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    "title": "Ledger's Joker",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2008-08-12 00:35:26 UTC",
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    "html": "<p>I plan on writing a much lengthier post about The Dark Knight, and especially about Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker.  But I want to get this bit out first.</p>\n<p>It took me a while to figure out what it is about the Joker in this movie that strikes me as so fascinating and familiar and yet so terrifying, but I think I have it:  Ledger takes  the intense psychosis of Hannibal Lecter and mixes in the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_(mythology)\">coyote</a> characteristics of Daffy Duck.  There's likely a lot more to it than that, but I've seen the movie three times now -- you tell me:</p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img height=\"126\" src=\"/public/images/hannibal.jpg\"></td>\n<td>+</td>\n<td><img height=\"126\" src=\"/public/images/daffy.jpg\"></td>\n<td>=</td>\n<td><img height=\"126\" src=\"/public/images/joker.jpg\"></td>\n</tr>\n</table>\n<p>(The Joker was always my favorite villain, and Daffy is one of my favorite Warner Brothers characters, so maybe I'm predisposed to pick out similar behaviors.)</p>\n"
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