Hamill for me too - not seen the cartoon much but Hamill was also the voice of the Joker in Arkham City/Asylum which I enjoyed more than the Nolan movies.

I think Hamill has the superior overall voice/laugh but Ledger's performance as the Joker (including the laugh that accompanied it) was superlative. He really nailed the character perfectly for the tone of the movies.

I liked the part where the Joker laughed...

This. Especially the observation that Ledger was the artist. He brought something new to the table. Not just a laugh. A whole twisted soul. Amazing.


>> ^L0cky:

They're all good in different ways.
Hamill is by far the most consistent, with the best vocal range. He's like the technical guitar player on his laughing strings. He knows what his Joker is supposed to sound like and he nails it every time.
When he hits it right Nicholson's is the most natural. Unlike the others he sounds genuinely and heartily amused; his has soul.
For scary, actually I'm not really all that amused I'm just an evil fucking psychotic that's restless, impatient and only mildly entertained at the best of times, and I'm only genuinely amused at other people's futility in the face of how pointless everything is, Ledger nails it. He's the artist.
Out of all three I choose Ledger for the scene at 2:10 and the way his laugh changes. That was chilling when I first watched it.
It's interesting how comics offer so much room for interpretation of character.

oh, right, oops. >> ^Payback:

>> ^Trancecoach:
or Larry Storch, Frank Welker, Mark Hamill, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jeff Bennett, Steven Blum, Richard Epcar, John DiMaggio, Corey Burton or Brent Spiner...
>> ^Fantomas:
No Cesar Romero? Pffft!


You do realize Hamill was in this clip?

>> ^Trancecoach:

or Larry Storch, Frank Welker, Mark Hamill, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jeff Bennett, Steven Blum, Richard Epcar, John DiMaggio, Corey Burton or Brent Spiner...
>> ^Fantomas:
No Cesar Romero? Pffft!



You do realize Hamill was in this clip?

or Larry Storch, Frank Welker, Mark Hamill, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jeff Bennett, Steven Blum, Richard Epcar, John DiMaggio, Corey Burton or Brent Spiner...

>> ^Fantomas:

No Cesar Romero? Pffft!

They're all good in different ways.

Hamill is by far the most consistent, with the best vocal range. He's like the technical guitar player on his laughing strings. He knows what his Joker is supposed to sound like and he nails it every time.

When he hits it right Nicholson's is the most natural. Unlike the others he sounds genuinely and heartily amused; his has soul.

For scary, actually I'm not really all that amused I'm just an evil fucking psychotic that's restless, impatient and only mildly entertained at the best of times, and I'm only genuinely amused at other people's futility in the face of how pointless everything is, Ledger nails it. He's the artist.

Out of all three I choose Ledger for the scene at 2:10 and the way his laugh changes. That was chilling when I first watched it.

It's interesting how comics offer so much room for interpretation of character.

Nicholson by a mile, but my vote is only between heath and jack because the cartoon was never big when and where i grew up.

There's really no getting around the fact that jack was born with the correct face to BE the joker.

Hamill always and forever. Heath does well for the world they created, but for overall Jokerness? Hamill always wins. For now.

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Thanks, Amiga!
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This is getting me excited for tomorrow when "The Dark Knight Rises" comes out! *promote


My pleasure amigo!

LOL this is GOLD!!! I never knew Val Kilmer was such a joker. I'm looking at his wiki entry right now and I'm laughing at his latest public appearance photos LOL

Ok, so I thought about it a bit.

If I'm right he first part of the trick with the cutting doesn't really do anything at all to the position of their 3 cards. The first ace will always be the 6th card, the second the 22nd, the 3rd the 38th and then there are 14 cards behind that to make up the 52. Its pretty clear that any even number card here will be face down. On the second pass the order is reversed, and the numbers halved. So the 1st ace will be 8th, then 16th, then 24th, then 2 cards behind to make the 26. Order reversed again. 2nd 6th 12th etc.

I can't give a complex mathmatical reason why those card positions give those results, but in a practical sense its very easy to work out. Take a deck in new deck order, perform the same filtering process and look at the final 3 cards. There position in the new deck gives you the placement you need. The sorting process is ofc completely deterministic so its just a matter of getting the right cards in the right place. In this case he just...puts them there and creates the illusion that they have been shuffled when they haven't (all the cutting does is changes the order of the "filler" cards.)

I used to do a similar trick where you'd have 13 cards from Ace to King. You'd then spell out "Ace", and for each letter you'd remove a card from the top and add it to the bottom. On the last letter you'd turn over the top card, an Ace ofc, remove it and continue with the remaining 12 cards. Spell out Two, turn it over etc etc. Once you got to your last card you'd make a big joke of "shuffling it to the bottom" and turn it over to reveal a Joker. You could easily work out the order just by working backwards. I impressed a few girls with that...just not the smart ones.

Anyway, I think I got it?

I think Joker is in this one.

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