The Killing joke is pretty interesting. It takes the point that batman and the joker are both kinda of insane and they both in some way kind of realize that fact. They know that they hated each other so much, that in the end one of them is going down or even they going to both going down together. Ether way until that day comes there war is going to be almost never ending. Batman wants to at least try and break the cycle, make some sort of peace, and maybe even help the joker in someway. So, in the end when batman is finally able to make the offer of peace to joker even after he hurt and even crippled on of his students. Batman makes his offer of peace to the joker which then the joker refuses.
then that's kind it. batman then proceeds to shake the joker after he begins to tell a joke.
It's implied that maybe the batman kills the joker but then also batman during the fight scene earlier fell over and he keeps looking at his hand afterwards also implying that Batman might of poisoned himself with the jokers poison. This could be interpreted that both of them die in the end and that this is the final batman story. I don't know if i can really connect to the kinda war that the batman and joker are going thought because i don't think I've ever hated anyone like that before. Maybe the closest I've ever gotten to it was with a school teacher I had in high school. Where I ended up me doing something pretty stupid that got me in kinda of big trouble, so I guess in that war I was the one who ended up the one going down.
Man, I don't think I would even try and adapt it. I never understand the thought of wanting to remake something in a different medium if the work expectantly if the work is near perfect in the medium it was made in why mess with that. no matter how good it is people will always say that the source was better and of course you'd have to make changes that will please the overlords that are funding the project.
like with the killing joke short film, the changes they made to batwomen almost being like a love interest to the batman is very disappointing
maybe in a prefect work I can pictured some sort comic or book that I'm really into and recreate without any out side input from some big company. then I'd love a try at it
