Badlands, with Steven DeLay (Malick 1)
Psyop Cinema
The Joker and the Trickster
The Joker relates to the trickster archetype which is largely about liminality and with something like method acting the dissociative quality of that or the total embrace of the liminality between a character and actor. The one reason Heath Ledger in the dark night was able to portray the Joker so well is that the Joker relates to these kind of social alienated socially alienated young men. That's all about spectacular crime in real life and and in media and has to do a lot with them. And then this did this feedback loop about violent social alienated sometimes Psychopathic characters that are young men or are idolized by by young men. Of course, uh, mk All trouble would
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