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To prepare for the role of the Joker, Heath Ledger locked himself in a London hotel room, trying to understand and become a character he saw as "an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown" who was not intimidated by anything and found all of life "a big joke." In the end, Ledger's obsession with his role contributed to his own death from drugs before The Dark Knight was released. The connections and irony are too close to ignore. The movie gives the world a curious twist on the roles of Batman and the Joker. It's politically incorrect, and yet emotionally the Joker's insanity

Fools and jesters in literature.

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Literature, Medieval --- Fools and jesters in literature. --- History and criticism.

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German literature --- Thematology --- Immermann, Karl --- Fools and jesters in literature --- Immermann, Karl Leberecht, --- Fools and jesters in literature. --- Immermann, Karl Lebrecht --- Immermann, Karl Leberecht, - 1796-1840

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Joel B. Lande's Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, critics, and playwrights from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. Lande radically expands the scope of literary historical inquiry, showing that the fool was not a distraction from attempts to establish a serious dramatic tradition in the German language. Instead, the fool was both a fixture on the stage and a nearly ubiquitous theme in an array of literary critical, governmental, moral-philosophical, and medical discourses, figuring centrally in broad-based efforts to assign laughter a proper time, place, and proportion in society.Persistence of Folly reveals the fool as a cornerstone of the dynamic process that culminated in the works of Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist. By reorienting the history of German theater, Lande's work conclusively shows that the highpoint of German literature around 1800 did not eliminate irreverent jest in the name of serious drama, but instead developed highly refined techniques for integrating the comic tradition of the stage fool.

German drama (Comedy) --- Fools and jesters in literature. --- German drama --- History and criticism.

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Grotesque in literature. --- Fools and jesters in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism.