JACK NICHOLSON JOKER
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JACK NICHOLSON JOKER
Joker Actor
1968: The Superman/Batman Hour
by Andrew Kosarko
“Jack?….Jack is dead my friend. You can call me…Joker. And as you can see – I’m a lot happier”
This moment from the film is undeniably the moment the world was introduced to the dark and sinister Joker. Jack Nicholson WAS the Joker (although, some would argue the Joker WAS Jack Nicholson – but we’ll get to that in a moment.) As with Michael Keaton’s performance in the film, Nicholson brought a darker and more psychotic tone to the character.
The character was as over the top as always but was much more intimidating and threatening this go around. He would shoot you, stab you, electrocute you, poison you and throw you off the top of a cathedral. That’s not even mentioning deforming your face before killing you. Sounds even worse when you list it like that, but if you watch the film – that’s exactly what the Joker does.
And he does it with the same energy as always. The biggest contrast between Romero and Nicholson is still a balance. While Romero was heavier on the energetic and laughable side of the Joker, lowering the sinister tangents, Nicholson’s Joker is more sinister and only upbeat and light hearted after the kill. Neither portrayal is necessarily “wrong”, but more so a matter of preference and taste. One thing this film did with the character, for once, was to introduce a back story for him. Hell, we get a back story for him before we ever a solid one for Batman!
While his back story is filled with plot holes and completely unbelievable scenarios – it works within the plot (however much of one there is in this film) and is interesting none the less. For the longest time this was hailed as the greatest performance of the Joker to be seen. Many people said Jack was born to play the role. But many fanboys will argue that because of this over-the-top performance that it was too much of Jack Nicholson goofing around and not actually the Joker. Either way, the general public loved it and the fanboys were closet fans.
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