A Look Back at Heath Ledger's Best Scenes in 'The Dark Knight'

Neither Batman or The Joker said a word during this car chase, and in our opinion the relative silence and only being able to hear the sounds of the cars as they chased after one another is what made it so memorable. Normally in chase scenes there will be some type of music playing, but not with this one. The silence makes you get very tense, and experiencing this in real time at the movie theater was something for the books.

To call this scene iconic would be an understatement. The Joker put on a nurse disguise, walked out as the hospital was exploding, turned around because wasn't satisfied with the way the initial explosion went down, fooled around with the buttons a little bit, and then proceeded to blow that hospital all the way up—again without saying a word.

The sarcasm. The wit. The reverse psychology attempt. The maniacal laugh and Joker telling Batman "you complete me" as the ultimate mind f*ck. Yo. This scene was totally epic. The statement "when the chips are down, these people will totally eat each other" is something that makes more and more sense the older you get.

Walking into a place shooting a gun while also telling everybody good evening is the literal definition of psychopathic, but it's really the small details that makes this such a enthralling scene. It's the way Joker grabs the shrimp skewer and eats it while threatening people, grabbing the champagne glass from one of the guests and tossing the drink after taking a sip, the way he's asking each guest if they know where Harvey Dent is and switching back and forth between asking nicely and asking, well, not so nicely. Brilliant.

This was just beautifully acted. Beautifully acted. This was the scene where you were supposed to hate The Joker the most as it ends with Rachel being killed, but even with all of that, you still don't end up hating him. It sounds terrible, but it's the truth.

Just the way he said hi was enough to seal the deal, but the line"do I really look like a guy with a plan" was genius considering the fact that he did indeed have a plan, and that the things were happening in the film were in line with it. The Joker's explanations of the screwed things he was doing is so captivating that you are almost convinced the things he's actually saying are true.

"All you care about is money. This town deserves a better class of criminals." The message here? Everything burns and can be taken away. Even money.

You can say what you want, but the scene where The Joker is in the back of the cop car sticking his head out is one of the best in cinematic history. Those few seconds of him hanging out the window are just so monumental that you can't even really explain it.

Apparently the clapping was completely improvised by Ledger which makes this even more genius. Not sure what we would have done if we were on the receiving end of this clap.

You had to know whatever magic trick The Joker had planned was going to be one that was chaotic, and boy was it chaotic (he did make the pencil disappear though).