Blog 15

Well...once again I can find no information on what this blog is supposed to be about...so I figured I'd just make a post related to my topic...since it's better to do the assignment wrong than not at all

I always say you can separate a good movie from a great one by re-watch value. By that I mean every time you watch it after the first viewing you notice something new. The Dark Knight most definitely fits into this category. The film has been around for three years now and it’s almost a guarantee that I see something I didn’t before…even though I watch it quite regularly. I just wanted to catalog two things I noticed most recently.
1. In the prologue (bank robbery) we get a glimpse of just how much Batman is messing with the systems of Gotham. The alarm guy on the roof says very briefly “That’s weird it was dialing out to a private number” while he disabled the silent alarm of the bank. Now at first I didn’t know what to think of this, then when they revealed it was a mob bank I thought it might be a mobster’s number it was trying to reach…but that doesn’t make any sense…but if the number was Batman’s…that makes a lot more sense. So less than 2 years into the job Batman has (probably) wired every bank in Gotham to alert him if it’s being robbed. Kinda cool, it’s the little things
2. While Batman is interrogating Joker, Joker gives him an address for where to find Harvey and Rachel. Now in movies they can’t use real phone numbers, street addresses, ect. because people will go find theses addresses and private businesses’ and residents don’t want fans all around. So they put 555 phone numbers and 1234 fake street addresses into the movies. The address Joker gives Batman is “Two hundred and fifty fifty second street”. Sounds like a fake address…what gets me is Harvey aka Two-Face later holds hostages and puts up a horrible ultimatum that all revolves around his coin…at this address. In the comics Two-Face is notorious for committing these types of crimes at locations related to the number two. “200 50/50 2nd street”