With the new cover of Empire Magazine featuring new photos of DC's upcoming Suicide Squad movie, I thought it necessary to clear up some rumors about Jared Leto's highly anticipated performance as The Joker. There have been many suspicions about how Leto will play him; will he be more of a mischievous clown or will pay homage to Heath Ledger by turning the psycho-knob up to 11? Between the trailers for Batman v. Superman and Suicide Squad and numerous leaked photos of Jared Leto's Joker, there are a few Joker facts from the Batman comic books that I can definitely confirm Leto will bring to the roll.
We've all seen the stunning photos of Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn but this is the first time that Harley has ever been portrayed on the big
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Originally voiced by Arleen Sorkin, Harley's thick Brooklyn accent, silly antics and self-destructive devotion to The Joker immediately won viewers hearts. Harley was later introduced into the DC comic book universe; the first character ever to be introduced into the comics after first appearing on television.From the photos and trailer it appears that unlike Heath Ledger's Joker, Leto's WILL have bleached white skin and not face scars and make-up. The white skin signifies something important; THIS Joker must've come into some kind of chemical to make his skin turn white. The most common backstory for comic book version of The Joker is that at some point during the early days of Batman's career, he ran across a z-list criminal called The Red Hood, who fell into a vat of unknown chemicals at Ace Chemical Plant.Much fuss has been made in the geek circles about Joker's grill seen in the picture above. Many fans have bemoaned that it's "not canon." Joker never had metal teeth in the comics so how can he have them in a movie? The answer is simple: Batman punches him in the face repeatedly. After many years of battling The Bat, it only seems natural that Joker would have metal teeth installed... he also tends to be a biter in a fight.In the Batman v. Superman trailer,
Billionaire playboy by day and Gotham’s saviour by night; Bruce Wayne/Batman (Christian Bale) is finding his double life burdensome. He considers ending his superhero days and attempts to find someone Gotham can look up to for encouragement and reassurance. Turning to Gotham’s new ‘white knight’, District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman, along with incorruptible ally Lt. Gordon (Gary Oldman), attempts to eradicate organized crime for good. Maggie Gyllenhaal joins the star-studded cast as Rachel Dawes, showing a much softer side to her character than Katie Holmes.
In The Dark Knight, the second film of Christopher Nolan's trilogy, Batman (Christian Bale) teams up with Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) and district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to clean up the streets of Gotham City. However, a wrench is thrown into their plans with the appearance of the incredibly disturbed and sadistic criminal known as The Joker (Heath Ledger), who aims to stop their “war on crime” by causing destruction and havoc. He begins his crime spree with a bank robbery and then uses the money he gets from it to stage a variety of devastating stunts. The movie is regarded most highly for Ledger's performance, but another important factor in the films success was Nolan's more plausible interpretation of Batman and his story. The film brings out a version of the hero that is less camp and kitsch and more gritty and real, at the expense of the franchise's fun, but to the addition of a more relatable story.
Well, Batman is the only person capable of killing the Joker, so if anyone is responsible, it’s Batman. Now the only thing that stops Batman from killing the Joker is his famed moral code, or more appropriately as quoted from the Joker, his “misplaced sense of self-righteousness”. As the Joker himself acknowledges, Batman’s morals are misplaced. Killing is wrong, but not in this case, due to the Joker’s special circumstances. To understand better, we need to go back to what the whole point over here was, justice. The only way for the Joker to receive justice is to be killed, and the only one who can kill him is Batman. Therefore, I conclude, in the name of justice, Batman should kill the
Thus far, the best Batman standalone miniseries this year. It's intense. Spoilers! We begin in Gotham city. Enter a well-dressed man in Arkham Asylum, lead by the GCPD. He claims he knows his way around. This man is Jack Napier, once known as the Joker.
In most superhero or action movies, the good guys are always the ones who are in the right with everything that they do, and the bad guys are always in the wrong, but that is not always how it goes. In 2008, director Christopher Nolan released the second installment in the Dark Knight trilogy, The Dark Knight. This blockbuster hit pits the “Caped Crusader” Batman, against his insane nemesis, the Joker as well as the once great Harvey Dent, in order to save the city of Gotham from complete chaos and destruction. However, when the movie comes to its conclusion, Gotham has not changed almost at all, and in fact some things are actually worse than they were before, and the Joker is not entirely responsible. The reason for this is that both Batman
The Dark Knight borrowed elements from Batman: The Killing Joke, a 1988 DC Comics graphic novel, which provides an origin story for the Joker. The connection between the two leads to a similar origin story of the creation of the Joker through the influence of Batman. Batman's interference in The Killing Joke causes the Joker to leap into a chemical vat, which severely disfigures him. In The Dark Knight, the Joker himself also has multiple testimonies on how he came to be. He sometimes blames his abusive and alcoholic father for creating his mutilated smile while in a drunken rage one night. The Joker also claims that after his wife’s face was mutilated, he pulled a razor on his own to comfort her by showing that her damaged appearance didn’t bother him. After carving his own cheeks, he says that, “she couldn’t stand the sight of (him).” This disturbing attempt to make her feel better makes causes worse, resulting in his wife leaving him, furthering his mental instability. Although the scars are present on The Dark Knight version of the Joker, the rest of his appearance is cosmetic in contrast to the physiological image of the Joker from the 1989 Batman film. The Joker in The Dark Knight applies chalk white makeup to his face and dark products to blacken the spaces around his eyes. He also dyes his greasy hair green rather than having the chemically bleached green hair follicles of the 1989 Joker who fell into the bubbling green substance. Their personalities differ mainly by the 1989 Joker being more comical while The Dark Knight Joker being more psychotic. The Joker from The Dark Knight calls himself an “agent of chaos” and wishes to drag everyone down to his level of insanity and corruption rather than just kill them
Very complex formula and procedure, but may be possible. Our culture today does not really pay much attention to stuff like this. It is irrelevant and unimportant to most people but not for Batman lovers. There is such fandoms for Batman fans , known as Bat-heads , Batties and/or Batmaniacs. Though there isn’t fandoms for the Joker , being called one of those names falls into the category of the Joker because Batman & Joker are rivals , meaning that you could be called any fandoms from Batman comics/films. Coming to a conclusion , Joker Venom is very lethal toxin that can poison anyone whether it is fictional or not.
