Jared Leto IS The Joker

[TheNextNolan22]

Jared Leto as The Joker.

 

[regwec]

Nice attempt, but that really doesn't work for me. Do we really want to see the cut-smile again?

 

[ThePhantasm]

No thanks to the cut smile.

 

[TDK elbowstrike]

I'd love to see this version of Joker to use his joker venom. I wanna see people die smiling. If they use a version of Joker similar to his persona in THE MAN WHO LAUGHS graphic novel, he could easily be as terrifying as TDK's version. Seriously, anyone who hasn't read that grphic novel, I would highly recommend it. One of the best Batman/Joker tales I've ever read , period.

 

[Boy Scout]

Jared Leto as The Joker.

That's amazing. My only criticism is the hair. It's a little too slick.

 

[Boom]

Jared Leto as The Joker.

Definitely in the right direction.

Ditch the scarred smile and give him a bit more hair. Looks a lot like Morrison's Joker.

 

[KillerWolf]

Definitely in the right direction.

Ditch the scarred smile and give him a bit more hair. Looks a lot like Morrison's Joker.

He really does:

 

[regwec]

Boy, I hated that.

 

[KillerWolf]

It was an interesting enough take on the character to keep me amused and I usually like Morrison's work, though I can understand why you hated it.

 

[regwec]

Batman RIP was pretty good; it was more that I hated the big unveiling of this rubbish new Joker.

 

[KillerWolf]

Yeah, I got you. But as I said, I found this version of Joker to be interesting enough, even though it was a bit of a rubbish.

 

[Howlett]

@Rodrigo
Very nice observation!


As for Willem Dafoe, he was basically born to play the Joker, as much as Robin Williams was born to play the Riddler. It's a shame we'll never get neither, but I'm happy with Leto.

That's the one thing I'd like to slap the crap out of Sam Raimi for. The Green Goblin did not need that power rangers mask at all. You had Willem Dafoe already! He didn't even really need prosthetics to pull off that face! What were you thinking!?!?

 

[Rodrigo90]

Jared Leto as The Joker.

Looks like Paul Bettany

 

[signalman]

I hope the JOKER has a show-stopping musical number like he did in the B:TB&TB episode "Emperor Joker".

I have read that Leto has his own band.
Although I have never heard him sing.

 

[NoLaNitE007]

Jared Leto as The Joker.

Nice! Love the cut smile...but this time around it should be more exaggerated and higher up the cheek bones.

The hair is too slicked back for my liking.

 

[AnneFan]

No thanks to the cut smile.

Agreed. I've had enough of that interpretation for now.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Agreed. I've had enough of that interpretation for now.

Super slick and posh is the way to go now.

 

[Captain Tired]

Just give him a pompadour and paint his lips red.

That's it. No cut smile or prosthetics or any of that crap.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Yes, I really dislike the idea of going to crazy with make up for Leto. No prosthetic nose or chin, or brow.

 

[NoLaNitE007]

Agreed. I've had enough of that interpretation for now.

I think the cut smile is fantastic. I'm not tired of it all. It would just need to look different than Ledgers.

Make it more exaggerated and higher up the cheekbones with the red lip paint traced over it. I don't want Joker to look like just a guy with red lipstick on.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Yes, I really dislike the idea of going to crazy with make up for Leto. No prosthetic nose or chin, or brow.

I hate that idea as well. As someone already said, this isn't a Sin City-ish movie, there is no reason to turn Leto into some distracting cartoon.

Ledger was excellent but I really don't want his version of the Joker again, like at all. I don't want some dirty grungy greasy looking Joker.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I hate that idea as well. As someone already said, this isn't a Sin City-ish movie, there is no reason to turn Leto into some distracting cartoon.

Or to handicap his performance in any way shape or form with heavy make up.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Or to handicap his performance in any way shape or form with heavy make up.

Yep I could see it hindering his performance.

I know people (including your truly) were hatin on Ledger but were most asking for him to be buried under pounds of make up and prosthetics?

 

[harryoscop]

So basically you guys want Joker to look like a regular guy, just painted white?

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

And basically you just want the character to look like he belongs in Dick Tracy?

A childish response to be sure but I responded in kind anyway.