Dark Knight - Joker concept art.

[mrbook]

It's always cool seeing movie concept art. Especially, with the Joker. Very creepy.

Except, what did Alex mean by "they kind of went away from the green hair and purple suit." Then Kevin saying, "They should've done that at least once."

They DID give Heath Ledger green hair and a purple suit. Granted, it wasn't neon green hair, but it was definitely green and he had a purple suit.

[mediamisfit]

I have to say that I didn't really care for the Dark Knight all that much but I deffinitely liked every part Heath Ledger was in. He was phonominal and I think his character was the right balance of being twisted without going over the top.

I thought Harvey Two Face was a bit of a let down but that's just me.

[peppersghost]

I liked the way they made it, it would be badass to have a really creepy character, but the joker doesn't have to look creepy to seem as evil as he did.

[mrbook]

I was totally against Heath Ledger being the Joker, up until the moment they showed him in the trailers. Despite how they made him look, that performance was all him.

[peppersghost]

I was totally against Heath Ledger being the Joker, up until the moment they showed him in the trailers. Despite how they made him look, that performance was all him.

Same here, when I heard Heath Ledger was playing the Joker I thought the Joker was going to fall in love and get married at the end.

[jermaine]

I have to say that I didn't really care for the Dark Knight all that much but I deffinitely liked every part Heath Ledger was in. He was phonominal and I think his character was the right balance of being twisted without going over the top.

I thought Harvey Two Face was a bit of a let down but that's just me.

They didnt even keep the original way of how harvey became two face. In the original batman harvey became 2face when he was at a court case and he got burned by coffee. He tried to cover his face with the paper that had really toxic ink and the ink and the coffee mixed to make his face deformed. and they also didnt have his coin the same. one side was supposed to be normal. The other side was supposed to have a cut through it.

Also theres an extremely noticable difference between the two actors. 1 is the way they act and 2 is the amount of makeup on there faces...

[mrbook]

They didnt even keep the original way of how harvey became two face. In the original batman harvey became 2face when he was at a court case and he got burned by coffee. He tried to cover his face with the paper that had really toxic ink and the ink and the coffee mixed to make his face deformed. and they also didnt have his coin the same. one side was supposed to be normal. The other side was supposed to have a cut through it.

Also theres an extremely noticable difference between the two actors. 1 is the way they act and 2 is the amount of makeup on there faces...

I've never heard a version with coffee being thrown in his face. I've always heard it as just acid.

[jermaine]

I've never heard a version with coffee being thrown in his face. I've always heard it as just acid.

its in batman forever(movie) and its in this batman memorabilia book.

[mrbook]

its in batman forever(movie) and its in this batman memorabilia book.

I'd like to know which book you're referring to. I'd hardly consider Batman Forever as the "original" Two-Face story.

[darknessgp]

its in batman forever(movie) ...

Sure about that? Everything I've seen points it to acid, not coffee...

Taken from http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Batman-Forever.html

10 INSERT SCREEN 10

Dent questions a crime boss on the stand. A thug throws a
vial of acid toward Harvey, searing half his face.

NEWSCASTER (OVER)
Dent, whose left-brain was damaged
during the assault, launched a
grizzly crime spree before being
captured by The Batman. He is
extremely dangerous. Repeat....

[jermaine]

I know in one of the batmans on the tv it shows a courtcase and a man getting coffee, because it was in a cup, thrown on his face and he had the paper on his face.

And this movie doesnt even have acid its gasoline.

[darknessgp]

I know in one of the batmans on the tv it shows a courtcase and a man getting coffee, because it was in a cup, thrown on his face and he had the paper on his face.

And this movie doesnt even have acid its gasoline.

So, you went from a Movie + memorabilia book to one of the TV shows... sounds like either you are making it up in your head, or it was one of the obscure versions of batman and you can't place it... in either case, it wouldn't count as the original story or probably included in the canon.

As for what The Dark Knight has. Yes, it used gasoline... your point? It was used as a plot device to Two-face. His love died, and he got half his face burned off. I actually liked it more than the acid to the face, as this gives the very idea that he is heavily reliant on the coin because it is the only thing that is fair.

[burkhartmj]

Looking at The Long halloween, it was a vial of acid that only hit half his face. In Batman Forever, it was still acid, but the paper protected half his face [must be some f*cking thick paper]. Nolan has changed the origin of every character in the batman series, but it's all been believable and in the spirit of the gritty realistic Batman of Frank Miller's comics. Considering Batman Forever was an abortion of the Batman mythos, I wouldn't use that as the basis for disagreeing with how it was done in The Dark Knight.

EDIT: and I agree with darknessgp, the way it was done in the movie actually gave an understandable reason for him to become unstable, and why he resorted to the coin [not just that it was the only fair thing left, but also it was the only thing he had left of Rachel. Hell, with the coin having a face on both sides, it was Rachel's death that made the side not identical anymore].

[apocxp]

The concept art is badass.