Didn't know where to put this, so I'll just write it in this thread. I wanna know what you think about this theory!!!...
At a party last weekend, a bunch of us guys suddently began to talk about "Batman Begins", which let into talking about next years "The Dark Knight"... Than, we talked about Heath Ledger beeing the Joker, and how they would go about him in Nolan's vision of the freak...
The thing is, one of my rather CLEVER friends (even though he was drunk as ****), came up with a rather cool theory!!!... He said that it would be cool, that when we first gets introduced to Jack Napier in TDK, he's just a "normal mad-man" wearing a joker-mask over his head, when robbing banks and stuff (for whatever reason he's totally upsest with the image of a Joker)... Than later on in the film, for whatever reason, he gets caught in a fire, wearing the mask! His mask gets caught on fire as well, and before Napier can get it off, it starts melting around his whole face!!!!!!!... When he gets out of there, and gets the mask off, pieces of the melted plastic has done some serious and permanent damage to his face! He looks distorted, especially around his mouth! FIRST THAN, he thinks, **** it! And knowing he can never get his clean normal face back, he fully emraces the Joker-Persona and paints his face (over his distorted real face) white and red!
I found it exstremely cool, and definitly something Nolan COULD do.. what do you guys think? Whatever happens, we WILL get an explanation to WHY his face will be distorted in the first place... so I guess this theory is as good as any other... And a SMART way of NOT repeating how the Joker came to be in the old movie! (besides, this theory would KEEP things realistic, and we all know that's what Nolan is going for)