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As the lights dimmed, the first
images were revealed, of a gleaming and bright Gotham City. The camera
moves in close on a building when suddenly the calm is shattered, quite
literally, by a broken window. A group of clown-mask-clad robbers are about
to seize a bank. They bicker about the mysterious man who has employed
them. “Why do they call him the Joker?” one asks another. It’s a refrain
almost identical to those rooftop thugs who wonder about the mysterious
“bat” in the opening frames of Tim Burton’s Batman.Soon we are inside the
bank as a tense standoff is under way. None of the employees resist, save
one played by character-actor extraordinaire William Fichtner. |
