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Yes, that was noticed... also the other DeNiro movie, King of Comedy I think?... definite nods to these films, as well as American Psycho, Fight Club, Clockwork Orange.
Agree with all.
"One bad day"... I loved the little call backs to 'The Killing Joke'.
Reminded me of the little joke Joker told Batman at the end of that movie (after he was caught)…
"Two inmates in an insane asylum want to escape...
They make it to the roof and just have to jump across to the next roof to freedom....
First guy runs fast and makes the jump...
Second guy is afraid he will fall...
First guy says, 'Don't worry, I have a flashlight. Ill shine it across from my building to yours and you can walk across the beam over to me.'
Second guy says, 'How crazy do you think I am? You'll just turn the light off when Im half way across!'
Hahaha
I bet you didn't think it was misplaced until today's story came out telling you you should be offended.
"I am probably way, way, way off, but I crack myself up"
My god... that's the Joker's MO.
Everybody run :)
Don't think he was.
Think about what was in Arthur's mothers looney tunes file...
She was literally certifiable, allowed and even contributed to his abuse as a child...
The scene in the bathroom, Thomas didn't look like a guy trying to cover his ass... he looked sincere (still an a-hole, though).
Hmm... tough, because this one is 24 hours fresh in my mind and people have a tendency to favor a recent good performance over an older good performance.
After thinking about it, I have to try to put each actor in the other's shoes.
Both Ledger and Phoenix were perfect in their intended roles, but I think Phoenix could have pulled off Ledger's role... Ledger couldn't have done Phoenix's justice.
Don't get be wrong, Ledger was great and showed he can play a serious bad guy.... but a heart-wrenching sympathetic bad guy (that has to hide his looks)? Not so much.
The joke she wouldn't get, might also allude to the fact that he was about to kill her.
His bloodstained footprints as he walked down the hall? Unguarded? Unrestrained?
He murdered her and laughed and danced his way down the hall.
Running from orderlies when they realized what happened? He knew he had nowhere to run, he was just having fun at that point.
(1) Kinda guessing at ages there. Thomas Wayne could be 57 and Arthur 39. Not everyone is the exact age they look.
(2) Yes, he imagined the relationship with the neighbor. It showed in flashbacks you must have missed. She only actually knew him from the one meeting in the elevator/hallway.
(3) This is a big one... but think about it... at what point was the "Joker" naïve, mooma's boy, etc...? The Joker never became fully existent until the finale (right when he was about to go on stage with DeNiro).
Arthur was those things, but once he fully became the Joker, all that was gone. He start dancing right before they raised the curtain for him. He danced out and planted a big kiss on the old lady. Even his slow "looking through his book for a simple joke" bit was calculated. Then he calmly admitted his crimes, went into a diatribe against everyone, killed DeNiro laughed and clowned for the camera... At no point during all that did he appear weak in any way. He was confident, he was sure of himself, he was in total control of the entire room, even his tic of a laugh was under control.
As he alluded to just earlier, to the guy he butchered with scissors... he felt great! Being on all those meds were just enough to keep him barely sane... Just enough to keep him miserable in a pathetic life, barely holding down a sad job.
Once the meds were gone, his true potential could be realized. His inner madness was free to run wild. He was happy :)
(4) See (3)