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I didn't really watch Batman, but I don't recall the Joker killing mass people and being heavily armed. What was the Jokers main goal anyway?
In the Dark Knight? Essentially, attempting to upset the percieved order and general rigidness of society by attempting to show how much of an illusion it is and how quickly people veer from it. Few quotes from it that best sum it up:
The Joker: Hmmm? You know... You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!
[Joker hands Two-Face a gun and points it at himself]
The Joker: Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair!
You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve
He's got few real points, because his point is chaos. The movie gives a number of "motivations" that led him to what he was, most likely all of them false, because the point of the Joker in that movies wasn't that there is some sympathetic reason he's doing what he's doing or some clear cut intent. He's chaos, anarchy, pure and simple.
As to this guy thinking he's The Joker...to be frank, I think this is the media sensationalizing and running off something horribly ignorantly. Even if he said it, I'd put more stock in the notion that he did it because it'd cause the sensationalist things rather than an honest belief in emulating it. Here's why I think it, and I think the media are ****ing idiots sometimes.
They keep talking about "Joker" hair. Here's this guy:
And here's the joker:
Now, perhaps I've suddenly been afflicted by some sight disorder dealing with color...but one seems red/orange to me and the other green. OMG, you're right media, his hair is like The Jokers! (Thankfully Ledger thought better about the Muttin Chops)
In regards to style...again, doesn't really work. Perhaps you could argue the boobytrap at the home was somewhat similar in the fact it used trip wire on grenades, but that's also hardly something unique to The Joker. However, entering into a theater in full swat gear and just gunning down people...decidingly unlike the style of The Joker from that movie.
They keep going with the notion that he "He wanted to get caught, just like in the movie!"...except then a story comes out that the goal of the bombs at his house was to hopefully divert police attention there so that he could perhaps slip out of the theater impersonating a SWAT individual. And even beyond that, the Joker did not get caught was to be able to gain access to someone else, not simply to "Get caught". It's just as likely that the guy in the end couldn't take his own life or didn't want to engage cops, and got caught, then it was part of some diabolical plan in his head.
The "This guy thinks he's joker" thing is something I think is being ignorantly stirred up to ridiculous proportions by the media
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