Why the #Batman / #Joker interaction in #ZackSnydersJusticeLeague is the best Batman/Joker interaction in live action?
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We start with Mera asking Bruce “Who has he ever loved?”. Bruce smiles a little and straight away we know that there is a lot of history here. We’ve know that before but now far into the future even more has happened.

Immediately after that we hear a creepy laugh which is later revealed to be Jokers. Straight away, he starts talking about how many people Batman has loved and how he exactly knows what’s it like to lose them. He starts with Bruce Wayne’s parents and ends the sentence with Batman

This shows that even though his identity is revealed to Joker, Joker still does not care. He still pretends as it doesn’t matter and throughout this interaction he tries his best to spark a rage in Bruce, to break him but he somewhere thinks he won’t break him. At least not now.

He keeps going on and on about the people Bruce lost including Robin. He continues to mention Lois and how the entire world fell due to Bruce’s failure of saving Lois. This provides more context to Flash’s lines from BvS.

My favourite part is when Bruce responds with the death of Harley Quinn and says “Make no mistake, I will f*cking k*ll you”. It immediately hits Joker that Harley in her last seconds hated him and Batman will kill Joker. Suddenly, the taunting and mocking Bruce’s ultimate...

...failures isn’t fun anymore but terrifying for him. He truly believes that this Batman will kill him. He starts shaking in shock and his face is still and scared. After few seconds he responds with “You almost had me” brushing this off as just random taunting.

Joke refuses to believe that he will die in the hands of Batman. Even though that has always been his ultimate plan, now that the earth is gone and nothing is left, that coming to reality isn’t fun for Joker anymore.

This is further shown when Superman finds the league and everyone gets ready to take Superman down but Joker is just laughing it off. Something about dying by Bruce’s hands is what bothers him, not dying in general.

Masterfully acted and directed (heavy use of dream lens to give a dream like effect), this scene goes to show how much passion Snyder, Affleck and Leto have for this mythology. It begs to be explored.
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