The 43 best phrases from the Dark Knight trilogy (Batman)

Christopher Nolan’s film adaptations of Batman are considered some of the best ever made. The trilogy is made up of Batman Begins (2005), The dark knight (2008) and The Legend is Reborn (2012).

The films are not only considered some of the best superhero films, but also one of the best overall. The second installment of the trilogy, for example, accumulates a rating of 9.1 on IMDb.

We present you the best phrases from the Dark Knight trilogy, accompanied by curiosities that you probably didn’t know.

The best phrases from the Dark Knight trilogy (Batman)

All the films are characterized by having a darker tone than the previous ones, something that we also find in the joker (2019) and in Batman (2022).

Fans not only remember them for impeccable scenes, costumes and plots, but also for very deep dialogues. We leave you with 43 phrases from the trilogy of Dark Knight and some curiosities from the movies.

1. “You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.”

While filming one of the first scenes of Batman Begins, a driver crashed into the batmobile, in a state of panic, on the streets of Chicago. According to her, she mistook the vehicle for a UFO. The driver was drunk, but he had no shortage of reasons to confuse him.

2. “Why do we fall? So we can learn to get up.”

Batman’s suit, in the first film of the trilogy, was so uncomfortable and heavy that Christian Bale was always in a bad mood when wearing it. This helped the characterization of the character.

3. “If you become more than a man, if you dedicate yourself to an ideal and they cannot stop you, then you become something completely different. Legend, Mr. Wayne.”

In the scene of Batman Begins in which Bale and Liam Neeson fight on the frozen lake, both could hear the surface of it cracking. The next day of filming, the scene, the lake was thawed.

4. “Death does not wait for you to be ready. Death is not considered or fair.”

In the villains’ first appearance, they appear dressed as henchmen. Ra‘s al Ghul does it as a bodyguard, the Joker, camouflaged among other henchmen when robbing the bank and Bane, as a common terrorist.

5. “When a forest becomes too wild, purging fire is inevitable and natural.”

The dark knight It was the first superhero film to win an Academy Award. It won the award for best sound editing, Not to mention that Ledger received the best supporting actor award posthumously.

6. “You must become more than a man in your opponent’s mind.”

None of the films recreate a specific comic strip to the letter, although several of them were taken into account. Nolan and his brother confessed to relying especially on the first comic from 1940 and others such as The Long Halloween, The Drak Night Returns and The Killing Joke.

7. “Deep down you may still be the great kid you used to be. But it’s not who you are deep down, it’s what you do that defines you.”

To perfect his role, Ledger locked himself in a hotel for a month to practice gestures and voices. He had direct influences on Sex Pistols icons Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten. For his part, Nolan relied on the paintings of Francis Bacon and on The will of Dr. Mabuseby Fritz Lang.

8. “I think everything that doesn’t kill you just makes you more… strange.”

Nolan stated that he never had a clear intention of filming a sequel after the premiere of Batman Begins. There were plans for a trilogy, yes, but he wanted to focus on other projects. The idea of ​​recreating the Joker character was very tempting in the end.

9. “Sometimes the truth is not good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. “Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.”

The badge on the nurse’s suit that the Joker wears when visiting Harvey in the hospital is named after Matilda. This is the name of Ledger’s daughterwho at his death was only two years old.

10. “You have to learn to hide anger, practice smiling in the mirror. “It’s like putting on a mask.”

Today it is one of the most iconic scenes in cinema, but the truth is that it was completely improvised. When the hospitals explode with the Joker walking towards the buses, the bombs were supposed to go off in unison. The gesture of pressing the button several times, the attitude of discontent and the fright arose unexpectedly.

11. “To manipulate fear in others you must first control your own.”

It is said that Nolan was so surprised by actor Cillian Murphy’s blue eyes that he rewrote the script so that he would take off his glasses several times and show them off.

12. “You will always be afraid of what you don’t understand.”

Michael Caine was not sure that the second film would work by bringing the mythical Joker back to the screens. The last time the character had appeared on the big screen was through Jack Nicholson in batman (1989).

13. “Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.”

The scars on the Joker’s face were inspired by a real person. Conor O’Sullivan referred to a fruit delivery man he knew. He asked her for a photo and was inspired by their arrangement to create the mythical scars at the corners of the lips.

14. “If you start pretending to have fun you might even have some by accident.”

