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u/MysteriousEssay5709 5h ago
That was perfect casting.
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u/ToeCapital927 5h ago
Yeah like Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face and J.K Simmons as Mr. J. Jonah Jameson.
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u/Master-Slide-5873 4h ago
Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face? No, absolutely not. That was a freaking abomination to that character, just a cheap Joker imitation.
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u/mikemdp 3h ago
Totally '66 Batman vibes from him.
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u/ToeCapital927 3h ago
True and that’s what made him fun. His performance as Two Face was unit and different.
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u/ToeCapital927 3h ago
I mean he did do his best and it was very unique and amazing so yeah that’s why I put it there.
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u/Pleasant-Ticket3217 1h ago
Agreed. He did a great job. At the time I can’t think of anyone else who would’ve been that good. He had the manic energy and the ability to play crazy convincingly. He’s having fun in the role and I wonder how much was improvised?
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u/AF2005 5h ago
I know Jack borrowed a little from Jimmy Cagney too with his version of Joker. Incredible stuff
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u/johnjaspers1965 4h ago
That whole scene in the beginning, when they chase Jack through the factory, is the ending of White Heat with Cagney. The way it was framed and edited was more than homage. It was like one film picked up where the other left off.
A very deliberate choice on the part of all involved.
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u/GuruAskew 4h ago
I’ve always thought one of his biggest sources of inspiration as The Joker was when they all hung out at a coffee shop called Poopies up on the strip
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u/Frankie_Fisher 2h ago
Love that he admits the money was the big factor, but he's a professional so once he signed on he did he homework and crafted an iconic character.
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u/GentlemanJimmer 1h ago edited 1h ago
Still the best Batman movie. Perfect balance of capturing the comic vision, transitioning away (but not completely) from the 60s camp, the roaring acting competition between Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton (who was more unhinged??!?, and Keaton’s creepy sexuality in the “romance” scenes…), and prime Tim Burton at his visionary best.
Oh and sprinkle in a little Prince on the soundtrack, creative costume design (more of Burton’s vision), the tilted cameras and elaborate shadow work - as well as a damm good script (third act is a little long, sure, but Burton had an elaborate bell tower set he wanted to play around in).
I know the young-uns here will argue in favor of Nolan’s slick neo-realism and expensive sets and high resolution cameras - and his pseudo dabbling in philosophy (I dig some of it, especially the capitalist critiques) - but the 1989 Batman is more securely the work of a handful of great auteurs (Burton, Elfman, Nicholson, Keaton) at their peak finding that magical chemistry in a world of on-point gothic surrealism.
The only other superhero movie that comes close is the first 20 mins of the 1978 Superman with Marlon Brando’s gravitas about a dying planet, the set design and cosmic lighting, and John Williams’s horns.
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u/Chemistry11 2h ago
Never felt like he was The Joker for me. He was always Nicholson; a slightly amped up Jack in cosplay.
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u/Dry_Cabinet1737 30m ago
Love it when an actor (or any artist) still looks back on work they did with pride. It’s their prerogative of course, but personally I don’t like it when artists say that their well-loved work sucks or that they just did it for the money.
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u/Soggy-Hotel-2419 "Never rub another man's rhubarb!" 16m ago
It must be fun getting to play a character you used to read about in the comics as a kid!
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u/MilqueD-schaaje 5h ago
Heath's was great (in an albeit inferior film) Joaquin's was brilliant But Jack was the best. We don't talk about Leto.
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u/No-Picture-4940 6h ago
Jack did a great job.