I think Christian Bale played Bruce Wayne the way he really felt. He was tired, and didn't have the "Umph" to continue with the Bat. Please don't make me, "How bout millions?" Well...okay. It didn't matter how many inner tube inflated tuff guys they put in his way, the caped one was gonna make one more pay day.
Without a doubt Heath Ledger's "Joker" was the final word in that series. His acting was so genuine that you couldn't find a bad review of him even in the Anartic Sun newspaper.
He had only one TELL! "You're crazy." "I'm not, no-I'm-not." This single statement made me understand that the purple one had the madness of Napoleon, the idiosyncrasy of Genghis Khan and the believability of a sharp pencil to the eye.