Here's the "original" post. I don't like this theory. Getting rid of the corruption was already Bane's and Ras al Ghul's goals, and the Joker's actual motivation is far more interesting. The...
I don't like this theory. Getting rid of the corruption was already Bane's and Ras al Ghul's goals, and the Joker's actual motivation is far more interesting. The theory doesn't make sense anyway. If Joker just wanted to end the mafia, why would he kill so many other innocent people? And how would the vigilante Batman impersonators cause any escalation when they had such poor equipment?
Even Film Theory has posted better Batman theories in the past.
Two interesting things I noticed this video casually skipped over: It says that Batman is spending his time taking out petty criminals since Batman Begins... despite one of those petty criminals...
Two interesting things I noticed this video casually skipped over:
It says that Batman is spending his time taking out petty criminals since Batman Begins... despite one of those petty criminals being the Scarecrow, one of the major villains from the last movie.
It claims the Joker wanted to force Batman to quit and elevate a golden boy in Harvey Dent...except Bruce Wayne himself stated that as a goal of his explicitly multiple times throughout the movie.
There's a number of other things (Coleman Reese wasn't Bruce Wayne's accountant) that are wrong, I guess, but the greater overview of this theory is remarkably basic. Of course the Joker thinks he's the good guy. That's the baseline requirement for almost every well written bad guy. All this video did was provide his perspective. Selling this as "clearly what the creators were saying" is just pants-on-head stupidity.
I hate MatPat as much as the next person, but this re-interpretation of Joker's role in The Dark Knight was actually pretty solid. Pretty sure it's not the intention of the authors of the film,...
I hate MatPat as much as the next person, but this re-interpretation of
Joker's role in The Dark Knight was actually pretty solid.
Pretty sure it's not the intention of the authors of the film, but still
an interesting variation on the canon, especially considering the
ideology of The League Of Shadows.
Here's the "original" post.
I don't like this theory. Getting rid of the corruption was already Bane's and Ras al Ghul's goals, and the Joker's actual motivation is far more interesting. The theory doesn't make sense anyway. If Joker just wanted to end the mafia, why would he kill so many other innocent people? And how would the vigilante Batman impersonators cause any escalation when they had such poor equipment?
Even Film Theory has posted better Batman theories in the past.
Two interesting things I noticed this video casually skipped over:
It says that Batman is spending his time taking out petty criminals since Batman Begins... despite one of those petty criminals being the Scarecrow, one of the major villains from the last movie.
It claims the Joker wanted to force Batman to quit and elevate a golden boy in Harvey Dent...except Bruce Wayne himself stated that as a goal of his explicitly multiple times throughout the movie.
There's a number of other things (Coleman Reese wasn't Bruce Wayne's accountant) that are wrong, I guess, but the greater overview of this theory is remarkably basic. Of course the Joker thinks he's the good guy. That's the baseline requirement for almost every well written bad guy. All this video did was provide his perspective. Selling this as "clearly what the creators were saying" is just pants-on-head stupidity.
I hate MatPat as much as the next person, but this re-interpretation of Joker's role in The Dark Knight was actually pretty solid. Pretty sure it's not the intention of the authors of the film, but still an interesting variation on the canon, especially considering the ideology of The League Of Shadows.