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nowimnothing-inc · 7 months

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Black Swan (2010)//Joker (2019)

Dir: Darren Aronofsky//Todd Phillips

Starring: Natalie Portman//Joaquin Phoenix

**NOT MY EDIT

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sarcastic-salem · 2 years

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It was just announced that Joker: Folie á Deux is being released in 2024. Supposedly “Folie á Deux” is medical terminology for when two people begin to share delusions. Really only including that cause there are people who doubt that this will movie feature Harley Quinn. Or some sort of Harley Quinn inspired character. I will be so upset if Todd Phillips changes her character’s name😩

But the first Joker film was inspired by the character’s origins in The Killing Joke. Which, ok, these origins have never been officially confirmed. They’re based off of rumors that have been heard by characters in the DC/Batman universe. In The Killing Joke, the Joker is an unnamed man who is a failing comedian with a pregnant wife. So he agrees to do a theft in exchange for some money from the mob.

And like how the Joker went insane in the comics never really made sense to me. Cause he pretty much just fell into the vat of chemicals at Ace Chemicals and went insane. I’m guessing from like brain damage or something? Idk. Like I said, I never really thought it made sense. So I kind of really appreciated the added character depth in the first Joker film.

Since the first film was based off The Killing Joke it only seems natural that the next film would be based off of Mad Love. Mad Love is the episode of Batman: The Animated Series (1993) in which Harley Quinn’s origins as the Joker’s psychiatrist at Arkham were first revealed. Cause Harley was originally a character made specifically for Batman: TAS created by Paul Dini who also wrote her origin story.

There is said to be a musical aspect to the new Joker movie. Which I think, the musical numbers would be apart of Joker and Harley’s mental delusions. Cause in the first film the Joker had delusions of being a successful stand up comedian. When someone has delusions of this nature they’re called delusions of grandeur. Another really well-known on screen adaption of this is the classic film Breakfast At Tiffany’s which starred Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly.

Personally, I’m really concerned about how depressing this movie will be cause I found the first movie a bit traumatizing😂🙃 I also find it gross that DC decided to announce this only like 24hrs after we found out that Batgirl is being shelved. I feel like DC might be really running with the whole film noir arthouse type thing. At least for the Batman franchise. And I have to say it definitely fits the whole dark and gritty nature they were trying to accomplish originally, and it does make a sense from a financial stand point to develop these portrayals of the characters further.

I mean, Joaquin Phoenix won a fucking Oscar for his portrayal as the Joker. Oh, geeze, I really hope Phillips doesn’t make Phoenix starve himself down to nothing again. That was really disturbing tbh.

Ok, sorry about that ADHD brain😅