How would YOU make the joker if you directed/wrote the script?

[Geek Nasty]

how so?
over 30 lives with his mom
blames society for everything
can't get over one girl he sees in the street/can't talk to women
has porn in his notebook
kills people because they don't understand him and they make fun of him
only thing he's got that gives one excuse is his laughing condition but even that wears thin

I think you completely misread what Joker was about. It was about class distinction, disregard for the poor, and wealth worship.

His mental issues were something he had absolutely no control over and the government cut the meds he needed to function leading to a downward spiral.

He wasn't some lazy millennial stereotpe sitting at home playing video games all day mad he wasn't a millionaire just for breathing.

 

[humminbird]

I think you completely misread what Joker was about. It was about class distinction, disregard for the poor, and wealth worship.

His mental issues were something he had absolutely no control over and the government cut the meds he needed to function leading to a downward spiral.

He wasn't some lazy millennial stereotpe sitting at home playing video games all day mad he wasn't a millionaire just for breathing.

eh maybe I just didn't really get that I just saw a whiney dude complaining he couldn't be a comedian and wanted to kill people for that
but to each his own

 

[SunZoo]

I would do something a little different, especially if it's more of a one off/black label type of deal.

The Joker to me is an archetype, a spirit, an energy. I'd have art imitate life and have an actor, someone who already has a flair for the dramatic be posessed by the trickster archetype and have it be the downfall of his sanity.

You're never going to get a comic book accurate joker without him feeling like a force of nature. Heath's kind of had that quality but he was bascially an extreme leftist, being that BB is kinda right wing propaganda.

My Joker would be less like a mobser or some sort of political terrorist and more like a supernatural, cult leader, religious type figure, think Grigori Rasputin.

 

[SunZoo]

A fed up black man.
And he gets treated better with his face paint on than he does in his own skin.


It's layers to it

When i saw the early castings and how reeves choose diversity in his casting i had high hopes lakieth stanfield could be brought in as a joker in these films (a role he has said he wanted)

It's funny because even though I didn't like Todd Phillip's Joker, I had an idea. A parody of it called Homey, starring Damon Wayans, directed by Jordan Peele. Like that has been rattling around in my head for a year and half lol

You could follow the Joker movie almost beat for beat...but with the nuances of being black having to entertain white people, instead of being an imbicile lol

Rest in peace Paul Mooney.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

I been watching the old batman's and thinking about The Joker as a character. Which iteration was the best? I'll answer them both...

You had Jack.. He was the mobster, but they didn't do a good job establishing just how good/bad of a mobster he was. He fell into the stuff and literally went insane. Jack was carrying it, but there was no explanation to why the mobsters kept following him... Nor why weirdo clown gangsters starting showing up.

Then Heath... Wanted to see the world burn, but was still smart and intelligent in his motives and plans. Tricked up batman multiple times with pure intelligence and even went toe to toe in combat...


Completely insane Joker from Phoenix.. This is exactly what I'd do. This man dresses up in a clown suit and has clown guns and clown crew doing clown capers.. Usually excited while he murders innocents and cops for absolutely no reason but he's fukking a nut. He baits batman to please come fight him, when others run from him. And batman, through all this gadgets and prep time, keeps losing the worst battles, to this scrawny, insane nutcase. Bats can go head up with Superman but can't protect multiple people he loves from The Clown.

That's what I'd do... The Joker would the first horror superhero movie and he'd be off the damn chain

A Joker horror movie? I love this idea.

This is lowkey where they should go in the next The Batman movie (if they want to have Joker as the villain).

Go dark, dark. Make dude a horror flick slasher/murderer type of character that just can't be stopped. Basically It without the supernatural stuff.

 

[Shaman]

Which is my favorite iteration of the Joker by far. Really leaned into the creepy/evil/supernatural side of him. This Joker was literally the monster under Gordon's bed

That's the kind of energy I'd love to see brought to life in this trilogy.

^ This. My joker would just be a thoroughly creepy sadist with a dark and cruel sense of humor. Joker venom, acid flower, electrocuting buzzer and all that. I'd rarely show him actually committing acts of violence on screen. Just show him interacting with or stalking his victims and then a cut to their corpses or their screaming or other people reacting to his violence. Leave it up to the audience to imagine what happens when he drops the clown façade and goes full . This happened in the Dark Knight a couple of times to great effect.

No backstory or attempt to humanize him since a lot of my favorite villains make you wonder if they are truly humans at all - like hannibal lecter, michael myers, anton chigurh, and so forth. In fact, I'd direct the actor to play him like he's an actual demon who is doing such a poor job at pretending to be human that everything he does comes off as unnatural and unnerving... like the permanent smile. Pennywise meets Freaky Fred from Courage the Cowardly Dog