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The Dark Knight

Bruce Wayne: I knew the mob wouldn't go down without a fight. But this is different. They crossed the line.
Alfred Pennyworth: You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them. And in their desperation they turned to a man they didn't fully understand.
Detective Wuertz: Dent! Jesus, I thought you was dead!
Two-Face: Half...
Harvey Dent: Rachel's told me everything about you.
Bruce Wayne: I certainly hope not.
Gotham National Bank Manager: The criminals in this town used to believe in things. Honor. Respect. Look at you! What do you believe in? What do you believe in!
The Joker: I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger.
Mayor: [regarding The Joker] What do we got?
Lt. James Gordon: Nothing. No DNA, no fingerprints. Clothing is custom, no tags or brand labels. No name, no other alias. Nothing in his pockets but knives and lint.
The Joker: Evening, Commissioner...
Lt. James Gordon: Harvey Dent never made it home.
The Joker: Of course he didn't.
Lt. James Gordon: What did you do with him?
The Joker: Me?! I was here the whole time!
[shows Gordon his handcuffs]
The Joker: Who did *you* leave him with?
[from trailer]
The Joker: Why... so... serious?
[from trailer]
The Joker: [to Rachel] A little fight in ya. I like that.
Batman: Then you're going to love me.
Bruce Wayne: People are dying, Alfred. What would you have me do?
Alfred Pennyworth: Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. He'll hate you for it. But that's the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make, the righteous.
Bruce Wayne: Well today I found out what Batman can't do. He can't endure this. Today you finally get to say "I told you so."
Alfred Pennyworth: Today, sir, I don't want to.
[pauses for several moments]
Alfred Pennyworth: But I did bloody tell you.
[stumbles out of wrecked truck]
The Joker: [to Batman] Come on, I want you do it, I want you to do it. Come on, hit me. *Hit me!*
Grumpy: I'm bettin' The Joker told you to kill me soon as we loaded the cash.
The Joker: No, no. I kill the bus driver.
Grumpy: Bus driver? What bus driver?
[a school bus drives through the wall and kills Grumpy]
Happy: So why do they call him "The Joker"?
Dopey: I heard he wears make-up.
Happy: Make-up?
Dopey: Yeah, to scare people. You know, war paint.
Harvey Dent: You're Alfred, right?
Alfred Pennyworth: That's right, sir.
Harvey Dent: You've known Rachel her entire life.
Alfred Pennyworth: Well, not yet.
[chuckles]
Alfred Pennyworth: [small pause]
Harvey Dent: Any psychotic ex-boyfriends I should be aware of?
Alfred Pennyworth: Oh, you have no idea!
The Joker: Where do we begin? A year ago, these cops and lawyers wouldn't dare cross any of you. I mean, what happened? Did your - did your balls drop off? Hmm?
The Joker: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. We're tonight's entertainment. I only have one question. Where is Harvey Dent?
[nobody responds; The Joker walks around the room pointing his shotgun at everyone.]
The Joker: You know where Harvey is? You know who he is?
[grabs a man's face]
The Joker: You know where I can find Harvey? I need to talk to him about something. Just something, a little.
[Ttrns the man's face away]
The Joker: No...
[Gambol makes a threat; Joker opens his coat to reveal setup of grenades on a string, which he starts to tug.]
The Joker: Now, let's not *blow* things out of proportion here...You know what? Here is my card.
[takes out Joker card and sets it on the table]
The Joker: You let me know when you start taking things a bit more seriously.
Batman: [to The Joker] You wanted me, here I am.
Bruce Wayne: [to Rachel] You know that day you once told me about, when Gotham would no longer need Batman? It's coming.
The Joker: I love this job!
The Joker: [gives Harvey Dent a gun and points it at himself] Introduce a little anarchy!
Harvey Dent: [shows Joker the clean side of coin] You live.
[scarred side]
Harvey Dent: You die.
The Joker: That's what I'm talking about.
