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bada wrote:It's probably not possible to play the Joker and not try too hard.
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Yes very understated.
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it was an intense performance, but there wasn't much in the way of the traditional cackling and screeching, which I think was Joey's point.
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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.
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stip wrote:it was an intense performance, but there wasn't much in the way of the traditional cackling and screeching, which I think was Joey's point.
There's certainly different ways to portray the character, but fuck me if they aren't all different shades of over the top.
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Guys....he's a pitre.

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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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I really wanted to see Tom Hardy in this - sucks he backed out of it.
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bada wrote:Yes very understated.
Yeah, that wasn't at all my point... both Ledger & Nicholson actually delivered effortless performances.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
bada wrote:Yes very understated.
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.
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he wasn't crazy. He was just ahead of the curve.
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Heath Ledger's Joker made me want to take down society, and think, "Ya'know, he's got a point"

Leto's Joker is just gonna be a cartoon character

I mean, it has to be. They have a guy with crocodile skin in the movie.
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bodysnatcher wrote:Heath Ledger's Joker made me want to take down society, and think, "Ya'know, he's got a point"

Leto's Joker is just gonna be a cartoon character

I mean, it has to be. They have a guy with crocodile skin in the movie.

hahaha good point.
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one of my favorite things in the world is watching Heath Ledgers joker.
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riveting. A performance for the ages. He utterly overshadows everyone else in a film full of great performances.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:I'm very excited for this. And I don't mean to keep saying it, but the Will Smith factor worries me.
This and the fear that it won't be rated R are the only possible negatives I see
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It will be PG-13, which is a bummer, yeah
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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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already tired of harley quinn
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Leto still sucks
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