The Dark Knight Some Possible Joker Info.

[the dark joker]

i kinda like it but how will he become the joker

 

[comic_guy04]

What about Conrad Veidt and the people who made the movie "The Man Who Laughs"?

He was only visually shocking, I don't think his character was a homicidal maniac but if i'm wrong then correct me.

 

[TheBatman072]

He was only visually shocking, I don't think his character was a homicidal maniac but if i'm wrong then correct me.

No, I mean that's what inspired the creation of the Joker's look.

 

[comic_guy04]

No, I mean that's what inspired the creation of the Joker's look.

for the record my cats breath smells like cat food. t:

 

[the dark joker]

so tell me how do u do a new topic

 

[Nepenthes]

I dont know what you consider to be hard but I'm thinking halucinagens, and i'm guessing mushrooms were the easiest "hard drug to get" back then becuase there were alot of farms with black angus cows. Acid wasn't developed till the last 50's early 60's if I remeber the timothy leary story on History channel. But anyone who could create a character like The Joker must have had a supply of somthing.

LSD was derived from ergot which was once-upon-a-time commonly found in wheat and barley crops. Waaaay back in the day it was easy for people to ingest ergot in their average diet, causing them to see dragons and faeries and such on a regular. Awesome.


As for influencing the Joker the sad clown and court jester is a pretty common archetype and Finger just ripped off the Man Who Laughs. The colors were influenced by printing and comic book conventions. As for his personality he was a pretty average villain. I think Finger just knew how to write comics and you don't need drugs for that.

 

[comic_guy04]

I guess it helps to have drugs when your readin them right ? idk all I can say is I read the batman anthology volume one with batman #1 way in the back and I read it all in about an hour and two fat hoots later.

 

[Asgard]

Killing Joke, good sir.

Thank you very much!

 

[mike316]

I don't know what to believe. To be honest I would rather him to look like the Joker from the start i.e before the Batman meets him.

I dont think they should go down the line of "criminal who wears clown mask, robs banks and murders people conveniently gets his face deformed into a clown-like state".
I know it strays slightly form the Joker's origin but think about it, it would be very convenient for a man who is obsessed with theatrics and wears a clown mask to suddenly be tranformed into a clown by the first man (Batman) who tries to take him down...

 

[dark_b]

I don't know what to believe. To be honest I would rather him to look like the Joker from the start i.e before the Batman meets him.

I dont think they should go down the line of "criminal who wears clown mask, robs banks and murders people conveniently gets his face deformed into a clown-like state".
I know it strays slightly form the Joker's origin but think about it, it would be very convenient for a man who is obsessed with theatrics and wears a clown mask to suddenly be tranformed into a clown by the first man (Batman) who tries to take him down...

good to know that you read the thread right?
because if it is true then he will look like joker from the beginning. batman will only help to make him the scary joker smile.

 

[the dark joker]

I agree with u they should get to the joker seen but i dont know cuz its hard when its the joker cuz every comic book he look differnt and in the new movie chris nolan wants a scaryer joker

 

[regwec]

This thread has developed a brain tumour.

 

[the dark joker]

the joker is heath ledger do u guys have any more pic of at u thik the joker look like

 

[Batty Belfry]

Whoops! wrong thread!

 

[Miranda Fox]

From Jett on the BOF boards. Usually I don't refer to BOFers statements on here but if anything, this makes sense with what my guy said about the scripts being differant.

But we know those scenes are in the film. What is he trying to say here?

 

[sasquatchs]

with what my guy said about the scripts being differant.

I missed that nugget. What's different?

 

[Miranda Fox]

scenes where switched around, taken out, or added.

It's quite a smart idea actually. If a "script review" gets let loose, they know who dunnit. And maybe they worked it so that that "need to see" thing was for each person who needed to see particular scenes. Like a stunt co-ordinator doesn't need to see all the same scenes a make-up person does. Know what I mean? Either way.....my guy said that's how the WB rolled with their security, and now Jett, through no intention of his own, is backing my guy.

LOL!

They were colour-coded as well, although I don't think that's unsual with films anyway.

 

[DangerousInc.]

Thanx for all the info. Im getting goosebumps!

 

[Ceb-Man]

Okay, let's look at the biggest problem (aside from the sides, which would appear to massively contradict this) with this theory:

It really doesn't match what the Joker is meant to look like. I say this as someone who really does *know*, more or less, what he will look like (unless that has changed at some point - and I don't think it has.)

A clown mask being welded to his face is not going to produce that look. It just isn't.

As, from what I have gathered, it's something pretty close to this manip I did awhile back:

What say all of you?

You know that image looks good. By the way that picture reminds me of a rumor a while back of the Joker's look coming somewhat from Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. That picture in some ways has that look.

 

[Mr. Socko]

He wears a clown mask.....rofl