Has Mark Hamill worked himself into a corner?

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But by principle, you now have to say Nolan North and Troy Baker never played any real characters
no i don't, because motion capture proves otherwise

"i'm gonna pretend you failed to make this random exception, even though there's no logical reason to assume you're opposed to it!!!!!!!!!!"

They've done plenty of TV voice acting too but I guess they only really played a character when they did a video game


 
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woah man, crazy criminal who would rather cause chaos than profit
I'd say his obsession with Batman and challenging him is a more defining attribute of most Jokers than the anarchist stuff, which is mainly from the Nolan Joker.
so very very unique
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropesAreTools
it's baffling how you and everyone else who gets defensive when their shitty writing is called out and decide to link this page, always manage to miss the second half:



I'm not criticizing the four tropes I listed, I'm saying the Joker uses them all at face value (without any inkling of a subversion or twist) and uses them badly.
Last Edit: June 09, 2017, 12:44:19 AM by Annie


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Someone just point out video game voice acting/motion capture, back Verb into a corner his hubris will force him to defend, and watch him dig himself a hole
but mark hamill has never done these things either you fucking idiot, not for this iteration of the joker

do you ever get tired of saying retarded shit
go to 1:32 and see testimony from someone at rocksteady saying that he watched Hamill literally become the joker in the sound booth

YouTube


 
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But by principle, you now have to say Nolan North and Troy Baker never played any real characters
no i don't, because motion capture proves otherwise

"i'm gonna pretend you failed to make this random exception, even though there's no logical reason to assume you're opposed to it!!!!!!!!!!"
They've done plenty of TV voice acting too but I guess they only really played a character when they did a video game
correct


 
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I'm not criticizing the four tropes I listed, I'm saying the Joker uses them all at face value (without any inkling of a subversion or twist) and uses them badly.
but he doesn't

it's not that i missed the bottom half or that i'm even defending the joker's character—it's that you're missing the top half

i don't care at all, heath ledger's joker is the only joker that matters basically


 
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relevant

All are great (minus Leto, hated his look/character) in their own ways, but in terms of staying closest to their comic book interpretation, Mark Hamill IS best represented as the Joker.

That being said, the comic book version of the Joker would NOT have meshed well with a clearly darker and grittier film that is the Dark Knight. That is why I really cannot compare the two. If you placed them in both the opposite settings, it'd seem so off.

P.S. Gotta throw out love for Jack Nicholson as Joker. He really did a good job as, what this picture entails, being a mob boss with a Joker twist.


 
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Someone just point out video game voice acting/motion capture, back Verb into a corner his hubris will force him to defend, and watch him dig himself a hole
but mark hamill has never done these things either you fucking idiot, not for this iteration of the joker

do you ever get tired of saying retarded shit
go to 1:32 and see testimony from someone at rocksteady saying that he watched Hamill literally become the joker in the sound booth

YouTube

cool

still not good enough


 
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relevant

All are great (minus Leto, hated his look/character) in their own ways, but in terms of staying closest to their comic book interpretation, Mark Hamill IS best represented as the Joker.

That being said, the comic book version of the Joker would NOT have meshed well with a clearly darker and grittier film that is the Dark Knight. That is why I really cannot compare the two. If you placed them in both the opposite settings, it'd seem so off.
mark hamill is nowhere to be found in this image, and that is why he could never be the best joker


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I'd rather they just kill off the Joker completely across all mediums and focus on more interesting villains.
dat victor von doom smugness


 
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mark hamill is nowhere to be found in this image, and that is why he could never be the best joker
Two things

1. Keep your semantics to yourself. He provides the voice acting for the cartoon iteration of the Joker for almost every role, much like Kevin Conroy does for Batman (and he's read/seen everything with Batman, so he has a better grasp on his character than most).

