In the chasing scene where the Peterbilt truck hits a swat van, the truck's right front light is damaged. In the next scene, the light seems to be undamaged and then, damaged again. See more...
The creepy way the Joker sucks at his cheeks was the result of Heath Ledger playing with the makeup they put on him. He did it constantly and the director thought it was so strange looking that they left it in as a character idiosyncrasy. See more...
Directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Eric Roberts, Gary Oldman, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman (add more)
Genres: Action, Crime, Fantasy
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In the second scene of the movie, when Batman jumps onto Scarecrow's van as he is trying to get away, Batman leaps from the edge and the front of his body is facing a side of the van, but in the next shot when he crashes onto the van, he is facing towards the front of the van. [It is entirely possible to change your orientation when falling. Even more so if you happen to be wearing a cape.]
When Harvey Dent is in the hospital, he can be seen to be wearing nothing but a hospital gown. However, after he leaves the hospital, he is once again wearing his burned suit. Even assuming that it had not been discarded and that he had time to locate it before the hospital collapsed, there is no way it could possibly have still been scabbed onto his burned flesh, as it was, since he had obviously had enough time in the hospital for his burns to stop oozing, or the hospital gown would have been soaked in ichor. [Harvey Dent would have been wearing his suit when he was taken to the hospital and since the staff did not discard it, they most likely would have put it in the closet in his room. As we can see in the film, it takes the Joker several minutes to blow up the hospital after he leaves Dent's room, giving him more than enough time to locate his suit. Additionally, there is nothing to indicate that the suit is "scabbed" onto his flesh because only his face and the top part of his neck were burned, both of which do not touch his suit while he is wearing it.]
The ink in money doesn't burn red. [No, it doesn't; but the gasoline Joker poured all over the money does.]
Corrected by Phixius
The right side of Dent's face burns - but in hospital, it's the left side that's burned off. [It was always the left side of his face which is burned.]
Corrected by papajim
When the Joker is talking to Dent in the hospital - It flips quickly back and forth between shots where the gauze is on Dent's skin and then it suddenly disappears. [You are mistaken. There's never any gauze visible on his face, what little of it you can see.]
Upon seeing a burning fire truck blocking the road, the police convoy taking Dent diverts to the sub-street, but why? Right when the armored vehicle turns to go down, you see there is sufficient distance to pass between the burning fire truck and the concrete wall. Alternatively, the convoy could have just gone down the on-coming lane since there was no traffic. Earlier, one of the police officers states the the convoy's passage through the city has been cleared. [Misjudgement by a character doesn't qualify as a mistake, it is a character choice.]
Corrected by JC Fernandez
During the bank robbery, when the bus backs into the building, the bus has an Illinois license plate. [It has a Gotham license plate, which were made for the film to very closely resemble Illinois license plates so that if any -real- Illinois plates are visible in the background, they'd match the film's Gotham plates.]
Joker escapes from the bank robbery by crashing a school bus into the bank, and then drives out and simply joins what appears to be a convoy of such buses driving down the street. Even assuming Joker organized the bus convoy for his benefit, people are still seen walking down the street, unconcerned by anything. There aren't even any curious onlookers. Did they all just miss a bus crashing backwards into a bank, then pulling out? Not to mention all the gunfire inside the bank, etc, some of which took place after the bus crash, which certainly did away with any soundproofing the bank had. [There is a time lapse from when the bus crashed into the bank and the initial gunfire, which would likely make the first witnesses run or hide, and the bus leaving minutes later. At this time new witnesses would be on scene, and not have witnessed the robbery or initial crash. In big cities, people tend to mind their own business. I was in a theater where a gang member was shot, people kept buying their movie tickets and popcorn as if nothing happened. Only those immediately next to the shooter had a reaction. Also, Gotham City is said to have become riddled with crime, and as such, a bank robbery may be a common occurrence.]
When they reconstruct the bullet in the scanner, the fingerprint goes the whole way down to the bottom of the bullet. This would not be the correct pattern, as there should be a blank ring at the bottom where the bullet would have been covered by the casing. [Not true if the person leaving the print was actually loading the bullets.]
When Bruce is on his red and silver sport bike, he passes a silver Volkswagen that makes the distinctive sound of an air cooled, rear engine Beetle exhaust. The problem is that it is a New Beetle, which is front engine, liquid cooled, and has no distinguishable exhaust note like the air cooled Beetles. [This sound could actually be the engine of Bruce's sport bike, and not that of the Beetle that he passes. You can hear a faded version (since it is driving away from the camera) of the same high pitched twittering sound occur twice as the bike pulls away from the storage area between 01:00:02 and 01:00:04 in the movie.]
