With ‘Joker : folie a deux’, or Joker 2 as most are calling it, the film is eliciting wildly differing opinions from audiences about the story, the music, the casting and of course the nihilistic ending that is wholly on keeping with the original film. Writer-director Todd Phillips has been asked about That Joker 2 ending and whether there’s a connection to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight film.
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Joker 2 ends on a bloody nihilistic note when Arthur is ambushed by a laughing, clearly insane Arkham patient played by Connor Storrie, who tells Arthur a joke before repeatedly stabbing him in the stomach. Arthur bleeding heavily falls to the floor appearing to die. As he does the unnamed inmate laughs maniacally as he carves a Glasgow smile into his own face with a knife.
Phillips said……..“The first film is called Joker. It’s not called The Joker, it’s called Joker. And the first film under the script always said ‘An origin story’. Never said THE origin story. It was this idea that maybe this isn’t THE Joker. Maybe this is the inspiration for the Joker. The big thing with Arthur, Joaquin’s version of Joker, our version of Joker, he’s not a criminal mastermind. It’s one of the things we’ve always said about him, even in the first movie.
If we never made a sequel, it was just like, think what you want about what this guy turns into, but it’s never any version of the Joker that we all grew up on. You know what I mean? That’s just not who Arthur is. So, it’s kind of this idea of when somebody becomes an icon, and we put things on that person as a group, as a society, as a media, as whatever. We put things on that person that maybe they can’t live up to.
Bur even having said that it could be little more than a knowing wink to DC fans and homage to Heath Ledger’s interpretation of the character since both of them sport the same gnarly scars around their mouths. But Phillips and Nolan’s “Batman” trilogy take place in different time periods and universes, so it’s unlikely that Storrie’s character is related at all to Ledger’s. “The Dark Knight” occurred in the modern 2000s era, while the “Joker” movies are a throwback to the ’80s.
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Whatever it is its unlikely that Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” or James Gunn & Peter Safran’s rebooted DC Universe will resurrect Phoenix’s character after the Joker 2 ending
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