Isn't this a Ron Paul campaign ad?

o.O?

kickass...just ordered one!

predicting a sell-out by the time i get home from work.

Fuck Heath Ledger. I'm sick of seeing him.

Had to order this, love how it references the 80's Joker iconography. Thanks Peter, along with the Bill Murray print you are furnishing my apartment.

i usually only buy the 27x40 movie posters, but this was too good to pass up. thank peter! :)

I've ordered one too, great find Peter!

It is cool, but I am over The Joker. The worship of Heath is officially annoying.

There's a fine-line between worshiping the Joker and worshiping Heath. I'm just a Batman fan, so I would totally buy this. I really don't care that it happens to be dedicated to Heath Ledger

Have some respect mate! who in their right mind is glad someones dead

you're disgusting, fuck off

but he's popular BECAUSE he is dead. If he hadn't died, then fanboys wouldn't have been so obsessed with him. Just saying.

He's not popular because he died, he's more popular because he died (After doing a great performance at that.) He would've been recognized by people and the academy regardless.

This is true, people were talking about his performance before he died.

that's not true. he was pretty big before that. bernie mac died, look at his last movie, it didnt make 1 billion.

people need to stop saying hes only getting all these awards and stuff cuz hes dead. that man was the most brilliant actor my eyes have beheld.

its so stupid when people say it was only big cuz of his death. plenty of people have died and their work didnt explode.

I feel sad for anyone who thinks Heath Ledger is only famous because he is dead.

Boomstick, me and you finally agree on something.

I agree that his popularity grew tenfold because he died after gibing such a great performance, but I'm not really sure that warrants a "I'm glad you're dead." That's kind of fucked up.

But ti's not to the point where I'm gonna say "Fuck him" and totally disregard him as an actor. If all else, you should say "Fuck Fanboys" instead.

But it's not to the point where I'm gonna say "Fuck him" and totally disregard him as an actor. If all else, you should say "Fuck Fanboys" instead.

I wish that the worship over Ledger's career spanned more than final completed role. Yes, I loved his role as the villain as much as anyone else, but his hero worshipers almost always miss the other 22 films under his belt. You never see anyone making a poster of him in his Brokeback Mountain cowboy hat and denim jacket. I haven't heard anyone praise his performance as Sonny in Monster's Ball in almost 5 years.

It's sad to watch myself write it, but the Heath Ledger worship has become a fad. It's "cool" to miss him simply because he passed on early and at the prime of his adult career. His death was only compounded by the fact that his final completed film role was so incredible. However, his body of work spanned other great characters just as superbly acted and just as love-able as the Joker was chaotic and villainous.

The only thing that brings my mood even lower is the fact that, by this time next year, he will be about as celebrated and remembered as "Crocs." Please, watch and celebrate the entirety of a lustrous career that spans 23 films and characters that will warm your heart and leave you with a broader appreciation for a man and why his time came too soon.

Or: it's just a kick-ass print of The Joker. I'm not buying an image of Heath portraying the Joker, I'm buying an image of the Joker.

I bought it just for the joker, because I love the character. Even if Carrot Top played him... (ok, maybe not carrot top...) Heath was a good actor, and will be missed, but now it's like everybody pins anything that has something to do with Heath as "oh, they are jumping on the bandwagon." To be truthful; if anybody else played the role of the Joker and I liked it, i'd have bought the print too...

wow, just great!!! I wan't one of it

The sad truth is that Joker would have made a better president then Obama-nation....

Great poster, I think I'll one for a friend's birthday next week (and mysteriously order two by accident...oh noes! :D)...

Great poster, I think I'll one for a friend's birthday next week (and mysteriously get sent/order two by accident...oh noes! :D)...

Now after several repeat viewings of The Dark Knight on DVD I am more convinced than ever of it's mediocrity. Oh it was shot well and there some nice stunts. The main problem is that the screenplay is terrible. Heath's performance was adequate, but nothing to write home about. And maybe it's just me, but I tend to prefer my "agents of chaos" to not be so competely self aware of their agent of choasness that they cannot shut up about about it, and in fact drone on and on about it to the point where through exposition they basically just explain their own function in the actual narrative as if they had been sitting in on the screenplay writing sessions themselves.

I'm an agent of hype, and you know the funny thing about hype? It makes a billion dollars.

Sounds more and more like you were looking to find fault in his performance. I've seen TDK about 10 times now. And his performance always gets better to me. Mainly due to the small things I pick up when he says things certain way, plays with words, or his use of body language.

I do this with just about every movie that stars a Grade A villian played by a great actor. DeNiro, Gary Oldman, Daniel-Day Lewis and so on.

I just have hard time with movies where the characters have to continually explain to the audience what is going on as if I'm not intelligent enough to figure it out. This really wore on me in TDK. The exposition still felt like screenwriting 101.

Well that was part of his character. He's a methodical killer of sorts I guess. It's a way for him to play with his prey to make them think twice about him and not to give himself away.

