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Originally Posted by Pastiche
That's a pretty condescending attitude to the thousands of excellent professional actors out there. Heath Ledger is the be-all-end-all of Jokers? Hardly, he can be re-imagined, re-cast easily, there is so much to work with with that character that another equally accomplished actor could do an excellent job.
Heath died, but the Joker didn't.
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This.
Heath Ledger was one of my favourite actors, but his Joker was far from perfect. It was full of holes, just like every single comic book character in every single comic book movie.
They could easily re cast the Joker and let another talented actor take it in a direction that fits the movies. I understand why they wont, but they could. I was thinking they could do the Joker in a Silence of the Lambs type role. You have him behind bars, you can barely see his face, a new actor doing the voice... so it is a limited part, Batman tries to get info from him about something big.... some big plot twist... you involve him in the movie, but he isnt a cognitive part. He doesnt ruin the performance that Heath put on, but he is still involved in the plot line.
They did this many times in the comics and every time I was blown away with how powerful it was not just for the one on one interaction between the two (which is always just so insanely well written) but how much it can influence the story line arc.