assessment
1. What is your reaction to the text you just read?
With the reinvention of Batman into a darker world exploring deep philosophical ideas, the eternal conflict between batman and joker almost seems like an interpretation of humanity. The ideas presented are dark but touches on emotions of being human and being vulnerable to suffering.
2. What connections did you make with the story that you read, discuss the elements of the work of which you were able to connect.
Joker, being one of the best known villains of all time, had to be reiterated multiple times throughout the history of Batman, and the depiction in the Killing Joke really turned him into a dark, cruel character but with a origin story that fueled his transformation. It feels like he is the embodiment of pain that the world brings about and he is expressing the cruel nature of it outwards through his words and actions. He is salty about batman's ideal logic of trying to save Gotham and fed up, and he wants to prove himself right.
3. What changes would you make to adapt this story into another medium? What medium would you use, what changes would you make?
I think with the recent portrayals of Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoneix's Joker really pushed the idea of the good vs. the bad, not just looking at it black and white but creating a grey area with ambiguity, like The Killing Joke. I personally like the world created by those two films based on a more real world because it grounds me into it with realism rather than the more fantasy Gotham. I think the Joker has reached a point where it is no longer about the good defeating the bad with a happy ending, but rather making people think about the paradox and ambiguities caused by these standards, and basing the world in a more realistic setting creates less distraction from the telling of this narrative.
With the reinvention of Batman into a darker world exploring deep philosophical ideas, the eternal conflict between batman and joker almost seems like an interpretation of humanity. The ideas presented are dark but touches on emotions of being human and being vulnerable to suffering.
2. What connections did you make with the story that you read, discuss the elements of the work of which you were able to connect.
Joker, being one of the best known villains of all time, had to be reiterated multiple times throughout the history of Batman, and the depiction in the Killing Joke really turned him into a dark, cruel character but with a origin story that fueled his transformation. It feels like he is the embodiment of pain that the world brings about and he is expressing the cruel nature of it outwards through his words and actions. He is salty about batman's ideal logic of trying to save Gotham and fed up, and he wants to prove himself right.
3. What changes would you make to adapt this story into another medium? What medium would you use, what changes would you make?
I think with the recent portrayals of Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoneix's Joker really pushed the idea of the good vs. the bad, not just looking at it black and white but creating a grey area with ambiguity, like The Killing Joke. I personally like the world created by those two films based on a more real world because it grounds me into it with realism rather than the more fantasy Gotham. I think the Joker has reached a point where it is no longer about the good defeating the bad with a happy ending, but rather making people think about the paradox and ambiguities caused by these standards, and basing the world in a more realistic setting creates less distraction from the telling of this narrative.
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