The magic pencil trick should spark a whole new category: Best On-Screen Homicide

Even more well-intentioned, hopefully-won't-go-ignored (for, if little more, a Best Picture nomination, a Screenplay shout-out, and a Best Director nod for Christopher Nolan....Heath Ledger being nominated is a no-brainer, they better not fuck that one up) on behalf of Warner Bros. for The Dark Knight's Academy Award campaign.

This is pretty great:



Spotted over at: Hollywood Elsewhere

***Though, for the sake of two-sided arguments and "Matt's not delusional" disclosure, here's an interesting piece from The Guardian that calls out some of the more ludicrous plot-points found in The Dark Knight. In hindsight, they do have some valid points here.

"1. Wait, so the Joker really orchestrated that big truck chase just so that he could get caught and go to prison, then he could kidnap that guard and grab his phone to make the call to set off the bomb he'd previously sewn inside the henchman in the next cell? That would kill the guy who stole the mobsters' money, thus enabling him to … er, what? Heath Ledger's Joker may have been a psychopath, but he had a nerdish capacity for forward planning."

I saw this over at /Film, which raised this issue, too: "And not to mention that Ledger’s character tells Harvey Dent that he’s a guy without a plan, just 'a dog chasing cars.'"

Touche. But, fuck it still: consider me an overwhelmed lover of The Dark Knight's script, regardless of such holes.