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Originally Posted by blankall
I really don't think so. The idea that comic books and their movies should always be acceptable to a general audience has no historic grounding. There have always been comic books for adults. They're just like other form of literature. Some are slower, some are more action packed, some deal with character study, etc..
I really hate this idea that's taken over that since it's a "comic book movie" it has to be one way. I definitely enjoy some of the amusement park ride type movies, but it's also good to see a comic book movie get back to it's roots.
The Joker as a character has always been psychologically based. This was why Leto's depiction was so bad for me. He was just a zany guy in makeup.
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The interesting thing with the Joker is that it follows the Marvel blueprint for making comic book movies. You take a genre of movie that already exists and overlay a comic book character. Civil War was a Tom Clancy movie, Ant-Man is a Heist movie, the buddy comedy, and on and on. The joker is a continuation of this type of movie making where they make taxi driver / falling down / king of comedy in the Normal guy going crazy genre.