So folks love the Joker, but with seven big screen versions of the character it’s easy to lose track of them all, or what each performer brought to the role. No other actor has ever won an award for doing a superhero movie. Consider that the Joker is one of only three roles that has produced multiple Oscar winners-putting Ledger and Phoenix into elite company with Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro as Vito Corleone, and Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose as Anita in West Side Story. Whether it’s Nicholson hamming it up for ‘80s audiences, Heath Ledger vamping like a rock star from hell, or Joaquin Phoenix turning Travis Bickle into a clown, it seems our hearts are always won over by the guy with green hair (so long as he doesn’t have “damaged” tattooed beneath it, anyway). The irony of this scene is that, sure, the Batmobile is cool (especially that model), but for generation after generation, the man in the purple suit is always the one audiences savor playtime with. Finally he even laments, “Where does he get those wonderful toys?” The title character has just run off in the Batmobile while Mistah J stands by stunned and dejected. Midway through the first big budget Batman film in 1989, Jack Nicholson’s Joker takes a moment to pout.
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