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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
most have no concept of the joker char and how he has been changed since he came out. The original Joker is aand was a GREEAT CHAR, but that shit you guys are calling the joker is a clown. The Joker was not supposed to be a clown, he is a man tormented by a smile he does not want, in fact, forced to smile... its a story of pain and torture, but hey, everybody thinks Nicholson did good, "except the people who know he made the Joker into a baffoon and a clown" but thats the way the char has been going since they changed him...
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I hated Nicholson's Joker... but people praised him, said his performance could not be improved upon.
He was a good actor, but a terrible Joker. It's not his fault though, it's what the movie makers wanted. They did his make up, wrote the words, put him in those clothes.
The Joker didn't use knock out gas... he used poison gas. He didn't leave cards that could be analyzed, he left cards that blew up! He didn't trap people to kill them in some contraption.... he shot them between the eyes.
He's a serial killer... and what they did to his character for tv and the movies and the even the comics for a while was terrible.
But I guess it all came at a time when people didn't want their kids reading about that. It was too..... "dark".