NS: Deleted scene from 'The Batman' with the Joker released

[cyberghostface]

A deleted scene from 'The Batman' featuring Barry Keoghan as the Joker has been released, giving us a better look at Mistah J.

Watch on YouTube

Even taking into consideration that this is a "proto-Joker" (per Reeves, he hasn't become Joker yet)... I am not feeling this look at all. Between this and Gotham, I have no idea why people are insistent on making Joker hideous and covered in prosthetics. It's completely unnecessary. Joaquin Phoenix didn't need to look like he rubbed his face with a cheese grater to win an Oscar for playing the Joker.

Comments

[huntleyhaverstock]

The performance is interesting, as is the idea of never really showing him, and the notion that he actually looks like someone who fell into a vat of acid. But he seems to be drafting on Heath Ledger and maybe Cameron Monaghan's work, rather than trying to create a fresh interpretation. I'd love to see a live-action Joker with the theatricality, the menace, and in a weird way, the vulnerability that Mark Hamill brought to the role.

[werehawk]

I'm glad this was cut as the Joker here is really only contributing to the horror aspect and is not adding anything else.

In general, I kinda said this in the last discussion of the movie, I really did not like the tone or plot of the movie. However, the more I think about it - and this scene ads to this, every interaction was spot on. And the police (likely grudgingly) allowing Batman to enter Arkham really matches the comics well (late 80's/90's at least), just like the rest of the movie, where the police kind of know they need him but he is still a vigilante and not following their rules. That part was super well done.

[laughing_tree]

Can anyone else not make out, like, a fourth of what he's saying because of that sorta-mumble?

[tinygaylaura]

I'm honestly glad they cut this scene because it feels like it really spells out the themes of the movie too much in a "So you have no excuse not to get it" sort of way

It also undercuts Bruce using his brain to try and work this out

If futre films do use the Joker I hope they don't go with this design

The comic look can already be creepy if done right it doesn't need to be turned into The Clown from Spawn to make it more frightening

[super_fly]

Matt Reeves saying he used David Lynch's The Elephan Man as a reference for this version of the Joker just tells me that really didn't *get* David Lynch's The Elephant Man

Like can we not retread Facial Disfigurement = Evil for the umpteenth time in movie history