Batman: The Man Who Laughs tries to amplify the strengths of The Dark Knight while omitting some of its weaknesses. Pacing is tightened up, some scenes are restructured, rescored, reordered, or omitted altogether. Lines of dialogue and humor that seemed out of place omitted as well. I usually fanedit awful movies. Here I wanted to take a very good movie and make it the best it could be (IMO).

The Dark Knight is undoubtedly the crowning achievement of Nolan's Bat-Trilogy. It is rightly considered a classic of modern cinema, however, it is still victim to many of the flaws that plague the trilogy as a whole, including poor humour, weak performances from supporting characters, clunky exposition and jarring narrative details. This edit attempts to tighten up The Dark Knight, trimming those elements that detracted from this wonderful film, hopefully allowing what remains to be all the more enjoyable as a result.

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.

A chronological re-order of the entire film for a fresh new ride.

This is a fanedit the combines elements from American Psycho, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Machinist into one cohesive story.