Now that Joaquin Phoenix has won a Golden Globe for the film, here's why that is. It was a loose sequel to Suicide Squad without Batman, Joker or Will Smith.. There's Tim Burton's The whole issue is basically a whodunit, teasing out the identity of the Red Hood, who in the final pages is revealed to be the Joker. Yes, like most depictions of the Joker, Arthur is clearly not a mentally well human being. WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for Joker. After all, it won an Academy Award and appears on more dorm room walls than Scarface and John Belushi combined. But Joker would probably be raising much less social concern if it wasn’t such a technically compelling movie, if its final moments weren’t so outsized and joyous and purposefully insane. Cracked is published by Literally Media Ltd., There are laughs to be found in All of which isn't to say that there can't be multiple, diverse variations of the Joker.
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It's Way Creepier if We Don't Know Where The Joker Came FromIt's More Interesting To Evolve The Joker Than To Explain HimPlease Don't Forget That The Joker Is A Criminal Mastermind ... And FunnyGood thing the Joker never acts violent or unpredictably, or that frame would seem really creepy.Though giving up crime to work as a politician seems like giving up alcoholism to manage a liquor store.We would've guessed kidney failure before green hair, but we aren't Golden Age comics writers.Oh right, and "Nobel-caliber chemist who invents instantly acting smile poison" has to fit in there at some point too.Joker also runs a criminal enterprise, which is essentially like operating a small business. While both Phoenix and Ledger take the "strung-out greaseball in facepaint" approach to the character, their Jokers couldn't be more different. The Joker remains scary, sure, but he loses his sticky quality. Not great, but certainly not a world-ending disaster. He just swaps everybody's suits for cool leather jackets and hands out boomboxes pre-loaded with Prince cassettes. Read it below : Joker, although a lying psychopath, is actually the hero in The Dark Knight.
Even the Adam West TV show, which was about as edgy as a beach ball in a bouncy castle, went out of its way to reference the Waynes' murder in the very first scene of the pilot episode.As Batman's opposite, by extension, the Joker should have no clear-cut backstory that defines his every motivation. But even if Todd Phillips wanted to tell a story wherein the Joker is a sympathetic protagonist, why not adjust Batman's role accordingly? Yes, the Bat-verse is in a constant state of growth and change, allowing space for both gritty realism and neon-lit nipples. The best iterations of Joker typically leave his past a mystery, give scant details about it, or make us question its authenticity (more on that later).
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We're personally fans of the theory that Even Joker's most famous comic book origin (and an obvious influence on Which explains the various strands of continuity in the comics, but also casts a pall of skepticism over the entire story we've seen. Come to think of it, why would we even believe that his pregnant wife that died In the present, Joker nearly murders a totally different woman, Barbara Gordon.
I was expecting like modern version of Taxi Driver, what I got was if Soney directed Taxi DriverNew comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castA subreddit for sharing those miniature epiphanies you have that highlight the oddities within the familiar.Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Connect to your existing Cracked account if you have one or create a new Cracked username.In case this is your first time on the internet, and this article your first stop, let us inform you that there's movie called We too have some issues with this movie. The site may not work properly if you don't If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit Press J to jump to the feed. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts u/jirfin. It turns out he was once a normal thief dressed in a tuxedo and a red hood, possessing an unfortunate lack of fashion sense and a fifth-grader's understanding of chemicals.
Which could be a product of his trauma over the accident, or could it be a hint that the moment he first became the Joker was There's more than one story tackling the idea of the Joker's sanity.
Using Reddit. help Reddit App Reddit premium Reddit gifts Directory. There are I don't think it's incel-ready, and I doubt it's going to inspire mass riots in the streets, although some better care in developing its central themes wouldn't have gone amiss. But we can't help but wonder if giving the Joker his own karaoke version of Batman's best villains reflect aspects of Bruce Wayne's own personality -- Two-Face his duality.
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In These stories expand our perception of what makes Joker tick. Batman writer Bill Finger seemingly thought it necessary to slightly expose the Joker's past in order to give his mystery a surprise ending. 0. Since the new 'Joker' film premiered, critics have expressed concern it will inspire real life violence. It feels more like a gritty reboot of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day than the Batman franchise.
I don’t know to what extent general audiences liked Suicide Squad … 'Quakin Phonix was awesome. Regardless of how you may feel about that particular origin story, Jack Napier being a gangster allows him to launch his Joker gang without straining credibility. Scarecrow his ability to inflict fear, Man-Bat his ... bat-ness and manliness. You're almost done. Instead we get (a weirdly classist) Thomas Wayne as a central character, whose murder we see Even ten years later, it's hard to shake Heath Ledger's interpretation of the character. Similarly, in Joker's other defining trait is that he's legitimately funny. For most critics it's a gamble that paid off, with particular praise directed at Phoenix's performance and Joker's impressive cinematography. Not great, but certainly not a world-ending disaster. If this wasn't titled Joker, it'd be an Amazon exclusive, like 'You Were Never Really Here.' The Joker is unique because he represents the Without this detailed biography, we'd all think Batman was a lunatic.