Batman Dark Knight Hospital Pyrotechnic Implosion Stunt

Re-edited version w/Slow-Mo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYs7fYVhVdM

Chicago Lawndale neighborhood, August 29, 2007.

The abandoned Brach Candy Factory doubles as Gotham General Hospital for the movie Dark Knight. Sequenced demolition charges combined with special effects create a thrilling scene.

For deep background on Brach's Candy,
see driftglass blog at http://driftglass.blogspot.com/

Shot handheld (no tripod) with Canon Elura 100.
16 bit (wild) Audio.
Edited and mastered in MPEG4 on Final Cut.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Batman
• Bat
• Man
• Movie
• Film
• Dark
• Knight
• Christian
• Bale
• Heath
• Ledger
• Explosion
• Stunt
• Fireball
• Joker
• Batpod
• Maggie
• Gylenhal

[Vyuuku]

How they just let Heath walk out of the building? In the scene you can see all those rocks and other stuff flying it's a miracle that none of them nocked him out! :D No seriously, there must be some kind of thing they used to make the situation completely safe i'm just interested how.

[dogstar7]

Mostly a matter of focal length and timing.

The shot of Ledger walking away from the hospital is done with a flat focal length that makes him look closer to the building.

There is a cut-away where he moves much closer to the camera, but he still looks like he hasn't left the area near the doors (he's really about 150 ft. away) before the pyrotechnics go off. He's in the bus before the demo charges blow.

[clubby1234]

thats awesome...i loved that movie...theres actually a "Gotham General Hospital" ambulance parked in a storage yard about 4 blocks from my house...im gonna see if i can buy it for scrape price...ill even settle for like 4,000

[dogstar7]

Is the ambulance still there?

[clubby1234]

yeah, its been there since like a week after the movie debuted, its still there, along with the swat truck

[dogstar7]

Kewl! I'll keep an eye out for it. Where at?

[DynamicScherzo]

Can you imagine walking outside to see that without knowing whats going on lol :D

[DonBenne33]

That's awesome and you can tell the exact point in which he pushed the button again before it blew up again. haha! Then he jumps in the back of the bus.

[Oldenheimer1913]

@BadHistoryDays

He didn't die until January 22 2008, and this was filmed a few months before that.

[killeraddiction]

@BadHistoryDays Now I know why you call yourself "BadHistoryDays".

[ErikaResponding]

what really sucks is that those people watching the explosion had no idea what movie it was for until they saw it for themselves once the movie came out, ha ha

[Legokink1]

0:01

[Juanplate00]

@BadHistoryDays

oh... do you see the movie, i think not. He is the last to run away from the implosion.

[theartguy100]

@BadHistoryDays ??? the scene was filmed on 8/29/07. Heath Ledger did pass away until 1/22/08. So why are you saying that he is dead!?

[BadHistoryDays]

heath was alredy dead by this scene

[ShutOffDaTV]

im guessing the 2 dis likes were people inside the explosions, center LOL.

[pantyman1990]

@darthcerda121498 dude so did my cousin

[FlyingGold]

its pretty cool to imagine heath ledger playing the joker disguised as a nurse is right there hitting that detonator getting in a bus and so on. llolz!