Posted on 09/11/2019 2:44:34 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Phoenix is an excellent, excellent actor.
Morons always gonna be morons. The only past, present, and future is now. See all things thru the filter of now. And by the way, if it isn’t happening to me, or in my twitter feed, then it isn’t important.
Morons.
Hey, everyone knows it’s art and life never imitates it....according to the left.
To me, The Joker will always be the guy who whacked Batman’s parents, and ended up looking like he did by falling into a vat of chemicals. Everything else is just fanboy misappropriation, so don’t be a buzzkill.
The original, authentic Joker is simply an evil man.
This is just more leftist revisionism, to make him pathetic and sympathetic.
Not to me - and I was collecting Detective and Batman comics in my youth in 1962.
Heath Ledger plays a creepy psychopath, but not the Joker.
The closest to the real character that goes back to 1940 is Jack Nicholson.
Joaquin Phoenix will just be another example of Whollyweird revisionism.
Yup. Nobody can beat Ledger. He was perfect.
His insomnia, his means of method acting, and his taking non-prescription drugs against his doctor’s orders are more likely candidates for his demise: https://www.quora.com/Did-his-role-as-the-Joker-drive-Heath-Ledger-to-his-death-Was-the-role-too-challenging-and-harmful-for-the-actors-psyche-or-sanity
There have been objectively more immoral/crazed roles in film history than Ledger’s Joker, yet those actore didn’t go on to overdose on medication (Hannibal Lecter comes to mind). To blame his death on a singular movie role is to ignore the other factors.
The ultimate fate of comic book characters is to undergo constant reboots and revisions, at least as far as DC and Marvel are concerned.
It’s the nature of the industry, like it or not.
To say that the original Joker is the only authentic Joker is to ignore every single version of the character that has their own merits. Same holds for any other character that’s had a reboot or two or ten (like Batman, or Flash, or Spider-Man, etcetera).
There are even more people on Heath Ledger’s position now...with the opioid epidemic and everything...and more mass shootings since then. Why create content that enables people’s (and greater culture/society’s) demise?
Hollywood is sick. And so is America.
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