Why So Serious? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[The Grumpy Celt]

I don't know if I'd say non traditional and non canon...

I meant in terms of his appearance. In terms of behavior he is spot on. However, it looks like the Joker is supposed to be wearing makeup, has colored his hair and his smile does not go back to his earlobes. But I'm good with all of it if there is a strong performance and it looks like there will be.

 

[Klaus]

I meant in terms of his appearance. In terms of behavior he is spot on. However, it looks like the Joker is supposed to be wearing makeup, has colored his hair and his smile does not go back to his earlobes. But I'm good with all of it if there is a strong performance and it looks like there will be.

His smile was never "back to his earlobes" in the comics. He just smiled a lot. The Burton movie was the first to use the perma-grin.

 

[The Serge]

His smile was never "back to his earlobes" in the comics. He just smiled a lot. The Burton movie was the first to use the perma-grin.

Actually, I believe there's at least one comic from the 70s that shows him with the "perma-grin." It's one of issues from The Joker series that features a conflict with The Creeper. I know it's reprinted in the earlier editions of The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told and Stacked Deck. Given how much of a fan you are, Klaus, you can confirm as I'm certain you have at least one of those books.

Personally, I've never liked the "perma-grin" approach and agrees that The Joker is portrayed best as just smiling a lot.

 

[EricNoah]

I like the separate elements ok, but for some reason this trailer did not resonate with me at all. Trailers -- even ones for crappy movies -- usually get me goofy, but not this one...

 

[Klaus]

Actually, I believe there's at least one comic from the 70s that shows him with the "perma-grin." It's one of issues from The Joker series that features a conflict with The Creeper. I know it's reprinted in the earlier editions of The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told and Stacked Deck. Given how much of a fan you are, Klaus, you can confirm as I'm certain you have at least one of those books.

Personally, I've never liked the "perma-grin" approach and agrees that The Joker is portrayed best as just smiling a lot.

Good try, but I sold my comics years ago.

I read a lot of Batman stories since the day Clayface 2 and Hugo Strange were plaguing a Neal Adams-drawn Batman, and all I can remember is the Joker just smiling.

I think the perma-grin is awful, and I winced when Grant Morrison tried to push that in that horrid prose issue of Batman he did.

 

[The Serge]

It would take a lot for me to sell my comics... And I'm not collecting.

I bought that Morrison issue... I hope they abandon his attempt at reimaging the character. While I'm all for reinterpretations, I find that Morrison likes to do that too often... almost as if he's so desperate to put his own stamp on something that he doesn't allow good sense to limit him. In any event, the reimage he seems drawn to for The Joker doesn't work and I hope the move away from it.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

...that horrid prose issue of Batman he did.

As compared to the poetry issue he did?

Joking (ahem) aside, I like what I've seen so far. There is some kind of scarring make-up at the corners of the mouth, but aside from that the appearance is different. The hair is not really green, the skin is not really white and the lips are not really red - its all make up even with in the story.

 

[The Serge]

Scarring make up for the actor or for the character? I believe the only actual disfigurement The Joker has in the movie is a gallow's grin (although he se4ems to limp).

 

[Klaus]

Scarring make up for the actor or for the character? I believe the only actual disfigurement The Joker has in the movie is a gallow's grin (although he se4ems to limp).

He has cuts on both sides of his mouth crudely stitched back together.

Kinda like what would have really happened to Nicholson's Joker if the back alley surgery was done more realistically.

 

[The Serge]

He has cuts on both sides of his mouth crudely stitched back together.

Right, a gallows grin.