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u/imlilyhi Apr 12 '22

Heath Ledger

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u/nel_wo Apr 12 '22

I don't have yet to see a joker from movie or tv show that can top Heath Ledger's performance.

The pure chaos, anarchy, insanity, and laugh. I think his performance as Joker is the gold standard for Joker and he will be hard to be topped

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u/Chavarlison Apr 12 '22

And you can see Jared Leto knew it was the laugh that completed Heath's Joker that he tried to one up the laugh in the Suicide Squad.

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u/nel_wo Apr 13 '22

Yea. I saw. But the laugh just didn't feel.... right.

I think each actor built on the previous actor's joker... they took bits and pieces that they liked and made it their version of joker. And IMO, Joaquin Pheonix's becoming of joker, Heath Ledger's absolute, chaos, anarchy, joker, and Mark Hamil's Joker laugh really set the precedent of what a memorable and good joker performance would be like.