First pic of Heath Ledger as the Joker
 

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It was really hard for me to see what the heck Chris Nolan was doing casting him, but this could be interesting...

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"It was really hard for me to see what the heck Chris Nolan was doing casting him"

Why?

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Well, mostly it was because I was fresh off of seeing Brokeback Mountain and had never seen him as evil, in like, anything. Just had never really been impressed with him.

I would trust Christopher Nolan with any casting decision though, as he's my favorite director. At first glance, I was like WTF because of my predisposed thoughts of the joker.

This will obviously be a darker version of the joker.

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I wonder if he has a purple suit

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No joke. Hes going to blow the Nicholson version away. Nolan is going to have Joker be the sick, twisted looney he is instead of Burtons im kinda bad but I still dance to prince.

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Hes going to blow the Nicholson version away.

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No, he isn't.

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Yes, he is.

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very pumped for this movie. Batman Begin's was dope.

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Hes going to blow the Nicholson version away.

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No, he isn't.

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Yes, he is.

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No, he isn't

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This will obviously be a darker version of the joker.

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No joke. Hes going to blow the Nicholson version away. Nolan is going to have Joker be the sick, twisted looney he is instead of Burtons im kinda bad but I still dance to prince.

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I hope you're not hating on Nicholson's portrayal of the joker, which I thought was great. The tone of the Batman comic series and its characters has varied constantly since its creation. I don't think a darker version of the Joker is necessarily more correct than Nicholson's portrayal. I really liked Burton's first Batman, though I thought the 3 Batmans after that were terrible. Christian Bale's portrayal was a little too dark for my tastes, but I'm still open minded about the subsequent movies.

My favorite depiction of Batman is actually the 1990s cartoon series. I think that series found the happiest medium between darkness and campiness.