The Dark Knight Joker finally revealed! - MERGED

[bunk]

So apparently Ccon is the guy who played the DA in Begins?

 

[Asteroid-Man]

I'm not gonna lie, the first picture looked like crap, but now with new pics I LOVE the new look!

 

[itsthebatman]

I believe he fully supports the look, now.

Righty-o.

So apparently Ccon is the guy who played the DA in Begins?

Don't understand, what do you mean.

 

[Crook]

So apparently Ccon is the guy who played the DA in Begins?

CConn's barely reached his 20s.

 

[Obi-Wan]

this look could'nt be better

 

[ironwez20]

his face still reminds me of donuts

 

[StylishHokie21]

I never did like that first picture.

 

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

I never did like that first picture.

My either, the first one I loved is the one where he's sitting in the back seat of the car.

 

[hpwiz89]

I loved the look when I saw the cover for the Empire Magazine, he looks bada** there!

 

[Nepenthes]

I was under the impression that Cconn was DA Finch as well. Someone posted a picture of him with a beard and a note written to the hype.

I love these blasts from the past!

he he. Me too.

It's funny that the most strident opposition to cut smiles and such coincided with the period when "I trust Christopher Nolan" was at it's height. or whatever that phrase was, in everybodies sigs and avvies. Shame shame shame

"I believe he supports the look".....yeah even now after having time to let it grow stale I still feel admiration and almost awe for Nolan and the crew when I consider how they've repackaged the Joker. It took me about two days after the first image was released for it to 'click' for me, and then the viral and especially the poster of the Joker graffiti on the wall really confirmed and enriched it. Norman was right about the viral being a huge part of getting fans on board for this.

I don't believe it's a defeat to change your mind or come around to a different point of view. To be able to do so, in the right conditions, is something I highly value in fact. They've made the cut smile and make-up work in ways no one ever considered. Once upon a time that very sentence would've been outrageous but the fact I can type it and believe it is a remarkable achievement. The reason people opposed these changes is because we naturally assumed they would undermine the character we know. But no one thought of how the changes could actually heighten, emphasise, convey for screen those very qualities that make Joker a fun character. Why would we, we had typical fanboy tunnel vision and who can blame us for that? Why make changes that aren't necessary? Except what's necessary changes when it's YOUR job to produce the film and you're spending every waking hour turning it over and most importantly, staking on it. We're only observers of course we're not going to be able to see all the possibilities, especially as fans, who job description is in part to hold dear the status quo. Ultimately I think the new Joker is far more interesting, vivid, refreshing and potent that could have been possible with the old bleached face and chemically altered hair. Even those aspects are only small indications of a much broader, unique, specific mediation of the character. They're part of the whole package and the package is what I support and what puts the changes in a context that makes sense. So I threw out the permawhite flag like the soiled old pair of useless underwear that it was. Everyone shot their goo in it and it was getting kind of embarrassing to be holding such a crusty rag. I've adopted the AMH is Riddler flag and the vigilantes=Robin flag instead, they're still almost kinda clean and the vigilante flag I know is cutting edge

 

[Omega Wizard]

The first image always scared me.

 

[Beanjuice]

i loved the first picture, it was so nasty bad creep,scared me a bit too

 

[Gianakin_]

Didn't like the 1st picture. Still don't. But the whole Joker deal turned out great, so it's all good.

 

[Conebone69]

I really wish joker would stick with one voice

 

[JStorm]

All this talk of CConn being Finch is hilarious.

Dude is in college somewhere in Pennsylvania, I think. He name is Chris, and he is barely 21.

:fun-ny:

 

[bkey]

DA Finch was played by Larry Holden. He was in Memento and has been in several T.V shows as well. Why do people think he is CConn?

 

[Caped Crusader]

I loved the first pic..

 

[xwolverine2]

I never did like that first picture.

yeah me either.....

horrible photographer...
shooting him from below and all lol


i guess that serves as a lesson to fanboys

 

[TheBatman072]

I loved the first picture. Very stark and horrifying.


Would have looked awesome on a shirt that DIDN'T cut the top of his ****ing head off, Hot Topic!

 

[Beanjuice]

I loved the first picture. Very stark and horrifying.


Would have looked awesome on a shirt that DIDN'T cut the top of his ****ing head off, Hot Topic!

the whole picture would have been better if it included hair

 

[jtfaria]

his face still reminds me of donuts

mmmmmmm dooooooonutsssss.....

 

[gwynplaine]

I loved the first picture. Very stark and horrifying.


Would have looked awesome on a shirt that DIDN'T cut the top of his ****ing head off, Hot Topic!

Agreed. I also always loved that first pic for its horror film/death mask feel. My kind of Joker.

 

[ERVysther]

I admit, I initially despised the Ledger Joker look - though that was primarily from that first photograph - I'm sorry, that looked more like an extra from one of Romero's Livinig Dead films rather than the Clown Prince of Crime - and the image presented by the photo were not appealing at all , but I am a bit of a purist, as they say...

...the Joker I grew up with - in the books - though an extreme homicidal sociopath - was also quite vain and dapper, this guy looks like a slob.

Then a few of the other photos were released as time went on and I cooled off a bit...these were a bit more in line with what I had hoped for.

Then I caught the first trailer this past December...

...well, I will say this - the performance makes the look work...although, I will readily admit, I was none to keen on the choice of Ledger initially.

At the time, it looked like they were trying to nab an Oscar nominee and all that political claptrap - I had no register of Ledger prior to Brokeback Mountain - not that it made much of a blip on my radar, to be truthful - in the end, despite all the hooplah, it's just another story of love gone array...woop-dee-friggin-doo.

After Ledger's passing, I did manage to see a few of his other films, and although The Brother's Grimm was torture to sit through, I saw that "certain edginess" that Nolan had praised him for...his work in the the semi-biographical film on Bob Dylan was wonderful as well.

Jack Nicholson's performance, while greatly entertaining, wasn't too much more than Jack playing an amped up version of his own personality...Jack made the Joker hip and fun to hang out with on a good day, it seemed....I mean, his Joker was - as someone else put it - like a distant hip uncle you had...with homicidal tendencies...this was one of the reasons the '89 Batman was such a hit...trust me, I lived through the hype, too, and nearly peed myself in anticipation for it's June release that year.

I'm still not 100% happy with the look of this interpretation - I am one of those who prefers his Ace of Knaves to be perma-white and will someone please teach this guy how to use a COMB! - BUT, performance wise, judging from the bits we have seen, Ledger nailed it, and I must say, the costume itself is brilliant - all the decadence of the Joker without the day-glo colors ...and it's sad, too, 'cos it would have been interesting to see where he went with it in a few years' time...

 

[Schlosser85]

I suppose I'll always have preferred The Joker didn't have a cut smile and was permawhite, and I still think he looks too messy looking, but I like Ledger's voice, his laugh is perfect, and in general from the brief clips we've seen of his performance and all the comments about the character it sounds like they're very much on the right track. It reminds me of The Man Who Laughs and The Killing Joke, and that is a very good thing.

I didn't care for the first picture released of Ledger's Joker, but I thought the Empire cover was awesome, and I think that was when I was affirmedly won over.

 

[mongoose-mania]

It's funny looking back at all the old posts and seeing how people's minds change over time. The same people who saw that picture and said "That Joker sucks" are now the people saying "Ledger's Joker looks so sick, I can't wait for this movie!!" I think that's kinda funny...