[PrBlahBlahtson]

In all truth, the Joker character has been written in a number of ways. relatively harmless prankster all the way to moody, sadistic, psychopathic killer. Both performances have a degree of "trueness" to them. I do think that Heath Ledger's performance was definitely a good one, and that he gave a very interesting spin into the Joker character.

The way he kept giving different stories about how he got the scars? That was a nod to the fact that The Joker has numerous "origin" stories through-out the Batman history. It was also a nod to someone explaining that perhaps he has to re-form his entire personality every day.

Any time you put Jack Nicholson into a role where he can be just a little off balance, he does a pretty good performance. I really rather liked his performance in A Few Good Men. But what really amuses me is that people are crediting the actors for how they portrayed the character. The director and writers didn't have anything to do with that? Nothing at all?