Regarding the scars, everyone remembers that the Joker continually licks them. This conveys a threatening attitude, and is perhaps one of the most characteristic marks or tics of his character. In reality, Ledger did it because the prostheses fell off when they were not properly moistened..

15. “If you are good at something, never do it for free.”

The scene in which the 18-wheeler spins and overturns, in the second installment of the trilogy, is completely real. It has no special effects or editing of any kind. A detail of our phrases from the trilogy of Dark Knight.

16. “In their last moments, people show you who they really are.”

Although there are many action scenes in which Bale does not participate, he does participate in several high-risk ones. For example, and although his double was supposed to do it, he convinced Nolan to film the scene at the top of the ICF2 building in Hong Kong and at the Sears Tower in Chicago.

17. “The night is darkest just before dawn.”

The scenes of the batcycle They are some of the best of the entire trilogy. The real vehicle was so complicated and heavy that neither the stuntman nor Bale himself could control it.. The scenes in which he appears in motion were actually done with stunt expert Jean-Pierre Goy in the seat.

18. “Madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little push.”

Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy appears in a cameo. He is the man who, at the party where the Joker breaks into looking for Harvey, tells him with character: “We are not intimidated by bullies.”

19. “There are always people you care about. “You just don’t realize how much until they’re gone.”

Although it may sound incredible, the mayor of the city called Batman (in real life), in Turkey, sued Nolan and the production company for bad publicity for his city after the second installment of the trilogy.

20. “Suffering builds character.”

The residents of Chicago, surrounding the streets where it was recorded The dark knight They kept calling 911 during the chase scenes. They did it well, they were scared by the noise and the explosions, and they did not agree with what was being done to their city.

21. “Never steal anything from someone you can’t leave behind.”

Ledger refused to laugh or talk like the Joker unless they were in the middle of recording. Many of the reactions of the main and secondary characters are completely real. It was the first time they had heard it.

22. “What you really fear is within yourself. You fear your own power. You fear your anger, the impulse to do great or terrible things.”

The scene in which the Joker crashes Bruce’s party, looking for Harvey, was filmed several times because the actors forgot their lines due to the impact of Ledger’s performance. A clear example of why the actor chose to only show the preparation of his character when the cameras were rolling.

23. “Introduce a little anarchy. Disrupt the established order and everything becomes chaos. I am an agent of chaos. And you know what happens with chaos? It’s fair!”.

Batman’s suit was made up of a total of 200 pieces. It was made up of rubber, metal mesh, nylon and fiberglass. It was the most expensive suit in all the Batman movies so far..

24. “Some men don’t look for anything logical, like money. They cannot be bought, intimidated, reasoned with or negotiated with. “Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

Michael Caine based his character’s voice on a colonel he met in the army. He did it because he wanted to convey the army’s values ​​of loyalty and duty to Alfred.

25. “Do you want to know how I got these scars?”

Another curiosity about the actors’ voices: Christian Bale lost his voice (dysphonia) due to the effort he made to alter it when performing Batman scenes.

26. “I honor my father by finishing his work. Revenge against the man who killed him is simply a reward for my patience.”

For his role in The Machinist (2004), Christian Bale weighed around 60 kilos when he was considered to play Batman. Nolan ordered him to train as much as he could to match his physique with the character. After six months of training and diet, Bale reached almost 100 kilos. Then, he had to lose weight again because he was excessively muscular.

27. “I never wanted you to return to Gotham. I always knew there was nothing here for you except pain and tragedy. And I wanted something more for you than that. “I still want it.”

Bruce’s mansion had appeared before in other films such as Brazil (1985), The Mummy Returns (2011), slipstream (1985), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Quills (2000), Johnny English (2003), among many others.

28. “There is a reason this prison is the worst hell on earth… hope. “All men who have ventured here through the centuries have looked toward the light and imagined climbing to freedom.”

The score that plays in the Joker scenes is unusually chilling. The team used razor blades on the piano strings, among other licenses, to achieve a particular sound.

29. “I had this fantasy. I’d look across the tables and see you there, with a wife and maybe a couple of kids. You wouldn’t say anything to me, nor I to you. But we…we would both know that you did it. That you were happy.”

Ledger encouraged Bale to hit him during the interrogation scene. The Joker doesn’t land a single hit on Batman in this scene, but this doesn’t…