what makes the joker?

Question

if you seen the dark knight movie which im pretty sure most people have, you would say the joker might be best villain ever played just like alota other people think. but in your opinion what makes you think that the joker was one of the best villains?

Answer 1

What made him scary, in the comics and movie, was that he was completely random. In the movie, he killed anyone. He killed his own men. He killed cops. He'd kill kids. He'd kill in broad daylight. He'd walk in even the most secure places and shoot them up with carefree and callous disregard. He just didn't care. He had no real goal but chaos and that meant that he could not be reasoned with. He could not be bought, not be sold, not be threatened. He didn't care what happened to himself or others and how do you deal with that?



And yet, even in all the chaos, he always had a plan. And a back-up plan. He was ready for every contingency, a step ahead of all of the good guys. He was brilliant, crazy, and willing to do anything.



Plus he had a great outfit.

Answer 2

I believe that he is in fact insane, but his point (or the point that we can draw from him) is that sanity is just one of the many possibilities, a certain 'configuration of masks'. We say 'every sane and rational person acts like this and like that', but the problem is that sanity itself already involves a series of pathologies (a dose of narcissism, guilt feelings...), prohibitions (incest, child sex...), etc. Furthermore, from a certain perspective, the Joker's perspective in this case, sanity is the most horrific self-delusion. The proof of this is in one of the last scenes (and a climatic moment for me): Commissioner Gordon, a sane man from beginning to end, grotesquely lying to his son ('everything is gonna be all right') because he could not bear the fact that the truth was so violent and destructive. Gordon was a sane and rational man, so he COULD NOT let his son hear the truth from his mouth. That is utterly pathetic.



I think that if the Joker were to talk about sanity in the movie, he would have said something like 'sanity, yes, but whose?'

Answer 3

i saw the movie and thought it was good but to say that the joker was the best villian ever, than most of them haven't watched alot of movies because he dosent even come close to being in the top 10 sorry dude

Answer 4

he made you laugh. you knew he was a horrible person with horrible intentions, but you still kinda rooted for him. he's the villain you hate to love :)

Answer 5

his evil laugh the way he blew up the Hospital