Regardless, this site (hopefully) will become home to my film reviews, and hopefully a place people can regard as some sort of place they can see how I feel while I vent my spleen on that which I find nearly offensive (like Tarantino's half of Grindhouse) or something everyone needs to note and bear witness (like Brick). Goodie.
So I'll start this off with not so much a review but a renewal of my anticipation for The Dark Knight. After Nolan's stab at renewing the Batman movie franchise, I've been curling into the fetal position and kicking my heels with childish delight to see how he's going to make the Joker any better than Nicholson's performance in Burton's initial go.
I admit when I first heard that Heath Ledger was taking the role, I was more than a little miffed. I was enraged, I railed against it for months until a friend showed me this site. Wow. He actually looks like an evil clown that enjoys the torture and murder of innocent people, way to go.
Then last night, I found this lovely image. (Thanks, Ted!) It's a still from The Man Who Laughs. Those of you less familiar with Victor Hugo/Films from 1928, here's a brief synopsis:
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine. Unlike in the original story by Victor Hugo, the lovers escape to France.The imdb's trivia page for this film also credits that Gwynplaine was the inspiration for the Joker within the comics. Which really, really, freaks me out.
Taken from the venerable imdb
Mr. Nolan, thank you for doing your homework. There are no words for how much I'm looking forward to this.
