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Why Jack Nicholson's Joker is the Scariest One

posted 4 years ago by TMC-4 (20488)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLTYY5g5g-0

Ledger, Leto, Phoenix? Nicholson will always be the true Clown Prince of Crime!

[–] Kowalski (79077) 4 years ago

MY FAVORITE JOKER...EASILY.

[–] PaladinNJ (21772) 4 years ago

The best

[–] KaiMaster (924) 4 years ago

Ledger's Joker was too extreme. Nicholson's Joker found the right balance between horror and comedy.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 4 years ago

Then why did Ledger win an Oscar for his portrayal of the Joker while Nicholson did not?

[–] KaiMaster (924) 4 years ago

I hate to say it, but it was because Ledger died.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 4 years ago

Your proof????

[–] KaiMaster (924) 4 years ago

It's an opinion.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 4 years ago

Then I have no reason to accept it nor does any rationally thinking person.

It’s not even an opinion, it’s baseless speculation

[–] kwestmo (4385) 4 years ago

It was Jack Nicholson playing Jack Nicholson in make up, not real acting.

[–] NGMI (1184) 4 years ago

So Jack Nicholson really wants to kill anyone who disagrees with him?

[–] kwestmo (4385) 4 years ago

Who doesn't? What's your point?

[–] HelpMeRhonda (1158) 4 years ago

I hear what you're saying, but maybe that's why they cast him. Because they knew he'd be good in the role.

[–] kwestmo (4385) 4 years ago

you get it

[–] HelpMeRhonda (1158) 4 years ago

Sure I get it. Jack just plays a different version of himself. I haven't seen all of his movies, but I don't know many different characters he can play. He did a great job at the Joker though. He was kinda like one of those crazy gangsters that Cagney played.

[–] TMC-4 (20488) 4 years ago

Jack's Joker really seemed more creepy than downright scary. The only time that I really felt that he was "scary" as the Joker was the way that he treated (and what is insinuated) and acted around Jerry Hall's character after his transformation. I think that what really keeps him from being out and out scary is the sheer fact that he's given a full-blown backstory (unlike Heath Ledger's version) and alias (thus, essentially "humanizing" him) in Jack Napier.

Normally in the Batman mythos, we don't know anything about who the Joker really is and where he came from. I think that The Killing Joke was the first real attempt in the comics to give the man who would become the Joker an origin story.

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7984) 4 years ago

You hate Jack Nicholson? That's stupid. Jack Nicholson is a great actor and frankly he played the Joker really well. I like Heath Ledger's Joker and the Dark Knight but I don't like the hate you and others have for the original movies.

[–] vicegrips (87) 4 years ago

I still like Caesar Romero

[–] trevorh321 (5495) 4 years ago

He is my favorite at playing Joker. Ledger was great, too.