How is the horror atmosphere of "Joker" created?

Summer 2022-03-20 09:01:09

Although "Joker" is not a horror movie, it still has a certain horror atmosphere to create a crime genre like this movie. Only represent personal opinions and share personal understanding with you from the perspective of audition:

The first is characterization:

1. Character image:

"Paris, I love you"

Compared with a normal and harmless clown, the facial makeup is softer and rounder, which is close to the original appearance of the facial features; while the clown in this film has thin and tall mouths and large diamond-shaped eyes with sharp angles. The characters are sharp and full of aggressiveness. More like a skeleton.

In addition, the red, green, and yellow colors of the later costumes are strongly conflicting, forming a distinctive character symbol. This kind of color conflict itself has a sense of "uneasy" from the psychological level.

2. Character voice shaping

Alienated laughter often makes people wonder whether he is laughing or crying, needless to say.

The second is the big environment

The depressed tone, and the disordered environment of the riots. The whole city is full of garbage and graffiti.

From the auditory level, there are often the sound of police cars whistling, and there are some details that shape the internal and external sound of the character, such as "opening the door" and "leaning against the wall", etc., not to mention one by one.

Then there is the photography style and editing rhythm.

(I don’t have time to organize it in detail, everyone is welcome to discuss together)

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Extended Reading
  • Nina 2022-03-23 09:01:09

    Joaquin Phoenix’s performance is in line with the expectations of the high reputation. The script is very small. The whole movie is to create the tragic character of the clown. The completion of this character is proportional to the quality of the movie. , The moment when the clown painted himself a smiley face, it was absolutely provocative! The story moved Gotham City to the world of "Taxi Driver", following the character of Arthur, who suffered from mental illness, had a tragic life experience, suffered various unfair treatments, and then slowly began to retaliate against society and grow up. As the spiritual leader of anti-social personality, he carried forward the DC dark department established by Nolan and staged a carnival celebrating sin. The first sense is similar to that after watching "Fight Club", the manga movie can be adapted like this, and it is produced by a big Hollywood company like Warner Bros. It can be said to be very subversive. This kind of small format script writing method is very suitable for directors who are not very capable. The script format is small, but very solid. There are some interesting points from the comics background, plus the Oscar-level performances, the overall degree of completion is indeed very high. , But still slightly lower than expected.

  • Anais 2021-10-20 18:58:07

    Officially with Rorschach, V became the DC anti-oppression trio.

Joker quotes

  • Thomas Wayne: What kind of coward would do something that cold blooded? Someone who hides behind a mask. Someone who is envious of those more fortunate than themselves, yet they're too scared to show their own face. And until those kinds of people change for the better, those of us who made something of our lives will always look at those who haven't as nothing but clowns.

  • Arthur Fleck: Comedy is subjective, Murray, isn't that what they say? All of you, the system that knows so much: you decide what's right or wrong the same way you decide what's funny or not.