The Dark Knight - Boat Scene

The Dark Knight (2008)

In this scene the joker tests out his 'social experiment'.

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• bale
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[AlisonLouiseTbh]

we're doing this scene as part of a essay at school aaaand i dont understand lol :S

why are they all on the two boats anyway?

someone pleease answer, cause its for my coursework (: x

[stealthunter14]

The Joker announces to the public that anyone left in Gotham at nightfall will be subject to his rule. With the bridges and tunnels out of the city closed due to a warning by the Joker, authorities begin evacuating people by ferry. The Joker has explosives placed on two of the ferries—one ferry with convicts, who were evacuated in an effort to keep the Joker from freeing them, and the other with civilians.

[dybeen]

I wish there was a deleted scene where the "citizens" press the button, except that it turns out that they had the remote to their own boat.

[LittleMissRequiem]

Of course that logic also works both ways.  It's easy to act noble and say "oh no, I would never blow up the other boat just to save my own life" but then when the time comes, it's easy for cowardice to kick in and blow them all to pieces.

[ravenouscolonelhart]

@pinheadman665 maybe you're right but this is a movie, however amazing it is, that is still in the "superhero genre." As much as I'd like to see a movie where Batman is just a rageaholic crusader/jihadist and his mission is totally futile and nothing he does is truly heroic and the city is beyond saving, and the joker proves time and again that the average person IS as evil as him just crappier at accomplishing that evil - you will never see that movie in theatres.

[mummra4ever]

@pinheadman665 I doubt there was another version of this ending because the Joker in this film and the point that is made are both the same as they were in "The Killing Joke." That not everyone is like him. I don't doubt that the people on the boats want to live but they just don't have it in them to kill others in order to do that. It's more to do with that some people just aren't killers like the Joker than it is about morality.

[pinheadman665]

@mummra4ever

I think that this scene is extremely unrealistic. Maybe in the original script, one of the civilians activated the detonator, but it was deemed "too dark" and was removed. Sad, really. Hide harsh reality in order to soothe the watchers so they can continue to live in their fantasy world of "morality."

If there's one thing that society and its people have taught me, it's that in real life, people would be climbing over one another to get to that detonator.

[vietvipp]

moral > democracy 

[AIRTUBEY]

@elcap22 It can try

[tpauluchs]

I LOVE how the prisoner chucks the remote

[TornadoMDR]

when the "ships" are down ... those civilized people will eat each other !! BRAINGASM !!

[flynntheman90]

@AlisonLouiseTbh I realize you left this comment two years ago, but I was really curious, how did that essay go? did you understand the scene in the end?

[moonshoespotter1712]

this was so smart of the joker. and the people are noble. who knows what people would do in this situation?

[port753]

dam. reminds me a bit of 2012