Batman has been my favorite superhero ever since I read Frank Miller's classic "The Dark Knight Returns" when I was 10 years old. The things I always appreciated about Miller's take on Batman was that he rescued the Caped Crusader from the dimwitted cariciture perpetuated by stupid Adam West and turned him into the gritty, die-hard character he needed to become. With that said, I think the new movie quite obviously references Miller's work in its title, and I think Heath Ledger's Joker stylistically captures the Joker as portrayed by Miller. Nicholson's Joker was brilliant, but a different animal from Ledger's altogether.
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