At that point it was absolutely out of glee. When he pulls that trigger, THAT'S when he's fully, 100 percent Joker. That's the whole point of the friggin film, showing how a man could develop into being someone like The Joker lol. Hence why he's mostly "reacting" to stuff.
LOVE that JOkerrr
Wasn't he just complaining about spoilers not too long ago?
Do you have similar complaints about the chemicals factory worker who let's himself be threatened by a couple of two-bit thugs in TKJ? It's interesting to me that you describe Phoenix's Joker as the most reactive when he's virtually the only live-action version who comes into existence before the Batman, and without being inspired or emboldened by him in some way. It's like you went out of your way to pick the one version who has the most claim to being the least reactive, ironically.
He said he wouldn't do it with The Batman.
I mean I'm clearly talking about his behavior RIGHT after, but sure. So what tho? Again, this is a gradual becoming, he's not meant to fully be in the Joker persona the entire movie. It's something that grew, evolved. Maybe it was in him the whole time, but it had to be unleashed by something.
Hit the nail on the head. "He's a loser buffoon!" Yeah, same thing is the case in one of the most acclaimed Joker stories out there.
He did it to **** with Rowling. More power to him.
JOKER is a lazy, derivative ripoff of better, smarter films that cover the same topics without lionizing their reprehensible protagonists. The same can be said for the film's version of the Joker.
