Comments on: The Dark Knight – Joker’s Take http://reelsuave.com/2008/07/28/the-dark-knight-jokers-take/ Cinema Extraordinaire Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:22:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Harvey http://reelsuave.com/2008/07/28/the-dark-knight-jokers-take/comment-page-1/#comment-3079 Harvey Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:36:51 +0000 http://reelsuave.com/?p=871#comment-3079 My friend Kyle is right. This is nothing like what the Joker would say at all. The Joker, by the comics and even the movies, is a bit of a plan maker, a bit of a schemer, but his plans revolve only around his desire to meet (and ultimately fight and destroy) Batman. He starts off as a simple robber until he meets the cape and cowl, and after that, his love of facing off against the Caped Crusader is what drives him. Not money, not power, not world domination, not anything like that at all! He does, as Alfred says, just want to see the world burn. He wants to piss the Batman off enough to get caught by him, get to fight him, and get put back in Arkham, where he does exactly the same thing all over again. In the words of a low-life in one graphic novel, "Oh great, you called him? Do you know who this guy is? When criminals wanna scare other criminals, they tell Joker stories." My friend Kyle is right. This is nothing like what the Joker would say at all. The Joker, by the comics and even the movies, is a bit of a plan maker, a bit of a schemer, but his plans revolve only around his desire to meet (and ultimately fight and destroy) Batman. He starts off as a simple robber until he meets the cape and cowl, and after that, his love of facing off against the Caped Crusader is what drives him. Not money, not power, not world domination, not anything like that at all! He does, as Alfred says, just want to see the world burn. He wants to piss the Batman off enough to get caught by him, get to fight him, and get put back in Arkham, where he does exactly the same thing all over again.

In the words of a low-life in one graphic novel, “Oh great, you called him? Do you know who this guy is? When criminals wanna scare other criminals, they tell Joker stories.”

]]> By: kyle http://reelsuave.com/2008/07/28/the-dark-knight-jokers-take/comment-page-1/#comment-3070 kyle Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:01:36 +0000 http://reelsuave.com/?p=871#comment-3070 this doesn't in any way sound like something the joker would say. he is not about world domination or a bigger greater plan...or even about being "bad"....he just is...the joker is chaos, simply an opposing force. He is mad and he exists only to mix things up. all these things make him such an amazing villain, he is unpredictable and driven by things bigger and more mysterious than something like money or power... ps. Getting inside the Joker's head is a bad idea...Heath already made that mistake. this doesn’t in any way sound like something the joker would say. he is not about world domination or a bigger greater plan…or even about being “bad”….he just is…the joker is chaos, simply an opposing force. He is mad and he exists only to mix things up. all these things make him such an amazing villain, he is unpredictable and driven by things bigger and more mysterious than something like money or power…

ps. Getting inside the Joker’s head is a bad idea…Heath already made that mistake.

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