2/17/2024 0 Comments Joker actor batman![]() This is an artistic lovechild of both of those movies.” “It’s a harsh movie,” he adds, “and a very dark movie that people are mostly comparing to Taxi Driver and King of Comedy. He is lost and has to recreate himself from the ground up. You feel like this poor bastard doesn’t have a shred of reality or truth in his life he can hold on to. And with somebody who started off with some sort of empathy to have all of that wiped away from them - you can’t help but empathize with him and certainly understand the choices he makes and why he feels he has to do what he does. So when he says, ‘There are times I doubt if I’m real,’ it’s probably the only time I’ve ever really had any sort of sympathy for the character, because he winds up as the butt of a very bitter joke as to who he is and what he is. ![]() He believes several things about himself and is constantly finding the rug pulled out from under him. That, I felt, was the great tragedy inherent in the character in this version. “One of the things that I thought was really well done in the movie is that no one, not even the Joker himself, is completely sure of his origin. Like with Batman, when you mock him, you make him silly.”īe sure to check out and subscribe to our Classic TV & Film Podcast for interviews with your favorite stars!Īnd now the Joker has been brought to a whole new level with the Todd Phillips film, which Paul Dini for one applauds. ![]() My own theory is that the Joker likes bringing the laughter, but he hates being laughed at or mocked. It’s only when you mock the character, as it is with Batman, that you lose a sense of who the character is. You can put him in any situation, whether it’s a lighthearted story or a very dark, pitch-black type of story and his sense of humor and cutting cleverness will shine through. Writer Paul Dini, who has written extensively for comics and television, and was one of the guiding forces behind Batman: The Animated Series, notes that the Joker “has the malleability that Batman does. He’s been through all of the ebbs and flows of Batman’s popularity over the past 80 years. The creation of the Joker is generally credited to Batman’s co-creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger along with Jerry Robinson, the character having launched about a year after the hero was introduced in the pages of Detective Comics in 1939. To have him pitted against the good guy who is in the mask of the horrific, nightmarish bat is an interesting reversal.” It is that carnival mask of a clown that hides the horror lurking below the surface. He is inspired by the old silent film from German cinema, The Man Who Laughs. “Arguably, Batman has the greatest supervillain in history in the form of the Joker. ![]() “I go back to the Stan Lee theory of supervillains, which is that the longest-lasting and most successful superheroes have been those who have had the greatest supervillains,” offers Michael Uslan, comic historian and producer of every Batman movie since the 1989 film starring Michael Keaton in the title role of Gotham’s caped crusader. For the most part where Batman has treaded, the Joker hasn’t been far behind. In a sense, he always has been - whether in the form of the late Cesar Romero on the Adam West Batman TV series of the 1960s, Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton’s 1989 film, Mark Hamill voicing the character in various animated TV shows and films, the late Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, Jared Leto in Suicide Squad or, now, Joaquin. As Todd Phillips‘ Jokerbreaks October box office records and provides actor Joaquin Phoenix one of the most critically-lauded parts of his career, it also serves as a reminder that as popular as Batman is, his long-standing arch enemy is also being embraced by the public in a major way.
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