The original does have a wife and sick kid as motivation (and the reveal that they were murdered in a break-in after he left to go sign up is part of the impetus for the climactic scene).
Who wants to bet that in the movie, there’s a racial element to the killing?
Do you think they’ll go with the book’s ending, seeing as this is a post 9/11 world? Look at how people flipped their shit over Joker because of the Dark Knight Rises shooting.
I think they'll go for it, or if they don't, it won't be because of 9/11. Not to diminish the tragedy, but 24 years dulls the memory of any event. The Dark Knight Rises shooting was a lot closer to Joker, both temporally and in that the shooter was dressed as the Joker. Maybe if the Twin Towers had been a massive TV station, we'd see a change. As it is, I think we're past the window in which airplane kamikaze is off the table without a much stronger connection.
The original does have a wife and sick kid as motivation (and the reveal that they were murdered in a break-in after he left to go sign up is part of the impetus for the climactic scene).
Who wants to bet that in the movie, there’s a racial element to the killing?
Do you think they’ll go with the book’s ending, seeing as this is a post 9/11 world? Look at how people flipped their shit over Joker because of the Dark Knight Rises shooting.
I think they'll go for it, or if they don't, it won't be because of 9/11. Not to diminish the tragedy, but 24 years dulls the memory of any event. The Dark Knight Rises shooting was a lot closer to Joker, both temporally and in that the shooter was dressed as the Joker. Maybe if the Twin Towers had been a massive TV station, we'd see a change. As it is, I think we're past the window in which airplane kamikaze is off the table without a much stronger connection.