Zed’s Dead

MTV has posted a shot-by-shot analysis of the first trailer for The Dark Knight (see it here). Why? Who knows. But it answers questions that have haunted man since Sunday night. Questions like, “Why does The Joker look queer when firing the bazooka?” Mystery solved:

-0:57: The Joker fires a bazooka into the city. A brief moment, this is yet another deft character touch from Nolan and Ledger. Notice how clumsily the Joker handles the weapon. This is because the character, at heart, is something of a gentleman criminal. The most “personal” way to kill someone, after all, is by stabbing them. That doesn’t mean that he won’t use whatever’s most readily available and likely to cause the most damage.

That’s a good theory. Another good theory is that bazookas are really heavy, man. When I supplied bazookas to that Haitian child army that one time, we could barely lift them off the truck. I mean, we laugh about it now, but Haitian kids are weak little bastards.