2. I don't really care about your reasoning/arguments with the others. I'm giving my take on it. If you want to feel you're right and everyone else is wrong, I don't care. I've been down this route with you, and frankly I'd keep it to political discussions where things are less black and white and not rooted in your arbitrary reasoning where you drag people 10 pages on some asinine little thing you're hung up on.


 
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Off the topic of ALL of this, from watching that video

I do like how the Arkham series took the Dark Knight version of Joker and the more historical comic book version of him (or more so, the Batman animated series), and successfully morphed them together. Really speaks to how well the writers handled it.


 
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mark hamill is nowhere to be found in this image, and that is why he could never be the best joker
Two things

1. Keep your semantics to yourself. He provides the voice acting for the cartoon iteration of the Joker for almost every role, much like Kevin Conroy does for Batman (and he's read/seen everything with Batman, so he has a better grasp on his character than most).

2. I don't really care about your reasoning/arguments with the others. I'm giving my take on it. If you want to feel you're right and everyone else is wrong, I don't care. I've been down this route with you, and frankly I'd keep it to political discussions where things are less black and white and not rooted in your arbitrary reasoning where you drag people 10 pages on some asinine little thing you're hung up on.
and i'm just giving my take on your take, which is half the purpose of a forum

there's no reason to even bring hamill up in discussions of who the best joker is because of how different voice acting is from regular acting


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uhhh...

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i too liek teh jokester


 
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Verb as a less harsh comment, I should say I know where you're coming from with all of this

Just, as someone who loves the effort and personality voice actors put into animated drawings/pixels to make them come to life, and someone who aspires to be one one day, I whole heartedly disagree that not being on screen physically =/= being that character character.

I think that does voice acting, and animating as a whole a disservice.


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I'd rather they just kill off the Joker completely across all mediums and focus on more interesting villains.
dat victor von doom smugness
Doctor Doom isn't a villain though.


 
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because of how different voice acting is from regular acting
Still acting though, friend. You'd be hard pressed to tell someone who professionally voice acts, and voice acting industries, that it's "not acting". I'm not saying they're both entirely the same, they're not. Because real action acting easily requires more. But in terms of voice and facial expression, that part is still there. In fact they can close closer and closer as technology in the vidya game industry progresses with motion/facial capture and what not.

Though obviously there is still big differences
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uhhh...

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I'd rather they just kill off the Joker completely across all mediums and focus on more interesting villains.
dat victor von doom smugness
Doctor Doom isn't a villain though.
Every villain is the hero of their own story.


Its just that Doom is like the best hero in every villain's story. lol


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I'm not criticizing the four tropes I listed, I'm saying the Joker uses them all at face value (without any inkling of a subversion or twist) and uses them badly.
I mean you can make any villain look stupid if you break them down like that.

Two-Face: Wow it's just a former good man suffering from split personalities
Gus Fring: Wow it's just a ruthless drug kingpin
Anton Chigurh: Wow it's just a psychopathic hitman


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
——Carmen
"Grey Delisle isn't Azula"

"Mako isn't Aku"

"Tom Kenny isn't Spongebob"

man verb is dumb


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You're so stupid that your insults are kinda reassuring


 
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"Grey Delisle isn't Azula"

"Mako isn't Aku"

"Tom Kenny isn't Spongebob"

man verb is dumb
of course they're none of those characters

they're their voices

that's IT

even regular actors aren't their characters, but not only do they have the voice, they have their physical likeness as well, making them closer to their characters than any voice actor could be

not complicated


 
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You're so stupid that your insults are kinda reassuring
like this post isn't reassuring me and inciting me to double down


 
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Verb you don't gotta reply, we're going to agree to disagree that much we know. I don't want to discuss this really anyway, I have other things to attend to.

I would say research voice acting and what goes into it on a professional level and how real life actors look at voice actors and vice versa as well, before you start saying your personal opinions as factual evidence.

