The Dark Knight (2008) | The Cutting Room
Heath Ledger shut himself in a hotel room for weeks, kept a diary in the Joker's voice, and built a performance so complete he won an Oscar he never saw, having died before the film reached cinemas.
The Dark Knight (2008) is Christopher Nolan's crime epic in a cape, the one that hauled the comic-book film somewhere darker and more serious, shot huge stretches in IMAX, and flipped a lorry clean over down a Chicago street for real. John, Westy and Matt dig into Nolan's direction, the writing, Ledger's Joker and the spectacle, then hand over three scores out of 10. Why so serious?
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