![]() If it were ‘Jurassic World,’ he would have been there,"Brauchler said. "If it had been ‘The Avengers,’ he would have been there. ![]() Although Holmes did dye his hair, George Brauchler, the 18th judicial district attorney and prosecutor of the case, said the fact that a Batman film had been playing at the cinema where the shooting transpired was incidental. ![]() After mass shooter James Holmes murdered 12 people and wounded 70 others at the Century 16 theater in Aurora, Colorado, many media outlets erroneously reported that he had dyed his hair orange and referred to himself as “the Joker” after being arrested. This touches on a particularly sinister urban legend. The shooting at a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” in 2012 actually had nothing to do with the Joker. Politics is inextricably linked with popular culture, and few characters are as fraught with political meaning as those who have appeared in America’s recent Batman films.Īs comic book fans flock to cinema to see “Joker,” the new Todd Phillips film about the iconic clown prince of crime starring Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, let's take a closer look at cinematic depictions of the title character:
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