Sunday, July 13, 2008

DKF Batman Corner: The Joker Speaks: "He's a Cold-Blooded Mass-murdering cloWn."

DKF Batman Corner:

In this week's DKF Batman's corner we are doing a small blurb on "What type of Joker will we be introduced too?" Heath Leader on being the Joker.......

Olly Richards (2007-11-28). "World Exclusive: The Joker Speaks: He's a Cold-blooded Mass-murdering Clown" (Web), Empire, empireonline.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-08.

"This is not your Jack Nicholson or Cesar Romero Joker. The new incarnation of the character is cruel and psycho to the core. And getting into that mindset meant Ledger marina[t]ing himself in nothing but Joker before shooting. ...

'It's a combination of reading all the comic books I could that were relevant to the script and then just closing my eyes and meditating on it,' [Ledger] says. 'I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices — it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath — someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts. He's just an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown, and Chris [Nolan] has given me free rein. Which is fun, because there are no real boundaries to what The Joker would say or do. Nothing intimidates him, and everything is a big joke.' "

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