The Joker's Use Of Game Theory In The Joker-Dark Knight

The movie I chose write about which has deviance as a central theme was The Joker- Dark Knight. In this movie the Joker plays a criminal that sets out to excitement in his life of crime. The joker commits criminal acts addicted as if crime was a drug and he needs these regular fixes of action to bring him intense stimulation. Unfortunately, the Joker starts to develop an enormous tolerance to the drug of crime, wanting that forever increasing "dose" making him capable to plan horrible sadistic capers. The joker in this movie plays a very unsympathetic villain. He’s literally portrayed as an evil criminal that murders civilians with weapons such as knives and poison. We are made to identify with the Joker giving us a glimpse about the dark

side one may have that we don’t acknowledge. This is the part of us that one doesn’t want to obey, the little fine points of society. Characteristics that would define a character that is portrayed in a sympathetic light would have to be brave or brilliant, hilarious or charismatic, strong or all wrapped up in one. The character has to posses qualities one can admire in small quantities. The characteristics that define the joker would be he’s iconic, dynamic, anarchic, versatile, and his liking for death.

The game theory is deployed often in this movie by a rational theoretical perspective. Examples, of this are when the Joker attaches explosives to two ferries. Each ferry has a detonator that is very capable of blowing up the other ferry traveling with citizens. Now the citizens on both ferries are told the only way they can survive is to be the first on either ferry to press the detonator. The Jokers fate is never revealed in The Dark Knight or the The Dark Knight Rises. However in the movie it does mention his whereabouts in the end. He finds himself as a resident of the newly-rebuilt asylum, which holds him in solitary confinement as an ultimate punishment for his crimes. The main theme of The Dark Knight is escalation of the Jokers force. Such events lead to an escalation that forces choices from Batman and James Gordon make. In the movie Gotham experiences many social problems and has the same deviant and criminal activity which commonly makes the news in our own cities and states. Corporate crime is greatly widespread, corruption among police is rampant, and deviant evil subcultures rule the streets. Conflicts between good and evil, justifications for violence and reliance on power as a means of social control can be

seen in the movie. These super villains help us to explore how deviance is portrayed in the movie, which has Gotham subject to a process of social construction. I would say that the portrayal of deviance in the movie Dark Knight is accurate. The Joker listens to nobody for the rights and wrongs morally. The Joker is free-willed in the most maniacal way. In the movie he only cares for himself and feels that what he says, goes. If anyone spoke against him he would severely punish them, and usually killed innocent citizens in evil ways.