vilebutvast t1_ix2ia7m wrote on November 20, 2022 at 6:11 AM

This is tough! Immediately Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is another example, but from 2000. Obviously the newest Joker seems to be in this vein, but I remember there were like kids clothes with the Dark Knight Joker smile and kids dressing up like that Joker for Halloween. Phoenix’s Joker doesn’t have that level of popularity.

I’m having a hard time coming up with iconic characters like that in contemporary movies.

enalios OP t1_ix3klsu wrote on November 20, 2022 at 2:16 PM

Yeah, it was hard for me too! I'm hoping that means as a society we've stopped elevating edge lords to be paragons of virtue! But, the cynical part of me has gotten larger over the years and it would say: no, society just moved from elevating fictional edge lords, to elevating real ones.

Or maybe it just means I no longer have my finger on the pulse of movie fans lol.