| “ | This is a world you'll never understand. And you always fear what you don't understand. | „ |
| ~ Falcone's most famous quote to Bruce Wayne |
Carmine Falcone is the tertiary antagonist of the 2005 superhero film Batman Begins. He is the most powerful crime lord in Gotham City. He is based upon the DC Comics character of the same name.
He is portrayed by Tom Wilkinson.
In the film[]
Like his comic book counterpart, Falcone is the head of Gotham's most powerful organized crime family, flooding the city with drugs and crime in the wake of an economic depression. His criminal empire is indirectly responsible for the poverty and suffering that motivates Joe Chill to rob and murder Thomas and Martha Wayne.
Fourteen years after the Waynes' murder, Falcone shares a jail cell with Chill, and the two brag to each other about their crimes. Gotham's district attorney cuts a deal with Chill to rant him early parole in return for testifying against Falcone. On the day Chill is set free, Falcone sends an assassin to kill him - denying Bruce Wayne his chance for revenge.
That night, Bruce goes to Falcone's club to confront him, defiantly telling him he is not afraid of him. Falcone laughs this aside, saying that he has so many politicians and police officers on his payroll that he could kill Bruce in broad daylight and face no repercussions. He then threatens Bruce's loved ones, and says that real power comes from being feared. He has his thugs rough Bruce up and throw him out of the club. Bruce takes his words to heart, abandons his life of wealth and privilege to travel around the world in an effort to understand criminals so as to better fight them.
Seven years later, Falcone goes into business with Ra's al Ghul, smuggling his fear toxin into Gotham City. He also works with Ra's' middleman, Arkham Asylum administrator Dr. Jonathan Crane, who has Falcone's thugs declared insane to get them out of serving prison time. When District Attorney Carl Finch gets too close to finding out about their plan, Falcone orders two corrupt police officers to kill him.
One night, Falcone accompanies corrupt GCPD detective Arnold Flass to the Narrows, Gotham City's slum neighborhood, to oversee a drug shipment. They are interrupted by the mysterious vigilante Batman, who, unbeknownst to Falcone, is really Bruce Wayne, now dedicated to fighting crime as a symbol of fear, having taken Falcone's words to heart. As a frightened Falcone tries to load a shotgun, Batman pulls him out of his car and head-butts him, knocking him out. He then leaves Falcone tied to a floodlight, creating a bat-like shape that Gordon later modifies into the Bat-symbol.
Falcone pulls strings to have himself transferred to Arkham Asylum instead of prison, and demands a "session" with Crane. He tells Crane that he wants more money from the fear toxin shipments, and dismisses Crane's warning that Ra's al Ghul will have him killed, boasting that no one get to him. Crane the shows Falcone the grotesque scarecrow mask he wears to psychologically torture his patients, and doses him in fear toxin while wearing it. Falcone begins screaming in terror, literally frightened out of his mind. Crane then has him committed; Falcone is last seen in a catatonic state, mumbling the word "Scarecrow".
Falcone does not appear in the sequel, The Dark Knight, but District Attorney Harvey Dent says at one point that he is still in Arkham, with Salvatore Maroni having taken over his mafia empire.
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