The three patch trailers before the start of the feature film, one is "Zombie Land 2", which has Lex Luthor growing hair again; the other is "Maleficent 2", which has the classic version of Catwoman; the last one is "Doctor Sleeper", or "The Shining 2", is estimated to be an important part of the "Stephen King Cinematic Universe" that Warner saw the great success of "The Clown's Recall" the year before.
Films with too high artistic pursuits are not suitable for sequels. This is true of "The Shining", and this is also true of this film. If the final performance of the film satisfies Warner, it has spawned a "Joker 2" and entered into some cinematic universe strongly, it would have been 2. Of course I didn't have any intention to belittle "The Shining 2", but I still I am looking forward to it. I will probably buy a ticket to support it when it is released. What I actually want to say is that for the upcoming "The Shining 2" and the "Joker 2" that may be shot in the future, everyone must be mentally prepared-they are definitely not the same species as their predecessors.
"The Shining" has a similar theme to the film, and is a story of loneliness swallowed by artists whose careers are not developing smoothly. However, due to the different positions of the creators, the loneliness of the protagonist has the opposite effect-one completely loses himself because of loneliness, and the other finds his true self in loneliness.
Recently, a style of style has become popular, that is, instead of watching the feature film, you can talk about the trailer and talk about it. I also admire this very much. I want to learn but I can’t learn it, but I am confused to develop a newer, more tricky and weird writing style-chatting about the trailers of other movies in the comments about a movie for a long time. . In fact, I have been detouring for so long, the real purpose is to give enough time to retreat for friends who have strayed here and don't want to be spoiled. The next thing is to get real.
The beginning is the Joker-at this time his name is still Arthur Flake, but hereafter referred to as the "Joker"-while putting on make-up, crying while turning, grabbing the corners of his mouth with his fingers, forcing himself to smile. When I saw this, I thought of the general haircut of "Gintama". In addition, I am 100% sure that Stephen Chow did the same actions and expressions in his movies, but unfortunately I can't remember which one it was.
A clown dressed as a clown played a sign on the street and was bullied by a group of unscrupulous teenagers. Next, he went to a social worker for psychological counseling. On the bus home, he tried to make a child laugh, but was violently stopped by the child's mother. The three scenes explain the security and social atmosphere of Gotham, the economic conditions and health of the clown-he suffers from a special disease that makes him laugh when he is nervous. The clown making children laugh is his moment to save the cat. Although he has always been known as a super villain, he is a hero in this story. This film is a typical "superhero story", which is purely in terms of the type of story, and has nothing to do with whether the film is adapted from an American comic full of superpowers and black technology.
The clown lives with his mother, and the mother and son like to watch De Niro's talk show. In addition to fan De Niro, her mother also fanned a rising political star-Thomas Wayne, the owner of the Wayne Group who announced that he would run for mayor. As mentioned above, the similarity between the film and "The Shining", in fact, has a more obvious and more direct impact on this film is another film about loneliness released four years earlier than "The Shining"-"Out [Beep] ] Che Si [beep]" (the title itself is fine, but considering the status of the Korean film with the same name, I will desensitize it appropriately). In this film, the protagonist practicing shooting and talking to himself are easy to think of De Niro in the old film more than 40 years ago. Two acting gods who are good at interpreting the loneliness of the protagonist have the opportunity to play in this film. However, their first rivalry only exists in the imagination of the protagonist, which is also a foreshadowing of the important reversal of the subsequent film plot.
The clown, whose comedy career is at a slump, life is poor, and has no sense of existence in society, received the catalyst on the road of life-a revolver given to him by a colleague. The colleague named Randall seemed to do it out of good intentions, because he knew that the clown had been beaten by punks before and gave him a gun as a defense. The clown also has a dwarf colleague named Gary, who was teased by Randall: Is mini golf for you dwarfs without the mini word? Very vicious, but I smiled unkindly.
After getting the gun, the clown began to wonder whether or not to use a gun. He tried the gun through the wall at home, and he was scared to fall to the ground. In spite of this, he still loves the gun, and finally got into trouble. While performing at the Children's Hospital, the clown's gun fell out. He was fired as a result and fell into a desperate situation. The story thus enters the second act.
