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One of these people it was really shit to lose.

I love Ledger's performance and TDK is a great movie (if overrated due to a mess of a 3rd act).

But I always say the writing of The Joker in TDK felt off to me. He seems to want to make statements and affect people's feelings. But Joker doesn't care what anyone thinks or feels. Not even Batman. He only cares for his own amusement and he's mostly amused by people dying (unless you're doing the crime-boss version of Joker who is basically that but aims his sick plans at making money). To me Jack Nicholson's joker is closer to the real spirit of the character... a true psychotic clown who "kills people until art happens".

For the record I also think The Killing Joke sort of screws up the character, despite being a brilliant comic in and of itself.

>> ^budzos:
But Joker doesn't care what anyone thinks or feels. Not even Batman. He only cares for his own amusement and he's mostly amused by people dying .


each reboot has brought with it varying interpretations of these characters. the unequaled cruelty and sadism portrayed in TDN makes ledger the most memorable villain of all (to me)

>> ^CaptainPlanet:

>> ^budzos:
But Joker doesn't care what anyone thinks or feels. Not even Batman. He only cares for his own amusement and he's mostly amused by people dying .

each reboot has brought with it varying interpretations of these characters. the unequaled cruelty and sadism portrayed in TDN makes ledger the most memorable villain of all (to me)


Yeah sometimes people seem to get all tangled up in the analyzing and defamation of one iteration of a series or another. It doesn't ever bother me, I just watch what I want to watch and I either like it or don't. I didn't really like the American version of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but only because it changed a character dynamic that drew me into the series in the first place. I still think it's a good movie, it's just not for me...the difference is I'm not going to go around telling everyone how it's shit and they suck if they don't ONLY like the Swedish versions.

No one has done that here I'm just saying, it's something people do that annoys me...particularly with the Star Wars movies.