Now, our operation is small, but there’s a lot of potential for “aggressive” expansion. So, which one of you fine gentlemen would like to join our team? Oh, there’s only one spot open right now, so we’re gonna have…tryouts.

Deleted Scene: Heath Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight.

from: The Dark Knight Trilogy: Ultimate Collector’s Edition

how do yall argue with people in real life if you can’t go in their archive to find problematic things they’ve done? do you check their facebook timeline on your phone mid-argument?

To them, you’re just a freak, like me! They need you right now but when they don’t, they’ll cast you out, like a leper. You see, their morals, their code… it’s a  b a d   j o k e. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They’re only as good as the world allows them to be.

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Remembering’s dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. “The Past Tense,” I suppose you’d call it. Memory’s so treacherous. One moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights, with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candy-floss… the next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you’d hoped were forgotten. Memories can be vile, repulsive little brutes. Like children I suppose. But can we live without them? Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can’t face them, we deny reason itself! Although, why not? We aren’t contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause! So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there’s always madness. Madness is the emergency exit… you can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away… forever.”

Heath Ledger as the Joker behind the scenes of The Dark Knight

Heath Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight, 2008. 

The Dark Knight (2008)

BANE

When Bane rips the photo of Harvey Dent in half he does so vertically through the middle of Harvey’s face, replicating his transition to Two-Face at the end of The Dark Knight.