On the subway, three drunken Wall Street financial men molested a single woman. The woman looked at the clown for help, but he did not dare to take any action. The woman took the opportunity to slip away, and the trio of bitches thought that the clown was provoking them, and fisted him. The clown drew his gun back and shot three people.
Some time ago, I was following a show called "Talk Show Conference", which was a competition show for stand-up comedy artists. The theme of the last issue of the second season of the show is "Laughter is the antidote to life". In the case of the clown, this sentence is completely invalid-not only is laughter not the antidote to life, but it is the source of his pain, and it is also a manifestation of his pain. For the clown, the gun is the antidote to life. The clown, who had gained great pleasure after the murder, couldn't help but dance. Drawing a gun and killing people as an outlet for venting loneliness, this setting is also in the same line as "出[哔]车司[哔]".
The B story of the film is the love between the clown and the female neighbor Sophie. In the first act, the two had a brief exchange in the elevator. Later, Sophie discovered that the clown was following her and came to the door to make a theory, but was humorously resolved by the clown. After the clown shot and killed the three people, the great excitement helped him muster the courage and knocked on Sophie's door to linger with her. Sophie's house number is 8B, and I wishfully believed that the huge "B" was to mark "This is the place where Story B happened."
The clown got the chance to perform on stage. On stage, he became ill again. He laughed wildly before finishing a paragraph. The audience booed and only Sophie smiled at him. The encouraged clown gave a hearty performance, and the endless applause seemed to be remembered in his ears. Leaving the venue, the clown and Sophie saw a report about the clown in the newspaper. Sophie praised the clown who shot the three people (she didn't seem to know that it was Arthur in front of her) as a hero.
The clown, who seemed to be about to reach the pinnacle of his life, soon learned a big secret like a bolt from the blue-he turned out to be the illegitimate son of Thomas Wayne, the richest man in Gotham. Joker’s defective personality is largely due to his lack of paternal love, so for a long time, he regarded the comedy star played by De Niro as his father-in fact, I think the movie "Out [Beep] ]Che Si [Beep] can indeed be regarded as the father of the movie "Joker". Now our protagonist has finally found his true father. When I saw the clown reading the letter from his mother to Thomas Wayne, I remembered the classic line "Why am I not Li Ka-shing's son" from the second brother of Shaolin Football. In fact, the star's attention to the fate of the little people and the peculiar hostility in the work are particularly consistent with the temperament of the film "Joker". If China wants to remake this film, he is definitely the best candidate for the lead role. It is a pity that the star idol is too burdened and the hero complex is too heavy, and it is estimated that he will not accept this kind of distorted anti-hero image.
The clown came to Wayne Manor and met Bruce Wayne, the unsmiling teenager. The clown is performing magic tricks and giving flowers, using various methods to amuse this little boy, because he knows in his heart that he can never start a conversation. Butler Ah Fu comes out to stop the clown, and the two sides have a dispute. When Ah Fu knew where the clown was coming, he sneered and said that his mother had delusions.
The clown returned home and found that his mother had been taken away by an ambulance. At the entrance of the hospital, the clown met two police officers who came to investigate the subway shooting. The story progressed to the "wicked man approaching" beat. When the clown finished giving testimony and was about to leave, a policeman asked contemptuously: I heard that you have a kind of mad laughter. Is it true or is it your "personality"? This line is an understatement, but in fact it is extremely sharp. We are all too familiar with similar words. The celebrity reveals a little bit about his own history of fighting depression and other mental illnesses. Someone immediately replied "hype." Someone immediately replied "hype." These skinless and faceless gadgets can sell their credibility, dignity, and betray everything for a little profit, so I imagine everyone as humble and dirty, and always think that I am a famous detective who sees everything, in fact, the only one. The reasoning technique is to save the gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain.
In front of his mother’s hospital bed, the clown saw that he was on TV, and it was a show by his idol De Niro, but not in a glorious form—the embarrassing scene of his previous stand-up comedy laughing for no reason was played by the show. And was teased. People who regard themselves as spiritual fathers regard themselves as a joke, giving themselves the nickname "Joker". The shocked clown decided to continue his unfinished mission to find his biological father. He secretly approached Thomas Wayne, who was watching a movie in the theater, hoping to recognize father and son. He said that he didn't want to use his name or money, he just wanted to get an affirmation and a hug.