The Joker: I use a knife because guns are too quick. Otherwise, you can't savor all the emotions. You know who people are in their last moments.
The Joker: This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.
The Joker: [looks directly at Dinner Guest] You know, you remind of my father.
[takes a knife to dinner guest's neck]
The Joker: ... I hated my father!
Two-Face: The only justice in an unfair world is chance.
The Joker: You prefer a magic trick, instead? Watch me make this pencil disappear.
[pushes down an oncoming thug's eye towards the pencil]
Batman: Why do you wanna kill me?
The Joker: Kill you? I don't wanna kill you... you complete me.
The Joker: And I thought my jokes were bad...
The Joker: And here we go.
Lt. James Gordon: Everyone knows you're the White Knight of Gotham City.
The Joker: Do you know how I got these scars?
Batman: No! But I know how you got these!
[cuts him with a knife]
Batman: Not everyone's as ugly as you are...
The Joker: That's just sad... You can't rely on anybody these days...
Lt. James Gordon: It was my mistake! I'm sorry!
The Joker: So... how many of your friends have I killed?
The Joker: So in a way, I know your friends better than you ever did... Do you want to know which of them are cowards?
Gamble: You think you can rob us of half our money and get away with it?
The Joker: Yes.
The Joker: I am an agent of chaos.
Batman: What did you do?
The Joker: I took Gotham's white knight, and lowered him to our level. It wasn't hard. Y'see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little...push.
[laughs]
The Joker: Do I look like someone who has a plan?
The Joker: I want my phone call.
Lucius Fox: Let me get this straight. You think that your employer, one of the richest men in the world, is spending his nights running around the city beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands? And your plan is to blackmail him? Good luck with that.
Bruce Wayne: That man in Burma, did you ever catch him?
Alfred Pennyworth: Oh yes.
Bruce Wayne: How?
Alfred Pennyworth: We burned the forest.
The Joker: [to Batman] You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness...and I won't kill you because...you're just too much fun.
[last lines]
Lt. James Gordon: Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now...and so we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not a hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector...a dark knight.
The Joker: [to Batman] You truly are incorruptible, aren't you?
The Joker: [to Batman] I think you and I are destined to do this forever.
The Joker: [to Batman] We really should stop fighting, we'll miss the fireworks!
The Joker: [to police officer] How many of your friends have I killed?
The Joker: The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules!
The Joker: See, I'm not a monster...I'm just ahead of the curve.
The Joker: See, I'm a man of simple tastes. I like gunpowder...and dynamite...and gasoline! Do you know what all of these things have in common? They're cheap!
[repeated line]
The Joker: Wanna know how I got these scars?
The Joker: Introduce a little anarchy.
[The Joker puts a gun into Two-Face's hand and a coin into the other hand]
The Joker: Upset the established order.
[Two-Face points the gun at the Joker's head and shows him the two sides of the coin]
The Joker: This side you live. This side you don't.
The Joker: Now that's want I'm talking about!
Two-Face: [Two-Face flips the coin, which side it lands on isn't shown]
The Joker: I'm not crazy.
[pause]
The Joker: I'm *not* crazy.
The Joker: What does not kill you, makes you stranger!
Lucius Fox: Spying on 30 million people is not part of my job description.
The Joker: I don't think the...uh...television really knows who he's dealing with.
The Joker: You'll see, I'll show you, that when the chips are down, these uh... civilized people, they'll eat each other.
The Joker: What happened? Your balls fall off, or what?
The Joker: [speaking to Harvey] Do I really look like a man with a plan, Harvey? I don't have a plan. The mob has plans, the cops have plans. You know what I am, Harvey? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. I just *do* things. I'm a wrench in the gears. I *hate* plans. Yours, theirs, everyone's. Maroni has plans. Gordon has plans. Schemers trying to control their worlds. I am not a schemer. I show schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. So when I say that what happened to you and your girlfriend wasn't personal, you know I'M telling the truth.
