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Joker 2019 (Wip)

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Joker Folie à Deux (2024) ♦️💖🃏✨ (the animated version, process breakdown and one extra sketch all available on Patreon!)

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JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX (2024) | Official Teaser Trailer

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Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

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JOKER (2019) dir. Todd Phillips. 

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“I’ll tell you what’s changed, I’m not alone anymore." 

JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX (2024) dir. Todd Phillips

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in joker 2 todd phillips is like “i want to make a movie about sexual exploitation” so ur like “okay todd what’s ur take on sexual exploitation” and he’s like “sexual exploitation is bad :)” and ur like “that’s it?” and he goes “and i love jazz music”

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Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

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Todd Phillips confirming what we already know.

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I loved it.

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Joker: Folie a Deux has got to be one of the funniest fucking things to happen in cinema in years.

Cuz, like, I remember clear as rain how back when the first movie came out there was all that hilariously transparent melodrama where the mainstream media was hyping it up as the most controversial, firebrand thing ever. Just visibly salivating at the thought of it inspiring some nebulous network of Joker-worshiping racist incels into destroying the country in a Random White Guy Event that they could make sensationalistic, ratings-soaking headlines about. And obviously that didn't actually happen because it was literally the media equivalent of making up a guy to be mad about.

And than you fastforward to this movie and it's obvious that Todd Phillips totally bought into the media scaremongering about his own damn movie, so Folie a Deux is basically him making some kind of "takedown" of these Joker Chaos Agents that at best consist of a hundred losers on Reddit and Twitter plus their bot followers, at worst is functionally nonexistent. Ranting and screaming about and "deconstructing" these nobodies that only clickbait writers and their brainwashed fans care about. Writing a movie that really amounts to him crying and pissing his pants about how he was "forced" to make a comic book movie and woe is he.

And in the process he's pretty much blowing up his own reputation and that of the previous film by not only putting his contempt for basically everybody - from his bosses to his audiences - on full display. As well as exposing how both films are pretty much completely slathered in this pathetic, unduly smug aura of "WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS I AM THE ONLY ONE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SAY THIS". Y'know, the kind of thing that you see on your typical Tumblr funnyman's blog after they go political but before they get exposed as predators and flee to Twitter. And he did it all for a sequel that bombed on release.

It's such a schadenfreude.

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JOKER (2019) AND JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX (2024) SPOILERS !!!

still trying to sift through my thoughts but i liked joker 2. i dont get how the ratings are so bad?? were people expecting a romance???? a fun movie? i mean even i was surprised by the depressing end but im really glad it happened because thats what joker 2019 was about too. arthur was never the actual 'joker' we see in dc films, and we knew that. his whole story is tragic but a lot of people missed that in the first movie. the second speaks on that to humanise arthur (even though thats what they literally tried to do in the first one?? didnt work i guess) and shame those who use him as a symbol for misogyny and incel stuff. i think what most people are mad about is how hes not as 'villainy' as the other jokers BUT AGAIN he was never the true joker and im confused as to how people missed that !! personally i loved how it shows that even after he's secured himself the identity of joker he's still repeatedly exploited as he was before that, and he has to come to terms with it. harleys character was really surprising for me because usually she's the one being manipulated by joker- in this case it was the other way around. especially interesting was how joker was the one who sung 'bewitched' about harley (the original song is sung about a man, so they had to change he/him to she/her) and the scene of joker and harley's show where she continues singing 'to love somebody' without looking at him, instead basking in the attention the audience gives her. people were expecting a twisted sexy romance between them but instead we were given something really uncomfortable and unnerving- like that sex scene. her character also gives insight into parasocial relationships and how weird and dangerous they can get. she never really knew arthur- she knew joker. the film starts with us finally happy that he 'for once in his life, has someone who needs him' and ends with us absolutely distraught. in the first movie, he says stuff like 'you dont listen' and 'i never knew i existed' and STILL after becoming an infamous killer, getting a show about him, EVERYONE talking about him, he's still not seen. there are just so many things the film points out about its fanbase (incels, parasocial relationships, identity, the glamourisation/sexualisation of violence, columbiners, exploitation etc etc) and i guess people don't like that. they want capitalism=bad, 'men have it so bad', and mm gore! which is fair- i loved it too- but it doesnt hurt to delve into the identity of 'joker' (whatever that is) and how that influences its viewers. its quite meta i like it a lot. they didnt care that the ratings would be awful because they had to speak on what the first movie did to people

oh also the intertextuality is just amazing. the songs are great, like i mentioned before with changing the female and male roles with 'bewitched', and even though i absolutely hate musicals this really worked fo rme. i think it's because musicals often have songs smack bam in the middle of realistic scenes and the singing just ruins it for me- but in joker 2 they're more often a part of arthur's fantasies so it was actually better. i wasnt sure about the musical element at first but after rewatching joker for like the 1000th time i realised how much its intertwined in the first movie- we just never really paid attention to it. the end of 'gonna build a mountain' was amazing (you have to pay attention to the lyrics), 'the joker' was great, and the few instances of violence we see from arthur while hes singing is really entertaining i love it sm. i keep mentioning 'betwitched' but i love it. 'she is cold, i agree, she can laugh, and i love it' ahh. i loved the intertextuality with nolan's the dark knight. a lot of people hate it, but i think people should be more flexible with inspiration and interweaving similar but different stories into films. just because it follows a similar story doesnt mean that it should either perfectly fit the mould of nolan's batman, but neither does it mean they should abandon it altogether either. harvey dent really surprised me, and even though he was a pretty minor character i loved the few references to nolan's batman they give (like his gory face after the explosion at court being a possible villain origin story). most obvious is the end though, where arthur is gutted by that inmate who admires him. the use of the joke was amazing and i was really surprised by how he got stabbed. you can see in this moment that arthur has been relieved of his identity of 'joker' and can finally rest as himself, just a mentally ill guy with a history of tragic abuse. when lee and his fans betray him (the real life ones too hilariously) we realise no one truly saw or loved him, and he couldn't deal with that. so, the identity of joker was passed on to that inmate- "ah, what a fine young son to take my place"- while he cuts a glasgow smile into his face. in felt this was sort of missing from joker 2019, so im really glad they used ledger's joker as inspiration for this inmate.

there's a lot more to talk about, ESPECIALLY gary's reappearance which im so so glad about, it really fleshed out his character. when he walked up to the stand, you can see people whispering and laughing at him- arthur never made fun of him. it really helps to make people question what constitutes a bad person. sure, these people didn't kill 6 people, but how easy would it be for them just not to laugh? it showed arthur's empathy, and how uncomfortable he was with admitting to it when trying to paint himself as the joker. "you were the only one who was nice to me" was said by arthur in the first movie when he kills randal and gary says something similar to him during court.

anyways wow that was great people are mad the 2nd movie is as depressing as the first (if not more). at the end ofthe first, arthur has a whole revolution loving him, and we did the same. at the end of the second we realise we never truly knew him, but exploited his character.

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my new favourite romance movie of 2024

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With DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE crossing the billion dollar mark at the box office, congratulations are in order. JOKER director Todd Phillips salutes the film that toppled his record.

Ryan Reynolds responds.

Some time ago the Twitter account All the Right Movies compiled some previous filmmakers salutes to those who broke their records.

For decades it was Spielberg to Lucas to Cameron.

and the rest

-During the entire post-release for DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE, Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy and Hugh Jackman have been making appreciation posts to those who were in the film. Reynolds had one more appreciation post in him and it's for Hugh.

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Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

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JOKER 2: FOLIE À DEUX (2024) | Dir. Todd Phillips