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Film Theory: Joker is a Billionaire! (Batman The Dark Knight)

Jun 06, 2021
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film theory joker is a billionaire batman the dark knight
Sure they won't always be great, um Suicide Squad, Dark Phoenix, but they're always fun to go see and they're certainly fun to talk about, but the lack of new summer movies this year has led me to try to recreate that excitement in home by rewatching some of my favorite superhero movies of all time, starting, of course, with the Christopher Nolan Batman movies, just to have an excuse to watch the Dark Knight again. It's so great that I don't tend to rewatch movies much, but The Dark Knight is one I always come back to. I know we have so many amazing superhero movies these days, but this one still holds up to so many. iconic scenes the opening heist the pencil magic trick the hospital explosion but this time one scene in particular really caught my attention the money pyramid i never stopped to think about it but it's a huge pile of cash that the

joker

as we learn about the movie, it's a combination of his various heist profits, as well as half of the Gotham mob's collective income, and then the

joker

, you know, goes and sets fire to everything and everything just to prove a point, so what I want to find out today is how expensive that point really was, how much money is in that gigantic pile of cash of yours, how much work it would take to set it up, and most importantly, what it tells us about the true nature of this character, because I will tell you that even though the joker appears as this chaotic force, the money pyramid scene shows that he is not.
To calculate how much money the joker is sitting on top of, we need to get an idea of ​​the overall dimensions of the pyramid from some of the wide ones. In the shots at the beginning of the scene we see that the pyramid is made up of 10 separate levels, each level is approximately the same height. If you zoom in to the highest resolution and count, you'll see that the height of each level is about 30 strips of cash. Hi, I'm now assuming this entire stack is made of hundred dollar bills for various reasons during the initial robbery.
I saw that they were only stealing ten thousand wads of dollars in cash. Also, while researching, I came across props from this particular movie. scene that they are all hundred dollar bills, so knowing that ten thousand dollars is one hundred hundred dollar bills, we take the thickness of a bill to be 0.0043 inches or 0.01 centimeters and then multiply it by 100 to get the height of a single stack giving us 0.43 inches. or a little more than a centimeter, 30 of them stacked on top of each other will give us a little less than 13 inches or about 33 centimeters, so each tier is a little more than a foot high, which means that all The 10-tier pyramid measures 10 feet 9 inches. or approximately 3.3 meters tall, we can also verify this number by seeing the joker standing at both the top and the bottom of the stack.
The actor who played the joker was just over six feet tall, meaning the tower would have to be about twice his height. a little less and yes, that seems about right for reference, which makes the joker's money pile about the same height as Stonehenge, except it's a lot cooler because it's literally made up of money instead of rocks that the aliens decided put together for no apparent reason, so that's the height. but what about the width? Well, the width in this case is also quite easy. All we have to do again is count the cash strips.
Once we do that, knowing that a typical hundred dollar bill is six inches long or 15 centimeters long, we can calculate the width. of each level it goes up, it starts about 20 feet or six meters at its base and step by step gets smaller and smaller 18 feet 16 feet 14 feet 12 11 10 9 8 and finally seven, all of which I have marked on the screen for you and with those dimensions removed, we can finally start calculating how much cash is actually in this thing. Let's start from the bottom, since the process is the same throughout the pyramid according to our count and the dimensions of a hundred dollar bill, the bottom level is made of 39 wads of cash long and 92 wads of cash wide, this means that there are 107,640 wads of cash just at this bottom level, all of which cost ten thousand dollars each, that is, one billion dollars 1 trillion 76 million 400,000 to be exact and that's just for the first level of the pyramid.
The wild card is a