[hands Dent a gun]
The Joker: It's a schemer who put you where you are. You were a schemer. You had plans. Look where it got you. I just did what I do best-I took your plan and turned it on itself. Look what I have done to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple bullets. Nobody panics when the expected people get killed. Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plans are horrifying. If I tell the press that tomorrow a gangbanger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will get blown up, nobody panics. But when I say one little old mayor will die, everyone loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy, you upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I am an agent of chaos. And you know the thing about chaos, Harvey? It's fair.
Lt. James Gordon: [Gordon is interrogating Joker in prison] What did you do with Harvey?
The Joker: Me?
[looks around the room]
The Joker: I was here!
[holds up his handcuffs, innocently]
The Joker: What did your men do with him? That's assuming they are your men...and not Maroni's.
Lt. James Gordon: Where is Harvey?
The Joker: What's the time?
Lt. James Gordon: What does that have to do with anything?
The Joker: Well...depending on the time...he might be one place...or several.
Lucius Fox: It uses sonar to give you a real-time image of the surroundings.
Bruce Wayne: Using sonar to see? Just like a...
Lucius Fox: Yes. Just like a submarine.
The Joker: Harvey, Harvey, Harvey Dent. Ohh, excuse me, I want to drive!
[gets behind the wheel of a semi truck]
The Joker: If you're good at something, never do it for free.
[Batman has just fought off Scarecrow and a group of Batman wannabes]
Batman: Don't let me find you out here again.
Batman Wannabe: We're trying to help you!
Batman: I don't need help.
Scarecrow: Not my diagnosis!
Batman Wannabe: What gives you the right? What's the difference between you and me?
[Batman lowers himself into the Batmobile]
Batman: I'm not wearing hockey pads!
The Joker: Everything burns.
The Joker: You look nervous. Is it the scars? You want to know how I got them? Come here. Hey, look at me. So I had a wife, beautiful; like you. Who tells me, I worry too much. Who tells me, I ought to smile more. Who gambles, and gets in deep with sharks. One day they carve her face. We have no money for surgeries. She can't take it! I just want to see her smile again. I just want her to know that I don't care about the scars. So I stick a razor in my mouth and do this... to myself. And you know what? She can't stand the sight of me! She leaves. Now I see the funny side. Now I'm always smiling!
The Joker: [Rachel kicks the Joker away] A little fight in you. I like that.
Batman: Then you're going to love me.
Alfred Pennyworth: I suppose they'll take me in as well, as your accomplice.
Bruce Wayne: Accomplice? I'm going to say the whole thing was your idea.
Harvey Dent: [after taking a malfunctioning gun from an assassin] Carbon fiber. .28 Caliber, made in China. If you want to kill a public servant you should buy American.
The Joker: [Holding a knife inside Gamble's mouth] Do you want to know how I got these scars? My father was...a drinker...and a fiend. One night he goes off crazier than usual, and Mommy picks up a kitchen knife to defend herself. Well, Daddy doesn't like that. Not. One. Bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife and slices her up, laughing as he does it. And then he looks at me standing there, and says, "Why...so...serious?" And as he's walking over to me: "Why...so...serious?" And then he puts the knife in my mouth, like this, and says, "Let's put a *smile* on that face!"
The Joker: I want...I want my phone call. I want my phone call.
Detective Stephens: That's nice.
The Joker: How many of your friends have I killed?
Detective Stephens: I'm a twenty year man. I can tell the difference between punks who need a little lesson in manners...And the freaks like you who would just enjoy it.
[pause]
Detective Stephens: And you've killed six of my friends.
The Joker: [faking interest, mouths "Six?"]
The Joker: I'm a man of my word.
The Joker: [as Batman pummels him in the interrogation cell] You have nothing to threaten me with.
The Joker: You see, nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying. If I told people that a gangbanger was going to get shot, or a busload of soldiers was going to get blown up, nobody would panic. It's all part of the plan. But tell people that one tiny little mayor is going to die and everyone loses their minds!
