Joker "The Joker" in development with Todd Phillips and Martin Scorsese attached? - Part 2

[The Joker]

I love jared Leto as an actor, but this is hilarious.

 

[Gothamsknight]

I love this!

 

[Kane52630]

Wait, how is he getting a hamburger after all the sh** he's said during his award speeches?

 

[Kane52630]

Almost feels like a scene form some movie.

Plus they were in a movie together.

 

[Micromind]

Wait, how is he getting a hamburger after all the sh** he's said during his award speeches?

*Vegan-burger.

Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix celebrates award with vegan burgers from Monty’s

 

[Kane52630]

Wait till they find out Impossible burgers are actually Soylent Green.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Wait till they find out Impossible burgers are actually Soylent Green.

I mean, people ARE the problem here, so...

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Oh my lord, this is priceless!

And I didn't even hate Letoker

 

[Deck Rickard]

Hahahaha that Phoenix/Leto gif is perfect.

Has Phoenix ever commented on Leto's performance? I'm sure he wouldn't say something like, "Oh yeah, he sucked" but I'm just wondering if anyone has asked him and if he's said anything.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I doubt Phoenix even saw the movie.

 

[Captain Tired]

Yeah I wouldn't expect Phoenix to have been first in line when they were showing Suicide Squad at his local theatre.

Guaranteed Leto saw Joker though.

 

[WhoMani]

I am curious to hear what Leto thought of the Joker and if he was disappointed that he wasn't the one starring in Joker

 

[DarkKnight88]

I am curious to hear what Leto thought of the Joker and if he was disappointed that he wasn't the one starring in Joker

"You've Got to Stop This": Jared Leto Fumed Over New 'Joker' Movie

 

[Schlosser85]

I am curious to hear what Leto thought of the Joker and if he was disappointed that he wasn't the one starring in Joker

He wanted his agent to somehow shut down the movie.

 

[Kane52630]

...the math checks out.

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

 

[Iceman]

Awesome number for Joker, taking down some serious titans.

 

[Iceman]

I am curious to hear what Leto thought of the Joker and if he was disappointed that he wasn't the one starring in Joker

Must be a pretty bad feeling for him watching this and then sitting through his Suicide Squad version.

 

[Micromind]

Gal congratulating Hildur Gudnadottir for winning Oscar for Best Original Score at 2020 Academy Awards Ceremony.

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

Joker won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film. The Dark Knight received the same award in 2009.

Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film - Wikipedia

 

[StarLord]

“The studio wanted Freddie Prinze Jr and I wanted Joaquin Phoenix,” he recalls. “I remember thinking, 'Uh oh, we're making two different films here.' That's a true story. It was a different time. The Batman I wrote was definitely a way different type of take than they ended up making.”

 

[The Shape]

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

‘American Psycho’ Director Mary Harron Thought ‘Joker’ Outrage Was ‘Ludicrous’

A member of the jury that gave “Joker” the top Venice prize was Mary Harron, best known as the director of “American Psycho.” Harron recently spoke to Vulture about the 20th anniversary of her serial killer drama and touched upon the reasons her jury decided to award “Joker” with the Golden Lion.
“Apart from that it was a brilliant piece of filmmaking, I thought it was a great portrait of madness,” Harron said. “It had a class theme you very rarely find in American films.”

“Joker” went on to become the most controversial studio film in years. Ahead of the movie’s October theatrical release, some critics believed the film would prove dangerous and even encourage viewers to commit violent acts. The controversy didn’t stop “Joker” from becoming a box office phenomenon with over $1 billion worldwide. Harron says the reaction to “Joker” and the claims that it romanticized violence were “ludicrous.” Harron received similar blowback for “American Psycho” in 2000.

“While ‘Joker’s’ critics claimed it gave a sympathetic origin story to a toxic man, ‘American Psycho’ was criticized specifically for its violence against women. Notable feminists including Kate Millett and the National Organization for Women protested the story when it was released as a book…These attacks always focus on some kind of art movie. They never focus on the extreme violence in mainstream entertainment. I love ‘John Wick,’ but it’s far more violent and has far more mayhem than ‘Joker’ or ‘American Psycho.’ Actually, both of them have a small amount of violence. It’s just that that violence is disturbing.”

“Joker” director Todd Phillips expressed a similar opinion in the midst of “Joker” backlash last fall, pointing to action films like “John Wick” in which the main character mercilessly kills dozens of people. Harron said “Joker” and “American Psycho” were singled out because the minimal violence on display in each film “doesn’t slide down as easily” as the mass scale violence moviegoers find in countless PG-13 movies.

“Marvel, you can blow up most of Manhattan and people love that,” Harron said. “People are very uncomfortable with moral ambiguity. If that same violence had been perpetrated by a person [like John Wick] who was seeking noble revenge, they might feel differently. But when it’s someone who is like the Joker, who is deeply mentally disturbed, you’re put in an uncomfortable position. Even though I think the movie is pretty clear — this guy is psycho — you’ve followed him through his vulnerability and his being humiliated and neglected and used by the world and the people around him. And there’s an element where you’re identifying with him.”

Harron continued, “The same conversation happens over and over every so often with a film that is upsetting or disturbing, which is a part of what movies are and do. Then everything settles down. It’s crazy to me that everyone talks about ‘American Psycho’ in such reverent terms.”

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

 

[Detective Conan]