However, Thomas did not satisfy the clown's wishes. He reiterated the housekeeper Ah Fu's statement-the clown's mother had mental problems, and the clown was adopted by her and had nothing to do with Wayne's family. After speaking, he punched the clown severely and warned him not to approach his son in the future. In fact, it is understandable that the clown would treat Bruce as his younger brother. The young actor Dante Pereira-Olson, who played Bruce, had previously collaborated with Joaquin Phoenix in "You Have Never Been Here", playing him when he was a kid. , Which shows that the two people still look a bit alike. As for Thomas Wayne's actor Brett Cullen, he previously played Nathan, the friend of Feng Qi in "Suspect Tracking". This uncle can always trade his sacrifice for a righteous police officer to fight crime.
The line of the clown seeking father leads to another similarity between the film and "出[哔]车司[哔]"-the display of class differentiation and class differences. "Out [Beep] Che Division [Beep]" expresses this theme through the fruitless love of the male and female protagonists, while the film uses the line of affection. Regardless of whether the clown and Thomas Wayne are really related by blood, their different class backgrounds have shaped them into completely different species, so they are doomed to be impossible for father and son to recognize each other. "Joker" won the Venice Golden Lion Award, while the Palme d'Or in Cannes earlier this year awarded "Parasite", the film also focused on class differences. Social issues that were captured by filmmakers and discussed with film works more than 40 years ago have not been alleviated, but have spread to more countries and become more stubborn.
In the two classes presented in the film, the director seems to have each played 50 big boards. The upper class is rich and unkind, and the bottom is ignorant and barbaric, but in fact, it is still more biased towards the protagonist's class. The image of Wayne's family in this film may subvert the perception of many viewers. My main impression of Thomas Wayne's character comes from the cartoon "Flashpoint Paradox" six or seven years ago. In that story, it was him rather than his son Bruce who became Batman. So I always think that both of you should be the same perfect person with a sense of justice. In the film, Thomas is not completely black-although there is a possibility that he will always abandon the clown mother and drive her crazy, if that is the case, this person is indeed a scum man through and out; but if he said it Everything is true, so on this basis, all his actions are also legitimate, including the punch of the clown, which is out of love for his son. However, the "Huang Shiren forced Yang Bailao to death" plot setting has long been used in film and television works that reflect the problem of class solidification. The real power of the vested interest class's oppression of the bottom is that the former often does not want to oppress the latter. Or they don't bother to oppress the latter at all. They behave appropriately and have a high level of restraint, but their existence itself has brought a sense of oppression. Sometimes this sense of oppression is released by people who do things for them. The film does not reveal the black Thomas Wayne, but the role of Ah Fu is undoubtedly hacked. The courteous, loving and thoughtful Ah Fu we remembered became a domineering slave here. This film's demonization of Ah Fu is as obvious as the demonization of Bruce Lee in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". Anyone who refuses to admit this is a cover-up. And the reason why we want to vilify a classic role of a good man in this way is to discuss the influence of the class he serves on the society: a wealthy class who does not understand the suffering of the people, does not need to deliberately do any evil, their existence itself will Breed countless evils.
According to Thomas, the clown came to Arkham Mental Hospital to access his mother's files. The official record is consistent with what the Wayne family said, and the clown also remembered the childhood abuse by his mother. His mother found his crying annoying, so she forced him to laugh all the time. This is not a spiritual chicken soup for optimistically facing life, but an impatient, mentally unstable adult strangling the child's nature. People are inherently scared and cry, and forcible suppression will only alienate people into monsters. The Batman in the "Dark Knight" trilogy once wanted to completely exile fear from his heart, but in the end he accepted that himself who was afraid like ordinary people, and used such a state of mind to help thousands of thousands. Thousands of ordinary people fight. But the clown who has been laughing can no longer find the ability to cry like ordinary people.
