How do you know the Joker?

Another type of The Joker appeared in the trailer for the movie Suicide Squad. This phenomenal new case is played by Jared Leto.

I saw him at the beginning of the Batman class, my most venerated variety of the Joker was played by César Romero.

When Jack Nicholson unveiled his version, he made me shudder, and I will not even say how horrified I was when I saw the next Joker played by Heath Ledger. What many do not realize is that this notorious criminal inspired the jokester or the return to a silent film character of the 1920s, a novel published by Victor Hugo in 1869.

Victor Hugo has created a book called The laughing man. It was a sad story of a seventeenth-century vagabond. The character's name was Gwynplaine and he had been offensively injured as a teenager. As the requirements are, he laughed at how everything seemed to laugh. The Joker considerations should come back here. Gwynplaine was raised by a tramp and has a family wolf. Use your permanent smile as a remarkable arrangement for a journey that appears.

In a surprising turn of events, we discover that Gwynplaine was born of a group of children who sleep with copyrights and sold, which then disfigure these children so that they are used in showrooms. it's part of a despicable political plan. When Gwynplaine discovers his true identity, he takes part in his new role as marquis. Nobody takes him seriously because of his terrible disfigurement. Give up his title and try to rejoin his old wandering family. As soon as he returned from them, the love of his life, Gwynplaine, died and eventually flowed into the sea. This book was never one of the classic Hugo, but in 1928 it became a silent film.

The Laughing Man was staged by the German expressionist Paul Leni. It takes place in the 17th century with dark and threatening characters. The film in black and white shows pale skin and macabre actresses and actors and transforms the tragic story of Hugo's love and politics into something more like a horror movie. The actor who stands out from the rest is Conrad Veidt, who plays Gwynplaine. The actor was able to free the character's deformity more, as he was angry, especially when the camera focused on Veidt's often exaggerated expression. This is one of the most popular scenes of this silent film.

Since most people prefer the happy ending in films, this film has also changed the original end of the novel. Gwynplaine and the love of his life survive and sail happily into the sunset.

Comic creators Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson chose the popular character of DC Comics Batman, in his own magazine in 1940. Stories and stories about Batman Caped Crusader started with a new villain The Disaster called Convert Joker. He was a killer with green hair and white skin whose appearance was pretty horrible. Obviously, this first joker had a similar appearance to the actor Veidt's representation in The Man Who Laughs. Since then, the Joker has been interpreted in different ways, a schizophrenic transsexual, a brain killer who chews the landscape. However, the root of the symbolic evil of the Joker comes from Hugo's grotesque and smiling character and from the silent film that generated him.

In a short time, with the new film, we can see that the Joker is in a not too distant past, as it should be in the trailer of Suicide Squad.