Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight is regarded as one of the best genre movies ever released. It rocks a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes and the movie made over $1 billion at the box office.
The movie is discussed regularly despite being released a decade ago. Now, actor Patton Oswalt has released his own theory on the origins of Heath Ledger's The Joker.
Expanding on a popular fan theory of the Joker being ex-military, Oswalt took it a step further with thoughts that the villain might actually be former military intelligence.
"He seems to be very good at the kind of mind-f***ery that sustained, professional interrogation requires. His boast about how “I know the squealers” when he sees one," Oswlat said in a Facebook post. "The way he adjusts his personality and methods depending on who he’s talking to, and knowing EXACTLY the reaction he’ll get: mocking Gamble’s manhood; invoking terror to Brian, the “false” Batman; teasing the policeman’s sense of loyalty to his fallen, fellow cops; digging into Gordon’s isolation; appealing to Harvey Dent’s hunger for “fairness.” He even conducts a “reverse interrogation” with Batman when he’s in the box at the police station — wanting to see how “far” Batman will go, trying to make him break his “one rule.”
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Oswalt continued about Joker's interrogating skills.
"In the end, he ends up trying to mind-[frick] an entire city — and the city calls his bluff. Or is that what he wanted all along? He plummets to his seeming death, laughing like a child. And when he’s rescued by Batman, the one individual he couldn’t manipulate or break, he’s blissful and relieved (and, visually, turned on his head)."
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