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Joker Preview on YouTube

Karina Longworth
By Karina Longworth posted 9 months ago
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UPDATE: Sorry kids, the party’s over. As of 4:27 pm, this video “is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.” If you find it elsewhere online, let me know.

I doubt it’ll stay up through the day (you probably have about three hours before the work day begins in L.A. and someone at either WB or YouTube figures it out), but a camcorder bootleg of the Joker-centric Dark Knight prequel/preview/possible first six minutes of the movie that has been tacked on to IMAX screenings of I Am Legend is currently on YouTube. I meant to go see if for myself this weekend, but thanks to a snowstorm and general end-of-year madness, that just didn’t happen. As far as the bootleg goes, between the muffled sound and the dutch-angled, lap-eye view, I’ll have to watch it a couple of times through to fully get what’s going on, but doesn’t it sort of seem like one of the Joker’s doomed cronies is doing a Jack Nicholson impression? And if so–spoiler alert–then maybe the point of this preview is not, as Christopher Nolan previously stated, to tell the story of “The Rise of the Joker,” but to literally kill off our impression of the Joker as based on Nicholson’s performance in Tim Burton’s Batman?

I’m probably wrong. I’m sure you’ll tell me all about it.

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  • Christopher said

    I definitely heard the Nicholson impression. I figured it had to be intentional.

  • Ray Pride said

    “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.”

  • flawlessjoey said

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  • Osum said

    The preview is posted on entensity.net.

    Not so joker-centric… you only see about 10 seconds of Ledger without a mask and in persona before it cuts to a standard teaser clip.