Submitted by ronaldb8179 on July 19, 2008 - 10:07am.
I'm not sure what to call "good" in light of this movie. Dark is an understatement. Even overwhelming is an understatement. Ledger's joker is at least 10 times darker from Nicholson as Nicholson was from TV's Caesar Romero. Ledger's Joker is even beyond the "pre-code" comic book joker. Multitudes of people die here, up close and from a distance.I'm still dazed now the morning after viewing the movie yesterday afternoon. I will end by quoting Kevin Conroy, who has for years done the animated voice of Batman in several series. The Batman story is "infinitely interpretable" in Conroy's words. BTW, that comes form the commentary on the Gotham Knight DVD, which is excellent. BTW, I abstained from voting in the Joker poll because the Animated Series version voiced by Mark Hamil was not also a choice.
Dark is an understatement
I'm not sure what to call "good" in light of this movie. Dark is an understatement. Even overwhelming is an understatement. Ledger's joker is at least 10 times darker from Nicholson as Nicholson was from TV's Caesar Romero. Ledger's Joker is even beyond the "pre-code" comic book joker. Multitudes of people die here, up close and from a distance.I'm still dazed now the morning after viewing the movie yesterday afternoon. I will end by quoting Kevin Conroy, who has for years done the animated voice of Batman in several series. The Batman story is "infinitely interpretable" in Conroy's words. BTW, that comes form the commentary on the Gotham Knight DVD, which is excellent. BTW, I abstained from voting in the Joker poll because the Animated Series version voiced by Mark Hamil was not also a choice.