It's A Good Thing The Batman Left Out That Deleted Joker Scene

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The following article contains spoilers for The Batman.

Despite being out for almost a full month now, The Batman still managed to surprise fans in spectacular fashion thanks to a special piece of footage Matt Reeves decided to leave on the cutting room floor. However, as the director promptly explained, sometimes less is more, even if he’s talking about the Joker of all things.

This is possibly DC’s most famous and fascinating villain, the Mortal Kombat DLC, the only one who could be elevated to such heights by Heath Ledger so that his performance in a superhero movie could be put right next to other acting legends. And Barry Keoghan’s deleted Joker scene does deliver, the actor comes off as harrowing, his appearance alone makes it hard to watch, and in good old comic book tradition, he’s able to push Batman’s buttons like no else can, so why is less Joker actually more at this stage?

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Reeves spoke his mind on why Joker’s longer scene didn’t make it into the theatrical version of The Batman even before the five-minute clip was officially released; his reasoning being that the scene did not fit in well enough with the rest of the movie because “what that scene was doing, other scenes were also doing”. That assessment feels real enough, especially when one considers just how much is already going on in The Batman’s convoluted story, plus the fact that this is practically a three-hour movie.

With The Batman already reaching Zack Snyder’s Justice League levels of runtime, the act of merely finding the proper moment to slide in that visit to Arkham is pretty tight, especially in a movie that pretty much warrants its length with very few dull moments, thus making