"Joker" Until the victims of society acquire "kingly qualities" - Resonance with evil that touches on taboos

Marvel where “incidents” drive people crazy, DC where “environment” shapes character

The connection with `` Modern Times '', `` Dog Day Afternoon '', `` Taxi Driver '' , ``The King of Comedy '', etc., the novel approach to characters who break the spell of `` The Dark Knight '', and I won't go into details, but it is shocking. A tragic and tragic development. The movie ``Joker'' will be seen by many people in the future and will be passed down for generations to come.

I have tried to avoid spoilers of the work as much as possible, but there is one last thing I would like to consider about the ``identity that created the Joker'' in this work.

``Joker'' is the first movie to explicitly depict the Joker's past, but in the context of American comic book movies, references to the villain's background are actually not uncommon. In fact, almost every Marvel movie depicts the villain's past.

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The best example is ``Spider-Man.'' In that series, in every live-action movie version in the past, basically good people "fall into darkness" and become villains. In other words, the idea is that some kind of ``incident'' causes people to fall down the path of evil. To put it bluntly, there is a strong attribute of the theory of natural goodness, and there is a clear structure in which people who are on the side of the sun fall down = evil.

On the other hand, in the DC Comics movies that are the source material for Joker, there are characters who are originally in the dark without having to fall, such as Batman who is suffering from emotional trauma, Penguin who grew up oppressed, and Catwoman. many. There is a strong tendency towards the theory of evil, and justice and evil are very close to each other. Unlike Marvel movies, there are no absolute ideas, and the difference between good and evil is largely due to the conflict between the two positions. `` Watchmen '' (2009), which has strong ties to historical facts, can be said to be a work in this lineage.

In Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" series, Ra's al Ghul, Scarecrow, and Bane are all characters whose beliefs are considered "evil" by the world. For Joker, he is the ultimate supervillain and a kind of mythical being. As a result, Two-Face, who takes on the Marvel-like position of a righteous prosecutor who has fallen into the darkness, stands out in the story, and the contrast with the pure evil Joker stands out (the opposite pattern is seen in Black Panther (18)). Maybe Killmonger).

What is the “true identity” that created “Joker”?