The clown found that he had been living in a huge scam. He thought that the mother who loved him the most was the one who hurt him the most-he was in a situation of "all lost". At the same time, the clown also remembered the truth about his relationship with Sophie. The two had never met each other and fell in love, just nodding acquaintances who lived on the same floor. All those sweet and warm memories exist only in his fantasy, just as he fantasized about being on an idol show and embracing him like a father and son. The Joker’s little brother Bruce had a similar experience. After he took off the Batman suit, there will be an experience of suffering from insomnia, so he is skinny and skinny like the clown in this film, and he also begins to have hallucinations.
The clown who entered the dark night of the soul killed Sophie and ended his mother's life with his own hands. He stifled all the forces that he relied on against loneliness and found the real way to solve loneliness: embrace loneliness, let this loneliness become his own energy and a source of his own creative inspiration.
Long before the Joker committed the crime of mother-killing, he had already received an invitation from De Niro's talk show group. Because of the enthusiastic response of his spoof video, he was given the opportunity to share the stage with his idol. The clown who completed two killings and spent the dark night of souls began to prepare for his true screen debut. The story enters the third act.
The most important part of preparation is to create a look for yourself. Halfway through, the clown heard the doorbell. Old colleagues Gary and Randall came to condolences the clown who had just experienced the pain of losing his mother-in fact, the real purpose was to come to see him. Since the subway shooting, the comedians playing the clowns in the city are in danger. The clown suddenly attacked Randall and stabbed him to death in return for his gift of the gun. For Gary, the clown didn't have any trouble and let him go freely. I think the real reason why the clown killed Randall was that he didn’t agree with his comedy philosophy-he could not tolerate vicious jokes on the underprivileged, so he killed Randall and let go of being the object of Randall’s ridicule for a long time, which is actually bullying. Gary of the object.
On the way to the recording site of the show, the clown was chased by the police. He got onto a subway line full of clowns and threw off the police. This group of fanatical clown fans is going to participate in protests in this image. Here I want to mention another film that has a profound impact on this film-"V for Vendetta". Many people say how this film opened up a new era of DC comics adapted films. Indeed, in many aspects, such as performance, this film has reached a height that was unattainable by previous American comic film adaptations. But to say that the idea is profound, this film is not the only one. The dystopian movie "V for Vendetta", which is also adapted from DC Comics, has inspired a generation of audiences to think about themselves and the collective as early as more than a decade ago. After the movie is released, the clown mask will probably become a hot product with special meaning just like the Guy Fawkes mask of V Monster.
Before the recording of the show started, the clown finally saw the idol with his own eyes, but he was not as excited as he had rehearsed countless times in his mind. Because at this time the clown is no longer the down-and-out artist who desperately needs other people's affirmation, he has infinite energy in his heart, and he will not lose his momentum in front of anyone. The Joker reminded De Niro to use the name "Joker" when introducing himself. This is the rename plot that every superhero story has. Similarly, Thomas Anderson in "The Matrix" changed his name to "Neo", and in "Wolverine" James Howlett put the word "Wolverine" on the dog tag. "Ready Player One" Wade corrected the villain's own name as "Percival". In addition to the name change, the superhero has to undergo a rebirth. The three examples just mentioned still apply-Neo is reborn as a true savior after being killed by Smith, Wolverine implants Edman alloy in his body, Percival In addition to using the resurrection coins gifted by the curator, there is a classic example that I particularly like-the Supreme Treasure in "A Chinese Journey to the West" was killed and reborn as Monkey King. The rebirth moment of the protagonist in this film happened when he shut himself in the refrigerator. The protagonist returned to the mother body and was born again, cutting off all earthly concerns from then on.
The time for the decisive battle has arrived-the confrontation is between the Joker and his former idol and spiritual father, the talk show star Murray played by De Niro. In front of the camera, the clown admitted frankly that he was the real culprit in the subway shooting, and he drew a boo. Murray started a verbal confrontation with him. Everything Murray said made sense, but his lofty attitude made it difficult for him to gain the audience's approval. The clown's sentence "If I was killed, no one would care, people would step on me as if nothing had happened" was the sharpest retort, and instantly made all the opponent's defensive remarks appear hypocritical and pale. Human lives in this world are unequal. The death of the Wall Street elite will attract numerous reports. The richest man in Gotham will condemn the perpetrators on TV for them; and people from the bottom like the clown are dying every day, but No one cares.
