In Christopher Nolan’s 2008 film, The Dark Knight, he portrays the common rivalry between both the Joker and Batman as it continues within the history of a superhero versus a villain world. The beginning of this scene starts off with the Joker on a huge pile of many stacks of money looking down upon the other lesser criminals of Gotham City. The mob leader is very confused on the situation since his own men are surrounding him as well but they seem to be in alliance with the Joker. This makes the mob leader question the Joker from the very beginning of them being in the presence of each other. At the same time the scene is shifted to where the police force is trying to capture the Joker for his actions of killing multiple civilians within the past days or weeks. The movie then shifts back to the Joker and the mob leader …show more content…
Nolan’s way to start this scene implies that the Joker is the only one with the real power in this situation since he has a hostage on top of the huge pile of money. Although, the Joker slides down the giant pile of money in a childish way, he greets his rival criminal with a very serious attitude about the situation that they have encountered. As the shot reverse shot shows the expressions of both the Joker and the mob leader, the conversation seems to be very heightened with the expressing of fear from the leader with the uncertainty of what is to come. The view is then shifted from the villainess scene to a normal scene of Lieutenant Gordon ordering his men to capture the Joker very quickly because he knows that the villain is always up to no good. The actions of the Joker starting fire to the giant pile of money implies that the money has no significant value to what the Joker is here to do. If money is not his top priority, then what reason would the begging of this plot