In the storyline (which seems to have taken place within the estimated span of 2-4 weeks), The Joker seems to be able to get mass volumes of explosives seemingly wherever he wanted them. Literally hundreds of metal barrels filled with a liquid explosive of some kind and who knows what else (enough to blow up large buildings) in:
2 buildings (seemed like warehouses) 2 large boats A major metropolitan hospital
1. Where could he BUY such large amounts of explosives from, considering Homeland Security? 2. How does he get such mass volumes of explosives into the buildings without anyone noticing? Especially the hospital? Considering he would need large trucks, dollies, drivers, and various henchmen to move it all in, and even more people and time to hook the explosives up to detonate in sync? 3. How could he replenish his henchmen so easily and regularly considering that he killed so many of them? How does he generate and maintain loyalty, and how does he reward that loyalty? 4. If he burned mountains of money and didn’t care about having very much, how did he pay his henchmen? Did they just work for free? 5. How did he do all this and still be able to be multiple steps ahead of his opponents?
Nolan flirted with realism in Batman Begins and then pretty much completely gave it up in TDK.
Robert Anderson
1. Black market, mob connections. 2. Good question. 3. The mob was falling apart, and some of them were hired goons that were on loan to him from the Mafia in the first place. 4. He may have saved some of the money. Though I think he made sure to keep his most loyal goons close, paying them with the money he stole from the bank. 5. He was smart, and could predict people's actions.
Jason Hernandez
It's retarded because it's a superhero movie, but you can still argue that the Joker himself makes this point, the world and society allows him to do anything he wants because no one cares, not until a president is shot.
Cameron Morris
It's Gotham. A child could buy those things from the corner store.
Nicholas Phillips
>Nolan's batman >superhero movie Thanks for showing everyone your badge of stupidity, also filtered.
Adrian Gutierrez
Kill yourself, pseudo high brow armchair intellectual. TDKR is dumber than Justice League.
Ethan Brooks
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Isaac Myers
Are yoy fucking retarded? He even says it in the movie >they're cheap As for homeland security and his henchmen. Gas and materials to make explosives isn't hard and his henchmen are loyal to him because they admire his insanity
Julian Jenkins
The league of shadows was selling him arms as a plot to destabilize gotham’s psyche. This was going to be revealed in the third movie with Talia Al Ghul and Joker playing the role of Bane, only Joker never had a personal relationship with the Al Ghul’s and would turn on Talia in the end as hes having too much fun.
Jace Garcia
What are you, an idiot? It's literally a movie about a superhero
This. Explosives aren't terribly expensive, especially if you have a bunch of mob connections like the joker. He also seems to stay shrouded in mystery (similar to Batman), so it's possible many henchmen didn't know what they were getting into when they were killed
Ras al Ghul straight up didn't exist. Ducard was able to make every character see and interact with him. al Ghul even interacted with his environment in scenes. The movies were always gritty, but the plots were never realistic. That's not a criticism, it's just a stylistic choice.
Juan Martinez
it all boils down to joker's point that the center does not hold. everyone can be corrupted, corroded, etc. you just have to know how. so that's how he got all his shit. lie, cheat, steal, manipulate and so forth.
Justin Williams
1) Black market, maybe from the government itself 2) bribed the guards 3) desperate henchmen from other gangs join him after seeing how successful he is 4) he used the money he stole from the bank scene 5) The movie sucked so he read the script or something. Nolan is a hack. Showing him actually doing the things I said above would have made the movie better, but he didn't which means all my explanations are just headcanon since there's no way of proving it. This is why Snyder is better: he leaves no question unanswered.
Lincoln Phillips
>1. Where could he BUY such large amounts of explosives from, considering Homeland Security? Do you think he buys the shit on Amazon? Why would homeland security know about his coming and goings?
Mason Sullivan
The joker was basically a domestic Osama Bin Laden.
Charles Thompson
You realize al Ghul was a stand in person pretending to be al Ghul not a force projection by Liam neeson?
Isaac Bailey
That's genuinely autistic and wrong
Jaxon Turner
Why was the Joker’s “grand plan” so laughably stupid and easily overcome?
Andrew Johnson
>liquid explosives Its fucking barrels of gasoline because Hollywood doesn’t understand gas explosions.
>Ras al Ghul straight up didn't exist. you are retarded That guy did exist, he was ras' underling, his second. He was a tool to hide ras' true identity
Austin Rodriguez
It never holds up if you overanalyze any movie.
Aiden Parker
>It's literally a movie about a superhero But it doesn't fit the superhero narrative, there's nothing heroic in Nolan's films.
Hudson Jenkins
That means it's a bad superhero film.
Ayden Powell
1 and 3 are about stopping retarded villains from blowing up the city. 2nd one is stopping a clown from causing general bullshit. How the fuck is that not “heroic” you fucking contrarian retard?
