The magic trick

Here’s another example of an awesome moment that might have been even more awesome if the movie – in this case, The Dark Knight - had received a different rating. The scene in which The Joker is properly introduced is memorable for numerous reasons: The laughter, the bad quips, the theatricality, the balls it takes to mock the most powerful criminals from Gotham, the solution to all of the problems.

But really, all that was needed was the moment when Joker performs the magic trick. Everything mentioned above is there, and it reveals all we need to know about the character. And, quite frankly, this is the best scene on this entire list.

Of course, as long as I’m talking about Heath Ledger’s Joker, Gambol’s death is also brutal (although not explicit). And what makes it so terrifying is the whole story that leads up to it, as well as Joker’s casual tone when he asks, “Why so serious?” It’s as if manipulating a lunatic and placing a bomb inside him is all in a day’s work.

Yes, I could keep going and going…