truck is not there.



Crazy Credits

Christian Bale is credited with playing "Bruce Wayne" but not "Batman" in the closing credits.



Alternate Versions

The Blu-ray version of the movie has several of the big action scenes and high altitude photography scenes in ordinary 16:9 (1.78:1) widescreen ratio while the rest of the movie preserves the "scope" format (2.39:1). This is because these scenes were filmed in IMAX, whose format is 1.43:1, thus attempting to recreate the effect witnessed in IMAX theaters, as well as preserving as much of these shots as possible.



Soundtracks