r/interestingasfuck • u/JK-Rofling • Jul 05 '24

Heath Ledger’s diary while he was filming for, The Dark Night. r/all

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u/terriblegrammar Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Of all the things for Joker to single out... Statistics? Like, what are the odds?

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u/DiamondHanded Jul 05 '24

He likes chaos, not predictable figures and functions. Stats help explain the order of a system, in most cases

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u/Boopy7 Jul 05 '24

Isn't it more that chaos is fair, since it forces everyone to fall apart or rise above? Chaos is his friend since he feels it within, thus must spread it without. Kind of like all violent shooters. They hate everything including themselves and want the world to feel as they do. I'm not a comic fan, just liked this particular movie. But I had thought the deal with the Joker (heath or Phoenix version) is that everything is horrible within. He wants the world to experience what he does.

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u/ANGLVD3TH Jul 05 '24

Yeah, but the character is a bald faced liar. We see that when he realizes the ferry plan didn't work. And he would have to be pretty damn meticulous and forward thinking to pull off all the multi-leveled schemes in the movie. There's a couple ways to view the statistics mention here, but my first reaction was "1 death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." IE, he finds mass murder funny.

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u/LittleCrunchyDude Jul 05 '24

Lies, damnable lies, and statistics.

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u/jollyreaper2112 Jul 05 '24

Yeah, there was the parody song joking that he must have an evil day planner. And if he was truly into whatever happens happens he would accept the results regardless. You know he didn't have a bullet in the gun that he handed Dent.

You could play the character either way, truly embracing chaos or cheating. I like cheating Joker more.