In conjunction with its premiere at the current 76th Venice Film Festival, the new film "The Joker" scheduled for release on October 4 has sparked a wide debate on social media about the ability of the film and its hero Joaquin Phoenix to compete with the previous version presented by the late star Heath Ledger in the film The most famous in this series «Dark Knight» in 2008, and won the Academy Award, where a large number of fans of the character that the performance of Ledger was legendary and hard to be outdone by another artist in the performance of this character, and in the same context some considered that their association with the character of the Joker Ledger did it J does not fall within the scope of the competition, even though Phoenix mastered his role in the new film. While some saw that the new Joker heralded a strong film and performances at least as impressive as Ledger, citing in their opinion the Phoenix artistic abilities that appeared in previous works such as "Hare" and «Gladitor», as well as the video trailer of the film, which was able to achieve what Nearly 25 million views, revealing significant shifts in the shape of Phoenix to suit the role, and for outstanding performance as well.

A third trend was taken by a part of the audience on social media in which he refused to compare the two characters. Joker in the "Dark Knight" character is evil and volunteers very intelligent in the fight against Batman, which symbolizes the power of goodness in the film, while the Joker in the new film a different character going in Curve far from the old character, it is a weak good subjected to injustice, bullying and humiliation, and suffer poverty and frustration to turn to evil, considering that the new dimension of the character takes it away, and therefore there is no room for comparison between the two characters, while can be compared between the performance of Heath Ledger and other artists who performed the Jock Dimensions, such as Jack Nicholson and Jared just.

The premiere of the film, which took place at the 76th session of the Venice Film Festival, was welcomed by the audience and reflected in the applause for 10 minutes, and critics considered after watching the film that the film is one of the most important films that were shown, and that it will compete strongly in the Oscars, while "Joaquin Phoenix has made the character one of the greatest evil figures in history," one critic said.

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For his part, Joaquin Phoenix, in previous press statements, that he began to prepare for the personality by following a cruel diet during which he lost a lot of weight, considering this rapid weight loss a kind of insanity, but in return helped him to reach the character in a stunning manner, and conducted intensive exercises on Joker performance with the help of director Todd Phillips. Phoenix has repeatedly expressed his fear for the performance of the character for fear of the inevitable comparison between his performance and the performance of his predecessors, and stated in a statement to «Jimmy Radar», that Jack Nicholson took the throne of the best who performed the character of the Joker, so that Heath Ledger pulled the rug from him in 2008 He raised his fears that the comparison will take place whether he wants or not, pointing out that his fear of comparison made him refuse to play the role of «String» despite his success internationally afterwards, but he was looking for a figure that suits him better.

The $ 55 million film, set for adults only in the 1980s, tells the story of how the Joker has gone from being a natural person pursuing his dreams to a wicked character after being persecuted and pressured into Batman's enemy. Hollywood stars include Robert De Niro, Zazie Betz, Mark Maron, Bill Camp, Brian Callin, and others.

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The controversy over the Joker prompted social media users to put a referendum to choose an Arab artist to perform the character, and a number of artists were nominated, including Fathi Abdel Wahab, Khaled Al-Sawy, Alaa Morsi and Basil Khayyat.The vote was for Khaled Al-Sawy, due to his excellence in the performance of composite characters, and followed by Basil Khayat.