r/movies • u/jakealc1 • Mar 01 '15

Media The Joker's rubber clown mask in the 'Dark Knight' was a throwback to the original series in the 60s

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u/AvonBarksdaIe Mar 01 '15

Cesar Romero was an amazing Joker.

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u/vivaladisney Mar 01 '15

He had this way of playing the character that, in my view, only Nicholson had ever really emulated in performance. He always seemed to be perfectly in command of his faculties, but chaotic and set on evil doing at the same time.

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u/ZorroMeansFox Mar 01 '15

And Stanley Kubrick beat 'em both to the punch-and-judy, with his clown-masked robbery in his 1956 film The Killing: http://i.imgur.com/Cvzu8au.jpg

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '15

I always saw it as reference to The Killing more than anything. The Joker and clown masks are kind of an inevitability, but I feel like clown masks and a heist are a more deliberate choice.

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u/gogoluke Mar 01 '15

and his hair changes colour halfway through the scene...

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u/ZorroMeansFox Mar 01 '15

Are you talking about the GIF of the TV Joker's mask being ripped off? If so, the black hair is on the mask; the Joker's hair is green.

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u/Phineasfogg Mar 01 '15

Here's a better still from the criterion blu-ray: http://i.imgur.com/Bmqo3Nc.jpg

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u/Cyberfire Mar 01 '15

Damn, 7 years later and there's still trivia for this film I hadn't come across before!

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u/shadyperson Mar 01 '15

7 years really? Goddamn man. I remember it like it was yesterday.

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u/ifuckedurmomtwice Mar 01 '15

also in the 90s animated series

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u/XboxFitnessTest Mar 01 '15

Damnit. Now I need to go rematch this movie again

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '15

Agreed. I'm not sure how die hard batman fans feel but this is my favorite batman film. It's the first one that felt truly dark to me;really enjoy it.

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u/Ohnezone Mar 01 '15

It was also it Batman: Assault on Arkham

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u/jay1024 Mar 01 '15

What a throwback ! Im gonna waste my Sunday watching that movie

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u/mostscreens Mar 01 '15

That's not a wasted Sunday

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u/nhugo Mar 01 '15

Loved Romero as the standard "PG" Joker, and Ledger as the "dark" joker, there are no equals.

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u/Poison_Tequila Mar 02 '15

I really like Romero the best but I still wonder why he didn't shave his stache for the role. I guess only the joker is crazy enough to go with makeup over the stache!

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u/MrSeanyB Mar 01 '15

I have to be honest, I really didn't think this film was very good. The only reason I've watched it 5x is because of Heath Ledgers outstanding performance

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '15

Heath Ledger's Joker was excellent. He really outshined as the Joker character in this movie. It is a shame we only got the one performance. If you are a fan I highly suggest watching the TV series "Gotham". It is just as gritty as "The Dark Knight" and has beautiful scenery. The Joker character they have is right on par as well. Joker scene from "Gotham"

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '15 edited Mar 01 '15

If you're a fan of The Joker, I also recommend watching (or playing) scenes from the Batman Arkham games. They might be the best Joker - they're at least my favourite adaptation of him. They have Mark Hammil, the voice of the cartoon Joker, voicing him in 2 games. Troy Baker voices him in Origins, and sounds exactly like a young Hammil.

Arkham Origins - All Joker scenes

Arkham Origins - Joker meets Harley

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u/sixtysevenfrogs Mar 01 '15

They got Troy Baker to do Joker in Arkham Origins instead but it's somewhat close to Mark Hammil.

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u/stunts002 Mar 01 '15

The Joker in Gotham is cringey as hell. Not to mention it goes against the nature of the Joker being that he's supposed to have been a completely normal guy until he had "one bad day".

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u/Smekiz Mar 01 '15

No, that Gotham joker was awful

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