Dark Knight, The: Rise and Fall of Harvey Two-Face

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Dark Knight, The: Rise and Fall of Harvey Two-Face
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Original Movie Title:
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Original Release Date:
2008
Original Running Time:
152
Fanedit Release Date:
Fanedit Running Time:
129
Time Cut:
23
Brief Synopsis:
Batman is more cynical and Harvey more of an idealist. This version of TDL has an improved pacing and comes in a more “detective” style, making The Joker more mysterious.
Intention:
Removing few subplots makes this movie going really faster. I was trying make Batman more cynic and logical character, Harvey more as idealist. To make it more like “detective style” I removed all visible joker until Harvey’s party to make him more mysterious and unknown psycho. To get more natural feel all movie was dark, much saturated and yellow/orange feel. Colour correction was applied to make it look more natural.
Release Information:
Digital
Cuts and Additions:


Bank Robbery – trimmed not to show joker
Garage scene – cutout scene from inside of batmobile; cheesy at end of scene is trimmed
Gordon/Batman chat in bank – Ramirez cut out. This was made also not to show him and for better sound changing of BM’s voice.
Court – ending cut, it was too much cliche
Restaurant – heavy trimmed to see Harvey as idealist
Lau briefing about money – shortened to remove joker
Gambol’s death and Love boat removed
Of course small trims here and there
Two little cuts of police shot during Batman kidnaps Lao
Cut out Joker’s first message on TV.
Trimmed Harvey’s party at Bruce.
Shorten bullet test.
Cut out Gordon’s death with all subplot following.
It’s Batman’s own idea to turn in.
Highway chase – no shots inside the car except two for plot. Few rearrangement of explosions and Batmobile crash. Cut out kids in tunnel. Shortened helicopter fall (too much CG look)
Batman doesn’t say he’s coming to rescue Rachel.
Gordon din’t try to get Lao and Joker back.
Cut out many of sonar and SWAT shots.
Shorten Ramirez-Gordon’s wife phone call.
Few little trims at final scene.
Colour correction – Whole movie is a little desaturated and brighten up. Almost in every scene is little colour over and underburn.
Colour correction – Logos are brown in reference to Batman Begins titles
Highway chase – beginning was two seconds out of sync
Gordon’s death – one (i think) last reference deleted
Replaced new titles for editor and new movie name.
Cover art by CBB (DOWNLOAD HERE)
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dwight fry may 8 2012

As soon as I saw that the hockey pads line had been cut, I knew that Harman and myself were pretty much on the same page regarding The Dark Knight. And we are, mostly. What people remembers the most about the movie is Heath Ledger’s Joker, which, while certainly a fine psycho performance, shows that there’s such a thing as too much of a good thing, as it overshadows the heart and soul of the story: Gotham’s two knights, white and dark. So, by cutting Joker back, Harman reveals that Dent was more than the glorified piece of furniture wasted that I thought he was in the theatrical cut. The original is a Joker movie, this is a Batman and Harvey Dent movie.

It is, however, not perfect for my tastes, particularly because of three things (outside redubbing Bale’s Bat-voice, but obviously I won’t ask for that much):

-Joker’s scars stories. I like both of them in the theatrical cut, but if you cut out one, you must cut out the other too, as if it’s the only one it instantly becomes true, which is not only much less interesting than making them up all the time, but puzzling that Joker is willing to share his tragic past story with anyone he just met. How I would cut the party bit: have Joker ask Rachel “Do you wanna know how I got ‘em?” implying he’s about to “show” her by cutting her face, then she kicks him.

-I wish that at least some of the speeches all along the movie that have characters (mostly, but not exclusively, Alfred) explain out loud the morals/psychological thoughts/philosophies of the story and the intentions of the characters to the audience. This is an annoying trait that’s in all Nolan movies and which makes me appreciate them a lot less than most people seem to. Show, Chris, don’t tell, and let us fill in the blanks with the brains you seem to think we lack.

-Please credit the real Batman creator, Mr. Bill Finger, alongside Kane.

I don’t know if Harman is still around, but since he never uploaded the promised DVD/HD, maybe when and if he comes back he’d consider some of this. Still, as it is, this gets a 9/10 from this lifelong Batman fan.
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