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David Ayer keeps explaining away The Joker

For a character that is in SUICIDE SQUAD for only about seven minutes of total screen time, there is a lot of attention being paid to various details of Jared Leto's Joker. It doesn't matter that we are sure to get more Joker as the DC Extended Universe plays on, be it in JUSTICE LEAGUE or a solo Batman movie or whatever other titles Warner Bros. is going to add to their slate for the next few years. Fans have questions about different things pertaining to the Joker, and that means the answers to come will explain away plenty of things we could be learning about the character along the way.

In fact, this is one of the problems that fan culture has right now is a feeling of entitlement to know everything right now. There is no patience anymore to let stories play out, to let details be revealed along the way. No... we want what we want, and we want it now. As a result, that leads to storytellers and filmmakers and studios trying to placate fan bases in order to keep them happy at all times, and now we have a disintegration of a system that once let us use our imaginations to fill in the blanks or that made us sit and wait until the story found the right time to reveal things to us. 

David Ayer, in speaking to Empire, has gone into detail about why the Joker has a "Damaged" tattoo on his forehead and why he's sporting a grill... as if we really needed to know that now. But people have been asking about them relentlessly, so we're going to find out regardless. 

"This is sort of my personal thing and maybe less about a larger connection. But Joker killed Robin and Batman basically smashes his teeth out and locks him up in Arkham Asylum. It’s in the asylum where Joker would have done the ‘damaged’ tattoo as a message to Batman saying, 'You’ve damaged me. I was so beautiful before and now you’ve destroyed my face.' That’s where the grill comes from."

Now wouldn't that have been something much cooler to see in a movie, in order to learn about the pain the Joker has caused for Batman with his loss and the Bat's methods for trying to treat it rather than being told in this manner? Of course it would have. Showing is always better than telling, but that's what a lack of patience and a sense of entitlement will get you. But what's the point of a movie taking time to feature what might be an important moment in us understanding the Batman-Joker relationship in this DCEU if we already know about it?

Good things come to those who wait... This might have been one of them had we been able to do that.

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I say let the fans demand all they want, but don\'t feel obligated to give in to them. . If they continue giving in it\'s only going to get worse. Do what you\'re going to do and don\'t change anything. You\'re the professionals, they\'re not. Sure people will be mad but they\'re still going to see the next movie.

Actually, there\'s no guarantee that they would see the next one. There\'s plenty of movies I don\'t see because they don\'t interest me. The film industry is not art for arts sake in this type of situation, they do need and want a large audience. The fact is all the advertising and comic con presentations are meant to help bring in more money. If people don\'t like what your selling, you make it something they do want. A great deal of general audiences don\'t go to see every movie that comes out,

Actually, there\'s no guarantee that they would see the next one. There\'s plenty of movies I don\'t see because they don\'t interest me. The film industry is not art for arts sake in this type of situation, they do need and want a large audience. The fact is all the advertising and comic con presentations are meant to help bring in more money. If people don\'t like what your selling, you make it something they do want. A great deal of general audiences don\'t go to see every movie that comes out, and a lot people wait for redbox, or dollar theaters to carry movies they weren\'t sold on. Catering to your audience can be the point when this much money is at stake.

This is sort of my personal thing; I completely agree with j-man below, some characters are just way more interesting when things are left to the imagination. My own personal theory, that helps me accept this joker is that he was once a child actor and had a huge starring role in 1990 where he was left home alone by his family on Christmas and he had to fend off 2 home intruders. The child actor eventually buckled under the pressure of fame and emancipated himself from his parents and moved to

This is sort of my personal thing; I completely agree with j-man below, some characters are just way more interesting when things are left to the imagination. My own personal theory, that helps me accept this joker is that he was once a child actor and had a huge starring role in 1990 where he was left home alone by his family on Christmas and he had to fend off 2 home intruders. The child actor eventually buckled under the pressure of fame and emancipated himself from his parents and moved to Gotham where he started a life of crime...

Finally, a great sequel to Home Alone 2: Lost in New York! Go get\'em Kevin!

i dont get this obsession with wanting to know everything about every character that appears on screen in a movie. I mean now everyone needs a backstory to backstory. I dont like BVS because Aquaman was just in it with no origin. What you dont fucking know who Aquaman is? Just an example. I know people are tense at BVS for other reasons too, but i constantly hear people being confused about characters etc. Well Boba Fett had no intro he just showed up and i loved him. then he gets killed in the

i dont get this obsession with wanting to know everything about every character that appears on screen in a movie. I mean now everyone needs a backstory to backstory. I dont like BVS because Aquaman was just in it with no origin. What you dont fucking know who Aquaman is? Just an example. I know people are tense at BVS for other reasons too, but i constantly hear people being confused about characters etc. Well Boba Fett had no intro he just showed up and i loved him. then he gets killed in the next movie. So he really didnt do a lot, but still he was cool and when we learned more about him later that was cool too. I didnt need to know every bit of information on him to like him anyway! Anyway lets see where Leto goes with this in future movies.

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