The Dark Knight turns 10: all the behind-the-scenes secrets

The Dark Knight turns 10: all the behind-the-scenes secrets - Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker earned him a near-clean sweep of Best Supporting Actor awards, including the Oscar, a first for a superhero movie. Not only that, the film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, more than any other superhero movie.
It was widely recognized as one of the best movies of the 2000s and showed that superhero movies could be taken seriously as a genre.
It is now nearly 10 years since it came out, so we decided to show you some interesting facts about this hit movie that gathered a huge fan base!

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Michael Caine - Michael Caine, who played Alfred in the saga, said that Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker was one of the most frightening he had ever seen.

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Ledger's final film - The death of Heath Ledger on January 22, 2008, led to speculation that the film would not be completed. However, an official statement from Warner Bros stated that all of Ledger's parts had been completed, making the Joker his final complete role.

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Creation - Heath Ledger designed the Joker's look himself. Director Christopher Nolan revealed in a Behind the Scenes clip that Ledger developed the Joker's makeup and applied it himself the first few times during shooting.

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Isolation - Ledger shut himself off from the world in a motel for six weeks to prepare for the character. There he developed the laugh, the voice, and the mannerisms of the Joker. One of his big inspirations was Alex DeLarge from 'A Clockwork Orange.'

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Continuation - There are plenty of rumors about what would have happened with the Joker character, had Ledger still been alive. Most people believe he would have remained as the main villain in the third film.

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Introduction - In all three of the Dark Knight trilogy, the villains all share one thing in common: when first introduced, they are disguised as one of their henchmen. Ra's al Ghul, the Joker, and Bane, all use this trick!

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Themes - Each film in the Dark Knight trilogy deals with a different theme. 'Batman Begins' is based on fear, 'The Dark Knight' is based on chaos, and 'The Dark Knight Rises' deals with pain.

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IMAX - 'The Dark Knight' was the first non-documentary film to use IMAX cameras. Six action sequences were filmed using them.

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Costly mistake - While filming the scenes where the SWAT teams chase the Joker and his gang, one of the IMAX cameras was destroyed. At the time, there were only four of these cameras in the world.

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Academy Awards - 'The Dark Knight' was the first comic book-based film to win an Academy Award - Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger.

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Awards - Heath Ledger won a total of 32 prizes for Best Supporting Actor, including a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG Award, a Critics' Choice Award, and an Oscar.

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Youngest Batman - When Christian Bale first donned Batman's cape and cowl, he was just 30 years old, becoming the youngest actor to play the Caped Crusader.

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Special cars - The Lamborghini that Christian Bale drives in the film is a Lamborghini Murciélago. Murciélago means 'bat' in Spanish.

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Trilogy - Christopher Nolan is the first director to complete a Batman trilogy. Other directors tried, but never made the third film.

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Violence - Despite the incredible action scenes, there is hardly any blood in the film. Blood is only seen in three scenes in the film: on the face of the civilian the Joker murders, on Harvey Dent's pillow, and on Batman's arm when he's attacked by a dog.

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New suit - This film also showed a new Batman suit, which allowed Christian Bale to move more easily. It was the first Batman mask that allowed the actor to move his neck freely.

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Names - During their face-to-face meetings, Batman and the Joker never refer to each other by their names.

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'The Dark Knight' - This is the first Batman film where the hero's name doesn't appear in the title.

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Joker candidates - Heath Ledger was always Christopher Nolan's first choice, but lots of other actors were interested in the role, including Robin Williams, Lachy Hulme, Adrien Brody and Paul Bettany.

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Influence - Christopher Nolan has said several times that the movie 'Heat' was one of the influences when it came to building the city of Gotham and everything it encompasses.

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Original creator - Jerry Robinson, one of the creators of the Joker in the comic books, was used as a consultant on the film.

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Filming time - Filming took place from April 18 until November 11, 2007.

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Commercial hit - This was the first comic book film to make $1 billion at the box office.

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Vehicles - A total of 39 vehicles were destroyed in the movie.

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Fake name - While being filmed in Chicago, the production was done under the name 'Rory's First Kiss.'

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Unstable - The 'Batpod' (the bike used in the movie) was quite unstable and only Christian Bale's stunt double, Jean-Pierre Goy, was able to drive it. Bale was prohibited from driving it by the production crew for fear of injuring himself.

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Voice - Despite some criticism, the voice used by Bale as Batman was not his choice, but director Christopher Nolan's.

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Diary - Heath Ledger developed a diary where he kept all of his ideas and thoughts for the Joker character.

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