Well, the fanboys on the internet are abuzz with not only the new look of the Joker in the next Batman movie The Dark Knight, but also with how it was revealed.
It was possibly the most involving and creepiest viral campaign ever. I got involved, and here's the story of what you had to do to access the Joker's image.
It started with this site.
http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/
I found this interesting, but if you click on it then it takes you to this Warner Brothers site:
http://ibelieveinharveydent.warnerbros.com/
In case you don't know, Harvey Dent is the DA in the Batman comics. So that was pretty cool.
Then I found another website which was not registered by Warner Brothers at all. It seemed to be the same website as the above one, except it was made to look as though someone had smeared black paint around Harvey Dent's eyes and then red paint along his mouth and scrawled "TOO" at the end of his slogan.
There were two fields at the bottom that I could sign up with, like it was a campaign. I then got this email from [email protected]:
I always say, you never know what a man is truly made of until you peel the skin off his face one piece at a time.
Interesting.
It was also paired with some information - they were map coordinates, X and Y for the campaign site. I went back and tried to figure out what it meant - as it turned out, there was a pixel at the corresponding coordinates, and once I clicked it it changed colors. I then got another email from the same address -
People always ask me about my charming boyish smile. Jessica used to love it. She was the loneliest girl in high school, and my first big kiss...
This was officially creepy as hell.
There were more pixels to click on. They all changed colors. More and more people signed on and started doing it with me once the word got around, and we slowly realized there was something behind the campaign picture, an image.
It was a picture of a face, and it was slowly being revealed.
This is what it showed me - be warned, it's very disturbing:
http://i17.tinypic.com/4u1ivb8 .jpg
The original site is "taken down" or at least appears that way - check it out and then, just to make sure, highlight something. Anything.
ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com
So I guess this new Joker is going to be utterly terrifying.
It was possibly the most involving and creepiest viral campaign ever. I got involved, and here's the story of what you had to do to access the Joker's image.
It started with this site.
http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/
I found this interesting, but if you click on it then it takes you to this Warner Brothers site:
http://ibelieveinharveydent.warnerbros.com/
In case you don't know, Harvey Dent is the DA in the Batman comics. So that was pretty cool.
Then I found another website which was not registered by Warner Brothers at all. It seemed to be the same website as the above one, except it was made to look as though someone had smeared black paint around Harvey Dent's eyes and then red paint along his mouth and scrawled "TOO" at the end of his slogan.
There were two fields at the bottom that I could sign up with, like it was a campaign. I then got this email from [email protected]:
I always say, you never know what a man is truly made of until you peel the skin off his face one piece at a time.
Interesting.
It was also paired with some information - they were map coordinates, X and Y for the campaign site. I went back and tried to figure out what it meant - as it turned out, there was a pixel at the corresponding coordinates, and once I clicked it it changed colors. I then got another email from the same address -
People always ask me about my charming boyish smile. Jessica used to love it. She was the loneliest girl in high school, and my first big kiss...
This was officially creepy as hell.
There were more pixels to click on. They all changed colors. More and more people signed on and started doing it with me once the word got around, and we slowly realized there was something behind the campaign picture, an image.
It was a picture of a face, and it was slowly being revealed.
This is what it showed me - be warned, it's very disturbing:
http://i17.tinypic.com/4u1ivb8 .jpg
The original site is "taken down" or at least appears that way - check it out and then, just to make sure, highlight something. Anything.
ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com
So I guess this new Joker is going to be utterly terrifying.