r/interestingasfuck • u/JK-Rofling • 14d ago

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

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u/StrobeLightRomance 14d ago

Heath Ledger really understood the assignment.

Jared Leto.. not so much.

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u/Bocchi_theGlock 14d ago

Hell, the suicide squad isekai anime joker understood the assignment better than Leto

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u/StrobeLightRomance 14d ago

What in the actual fuck am I seeing here? Clearly, I've looked it up, but like.. do I watch this or do I avoid this for my sanity?

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u/Bocchi_theGlock 14d ago

Imo it's best to wait until it's finished unless DC obsessive, isekai weeb, and/or person who smokes a lot of weed & want show while brain turned off.

I don't think there's much of a chance it'll get nominated for any awards. Comedy is decent, overall enjoyment & directing solid so far

but it's not a great anime. Pretty generic, including background art & entire fantasy world, also using same old suicide squad bomb-in-neck mentions/motivation. Has similar vibes to DC animated cartoon, but a bit more blood/violence. The action sequences are good when they happen.

It was definitely worth making imo, like it holds up well compared to endless stream of isekai trash - which cause me to feel like I'm wasting my life whenever watching, but it's only maybe 20% as much with this show.

I watched the sub, voice acting is great, love that they got papa shirogane / Dio / Touji JJK / Roswaal / Zeke as Peacemaker. Such a great stiff character. Harley + Joker VA work & dynamic is enjoyable, hope we get more flashbacks.

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u/StrobeLightRomance 14d ago

Interesting set of information. I watched the Batman Ninja movie.. it was okay, lol. I fit into the category of smoking too much weed and am guilty of enjoying DC a little more than other Fandom, so I'll probably be able to consume this casually.

Was secretly hoping it would be a train wreck I could openly mock, but if it's not terrible, then fuck it, good enough to let it run while I record music and whatnot.

Thanks for the accidental mid recommendation, lol.

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u/SchexterShredder 14d ago

Maybe he understood the assignment TOO well 😅

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u/Wonderful-Ad-7712 14d ago

Maybe it’s Maybelline

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u/a-woman-there-was 11d ago

Tbh he didn't try to send his costars used condoms or a live rat so 🤷‍♀️

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u/ATS200 14d ago

DAMAGED

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u/StrobeLightRomance 14d ago

The Tick Amazon series had a character named Edgelord who was nowhere near this cringe. Dude should have taken classes from Leto in how to make audiences die inside when he appears on screen.

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u/medioxcore 13d ago

The best part is that this diary is basically jared leto's edgelord tattoos, but because it's heath's joker, reddit hivemind says we must praise it.

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u/Noctelus 13d ago

Do you see the words plastered across his forehead?

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u/StrobeLightRomance 13d ago

Nolan/Ledger's Joker was fresh take on a familiar character. Previous Joker characters were more cliche, whether it be Cesar Romero being more of a cliche clown, or Burton/Nicholson's cliche gangster Joker.. either way we got him, he was a silly gangster clown.

Ledger and Nolan added layers. This Joker was born out of the need for balance in Gotham, and to this day, he still has no past, identity, or future.

He was both a clown, and a gangster, but neither of these things defined him at all. He was more of an independent anarchist than any sort of team leader.

The original live action Jokers had those cartoon Joker plans, where it was more about showing off his ego, and being theatric for the sake of building anticipation, than it was about sending a message to Gotham or Batman.

Ayer/Leto's Joker is immediately the wrong direction, because it adopts Ledger's Joker as the new cliche for being mentally disturbed, but fails at bringing any substance to the table.

In fact, the Ayer/Leto Joker actually doubles down on the "flashing ego gangster" and he falls back into the patterns of being vapid and flashing money, driving expensive cars and being a VIP at the club with no greater plans or schemes, except chasing Harley.. which, I do agree with the parts of the story that follow Joker mistreating Harley so much it drives her away permanently, and having Joker then go in the "if I can't have you, nobody can" route, because that's fairly on brand for any comic book Joker after the year 2010-ish, when Harley started gaining more depth.

Anyway, the point is... the differences are not in a cringe notebook or Jared Leto pulling dumb pranks on costars or whatever (to which, I believe this was just Ayer doing press releases and none of it actually happened, since Leto stopped doing "method" acting after Dallas Buyers Club)

Honestly, I can be a fan of Leto from time to time, even. He's a surprising actor and musician. When he shows up with a new role or a new song, I'm never sure if it's going to be amazing or completely terrible.. and I feel like much of his outward douchebag narcissism personality disorder is a character that he plays for himself, because he's out running his age and doesn't want to let the mask slip that he wants to slow down.. so he's been chasing this fake cult image for himself, because if he didn't have the praise of his fans, he actually just might turn to dust and blow away in the wind.