The most anticipated movie for me this summer is "Batman The Dark Knight." I would camp out for that movie...over any of the Star Wars Prequels, for sure! Great acting, great effects, excellent story, camera moves, casting, everything!
I saw "Batman and Robin" at the theater on opening nght.....literally, and this has never happened before or since, literally 70 percent of the audience got up and left. Most cursing at the screen, saying, basically, "What the fuck is THIS??!!!"
"Batman Begins" was better than all four earlier movies combined.
What I love is how Christian Bale just pours himself into a role, working out, training, etc. He sure didn't just show up and read his lines.
What's so horrible sad about this second movie, is that Heath Ledger died. Ledger also poured himself into his role, spending a month and a half in a hotel room perfecting his role. He had input into the costume and the look of the character, and even his psychology, writing a Joker Diary. He didn't just show up one day and said "Hey, let's get this over with so I can get my check."
From the trailer, and from Christian Bale's and especially Michael Caine's gushing about Ledger's performance, his interpretation looks to be far better than Jack Nicholson. He changed his voice, had that incredible laugh, where he doesn't just laugh, he sucks in air first then throws it out like he's literally insane.
Of course, his skin isnt white, and his hair isn't green, it's just dyed that way. I heard somewhere that the make-up may get bonded to his face... but he does have that Glasgow smile carved into his face, which appears to be his only real injury he recieves as a normal man.....
See, that's the thing. The story I consider the true, awesome Joker origin story is "The Killing Joke." He's a failed comedian who has a pregnant wife. Two thugs ask him to break into a factory to steal the money, and he knows the way in, having worked there. The police stop him later in the day, not because he is caught, but to tell him his wife and unborn child got killed in a horrible car crash. He no longer needs the gig, but the two thugs force him to help them. They disguise him as the Red Hood, their "leader," similiar to the movie "Collatoral Damage" where everyone thinks the taxi driver is the killer, but it's actually Tom Cruise. The two thugs get killed, the Red Hood falls into a vat of chemicals fleeing Batman, and the water is burning his face. He removes the red hood, sees his reflection, goes completely insane. In "Batman." Jack Nicholson played....Jack Nicholson as the Joker. I always thought he was okay, pretty good, but not jaw droppingly awesome as some people consider it. But in this movie, he may always have been a pyschopath, yet Nolan says he once was a regular guy...but then again, Nolan also says the Joker's origin won't be shown in the movie, he'll just be this force to be reconded with. I so would love to see a new take on his origin....but now that Ledger's dead, we'll never see that, or see another movie with his Joker. According to the credits, the Scarecrow is returning, so it's possible that the Joker is still alive at the end of this film. Who knows.
Wikipedia describes this scene in the trailer:
In the teaser trailer released in July, it is hinted at that The Joker is somehow involved with the mob, as is mentioned by Alfred Pennyworth, when telling Bruce Wayne that "You hammered them. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand." The teaser trailer also presents one of the earliest depictions of the Joker's portrayal in this interpretation, as a sound clip of his voice is heard saying; "Starting tonight, people will die. I'm a man of my word," followed by his trademark laugh.
I never saw that trailer, I wish I could find it!
So, who do you think was the best Joker, Cesar Romero...who refused to shave his mustache, so they just painted over it, Jack Nicholson, or Heath Ledger?
I saw "Batman and Robin" at the theater on opening nght.....literally, and this has never happened before or since, literally 70 percent of the audience got up and left. Most cursing at the screen, saying, basically, "What the fuck is THIS??!!!"
"Batman Begins" was better than all four earlier movies combined.
What I love is how Christian Bale just pours himself into a role, working out, training, etc. He sure didn't just show up and read his lines.
What's so horrible sad about this second movie, is that Heath Ledger died. Ledger also poured himself into his role, spending a month and a half in a hotel room perfecting his role. He had input into the costume and the look of the character, and even his psychology, writing a Joker Diary. He didn't just show up one day and said "Hey, let's get this over with so I can get my check."
From the trailer, and from Christian Bale's and especially Michael Caine's gushing about Ledger's performance, his interpretation looks to be far better than Jack Nicholson. He changed his voice, had that incredible laugh, where he doesn't just laugh, he sucks in air first then throws it out like he's literally insane.
Of course, his skin isnt white, and his hair isn't green, it's just dyed that way. I heard somewhere that the make-up may get bonded to his face... but he does have that Glasgow smile carved into his face, which appears to be his only real injury he recieves as a normal man.....
See, that's the thing. The story I consider the true, awesome Joker origin story is "The Killing Joke." He's a failed comedian who has a pregnant wife. Two thugs ask him to break into a factory to steal the money, and he knows the way in, having worked there. The police stop him later in the day, not because he is caught, but to tell him his wife and unborn child got killed in a horrible car crash. He no longer needs the gig, but the two thugs force him to help them. They disguise him as the Red Hood, their "leader," similiar to the movie "Collatoral Damage" where everyone thinks the taxi driver is the killer, but it's actually Tom Cruise. The two thugs get killed, the Red Hood falls into a vat of chemicals fleeing Batman, and the water is burning his face. He removes the red hood, sees his reflection, goes completely insane. In "Batman." Jack Nicholson played....Jack Nicholson as the Joker. I always thought he was okay, pretty good, but not jaw droppingly awesome as some people consider it. But in this movie, he may always have been a pyschopath, yet Nolan says he once was a regular guy...but then again, Nolan also says the Joker's origin won't be shown in the movie, he'll just be this force to be reconded with. I so would love to see a new take on his origin....but now that Ledger's dead, we'll never see that, or see another movie with his Joker. According to the credits, the Scarecrow is returning, so it's possible that the Joker is still alive at the end of this film. Who knows.
Wikipedia describes this scene in the trailer:
In the teaser trailer released in July, it is hinted at that The Joker is somehow involved with the mob, as is mentioned by Alfred Pennyworth, when telling Bruce Wayne that "You hammered them. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand." The teaser trailer also presents one of the earliest depictions of the Joker's portrayal in this interpretation, as a sound clip of his voice is heard saying; "Starting tonight, people will die. I'm a man of my word," followed by his trademark laugh.
I never saw that trailer, I wish I could find it!
So, who do you think was the best Joker, Cesar Romero...who refused to shave his mustache, so they just painted over it, Jack Nicholson, or Heath Ledger?
