Ayer's Joker looks very different than Nolan's. SS, in general, is clearly much more "over the top" than TDK. I have confidence in Leto. It seems like the role calls for some loud eccentricity.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Yeah, that wasn't at all my point... both Ledger & Nicholson actually delivered effortless performances.
Yeah, and Ledger's take (which is the freshest in my mind) made you think the Joker was expressing only 10% of his crazy. Like he was constantly trying to contain it. It made him seem like a victim of a horrible past/child hood, a lot of layers to his crazy. Not sure if the Suicide Squad version will have as much subtlety and layers.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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