Heath Ledger's Joker Theory
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Ah, but Superman's glasses are magic, carved from the windshield of his spaceship or something.Rawne1980 said:
And/or, it's a scathing commentary of the state of US's journalists, now that I think of it.
I always assumed the entire point of Joker was he was an incomprehensible madman who did the things he did simply for the fun of it, of course something resembling a backstory would be nice, hell we don't even know his name. Though that might defeat the point.
I think OP makes a good point in that the joker might have planned to take down the mob just because "screw it, I can fuck over everybody". In that sense, it fits with the motivation of his character. We know he's capable of complex schemes, so that could have just been part of it. Just generating as much chaos and entropy as possible for all parties involved. I HIGHLY doubt it would have been a revenge thing though.
Also, everyone knows that cops can't see clowns.
Also, everyone knows that cops can't see clowns.
Not sure if it is cannon for the movie series, but the Joker has been stated to know he is in a comic book and thus can't die. He then proceeds to do whatever he pleases as he knows he is the hero's anti-thesis, making him integral to the comics. Even if he is caught he will be free again to cause chaos.
The easiest way to paint the Joker is to imagine a 6 year old child given unlimited access to explosives and no moral compass.
The easiest way to paint the Joker is to imagine a 6 year old child given unlimited access to explosives and no moral compass.
Nice theory, but Occam's Razor boils it down so that the Joker kept lashing out at the Mob because they were constantly within reach. If the Joker had not been targeting innocent civilians, I'm certain Batman could have just kept hiding and let the Joker take care of the mob all by himself.
Hence why I don't think he targets people.tzimize said:Which is probably exactly how the Joker would go about destroying a buildinglacktheknack said:
Darn you beat me to it.barbzilla said:
The Joker is aware that he is not real.
Imagine how maddening that revelation would be?
I like to think his reaction is what a lot of folks would do if they found out they actually were created from dust by someone else for lulz.
This, and the TDK scenes where he tells the different origin stories for himself are a tribute to "The Killing Joke" which suggests 1 origin story (the best one I've heard) but then plants the idea that the Joker remembers it differently every time and is most likely always lying about his origin. Or better put not "lying," but actually wrong every time.barbzilla said:
Joker just wanted to create chaos. He says to Dent that he tries to show schemers how pathetic they are. The mob is organised and plans like the police do so he tried to bring them both down. He's really intellegent when you think about it. He used the mobs greed against itself to bring it down while also using them to bring the police down.
The Joker is scary for the same reason we find wild animals scary.
We can't read them, understand their motivation or reason with them.
Not knowing what's going on behind their feral eyes or how they will react to us, leaves us with a sense of unrest and fear.
Giving the Joker a relatable motivation or logic removes that from the character, and returns him to the Adam West's Batman one-dimentional goof
We can't read them, understand their motivation or reason with them.
Not knowing what's going on behind their feral eyes or how they will react to us, leaves us with a sense of unrest and fear.
Giving the Joker a relatable motivation or logic removes that from the character, and returns him to the Adam West's Batman one-dimentional goof