That's not an insult, I'm saying it's something that's actually interesting to research.
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I would say personality and heart is the number one thing that makes an actor/voice actor their character. When someone says "X IS Y Character" it means the person put so much of their effort into it that they would be a real life version of that character, and in that regard appearance doesn't mean everything.

even regular actors aren't their characters, but not only do they have the voice, they have their physical likeness as well, making them closer to their characters than any voice actor could be


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uhhh...

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Also, dishing out personal insults is rather retarded. Can you guys not actually discuss things you disagree on without taking the easy way out?


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
——Carmen
I'm not criticizing the four tropes I listed, I'm saying the Joker uses them all at face value (without any inkling of a subversion or twist) and uses them badly.
I mean you can make any villain look stupid if you break them down like that.

Two-Face: Wow it's just a former good man suffering from split personalities
Gus Fring: Wow it's just a ruthless drug kingpin
Anton Chigurh: Wow it's just a psychopathic hitman
But that's not as far as you can break them down. You would be lying by omission if you described their characters like that. Let's look at Gus and Anton specifically:

Gus Fring: a man who entered the drug business solely to get revenge on those who massacred his lover, but quickly became the monster he had to become to stay afloat in that world. As a contrast to Walter who did it all for himself, Gus literally did it for his (only) family.

Anton Chigurh: A force of nature whose role in the story goes beyond basic antagonism and more resembles an inevitable reckoning. Barely a character at all, actually, beyond his physical traits - he's literally an agent of fate. When he violates his purpose near the end of the film and kills Carla Jean out of his own volition, the cosmos punish him for it and take him out of commission.

Meanwhile, the Joker is every bit as 2-D as I said. You just admitted it too, by trying to break down other characters instead of doing what I just did and defending your own.
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the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
I'd rather they just kill off the Joker completely across all mediums and focus on more interesting villains.
this too

you know you're bad when you're literally a trope

woah man, crazy criminal who would rather cause chaos than profit

so unique

I'm just bored with how nobody seems to be able to do anything new with him. He's been stuck presenting a moral quandary for Batman and questioning if everybody is like him, deep down, for the past thirty years. He pulls his usual shit while soliloquizing about how craaaaazy people are, and he has no redeeming qualities unlike most of Batman's other major villains. Yet he's obligated to appear in each and every Batman-related product because the normies can instantly recognize him.


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Gus Fring: a man who entered the drug business solely to get revenge on those who massacred his lover, but quickly became the monster he had to become to stay afloat in that world. As a contrast to Walter who did it all for himself, Gus literally did it for his (only) family.

Anton Chigurh: A force of nature whose role in the story goes beyond basic antagonism and more resembles an inevitable reckoning. Barely a character at all, actually, beyond his physical traits - he's literally an agent of fate. When he violates his purpose near the end of the film and kills Carla Jean out of his own volition, the cosmos punish him for it and take him out of commission.

Meanwhile, the Joker is every bit as 2-D as I said. You just admitted it too, by trying to break down other characters instead of doing what I just did and defended your own.
Not really. I'm just not understanding these criticisms you're attributing to the Joker, that other characters are omitted from. The Joker is usually given a somewhat tragic upbringing as well, such as the loss of his wife or something driving him to insanity, compared to Batman, who lost his parents. In the same way Chigurh is barely a character, the Joker is the same in the sense that he has very few relateable/human characteristics and basically exists as a way to challenge Batman. I'm not going to argue that he's as well conceived as Fring or Chigurh but he's basically as perfect as antagonists can get along with the likes of someone like Moriarty.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
——Carmen
"Grey Delisle isn't Azula"

"Mako isn't Aku"

"Tom Kenny isn't Spongebob"

man verb is dumb
of course they're none of those characters

they're their voices

that's IT

even regular actors aren't their characters, but not only do they have the voice, they have their physical likeness as well, making them closer to their characters than any voice actor could be

not complicated
this is a stupid mindset

you can have an identifying connection with something without being literally them

An actor is their character in everything but only the most pedantic definitions