Pencil Trick Is More Than Meets The Eye
The Film: The Dark Knight (2008)
The Scene: At a terribly important meeting of local crime lords with a Batman agenda, troublesome sociopath The Joker turns up to crash the party and inject a little humour into proceedings.
Promising to show the nice audience of gangsters, thugs and killers a magic trick, he jams a pencil into the table as Gamble orders a henchman to show the Clown Prince of Crime the exit…
BAM! Joker grabs the Henchperson by the wrist, places a hand on the back of his head and slams him face first onto the pencil, instantly making the 2B not to be, and adding himself to every movie death list ever.
‘Oh-Crap!-O-Metre: WHAT THE CRAP?!!! DAAAAAAAMN!!!
Victim’s Last Thoughts: “You know what they need? A henchman union. That would be rockin’ sweet. I’m fed up of all this unpaid overtime, the constant threats of violence and dangerous working conditions. Plus, no dental cover.
“Being a henchman isn’t what it used to be, that’s for sure. We should unionise the shit out of this bitch, take us back to the glory days, get a bit of fuckin’ respect, a decent dentist… who is this Joker? Man, I’m gonna…”
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SCY385
Aug 25th 2009, 15:55
The deaths in The Departed and Burn After Reading really came as a surprise to me when I first watched them. I mean it was like BAM! And you are still sitting there going 'What the hell just happened?!?' I'll tell you another one that jumped out at me was when William Peterson got an extra hole in his head in To Live and Die In L.A. Total surprise!
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chotles
Aug 26th 2009, 1:14
Serenity - "I'm a leaf on the wind..."
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joeymac
Aug 26th 2009, 7:33
Henry IV, Battle of Agincourt? Really?
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bentgaga
Aug 27th 2009, 0:22
another awesome feature.. DAMN you guys are doing amazing of late..
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Simondo
Sep 4th 2009, 15:43
Great feature, another bus-to-the-face shock moment is in The Orphanage. Thought it deserved a mention because the victim in question is old.
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buddy
Oct 25th 2009, 14:03
what about robert de niro in 15 minutes??? how can robert de niro die halfway through a film? how can robert de niro die at all?
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