Warner Bros. and DC have finally released the deleted scene from batman in which the Gotham City vigilante can be seen interacting with the jokerwhose interpretation is carried out by Barry Keoghan. We knew this sequence existed, and luckily Matt Reeves and his crew didn’t take long to share it. While we do hear the villain in the final footage, this is the first time we get to see what he looks like in greater detail. Yes, the character is creepy.
Joker, like Enigma, is locked in the arkham asylum, although at the moment we don’t know how it got there —you don’t need to rack your brain to deduce it either. On batman We saw him have a brief conversation with the villain of Paul Dano, a conversation that revealed the madness of both. However, we barely managed to see the silhouette of him. Now, in the deleted scene, appears talking to Batman without hiding his face. What exactly happens?
Prior to Enigma’s arrest, Batman arrives at Arkham Asylum to the Joker “help” him crack Edward Nashton’s riddles. After all, it’s easier for psychopaths to understand each other. However, as you can see, Joker was not very cooperative. In fact, at a certain point, it is the iconic villain who begins to question the hero in front of him. Clearly, the scene is reminiscent of the one starring Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in The silence of the inocents (The Silence of the Lambs).
What can we say about Barry Keoghan’s Joker in batman? Although the scene is brief, the character looks imposing and fearsome. Both because of his behavior and his physical appearance, he is somewhat reminiscent of Heath Ledger’s antagonist. However, his appearance is even scarier because his face is full of scars and he doesn’t have much hair. Of course, he retains that blood-formed smile so distinctive of the character.
Either way, it’s best to take the material in stride and wait for the Joker to get the prominence he deserves in the Matt Reeves universe. Everything points to will be the main villain in some future installmentbut we are not entirely sure if it will be Batman 2. In fact, his scene with Enigma hints that, sooner or later, they will work together.
After the premiere of batman, Matt Reeves had already offered a few words in relation to the Joker. In an interview with IGNsaid “He has this congenital disease, and he can never stop smiling”and I add:
“I was talking about The elephant Man [1980]because I love David Lynch, and I said, “Well, maybe there’s something here that’s not because he fell into a vat of chemicals or it’s not the [Christopher] Nolan, where do you have these scars and we don’t know where they came from. What if it is something that has touched him since he was born and he has a congenital disease that prevents him from smiling? And he’s had this very dark reaction, and he’s had to spend a lifetime of people looking at him in a certain way; and he knows how to get inside your head.”
Matt Reeves
As to why he cut this scene from the final footage of batman, made it clear that it was not an order from Warner, but a plot decision: “There are a scene that I would love for the audience to see and that I did not include. Not because someone asked me to cut it, but because I didn’t think that within the larger narrative it would work, that it was necessary. But it’s a great scene with that same unseen prisoner in Arkham.”