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and we've barely gotten off the ground literally and figuratively. Now this number seems too big to me. So I tried it another way. We know the bottom level is about 20 feet by 20 feet and we know the height of that bottom level, so I calculated the volume which ended up being about 748,800 cubic inches and divided it by the volume. of a single hundred dollar bill measuring approximately point zero six eight nine cubic inches to see how many bills would be needed to fill the volume of the bottom level, the results are almost 11 million hundred dollar bills, meaning that again the amount Total cash is approximately 1.1 billion dollars.
After doing the same process nine more times for the rest of the pyramid, I concluded that the end result was 468,000 wads of cash, creating the dazzling total of 4 billion 688 million dollars. suit and makeup the suit wasn't cheap you should know you bought it that puts the joker no joke in the top one hundred richest people in the US right now next to oprah winfrey that's just right next time you go out with your friends Ask them what the joker has in common with Oprah, I bet they won't guess that one now there might be some wooden structure underneath, like the one they display fruit in a grocery store, maybe, but I'm not convinced that there is a look When the joker slides down the pyramid, there are piles of cash deep within this structure, also consider the weight of all this money, that amount of cash would weigh 51 tons, one hundred and two thousand pounds of pure money, no street thug will be able to run.
He went to the local Home Depot and together they designed something to hold that amount of weight so quickly. I think it has to be pure cash, but as you can imagine, I was still skeptical and I have no doubt you are too. It's an incredible amount of money. I've learned from doing these episodes for almost 10 years that sometimes my math throws up numbers that if I don't check, I get burned in the comments except this is what the reality of this situation holds firm, let's start by covering how he acquired billions of dollars in the first place, as the Joker steals from the Gotham mafia and various criminal organizations, the figure is not as far-fetched as it might seem in 2002, the mafia in the US generated between 50 and 90 thousand million dollars per year and in Italy in 2008 the family earned approximately 250 million euros per day through its various businesses.
That was a phrase with a lot of quotes. Anyway, Gotham is a major city in the US, so it's not unbelievable that crime rules. The families would have billions spread throughout the city, what seals the deal is their accountant, Lao, when the joker clashes with the main gangsters of Gotham, we learn that Lau, his accountant has pooled all his money to prevent them from cash being confiscated by harvey dent this means billions of dollars are suddenly in one place and lao is conveniently the only one who knows where all that cash is hidden. It is also worth noting that lao refers to the 68 million dollars that the prankster stole in the opening scene of the movie is so relatively small as everyone knows, one of our deposits was stolen for a relatively small amount, 68 million, and No one has much of a reaction to this number dropping, making it seem like it's a simple change, lastly we have that photo of an 18 wheeler loaded to the brim with large bags of cash if the first robbery of the movie made $68 million in hundred dollar bills and it looked like this, an 18 wheeler full of bags full of hundred dollar bills would easily total billions, so the wild card is a

billionaire

who throws it all away overboard, but that's to be expected, this is a guy who thrives on chaos and describes himself as the man without a plan, so none of this should be a big surprise, right?
I really seem like a guy with a plan, you know what I am, I'm a dog chasing cars, you know, I just do things, except that couldn't be further from the truth, don't trust what a person says about themselves, especially When The Person is a mysterious psychopath and a purple jacket throughout the

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night, the Joker prowls around Gotham and continually tells people he meets about his origin story and his love of chaos, but look at his actions and you'll see that It is anything but chaotic in which it bursts forth. The mafia meeting was prepared with a pencil and grenades.
He is captured on purpose and installs cell phones in the chest of his henchmen only to blow him up at the perfect moment so he can escape with Lao. He stages that initial heist with such precise timing that a bus explodes. through the bank wall precisely at the moment that was planned over and over again throughout this

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we are presented with the classic look at me, I'm crazy, but reading between the lines it is immediately obvious that it is all an act and the pyramid of money is the best example of this because this scene is not just about a huge pile of cash, but an enormous amount of time, precision and organization, organizing the money into a pyramid like this is not easy, since We see that the money is kept in loose bags. so it's up to the henchmen to piece it all together and time is against them after the joker escapes from the police department, the sun is rising and we see

batman

brooding over the still burning remains of the factory where rachel died, lets drop a dense coin. in ithospital later that day, then returns to his attic and mourns the loss of Rachel.
The next day, Gordon visits Dent in the hospital and we cut to the cars pulling up to the shipyard with the sun directly above them so we know the thugs had taken between 12 and 36 hours tops to build this thing, assuming that the joker has 16 minions working on everything, depositing 60 wads of cash per minute, let's say one per second, which is already a lot to deposit more than a hundred thousand wads of cash. Only in the first level are you looking at two hours of solid work and that's the easy layer, from that point on you're either stepping up to work you've already done or you're using heavy machinery like forklifts and cherries. gatherers, which will just slow down the whole process, the movies and movies website estimates that it took 16 henchmen, 27 hours in total to build that giant pyramid, a whole day of work to build this thing and for which he literally builds a 11 foot pyramid. tall pyramid of cash so that a person can watch it burn.
The entire scene is practiced with such precision that the joker only needs to say the word gasoline and his henchmen know exactly what to do. None of this is chaotic. I enjoy gasoline with dynamite. Everything is rehearsed it's all a theater show a carefully crafted set to make a point is excessive but more than anything else it works Contrary to everything he says about himself in the film, he is the most organized organized criminal of them all and is That's why we've spent so much time on a topic that literally no one was asking about to show you the true nature of the Joker. but hey, that's just a theory, a movie theory, and you know who's an even bigger comic villain than the wild card kool-aid man oh yeah, that's right, move over superman

batman

splash man and no man, today It's about the kool-aid man.
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