I am among the few hat hated The Dark Knight and Batman Begins... in fact this whole new take on the franchise. I am a very big Batman fan, though. I just dislike this new approach.
People are going nuts all over the Joker in this new film, that he's this 'great character' and such. Let me just start off by saying that before 'TDK' came out, and all the head-numb cattle were being pulled into the jaws of hype, everyone was stupidly saying "Tim Burton's Batman should have been called 'The Joker' because the movie focused on him way more than Batman" and that "Nolan's movie is not going to do that because he's much better than that". Of course though it did. It did exactly that. But because people seem to be so hungry for 'realism' in movies, like a 57 year old virgin nun is for a thick black cock, that whenever these films are made and marketed well and are based on characters already relatable... what can the audience do but not even watch the movie that is being projected in front of them, but just see it, stare at the pictures and squirm, giggle, laugh and clap when the joker pops up... So now that we're on the Joker, Let me get to the main focus of this News Post. This is me dissecting the Joker:
This shouldn't take too long, he's a very flat character after all...
-No background/Background is a mystery
-No motives behind his evil doings.
-Anarchist... basically anarchists just don't want order, and he has no reason (motives) for doing this. He just wants 'chaos'... that's just stupid.
-Doesn't seem to have any physical weakness. And excessively clever, perhaps to the point where he almost seems super human to a very realistically set movie.
-And he's a 'psycho'
...So Nolan's joker is: a mysterious, motiveless, anarchist, omnipotent, psycho criminal that seems to work under different sets of super natural rules (unrealistic to what this movie boasts to consist of) when concocting his plans against Gotham City.
This doesn't seem like a character, but more of an 'easy-way-out' plot device. Have you noticed that the only significant parts in the dark night were ones with the Joker in them? Because the Joker is not a great character, but more of a plot device... to keep a very boring, realistic, story... interesting.
A great Character has layers and flaws and insecurities etc. The Nolan's Joker has none of these.
This is why the Joker needs to have been made by Batman, this is why the joker had to have his face permanently fully disfigured by Batman. Because Now the Joker has motives, you understand his psychosis, because Batman chooses to wear a mask, but the Joker doesn't have a choice. The joker has a goal. There are basic elements in characters you can't change because it's what makes them who they are, and why they work.
The Joker is a cop-out. There fore, a poor character.
Keric
Lol. Hahaha. Nice description of Joker. xD As if we couldn't see it sooner. But you're right, he is very flat, and really doesn't have much to him. Like most villains we see these days. They just get popped into the story, and want to do this and that. xO