Harvey Dent: You thought we could be decent men in an indecent world. But you were wrong; the world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance.
Lt. James Gordon: That was a very brave thing you did Wayne.
Bruce Wayne: What... running a stop light?
Bruce Wayne: Do you think I should go to the hospital?
Lt. James Gordon: You don't watch the news very much do you?
Bruce Wayne: Do you think you'll be alright Alfred?
Alfred Pennyworth: [Alfred turns and looks at a boat full of Russian beauties] I shall survive sir.
Harvey Dent: Tell him everything is going to be ok. Lie to your son Gordon!
The Joker: [over the PA] Tonight we are going to try a social experiment.
James Gordon Jr.: [in bed] Did Batman save you?
Lt. James Gordon: Actually this time I saved him.
[while trying to disable the silent alarm for the Bank]
Dopey: That's funny, it didn't dial out to 911. It was trying to reach a private number.
Happy: Is there a problem?
Dopey: No, I'm done here.
[while trying to break into the bank vault]
Happy: They wired this thing up to about 5,000 Volts. What kind of bank does that?
Grumpy: A mob bank. I guess the Joker is as crazy as they say. Where's the alarm guy?
Happy: Boss told me when the guy was done I should take him out. One less share, right?
[Happy opens the vault.]
Grumpy: Funny. He told me something similar.
Happy: He, huh? No! *No!*
[Grumpy shoots Happy in the back.]
Batman: Sometimes, truth isn't good enough, sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.
Alfred Pennyworth: [looks at the large gash on Bruce's arm] Were you mauled by a tiger?
Bruce Wayne: It was a dog...
Alfred Pennyworth: Huh?
Bruce Wayne: It was a big dog!
[pause]
Bruce Wayne: More copycats today, Alfred, with guns.
Alfred Pennyworth: Why don't you hire them and take the weekend off?
Lt. James Gordon: We'll have to hunt you.
Batman: You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me, you'll set the dogs on me. But that's what has to happen.
[the Batpod charges]
The Joker: Ooooh. Wanna play? Come on!
The Joker: [as Lt. Gordon leaves room] The old 'good cop, bad cop' routine eh?
Batman: Not exactly.
[slams Joker's head into table from behind]
Random Blonde: It's too loud in here, we can't hear each other talk.
Salvatore Maroni: What makes you think I want to hear you talk.
Two-Face: The Joker's just a mad-dog. I want whoever let him off the leash.
Rachel Dawes: [to Batman after falling out of a window] Let's not do that again.
The Joker: You just couldn't let me go, could you?
Bruce Wayne: What about getting back into the plane?
Lucius Fox: Well I suggest you find a good travel agent.
Bruce Wayne: Without it landing.
Lucius Fox: [smiles] Now that's more like it Mr. Wayne.
The Joker: This town deserves a better class of criminal... and I'm gonna give it to them. Tell your men they work for me now. This is my city.
The Chechen: They won't work for a freak...
The Joker: [mocking his accent] A freak...
[pulls out his switchblade and tosses it to some goons who grabs the Chechen]
The Joker: Why don't we cut you up into little pieces and feed you to your pooches? Hmm? And then we'll see how loyal a hungry dog really is. It's not about money. It's about sending a message. Everything burns.
Alfred Pennyworth: Know your limits, Master Wayne.
Bruce Wayne: Batman has no limits.
Alfred Pennyworth: But you do, sir.
Bruce Wayne: Well, can't afford to know them.
[The Joker holds Rachel Dawes out of a window]
Batman: Let her go.
The Joker: Hmm.. Very poor choice of words.
[The Joker lets her drop as he laughs maniacally]
[bumps along while driving hijacked truck]
The Joker: I like this job - I like it!

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badlinkkiller · Level 1: Goomba Menace **Posts:** 4 **Timestamp:** Sun Oct 19, 08 1:26 PM

great film