“Beware of those who don’t fight back. Sooner or later, they will”
When a victim decides that they have had enough and the time has come to give it back to the cruel world, it is the beginning of a storm. This is not mere observation, this is the reality of how this world functions. When you have no option but to be strong, fightback is just around the corner.
We are talking about fightback because we are talking about villains. One thing that is common in movies across the world is that it is the hero that emerges victorious in the end. The hero bashes the villain, helps poor people and is everyone’s favourite. Villains seldom get the centre stage, and since they generally play dark characters, it is very rare that people see a motive behind how they are and take inspiration from them.
Joker in one such character that has received immense love and praise from the fans. It would not be wrong to say that it got equal or rather more attention than the mighty Batman himself. This led to the character of Joker getting an entire to itself. A gripping story that starts with the suffering of a normal guy who decides to take on this cruel and mean the world in a not so normal manner.
It’s the story of a normal guy turning into ‘The Bad Guy’ after suffering too much at the hands of the harsh society that has no moral support to offer. We learned a lot from the character and the movie. The screenplay was fantastic, the story was gripping and the dialogues were hard-hitting. The movie was an enormous success not just because of its commercial advertisement but because of the build-up that preceded the release.
From young ones to old ones, everyone was excited to see what a normal guy can do after becoming a maniac. The character of The Joker looks like that of a maniac who has lost it and is killing all those who mistreated him in cold blood. But the dialogues make it evident that the man is still in there in his complete senses. He has just let loose the bad side of him to match the society he has to survive in. The dialogues of the movie ‘The Joker’ were loved by the audiences worldwide and we’ve filtered the best of them for our readers.
1. “The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t.”
2. “I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it’s a comedy.”
3. “I thought it was going to bother me, but it really hasn’t.”
4. “For my whole life, I didn’t know if I even really existed. But I do, and people are starting to notice.”
5. “Comedy is subjective, Murray. Isn’t that what they say? All of you, the system that knows so much, you decide what’s right or wrong. The same way that you decide what’s funny or not.”
6. “Nobody panics when everything goes ‘according to the plan’, even if the plan is horrifying.”
7. “Madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little push.”
8. “Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos.”
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9. “A man with nothing to fear is a man with nothing to love. If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose.”
10. “I’ve demonstrated there’s no difference between me and everyone else. All it takes is one bad day. That’s how far the world is from where I am, just one bad day.”
11. “By clinging to reality, you’re denying the reality of the situation.”
12. “ When your time is good, your mistakes are taken as jokes. But when your time is bad, even your jokes are noticed as mistakes.”
13. “When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They’ll eat each other. See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.”
14. “What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? You get what you fuckin’ deserve.”
15. “ If it was me dying on the sidewalk, you’d walk right over me. I pass you everyday and you don’t notice me.”
16. “I hope my death makes more cents than my life.”
17. “I don’t want anything from you. Maybe a little warmth, maybe a hug dad, maybe a bit of common decency.”
