Violence & Scariness Graphic killing, with blood spurts/spatters and dead bodies. Guns, shooting, people being shot—including parents shot in front of their young son.
The movie Joker has many negative stigmas and portrayals of mental illness. As discussed earlier, it holds the same negative stigmas and violent behavior discussed at the beginning of this essay. However, the film goes even further to portray mentally ill people as poor, weak, and betrayed by society.
There is no curse to playing the Joker. It's really as simple as that. The urban legend that there is comes from fans dealing with Heath Ledger's accidental drug overdose at age 28, and trying to pin his prescription drug abuse, a problem he long suffered with, on his final role.
Critics pointed out that telling the story of a man like Arthur, who feels like the world hasn't given him enough, which leads him to violence, feels a little too similar to real news events that happen on a regular basis in the U.S.
It seems like every version is trying to be the scariest one. and Barry Keoghan are as the Clown Prince of Crime, there is a uniquely haunting effect to the character on the page. In the comic book format, the only limits on the Joker are the imaginations of the creative team producing his story.
Extremely brief images of nude women in the flipped-through pages of a journal. Signs for theaters that show pornography with suggestive titles and pictures. Main character dances in underwear and briefly places his hand down the front, though not in an intentionally sexual way. Kissing.
I agree that “Joker” makes viewers uncomfortable — in fact, discomfort was at the crux of my viewing experience. Phoenix made me squirm in my seat and made my skin crawl; he made me feel disgusted and distressed as he pulled us into his darkness.
Fears that Joker may incite violence have prompted movie theaters and even the military to take preventive action. The criticism of Joker has pushed many to express concern over whether the release of the film will lead to real-world violence.
In this story, the Joker is obsessed with maintaining his illusion of wealth and celebrity as a criminal folk hero, afraid to let Gotham's citizens know that he is penniless and was tricked out of his fortune. The 1970s redefined the character as a homicidal sociopath.
So while Batman and Joker don't necessarily hate each other, there is someone in the Bat-Family that Joker absolutely despises, and it's none other than the boy-wonder Robin. But the shocking thing is that it's not the Robin people would expect, it's not Jason Todd.
The comics series The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing features Batman's nemesis get pregnant after a curse is placed on him, Daily Mail reported. Eventually, the Joker "vomits a sort of brown goo" that transforms first into a baby boy and then into a mini version of himself.
Playing the role of Joker was scary, affected me mentally, shares actor Joaquin Pheonix. He mentioned that to play the role to perfection, he had to alter his looks and lose weight, which again, contributed to the mental breakdown. "The first thing was the weight loss, that's really what I started with.
In the documentary I Am Heath Ledger (via Digital Spy) it's revealed that, in order to keep the prosthetics in their place as they got loose when he spoke, Ledger had to lick his makeup to keep it in place, and it ended up becoming part of the Joker's manic personality, as well as his most memorable mannerism.
Everyone knows Harley Quinn as the Jokers' girl, but how did she become Harley Quinn? Personality Disorder, specifically, Histrionic Personality Disorder plays a key part in Harley Quinn's life.
Penny had a mental disorder and her case history records at the mental health clinic mention Arthur having a head injury after she abused him, tied him to a radiator and beat him alongside her abusive boyfriend.
The psychopathology Arthur exhibits is unclear, preventing diagnosis of psychotic disorder or schizophrenia; the unusual combination of symptoms suggests a complex mix of features of certain personality traits, namely psychopathy and narcissism (he meets DSM-5 criteria for narcissistic personality disorder).
Ledger, who played the Joker in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, died on 22 January 2008 following a prescription drug overdose in his New York apartment. He was 28 years old. Stephen Gaghan, a director and writer, recently divulged that Ledger had died with the script for his film in bed.
Mad Love introduces Harley Quinn as a former psychologist named Harleen Quinzel who fell in love with the Joker during her internship at Gotham City's Arkham Asylum and details her transformation into the Joker's villainous accomplice Harley Quinn, as well as the Joker's lack of respect for Harley.
The Joker commits a crime and, cornered by the Batman at the Monarch Playing Card Company, throws himself into a vat of chemical waste. He survives, but becomes horribly disfigured in the process. This is the first and earliest attempt at providing a background for the Joker, written in 1951.
Joker deals with many thematically disturbing elements — mental health, political violence, and an “incel”-like protagonist. Despite these concerns surrounding the Joker movie controversy, the movie did not inspire violence.
While the body count is relatively low compared with some supervillain takes, every instance of violence in Joker is remarkably brutal. This part of Arthur's story, at least, is never glorified. The clown prince's crimes are raw and difficult to watch. For his part, Phoenix is stellar.
As such, his most terrifying form—seen in Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Jonathan Glapion's “Death of the Family” arcOpens in a new tab—feels too visceral to ever become a live-action film. The Joker in “Death of the Family,” spanning Batman (2011) #13-17, brings a tailored sense of terror to Gotham City.
First off let me start by saying, yes this is a very dark, violent, and intense movie and I would NOT recommend it for a child. However when it comes to a teen/preteen I think it depends on the teen/preteen, have you taught them right from wrong and do they know the difference between real life and fiction?
Violence is a theme throughout most of this film, people are shot in the head on a few occasions, with blood splattering. It's not quite horror film levels, but some scenes are particularly shocking. The film contains a few shootings and stabbings with brief injury detail.
