Joker&Harley Quinn - Circles - The Dark Knight

Ill start off by saying that yes, I know there have been so many debates over who would have played Harley and I know many people disagree with Brittany Murphy being casted but hear me out. I chose Brittany because one, I myself can't picture Katharine Heigl or Abbie Cornish as Harley. And two, her clips suited the best to this video. I also believe Brittany wouldn't be so bad considering she has that cute, ditzy-psycho vibe to her that just screams Harley. Of course, I know people are going to disagree but whatever, either you watch or you don't watch :)

WARNING: Scenes of abuse, spoilers, and sexual suggestion.

As far as description goes, anyone who watches this will probably already know the backstory of HQ&J but if not, to get you up to speed: Harleen Quinzel was a psychiatrist at Arkham and held sessions with the Joker whom she fell madly in love with and broke him out. From then on, she tagged along with him as his girlfriend turning psychotic herself and going by the name Harley Quinn.

In this video, it's been a while since then, and we see Harley is all locked up at Arkham; the Joker having ditched her on one of their heists, leaving her for the cops. After months, Harley's sanity (whatever little is left) is slowly becoming more damaged as her twisted adoration and loathing of the joker continues until one day, he shows up and breaks her out, manipulating her once again to be by his side. Near the end, the Joker is captured by Bats and put into prison while Harley flees the scene. Looking in the mirror (which btw the face she makes is priceless and fit just the way I wanted; meant to be comical as she's psycho yet serious all the while). She breaks him out of prison and with Harley's final mad smile and Joker's approving gaze, we see things are constantly going in 'circles' for Harley, she'll never stop loving the Joker and will always go running back to him no matter how much he mentally and physically abuses her.

*near 0:46, she says on the phone to him, Could you just tell me you love me? I really need to hear it..
*1:08, her psychiatrist says: He had you pegged for a hired help the minute you walked into Arkham.
*At the part where the lyrics say 'It's pure, true, and beautiful' and there is the bomb explosion, it's supposed to be ironic as that's how Harley views her time with the Joker, no matter how twisted.

NOTE: It is important to realize this is a character study more than anything for both of them. You must note that Harley ADORES her puddin' and though she IS very smart and a strong person, her devotion overpowers any hard feelings she may have. He is her world, he brought out who she really is and she can never hold him at fault for anything. Of course, sometimes she does feel anger for the way he treats her but again, never enough to actually leave.

There are numerous stages we see:
1)Anger its funny that in the series and comic, whenever Harley gets angry with Mistah J, she can go from yelling at him to smothering him with love in a matter of seconds. I tried to demonstrate that here.
2)Sadness of course, over her puddins betrayal and absense
3) Confusion for example, when the Joker reaches over and takes her hand, shes stunned, he must have changed from his old ways! He must have really missed her!! well, that and hes just manipulating her as usual.
4)Just Plain Looniness she dances around, laughs at the Jokers murders and even urges him on not because I think she even really has a taste for bloodshed, just because it makes the Joker happy helps him in his schemes like answering the phone thats connected to a bomb where Batman is, all that fun stuff

Before I ramble any more, theres one more thing. I know there are differences from NolanVerse to Dcverse but IMHO, Joker DOES love Harley. I know its difficult to believe but after being with her for so long, he does harbour some affection for her as many have stated. He just really, really likes manipulating her. Again, though, if he really wanted to kill her, he would have done so ages ago. Its one of those youre damned if you do, youre damned if you dont because honestly after being with her I dont think he could have her gone forever.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the footage shown in this video or the music Circles by Natalie Walker, no copyright infringment intended. No profit being made, simply for entertainment purposes. The footage shown are scenes from: The Dark Knight, Dont Say a Word, Gotham Public Works (Batman Forsaken Trailer), Batman the Animated Series (voice overs), The Dead Girl, Uptown Girls.

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[PirateGodess]

I love that part at 1:30 the reflecting on the Joker and the Harley...Harley....Harley...

Where did you get that (the Harley... audio) from?

[foreverGea]

Thank youuu :)

Luckily 'Harvey' is dangerously close to 'Harley'. I worked some audio skills and came out with Harley :)

[chaoticXmisfit]

rest in peace Brittany, you were my number one pick to play Harley, least your hopefully with Heath <3

[XoXKhristen]

"Harley.....Harley....Harley..­."

FECK THATS CREEEEPY.

[CookieMonsterRox09]

@Rshimy ...What are you talking about.

[Legen79]

More than awesome. The best Joker/Harley I've seen in a while. Congratulations and thanks for posting!

[rosspeppard]

..they can play harley/joker wherever they may be now..

[SnabKebab]

hmm 

[JokerSweeneyLedger]

This was the first Joker/Harley video that did it for me, then funny how I can keep coming back to it and no matter how down I am on myself my inspiration automatically returns. Thank you for inspiring all of us editors even the song has symbolism. We are going in circles creating their story, Joker and Harley (Brittany & Heath) to give back a little something to the fandom in remembrance of two truly amazing gifted actors. (:

[foreverGea]

@andlaymetosleep This comment really made my day. Here I am, sitting nestled up in a chair passing the time between classes, and i come across this in my email. It makes me smile that you enjoy my work so much and I'd say your manipulations are a real inspiration to me as well. So we feed off of one another haha :) Thank you so much for your kind words all the time

[andlaymetosleep]

[PART 2]; personal Harley", and me, in my not so good Harley will look over and go "if there was no Batman, there'd be no Joker, and I'd never of met my Puddin'", this video is the blue print for Harley and Joker. What we try; we meaning the newer editors [because i don't consider myself an older editor even if when i started it was truly just you] but what we're are doing is chasing your shadow, and thank you for that.

[andlaymetosleep]

[PART 1] - Nearly two years removed from this video and it's still one of my favorites, as you can tell by how my style has evolved. This video means so much to me, because it was the first thing I saw with Brittany as Harley. If it wasn't for you, she wouldn't have been my Harley. I was actually wanting Kate Hudson, who I don't think would hold the same presence as Brittany had/has. There are times Matt in his spot on Joker impression will look at me and go "What I say goes nothing

[HECTOR2006ELPASO]

This video is amazing. You are very talented. I had to watch it twice to fully appreciate it. Just once is not enough. Thanks for posting it.

[Miinnniie]

I cant believe they are both dead. when i watch this a few months ago. I NEVER imagined myself watching it again mourning their passings.

if you dont mind , The song from this video.

Beautiful video , nice done and i cant believe such an inspiration is possible. [x