Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/22/interview-with-the-real-joker.html
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If any of the grimdark Joker actors had demanded this, my enjoyment would have doubled.
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Of course like many of the actors from that era, he was a WWII vet.
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Also, if anyone wants a trippy Batman '66 experience, you should watch the movie Skidoo (1968) which has Romero and other Batman villains mixing it up with Groucho Marx and Jackie Gleason and Micky Rooney and Carol Channing and Frankie Avalon and…
It’s done with the same production values as the TV show, and it feels exactly like what the world of Batman '66 would have been like without a Batman. It think it should actually be considered part of “TV Batman canon” as an Elseworlds episode.
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Some people call me Maurice
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Yeah… still gonna go with Mark Hamill
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that’s a funny way to spell Mark Hamill
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that’s been on my netflix queue for a while and it’s about 10 from the top now. i note with interest that it was rated m for mature, one of a very small number of films that got that odd rating until the replaced it with the, also confusing, gp rating which was finally replaced with pg. another film with an m rating was “butch cassidy and the sundance kid”.
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It’s probably because of all the open drug use and nudity.
It’s a real mess as a movie, keep your expectations low, it’s never going to be anyone’s favorite movie on its own merits. It’s a late-Sixties acid-infused goofy car crash with less gravitas than The Monkees. Otto Preminger was a genius in his other films, and this one was a complete failure in a lot of ways, but it would have been a top ten episode of campy Batman.
Because it is Mr Freeze directing Riddler and Penguin and Joker and henchmen wearing the same uniform and campy celebrity cameos all in Technicolor, with no one to stop anyone from getting high and doing crimes, so they do.
It’s very Batman without Batman.
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I’d sort of forgotten about the ‘M’ rating and certainly about the ‘GP’ rating. I do remember the system being very screwy for quite a while, more so than today. There was the ‘X’ rating which preceeded ‘NR’ which was slapped on some very odd films including a Hayley Mills film called ‘The Family Way’ (a sweet, veddy British film). I’ve seen the thing on TV with absolutely no cuts, as none were needed. Also X meant no one under 16 admitted.
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Is that because you speak of the pompatus…?
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…of love.
People talk about me baby. Say I’m doin’ you wrong, doin’ you wrong
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How is it possible that I’ve never heard of this wonderful thing before now?
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There are those who don’t?
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Raspberries!
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But they’re doin’ it wrong, doin’ it wrong. They need to whisper sweet words of epismetology.
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As a child, watching the original Batman, I never noticed the mustache. Grainy old TV, too much candy, whatever it was, I never noticed it.
I bought the collection bluray (with replica Batmobile!) when it came out and I noticed it immediately. His mustache is blindingly obvious behind the thick makeup. Does it detract from the show? Lord no - if anything, it adds a whole other layer of crazy to it.
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The cool thing about Skidoo (other that it is just a great film) is that it was the passion project of Otto Preminger, he produced and directed it. Who is Otto Preminger? Here he is
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the MPAA trademarked the other ratings, but not “X” Which worked out well, because that way porn producers didn’t have to bother to send their films to the MPAA for rating so that they could market them with an “X” Of course when I was a kid, Maryland still had a board of censors that would have to pass a film as legal to show.
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These days they would just CGI that mustache away.
I’ll look for it. Thanks!
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