I now love the new Joker. His look is great, perma-white isn't necessary and we will get the best comic book villain evaaah! He's perfect in nearly everyway. I don't care about the perma-white anymore, he's still The Joker.
And the battle wages on. I'm glad at least some are starting to come around. Personally, I've been a die-hard Batman & Hulk fan since I can remember, but I just never got the whole uproar over this new look, as I said before, for anyone who saw BB and didn't expect at least something close to this for his new look, it just baffles me. But I am starting to understand
some of the complaints, just as some are starting to come to terms with the look.
I will say this about it though, for me, I think it brings the Joker even closer to Batman's polar opposite than before. In the comics, I never got the feeling the Joker was really human, although he's supposed to be. Anybody who falls into chemicals and their body completely changes like that, it always struck me as supernatural in some way. Combine that with the constant instances of Joker escaping certain death, and his own immunity to his toxins, and he always came across, TO ME, as more than human.
Now with Nolan's version, IMO, I find it definitely more eerie, and terrifying, that this is just a man, with no chemical alterations to his body or mind, and he's still just as crazy. Batman is just a man with extreme training who made a vow to protect Gotham, and now the Joker is just a man with the exact opposite goal, to wreck and destroy Gotham for no reason. It doesn't seem Batman has anything to do with his scarring, as some suggested early on, there's no revenge factor like there is in the CB. He comes across as just a real-life serial killer type, killing and robbing with not an inkling of a reason. Somebody who willingly paints their face this way just seems much more frightening, than someone who happened to fall into chemicals and go crazy.
By most accounts, even though there's no concrete story, somewhere in his past, the CB Joker was a normal enough guy, but I dont get that impression with Nolan's Joker. I can see where a chemical bath may make you a tad crazy, getting a few cuts on your face, ehh.. I'm not so sure, it happens to people everyday. They even said with the wardrobe that they wanted it to look like this is stuff he's been wearing the whole time. "One bad day" didn't create this Joker, as Nolan said he's the absolute of the film, there are no redeeming qualities. Because of all this, I suspect he's been insane for a good part of his life, the scarring's just the icing on the cake that gave him a persona or identity, and to me, that makes for an infinitely more dangerous and intriguing opponent...
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One sees a lot of that kind of foolishness on IMDB, which is why I stopped bothering to go there a long time ago. Oh yeah, and people making mountains out of molehills, such as the guy who was saying that he was bugged by certain characters taking their reading glasses off. lol.
Great stuff 