The Joker is an important character in Batman movies. He is always shown to be a bad, evil character. However, he has secret reasons why he does what he does. If these secrets were well known he might be considered to be a popular Vigilante. He is doing this is because he wants to change Gotham City to a place that crooks can’t live and be safe from crimes and gangs, he kills evil for the greater good and uses a knife to bring forth justice because Joker did lots of things that Batman couldn’t. Do you still thinks that Joker is a bad
He lurks in the dark, utilizing borderline inappropriate methods to fight the same fight as Dent and Bruce. Even though he doesn’t kill, he does torture to get the information he needs. Even though Batman has the same goals as his alter ego, Wayne, and Dent, he actually ends up bringing more chaos than order. He created the Joker and Two Face even when he had the best of intentions because he fought in the shadows and had no concern for law and justice. This is incredibly analogous to the world we live in today due to years of intervention in the Middle East and what happened in the Bush presidency. America and Pakistan created the Taliban and propped them up as the resistance to Soviet control in Afghanistan to use them as a proxy for the overall conflict between America and the Soviet Union. This of course only backfired years later and resulted in one of the largest, most powerful terrorist organizations in recent history. Even today, after this movie was created, the U.S. is witnessing the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq with the emergence of ISIS. Throughout the years, America has tried to do what they thought as good, but has always ended up creating
Batman (Christian Bale) is hoping to hand on his crime fighting duties to D.A Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) yet when Batman’s cards are on the table the twisted mastermind who goes by the name of the joker (Heath Ledger), forces the masked vigilante to go against everything he ever stood for.
According to Know Tyself , “The cosmic irony is this: The Joker is, really, the sane one and Batman is the delusional one. Batman fights for Justice - for righteousness. And not only that, but he goes around in a giant bat suit to defend these socially constructed, arbitrary, subjective concepts that don't have any objective substance in reality.”
He had to go through various mob figures in Gotham to get ahead in society and in the criminal underworld. At first he was a thief, however, as the film progresses, Joker’s role is more defined as a criminal mastermind. His only hobby, as he puts it, “is spreading anarchy.” Joker’s true ambition is to spread chaos. In the scene when police caught Joker and Batman went to talk to him, Batman was angry and asked Joker where District Attorney Harvey Dent and his love Rachel are located. Batman unleashes a violent fury that tests his moral standards and Joker is laughing because he is getting what he wants changing batman and his number one rule” Batman doesn’t kill.” Joker is also trying to show that a hero even like Batman can fall if
Why so serious? If I were to ask you that question six months ago, you wouldn’t understand the phrase. Now that The Dark Knight has been made though, most people will understand what I am talking about. Ever since The Dark Knight was created, the joker has been thrust back into the public eye. Most people only know the joker from the performances of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight and Jack Nicholson in the 1989 film Batman. Most people forget that the Joker has been a villain since 1940 in Batman #1 (spring edition). The Joker has been reinvented every decade since his first appearance. He started off as a homicidal maniac, then a criminal that was just a harmless nuisance to becoming a mass murdering, schizophrenic clown that we know today. He has been named number one on the Wizard’s list for one hundred all-time villains. In this speech I will tell you how the joker was created, the criminal career of the joker, and trademark characteristics of the joker.
He spent nearly forty days in a hotel room by himself just so he could perfect his Joker voice (“15 Facts About Heath Ledger’s Joker”). Some of the many movies he has played in were very successful. One of his earlier movies, The Order (2003) was a major flop. Everyone liked Ledger, but they did not like the movie itself.
Batman and police commissioner James Gordon try to rid the Gotham of organized crime while combating the rise of the menacing and terrorizing psychopath villain, the Joker. (uci.edu) It’s important to take notice of the other clowns featured throughout the movie as well as their roles in the heist. This is crucial and singles the Joker out as the odd man.