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Oct 15, 2020 · While his origins are a source of debate, it is agreed that the villain was inspired by the look and performance of a forgotten film star, Germany's Conrad Veidt, in a 1928 film adaptation...
- Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom was in San...
- Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger was an Academy Award-winning, Australian actor...
- Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo is a celebrated French Romantic author best...
- Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan is an Academy Award-winning movie director...
- Joaquin Phoenix
Dec 22, 2023 · The film follows Arthur Fleck, brilliantly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, a struggling and tormented stand-up comedian with mental health issues, living in the gritty and decaying Gotham City....
Dec 23, 2020 · Here's what everyone can agree on: the Joker was a co-creation of Bob Kane and Bill Finger, the same guys who came up with Batman, along with their new hire, artist Jerry Robinson.
- Tom Meisfjord
Feb 5, 2024 · DC is doing away with the mystery for good and giving Joker a true, undeniable backstory. Over the years, fans have been exposed to numerous potential origins for the Clown Prince of Crime. But a new storyline is finally setting the record straight on which backstory is the correct one.
- Justin Epps
- Batman: The Killing Joke (1988) Let’s get one thing out of the way: many of Joker’s origin stories see him gaining his clownish appearance and losing his sanity by falling into a vat of chemicals, usually with Batman involved.
- Batman: Zero Year (2013-2014) Although the New 52 continuity’s take on how The Joker came to be bares some similarities to The Killing Joke, there are also enough differences that it’s worth covering on its own.
- Batman (1989) In contrast to most depictions of The Joker, Tim Burton’s first Batman movie directly identified who The Joker was pre-transformation: Jack Napier, mob boss Carl Grissom’s second-in-command who, as was revealed later in the movie, killed Thomas and Martha Wayne decades earlier.
- The DC Animated Universe (1992-2006) Although Batman: The Animated Series never explored The Joker’s origins, its follow-up, The New Batman Adventures, did at the beginning of the episode “Beware the Creeper,” when reporter Jack Ryder shed light on how the Clown Prince of Crime came to be seven years earlier, telling the traditional ‘accidentally falling into chemicals’ story.
Oct 2, 2019 · Before Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix unsettle audiences with Joker this Friday, we lay out the various origin stories throughout the character’s history, dating back to the comics in 1940...
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Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller film directed by Todd Phillips from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott Silver. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix and is loosely based on DC Comics characters, including the Joker.
