Continuing the current “Dark Knight” theme, I have decided to provide a list of interesting trivia related to the latest Batman film. Please note that some of these items may contain spoilers, so you may wish to come back here after watching the movie.

• As a joke, one bat suit was made with nipples, as in Batman & Robin (1997). It was presented to Christian Bale as the real bat suit, but he knew instantly it was a joke, having seen a few design pictures during preproduction. He did pose for some publicity photos in the “nipple” suit.
• Robin Williams, Lachy Hulme, Paul Bettany, and Adrien Brody all expressed interest for the role of the Joker before Heath Ledger was cast. When asked, “Why Heath Ledger as the Joker?” Christopher Nolan said, “Because he’s fearless.”
• To prepare for his role as the Joker, Heath Ledger lived alone in a hotel room for a month, formulating the character’s psychology, posture and voice (the last one he found most difficult to do). He started a diary, in which he wrote the Joker’s thoughts and feelings to guide himself during his performance. He was also given Alan Moore’s comic “Batman: The Killing Joke” and “Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth” to read. Ledger also took inspiration from A Clockwork Orange (1971)’s Alex and Sid Vicious.
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Wow… just… wow!

Last night I finally got my chance to see the new Batman movie: The Dark Knight.

Of course, after seeing the movie a lot of questions have been raised about the fate of certain characters, how well or accurately they were portrayed, and what will happen in the next film (assuming there will be one) after the terrible loss of Heath Ledger.

In my next blog post I aim to answer a lot of these questions and provide theories as to “what happens next”. Obviously, as I am not part of the team responsible for making the Batman movies, I can only hope to give you the best possible information/guesses based on the information I have access to.

So, If you have any questions regarding the film and characters, please post a comment below and I will do my best to try and answer them all in the next post

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Every once in a while, someone on the forum comes out with a statement that is just too good to leave in the sea of posts and topics. Today, Lanzaned came out with one of the funniest statements I have read in weeks!

“What gave you the impression we have lives??
I think most people here pretend to have one by not posting in the weekends.”

Quote of the Month used to quite a popular feature on the Noddegamra site. A small box used to display on the homepage with a random quote from one of our forum members. Maybe it’s something I should re-introduce? For now though, I hope you enjoyed a quote that clearly defines us as the geeks we are

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As you may have noticed it has been a little quiet around here lately. The forum has been absolutely buzzing, but unfortunately I have not had enough time to focus on the main blog. It’s a shame really as there was a great build up of content and regular visitors, then suddenly silence on the Noddegamra front.

So what have I been up to? Well, to be honest, I have been playing a lot of World of Warcraft (some of you may remember me posting about the new guild I created - which is currently very successful). I have also been spending a lot more time with my friends and recently joined a gym. There has been quite a lot going on in the last couple of months, but I wont bore you with the details now.

So what now? What is to become of Noddegamra? Well I hope to try and get back into the swing of things. Whilst I seem to have less time to focus on the blog, all I really need to do is try and find a way of fitting it into my routine. This seems to be a common problem with bloggers, but I’ll try and fix it

It might take a little while to get the updates back up to speed, but bare with me and come back soon to see what random things I wish to share with you

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My first cartoon in a while. An old favourite joke of mine..

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I love seeing what people can achieve using Lego. Whilst this may have been done before though, I haven’t seen it executed this well. Check out these cool remakes of famous photo’s using Lego by Balakov.

View Image Gallery: Classics in Lego

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