Towards the end of the Batmobile chase when the vehicle is hit by the Joker's RPG, it flips through the air. During this time the underside of the Batmobile is visible and it is completely smooth and looks bolted on, revealing that this car is merely a stunt model. [Or Fox/Batman has decided to add an extra armor plate to the bottom of the Batmobile, covering all exposed mechanical parts and reduce their vulnerability. It IS designed as a tank, after all.]
Corrected by Twotall
In the Harvey Dent party scene, where The Joker crashes the party, we see a piece of hair across his forehead towards the beginning, but around when he sees Rachel, it disappears. [We actually see him wet his fingers and move the lock of hair when he sees Rachel and says, "Well hello beautiful".]
Corrected by wizard_of_gore
When the Joker holds the knife to Rachel he (Keith) cuts his face, upper lip. In the next scene it's cleaned up. [If he is holding the knife to Rachel, how does he cut his face? No such thing happens. And his name is Heath, not Keith. ]
In the scene where the Joker blows up the hospital, he enters a bus just as the explosion starts. You can spot a camera in the bus capturing the Jokers reaction to the explosion. This shot wasn't used in the film but can be seen on the two disc DVD version. [The problem with this submission is really the phrase 'The shot wasn't used in the film'. Movie mistakes are about mistakes that actually appear in the movie - it's pretty specific like that.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
In the scene where the Joker is robbing the mob bank (in the first 3 minutes of the film), a Clown Thug is seen knocking down the security guard in the background. A few shots later, the same security guard is knocked down in the same manner before the Clown Thug is shot. [The clown thug does knock the guard down, but is shown pulling him up and along before shoving him up against a table. It is only later in the scene, just before the bank manager shoots him, that the thug hits the guard with his gun.]
In the bank robbery scene, one of the "clowns" drills a hole into the door of the safe. Later, when he spins the lever to open the safe door (just before he is shot) notice that the hole he drilled is not there. [Not a mistake. The hole would have only been drilled through the locking mechanism, not all the way through the door. No point in drilling a hole in the door; the drill was used to gain entry to the lock.]
After the Joker tells the citizens of Gotham that he wants Mr. Reese dead in an hour or he will blow up a hospital, Bruce leaves to go to his Lamborghini. When Alfred says, "The Lamborghini then, sir?" the news is still on the TV in the background. The scene later cuts back to Alfred when he says, "Much more subtle." The TV is now off, but you never saw anyone shut it off in the one second between Alfred's lines, nor is Alfred holding a remote control. [This is not an accurate description of the sequence of the scene. The TV is off when Alfred asks if Bruce will need the Batpod and Alfred (and the TV) is off camera when he asks about the Lamborghini. We actually see the TV turn off while Bruce dictates instructions to Alfred, as he moves to the elevator. While we don't see Bruce or Alfred activate a remote at the moment it turns off, Bruce may have used the remote as he was getting up from the couch (an action he was finishing when we cut to this scene). And Bruce's TV system may simply have a delay (like my own TV at home).]
Corrected by JC Fernandez
In the first scene when the thieves are sliding on a wire between buildings(a shot from above), a black spherical camera is seen sliding before them on the same wire. [I believe this has already been submitted and corrected. It's not a camera, it's the thieves' equipment bag, which we see them hooking onto the line just before they jump.]
Corrected by JC Fernandez
In the opening sequence, when the robbers are on the zip line, two Chicago Police squad cars can be seen blocking off Van Buren Street for the filming. [Yes, there are two police cars blocking traffic, but nothing to indicate they were Chicago patrol cars blocking traffic for filming rather than Gotham City patrol cars blocking traffic for some other offscreen fictional reason.]
Corrected by JC Fernandez
Just before the Batman/Joker interrogation, when Gordon is in the room, there's a lamp on the table. When Gordon turns the light on, showing Batman standing behind the Joker, it's gone for the rest of the scene. [The lamp can be seen several times in the scene: When Batman pounds Joker's hand; just before Joker says "You complete me"; and when Batman grabs him across the table. Then the lamp is seen on the floor after Batman has slammed him onto the table. It was likely knocked down when Batman sweeps Joker across the table against the wall.]
Corrected by JC Fernandez