I saw it more as his "poker face" than anything else. Especially when he would re-tell the story about how he got the scars on his face differently every time.

I think I might have to order one!

its not the Joker. It's Heath Ledger as the Joker. The real Joker never had the scars nor the Heath type hair. To say you're buying it because its the Joker and that you hate Heath's hype is just showing you're a "comic" poseur and trying to justify the purchase.

(btw: Heath's portrayal of the character is so far removed from the comics, in the entire character's history he was portrayed as philsosophy teacher once in the Killing Joke.)

The real Joker isn't real at all.

If people like it, then people like it. I see what you're saying, but it's taking an elitist road here.

I'm a comic book elitist. I know the Joker isn't real, but I'm saying the character Heath played isn't the same character from the comics really.
Plus, it was more of a rant on how it seemed like he was trying to justify buying it without seeming like he's a Heath fanboy.

it wasn't a rant at all, I just wanted to point out that some people just buy it because they liked the film/the character/whatever., and not because they want to jump on any bandwagon.

But thanks for calling me a poser and a fanboy in about 30 minutes time, reminds me why I hardly ever comment on any site...

I was calling my post a rant.

You still called me a poser and a fanboy though, when all I wanted to say was that I liked the print. The original point was to not take everything so seriously with the Heath bandwagon, it might just be a cool image...

anyway, enough said...

Don't you think that you can still enjoy this poster as a comic-book fan? I'd buy one just because I like the movie and I like the character...but at heart I'm a fan of the comic.

The Joker is based on a character Bob Kane watched in a film called "The Man Who laughs" which was based off of a book by Victor Hugo. The Joker is a creation of an interpretation. Much like the film version you're talking about. While the comic version has been around for years. It's also been changed and tossed around so many times. Especially the realm of comics. Every artist and writer does their own take on him. Just like Batman and his suit design. I actually loved the Nolan version so much. That I would like to see it replace the comic version. Mainly because they got rid of the cartoon-y "coat-hanger" mouth design. Which I've never liked.

The scars gives this Nolan version more of a visceral feel. Makes it more tangible and doesn't have to deal with a hokey prosthetic for his face in film.

The Joker has always been one of my favorite villians in the realm of fiction. But so far. Nolan's take is by far my favorite, hands down. And Ledger did an amazing job with bringing him to life.

sorry to burst your bubble but Heath also had to use a "hokey prosthetic", they didn't actually inflect a Glasgow smile on him you know.

Jesus, of course it was make-up!

What I meant was his make-up looked more believable than the coat-hanger-in-my-mouth Jack had on his face in the Burton films. My comment was due to the design of the make-up and how grounded it felt in terms of design.

Especially compared to the comicbook version which I've never liked.

Jesus, of course it was make-up!

What I meant was his make-up looked more believable than the coat-hanger-in-my-mouth Jack had on his face in the Burton films. My comment was due to the design of the make-up and how grounded it felt in terms of design.

Especially compared to the comicbook version.

Incoming nerd rage...

Joker was never portrayed as a teacher in any story. Especially not the Killing Joke. In that story, he worked at a chemical plant, then quit, became a stand-up, got mixed up with thugs, fell in some acid, and finally became Joker.

Anywho, enough of that. The Joker does change. Go from the Silver, Golden, and Modern ages. He's constantly changing. And as a fanboy, I'm okay with that.

"The real Joker" are you serious?

lol

I'd love it even more if the face and shoulders weren't taken from one of the production photos from the movie. The hand holding the card and "Chaos" subtitle is original though!

Incorrect. In TKJ he was portrayed as a "Teacher" in the fact that 99% of the story is The Joker teaching Gordon that about how one bad day can drive a man insane, if you didn't pick that part of the story up I'd debate if you even read it!

Yes, he does change but the point is that the Joker is supposed to be insane not 100% aware of what he's doing and elaborately planning and scheming to the point where he no longer has psychosis he's just an Anarchist with facepaint.

mate, in all honesty the joker in TDK is, if anything, more of a philosophist than in TKJ.

what i mean is, his philosophy is, and is consistantly throughout the film, that people are, essentially, as insane as he is, ergo, the line "...all it takes is one little push!;" in the act of initiating harvey dent's descent into insanity as two face, he has basically done exactly the same job as he did with gordon in TKJ. i mean, the maiming of a loved one (rachael dawes/barbera gordon) is a pivotal point in both stories, as it depicts, in both, how that can affect the "incorruptable" (how, you so called "elitest" of comic books, did you overlook that???)

(and even in the comic books, the joker is constantly being refferred to as "super-sane", and not insane; an insane person could not have enough wits about him to escape arkham with such ease)

It's sad that Heath's legacy in popular culture will be solely based on his final performance as The Joker. I find it unfortunate that so many people are unable to separate Heath Ledger the actor from the role of the Joker. The Joker was not his best performance (Brokeback Mountain), but it will be the only role a majority of people will remember him for, and that sucks.