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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 10:49 AM
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4. Try reading Frank Miller's THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS
It portrays Joker in pretty much the same light. When reflecting on all the people he has murdered in the past, he tells Batman, "Oh, I don't keep count. But you do. And I love you for it."
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  -Questions that I can't answer about the movie "The Dark Knight" Bucky  Jan-27-09 10:36 AM   #0 
  - Hey, enjoy it for what it is:  Mutley   Jan-27-09 10:40 AM   #1 
  - It's because he was toying with batman while giving the appearance of trying to kill him  sasquatch   Jan-27-09 10:43 AM   #2 
  - enjoy the hunt, not the kill...or... the journey is the destination  NightWatcher   Jan-27-09 10:46 AM   #3 
     - Well the chase is always better than the catch  sasquatch   Jan-27-09 10:50 AM   #5 
  - Try reading Frank Miller's THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS  derby378   Jan-27-09 10:49 AM   #4 
  - I read it years ago. It was at least self-parodic  Bucky   Jan-27-09 10:55 AM   #6 
  - Yeah, it was stupid.  Bornaginhooligan   Jan-27-09 10:57 AM   #7 
  - He wasn't omnicscient, and Gordon wasn't the commissioner.  jobycom   Jan-27-09 02:57 PM   #13 
     - Oh, lord, the plot wasn't developed at all.  Bornaginhooligan   Jan-27-09 03:06 PM   #15 
        - Wasn't full of any of that. If you saw it, you must have been daydreaming.  jobycom   Jan-27-09 11:56 PM   #16 
  - I enjoyed the hell out of the movie, though it's not as deep as people would like to think.  Forkboy   Jan-27-09 01:58 PM   #8 
  - the movie could`t figure out how to end  madrchsod   Jan-27-09 02:11 PM   #9 
  - he wasn't trying to kill him, just to fuck with him  charlie and algernon   Jan-27-09 02:14 PM   #10 
  - You missed the whole thing, then. The movie was about the Joker, not Batman.  jobycom   Jan-27-09 03:00 PM   #14 
  - Well, first he wanted to kill Batman, but before he could negotiate a price, he changed his goal.  jobycom   Jan-27-09 02:42 PM   #11 
  - wow, great description  charlie and algernon   Jan-27-09 02:50 PM   #12 
  - He said it himself: "I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one"  sasquatch   Jan-28-09 02:06 AM   #19 
     - I'm not convinced he meant that, though. He was trying to convince Dent  jobycom   Jan-28-09 02:24 AM   #20 
        - Hell if people are still talking about this months after the damned thing was released  sasquatch   Jan-28-09 03:36 AM   #21 
  - The Joker in that movie is really just a human embodiment of the Trickster god archetype from  DarkTirade   Jan-28-09 12:56 AM   #17 
  - The Joker does not want to kill Batman  ProudToBeBlueInRhody   Jan-28-09 01:20 AM   #18 
 

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