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So why isn't Eric Andre the Joker yet?

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jufonuk said:
I think if he did the joker/chat show host-reality tv he would be amazingly evil and fucked up, this could work it would be so creepy and funny and fucked up.



I'm a white people , I would not freak out.
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You're a white person though, not people

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The Joker Talk Show would be great on film, and I'm pretty sure that's been done before.
 
Aselith said:
I think we made a breakthrough. Ok so Batman and Joker are both clones, one evil and one good both played by Queen Tilda and Alfred is a gen 1 clone that acts as a father figure to both played of course by Tilda Goddamn Swinton.

The two clone brothers have their falling out when Joker murders his parents played by Tilda and Cate Blanchett and at some point Cate and Tilda kis
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Your check is in the mail!

It's absolutely worthless, of course, but I hope you'll take this vote of confidence to heart when you make your pitch in Hollywood.
 
Sorcerer said:
The trick to casting the Joker it seems is to cast somebody you would never think of as the Joker.
Somebody who acts Jokerish in real life probably wouldn't surprise or amaze anyone.
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So what you're saying is Jack Nicholson should never have been cast?
 
Ha I've seen the show just blipping through the channels but never stopped and actually watched it. Adult Swim gets super weird the later in the night it goes.

It also blows my mind that in a show where you can basically get away with anything Hannibal Buress is still not funny at all.
 
Forkball said:
"He acted kind of weird. He must be The Joker!"
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How do you think people cast roles? They look at people that fit the elements they need. Joker is a weird manic clown. Andre is pretty much that already. And he has a lot of different facets to his weirdness. He can act normal very well too. By all accounts he lives his everyday life pretty normal. But watching his show over the years he has a wide angle on being crazy. You get a strong director/writer and you could mold a very good Joker with him.
 
I don't think you can judge someone's acting abilities with those two clips. Just because someone acts insane doesn't mean they can be the Joker.

Also, about the black thing, Joker usually is painted in this pale white body paint thing, so it doesn't really matter about skin color.
 
smh at people thinking there'd be some colossal freak-out if a black Joker was cast. You'd have your fair share of idiots making a big deal out of it, but there's a demographic that flips out over any comic book movie-related announcement.

As good as Eric Andre is at his schtick, I'm not sure that it's enough to sell me on him being a good joker. It's not hard to get a rise out of celebrities expecting a safe, comfortable interview if you're willing to be gross or absurdist enough.

That being said, he'd probably be more interesting to watch than Leto was in SS.
 
Particle Physicist said:
What's that from?
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The Following. It's a TV show about a cult of serial killers that ran from 2013-2015 (the TV show, not the cult).

WaterAstro said:
Also, about the black thing, Joker usually is painted in this pale white body paint thing, so it doesn't really matter about skin color.
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Correction: That's usually his actual skin color, as a result of getting dunked in acid. The Dark Knight is the only portrayal I can think of where he's wearing facepaint.
 
WaterAstro said:
I don't think you can judge someone's acting abilities with those two clips. Just because someone acts insane doesn't mean they can be the Joker.
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Dspite that, honestly I feel it can still work haha x)

Sure, Eric Andre for the next Joker, I'd sign; the more i think about it the more I'd dig it.
 
I like the drive by posts in this thread that just say "no, he can't pull it off" without further explanation. It's almost as if the Joker has become so mythical in people's mind that nobody can actually play him. No actor or interpretation of the role will please everybody (not serious enough/not funny enough/too predictable/too crazy etc.) and that is the strength and weakness of the Joker as a character, there are so many unknown things about him that he can be portrayed in a lot of different ways.
 
He's not that good of an actor to pull off a persona as complex as Joker. Joker isn't simply crazy, going around doing whacky stuff. There's a certain method to his madness. Nichelson and Ledger understood that. I think Leto understands it too, but he's buried under overdesigned exterior and bullshit dialogue.
 
neorej said:
He's not that good of an actor to pull off a persona as complex as Joker. Joker isn't simply crazy, going around doing whacky stuff. There's a certain method to his madness. Nichelson and Ledger understood that. I think Leto understands it too, but he's buried under overdesigned exterior and bullshit dialogue.
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Dumb shit like like sending condoms to costars says otherwise.

I do t want to turn this into a "trash on Leto" thread, really I don't, but he was so bad. I loved even the more controversial Joker portrayals like The Batman's, but Let's is the one portrayal I didn't enjoy at all.
 
This could work.

I remember ppl freaking out over Robert Downer Jr as Iron Man, Heath Ledger as Joker, etc... and IIRC Robert Downey was still seen as a risk due to his past.

This or Doc Brown, I like both ideas.
 
TheRedSnifit said:
Dumb shit like like sending condoms to costars says otherwise.

I do t want to turn this into a "trash on Leto" thread, really I don't, but he was so bad. I loved even the more controversial Joker portrayals like The Batman's, but Let's is the one portrayal I didn't enjoy at all.
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Forgot about that, LOL. But there were parts to his SS Joker that I liked. The laugh, the way he walked back to dive into the acid... it wasn't all bad.

Cameron Monaghan in Gotham did a better job at Joker though, I'd be perfectly OK if he's the next "Mistah Jay"
 
What in particular makes him suited to be the Joker? It seemed he's just acting out his skit with mediocrity. You know who else could do that? Almost every other actor on the planet.

Not saying the dude can't be him but you're not making a convincing argument for why when all he's doing is acting (which every actor does). It's like saying, "Oh my god! This dude should be play Abe Lincoln because look at him acting!"
 
Subpar Spatula said:
What in particular makes him suited to be the Joker? It seemed he's just acting out his skit with mediocrity. You know who else could do that? Almost every other actor on the planet.

Not saying the dude can't be him but you're not making a convincing argument for why when all he's doing is acting (which every actor does). It's like saying, "Oh my god! This dude should be play Abe Lincoln because look at him acting!"
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Thread is super convincing.

LewieP said:
From the latest episode of Man Seeking Woman:
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I'm convinced.
 
Last night's man seeking woman was funny, but doing a funny 90-second impersonation of heath ledger's joker is not and should not be sufficient to land a role as the joker in a full feature film. Here's hoping that if there is a new batman movie with the joker in the next 5-10 years, that someone does a new take on the character. We simply do not need another heath ledger joker clone, because the dark knight was so perfect a copy will never live up to it, nor should we be doing the same exact thing so soon. Especially after the "joke of a joker" played by jared leto last year.
 
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