The two people of different classes and different positions were destined to be unable to understand and persuade each other. In the end, the clown ended the debate with a bullet. His behavior was broadcast to every citizen of Gotham through live television. Those violent souls that had been suppressed for a long time were completely gone, and the whole city burned. History is written by victors. If the clown's followers are ultimately in control of the right to speak, then he will probably be named as some kind of great mentor too? And Batman, who stands on the opposite side of him, might be branded as a reactionary.
The TV news in the first act of the film mentioned that there was a super mouse in Gotham. De Niro joked in the talk show that the solution to the super mouse is to breed super cats. The clown is the super mouse, and the super cat that restrained him was born on the night of his rise. An unknown violent who was inspired by the clown killed the Waynes and his wife in Crime Alley, leaving behind the child who could not laugh. On the other side, the clown who was worshipped by everyone used his fingers to pull a big smile on his face, and the ending and the opening perfectly overlapped.
In this film, Thomas Wayne wants to run for mayor, and there is an election throughout the story of "Out [Beep] Car Division [Beep]" mentioned repeatedly above. The most famous peripheral news about "Out [Beep] Car Division [Beep]" is that Judy Foster's illegitimate fan fantasizes about himself as De Niro who kills all quarters in the film, and shoots the then US President Reagan. I was worried that the film would set the Joker as Batman's homicide, because that would be too bloody.
Watching the full movie, the biggest feeling is that the movie you watch will determine what kind of person you become. When the clown went to see Thomas Wayne, he watched a passage of Chaplin's "Modern Times" by the way, so he later became more determined Embarked on the road of comedy; and Bruce Wayne watched the movie "Zorro" on the night his parents died, and later became a masked man. I always thought that Batman, like me, watched Alain Delon's version of "Zorro", but the sign at the entrance of the theater in this film clearly says "Fan Xiong Zorro". This is actually a somewhat non-mainstream "Zorro" movie. It tells the story of Zorro finding his gay twin brother to pretend to be himself after being injured. This big brother has injected a lot of elements in line with the aesthetics of the gay community into the image of Zorro. . So I kind of understand how this movie affects Batman-it's no wonder that when he grows up, he is not a hard-covered macho in underpants, or a bare-legged butt-tender man.
In the film, there are repeated episodes where the clown is criticized for not being funny enough. I suspect that the director has substituted his own experience. "The Hangover" that he directed that year was amazing, but he has been criticized since "The Hangover 3". He probably heard a lot of comments like "not funny". So he simply stopped selling laughter to cater to the audience this time, and made a serious movie in which the protagonist laughed from start to finish but the audience could not laugh, so that he didn't have to worry about being criticized and it was not funny-in fact he didn't have to worry about being banned Criticized from any angle, because it was too late for everyone to praise him. In addition, I noticed that Bradley Cooper is included in the producer's signature. He is also an old partner who has forged a deep friendship with the director since the beginning of the "Hangover" series. I was thinking that Cooper has started participating in this series at this stage. Will he have any plans to play Batman in the future? That will be another classic hero with sharp ears and good at manipulating high-tech weapons and equipment.
Many people like to use this film to promote "DC a shame" and "Hanging on Marvel." In fact, what this film pursues is completely different from those of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Like I said at the beginning, "The Shining" and the upcoming "The Shining 2" are not the same thing. "The Shining" can definitely sling any movie adapted from Marvel comics, but the Stephen King Cinematic Universe may not necessarily sling the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the same way, if DC slams Marvel, then "The Dark Knight" has already been slammed, and "V for Vendetta" has also been slammed. But if Warner wants a huge commercial series like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then these slings are meaningless. Comparing this film with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this behavior itself is boring.
And I will continue to be bored for a while. As mentioned above, the clown watched Chaplin's "Modern Times" in the film. The first brother of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Robert Downey Jr., who is about to hit the throne of the Oscar actor, before starring in "Iron Man", the most famous masterpiece is the biopic "Chaplin". "Iron Man" has always been my favorite movie, and a considerable part of the reason I like it comes from Downey’s performance. "Get it, and also defeated Joaquin Phoenix, the hero of the film, then I think our real world is probably an enlarged version of Gotham City.
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