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Joker- Making sure nobody gets the punchline

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Ever since the infamous clown prince of crimes first comic book appearance by Bob Kane and fellow writers of DC Comics in 1940, one thing that has always been unanimously agreed to is that we would never know the true origins of the villain known as "The Joker". As time has gone by we have come close to revealing this great comic book mystery with Alan Moore's The Killing Joke with the red hood, or Tim Burtons Joker played by Jack Nicholson who famously falls into a pool of acid. However most die hard fans agree that what truly makes The Joker memorable and frightening is the mystery itself, that we will never know what drives his love of crime and that chaos is an unstoppable force of madness. So we then arrive to Todd Phillips's 2019 interpretation of Joker ( ironically not called "The Joker") which attempts to combine the story of a man who wants the world to love and accept him  and a battle of class of society where chaos is brewing. Arthur Flick is a