Vera Drew's transgender take on the Batman villain isn't just hilarious, inventive and moving. It's also a much-needed lifeline for the genre.
’s psychological problems, as well as those of his foes. Its scribe was an up-and-coming Scot by the name of Grant Morrison. And Morrison — who would later. However, DC had a corporate parent, and it had been none too happy with the initial script: “Warner Bros. objected to my portrayal on the grounds that it would encourage the widespread belief that Jack Nicholson, the feted actor lined up to play the Joker in an upcoming $40 million Batman movie, was a transvestite.
Three and half decades later, precious little has changed on the corporate side. As a classic queer-coded villain, a trickster and shapeshifter, there’s always something inherently ambiguous about the Joker’s gender. We catch glimpses: Heath Ledger’s iconic scene ina cute pair of pumps and a shapely, stocking-clad calf in a 1997 episode of the cartoon. But the full extent of the Joker’s genderqueerness has never been fully explored in any official DC text.
The result is a movie that, unlike most big-budget Marvel or DC pictures, actually makes a virtue of computer-generated imagery, rather than merely using it as a crutch. There is no attempt to convey realism. Instead, the live-action performers are placed into a surreal clash of images and aesthetics.
But the turning point of the film, and its emotional core, comes when she meets her first love: a trans man who looks an awful lot like’s Joker and goes by the name of “Mistah J.” Of course, love between two Jokers is never bound to go well.
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