SUICIDE SQUAD Director Once Again Regrets Joker's "Damaged" Tattoo - "Not Every Idea Is a Good Idea"
As disgruntled DC trolls continue to hound director David Ayer over Suicide Squad on social media, Ayer continues to respond to them and shares his thoughts on their criticisms. In this most recent post, the filmmaker once again shares his regret for the face tattoos on Jared Leto’s Joker, specifically the “Damaged” Tattoo.
In response to a fan, Ayer said: “I own the tattoo idea 100% It was my choice. Original idea is it would say ‘Blessed’ and not ‘Damaged’ Now having said that — I regret that decision. It created acrimony and division. Not every idea is a good idea. And I’ll just be in the corner here while the internet slaps me around for this post.”
At least he can have a sense of humor about how the fans continue to slap him around. When previously talking about what the “Damaged” tattoo was supposed to mean, Ayer explained: “It was Joker trolling Batman after getting his teeth punched in by him. It’s the one aesthetic choice I wish I hadn’t made. Caught a lot of smoke for it obviously.”
In another explanation, the director said: “Joker killed Robin and Batman basically smashes his teeth out and locks him up in Arkham Asylum. It’s in the asylum where Joker would have done the ‘damaged’ tattoo as a message to Batman saying, ‘You’ve damaged me. I was so beautiful before and now you’ve destroyed my face.’ That’s where the grill comes from."
Ayer previously talked about his original cut of Suicide Squad and how it’s so much better than the version that the studio butchered and released in theaters. One thing he said in the past was that the original version of the film was "ripped to pieces," and some of Jared Leto’s "terrifying" scenes as Joker were cut from the film.
When previously talking about the film, Ayer said: “My cut would be easy to complete. It would be incredibly cathartic for me. It’s exhausting getting your ass kicked for a film that got the Edward Scissorhands treatment. The film I made has never been seen.”
The original cut of the film included “a lot more Joker including a big fight with him in the subway.” It was also explained that the beginning of the film “wasn’t edited like a music video, as all of the flashbacks happened in chronological order.” One of the most important aspects of his original cut was that there was “a very different and clear tone to the Joker and Harley’s relationship, which actually fits better with the opening of Birds of Prey.”
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