Martin Scorsese was attached as one of the producers when Joker was in the early stages of development, but despite departing the project long before cameras started rolling, the legendary filmmaker’s fingerprints are still all over the finished product. Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy are clearly two major influences on Todd Phillips’ movie, with Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck sharing many similarities with protagonists Travis Bickle and Rupert Pupkin, not to mention the meta casting of Robert De Niro as Murray Franklin.
Taking a dark, twisted psychological drama with a main character that’s very clearly suffering from some kind of psychosis and wrapping it in the clothes of a comic book story was a bold creative decision to make, and one that paid off very handsomely. Straddling the line between awards season favorite and box office behemoth is a move that very few projects manage to pull off,...
Taking a dark, twisted psychological drama with a main character that’s very clearly suffering from some kind of psychosis and wrapping it in the clothes of a comic book story was a bold creative decision to make, and one that paid off very handsomely. Straddling the line between awards season favorite and box office behemoth is a move that very few projects manage to pull off,...
- 11/15/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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