10 Movie Scenes That Live Rent Free In Your Head
8. The Joker Has A Trick Up His Sleeve - The Dark Knight
In arguably the greatest ever cinematic example of it perhaps not being that wise to judging a book by its cover, a quietly compelling thespian was instantly immortalised on the back of one outing as a certain Clown Prince of Crime. And perhaps more specifically, the moment Heath Ledger's mesmerising Joker truly arrived in The Dark Knight involved the Australian star performing a little trick for a room full of threatening henchmen and gangsters.
Demanding your attention from the get-go with a haunting chuckle from the distance, Ledger's purple-suited menace announced himself with a typically pointed one-liner in the form of "I thought my jokes were bad." Without skipping a beat, a pencil is quickly whipped out by Mr. J before his aim of making it "disappear" is fulfilled via slamming a goon's head into the erect piece of stationary.
Short, sweet, and horrifyingly simple, the entire riveting character is epitomised in this one brutal beat and the first of many memorable Christopher Nolan Joker soundbites was scorched into fans' minds for eternity.