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What exercise you get when you cross a mentally-ill loner with a social club that abandons him and treats him similar trash!? I'll tell you what yous get: You become what yous fucking deserve!

Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller picture show. The film, based on DC Comics characters, stars Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker. An origin story fix in 1981, the film follows Arthur Bit, a failed stand up-up comedian who turns to a life of crime and anarchy in Gotham Urban center.

Directed by Todd Phillips. Written by Todd Phillips and Scott Silver

Arthur Chip / Joker [edit]

The worst part of having a mental illness is people await you to deport as if y'all don't.

• [written in notebook] The worst part of having a mental disease is people expect you to behave equally if yous don't.
• [written in notebook] I merely promise my decease makes more cents than my life.
• You know what'south funny? You know what really makes me laugh? I used to think that my life was a tragedy...simply now I realize...it's a fucking comedy.
• You don't mind, exercise you? Yous just ask the aforementioned questions every calendar week. "How's your job?" "Are you having negative thoughts?" All I take are negative thoughts.
• [to Penny Chip] You lot know, you used to tell me...that my laugh was a condition. That in that location was something wrong with me. In that location isn't. That's the real me.
• Is it just me.....or is information technology getting crazier out there?
• When y'all bring me out, can you introduce me every bit Joker?
• [to Thomas Wayne] I know it seems strange, I don't mean to make you uncomfortable, I don't know why anybody is so rude, I don't know why you are; I don't want anything from yous. Peradventure a trivial warmth, peradventure a hug, "Dad", maybe just a bit of common fucking decency!
• I oasis't been happy 1 minute of my entire fucking life.
• I had a bad twenty-four hour period.
• For my whole life, I didn't know if I even really existed. But I practise. People are starting to notice.

Dialogue [edit]

Come up on, Mur-ray. Do I look like the kind of clown that could start a move? I killed those guys because they were atrocious. Everybody is awful these days. It's plenty to brand anyone crazy.

The film provides non simply the socio-psychological genesis of Joker, information technology likewise implies a condemnation of the society in which a protest can only assume the form of a new tribe led past Joker. ~ Slavoj Zizek^[one]

Joker: Knock knock.

Murray Franklin: Who's there? [audition laughs]

Joker: It'southward the police, ma'am. Your son'due south been hit by a boozer driver. He's expressionless! [laughs; audience gasps; musician in band goes "wah-wah" on trombone]

Dr. Sally: [unsettled] Oh no, no, no! No, you cannot joke about that!

Murray Franklin: [tense and somewhat spooked] Yeah, that's not funny, Arthur. That'south not the kind of humor nosotros do on this show.

Joker: Okay... Yeah, you know what? I-I'k sor-I'm pitiful. I know. It'south just, you know, it's been a crude few weeks, Murray. Ever since I...killed those three Wall Street guys.

[the crowd murmurs nervously and some of them even gasp]

Murray Franklin: [confused, but trying to stay in character] Okay, I'm waiting for the punchline.

Joker: There is no punchline. It's not a joke.

[the crowd gasps]

Murray Franklin: [a fleck concerned and edgy] You're serious, aren't you? Y'all're telling us you killed those iii young men on the subway?

Joker: Mm-hmm.

Murray Franklin: And...why should nosotros believe you?

Joker: I've got nothing left to lose. Nil can injure me anymore. My life is nothing but a one-act.

Murray Franklin: So allow me go this direct. You think that killing those guys is funny?

Joker: I practise. And I'grand tired of pretending information technology'south non. Comedy is subjective, Murray. Isn't that what they say? All of y'all, the system that knows so much, you lot make up one's mind what's right or wrong. The same way that you decide what's [points to himself] funny or [gestures over to Murray] not!

Audition Member: [aroused and annoyed] Get him off!

Murray Franklin: [now genuinely disturbed] O-Okay, I-I recollect...I-I might understand it. Yous...did this to start a movement? To become a-a symbol?

Joker: C'monday, Mur-ray. Practise I look like the kind of clown that could start a motility? I killed those guys because they were atrocious. Everybody is atrocious these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.

Murray Franklin: Alright. Then that'south it then, y'all're crazy. That'southward your defense for killing iii young men?

Joker: [smugly] No. They couldn't carry a melody to save their lives. [the oversupply boos and jeers; Joker/Arthur grows frustrated] Ugh, why is everybody so upset about these guys? If it was me dying on the sidewalk, y'all'd walk right over me! I pass you every day, and you don't detect me! Merely these guys... What, because Thomas Wayne went and cried about them on TV?!

Murray Franklin: Y'all have a problem with Thomas Wayne?

Joker: Yes, I do! Take yous seen what it'south like out in that location, Mur-ray? Do y'all always actually get out the studio? Everybody merely yells, shouts, and screams at each other. Nobody'due south civil anymore! Nobody thinks what it'southward similar to be the other guy. You think men like Thomas Wayne ever think what it's like to be someone like me?! To be somebody but themselves?! They don't. They think we'll all just sit down there and take it like adept niggling boys! That nosotros won't werewolf and go wild!!

Murray Franklin: [trying to stay composed] You finished? I mean, there'due south so much cocky-compassion, Arthur. Yous sound like you're making excuses for killing those immature men. Not everybody, and I'll tell you this, not everyone is awful.

Joker: [coldly and quietly] You're awful, Murray.

Murray Franklin: Me? I'm awful? Oh, yeah, how am I awful?

Joker: Playing my video. Inviting me on the show. Yous merely wanted to brand fun of me. Y'all're just like the residue of 'em.

Murray Franklin: [offended] Yous don't know the kickoff thing nearly me, pal. Expect what happened because of what you did. What it led to. In that location are riots out there. 2 policemen are in critical condition...[Joker/Arthur laughs]...and yous're laughing. Yous're laughing. Someone was killed today because of what yous did.

Joker: [giggling] I know. How nearly another joke, Mur-ray?

Murray Franklin: No, I call back nosotros've had enough of your jokes.

Joker: What practice you get...

Murray Franklin: I don't call up so.

Joker: ...When yous cross...

Murray Franklin: I think we're done with your jokes, that's it.

Joker: ...A mentally-sick loner with a SOCIETY that ABANDONS HIM AND TREATS HIM Like TRASH?!

Murray Franklin: Call the police, Gene!

Joker: I'll tell yous what you get!

Murray Franklin: Telephone call the police!

Joker: You lot Go WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE!!! [pulls out his gun and shoots Murray in the head, instantly killing him]

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[Joker/Arthur, in a police car, is laughing and chuckling at the chaos being spread to Gotham Metropolis]

Cop 1: Terminate laughing, y'all freak. This isn't funny.

Cop 2: Yeah, the whole fucking city's on burn because of you.

Joker: I know... Isn't it cute?

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[Arthur is laughing loudly during a psychiatric exam at Arkham State Hospital. He soon settles down, but nevertheless laughs]

Psychiatrist: What'south so funny?

Arthur: [laughing and chuckling some more] I was merely thinking...just thinking of a joke.

[shot of a immature Bruce Wayne standing over the bodies of his dead parents as the camera pulls dorsum and Arthur's laughter is heard]

Psychiatrist: Practise you wanna tell it to me?

Arthur: [softly whispers] Y'all wouldn't get it.

About Joker (2019 film) [edit]

This Joker'due south genesis is determinedly mature and uncartoony, compared to, say, Jack Nicholson's low-level crook Jack Napier falling into a chemical vat in Tim Burton's Batman, turning him into the Joker with white skin, green hair and a rictus smile. ~ Peter Bradshaw

This movie is not about Trump. It's nearly the America that gave usa Trump — the America which feels no need to assist the outcast, the destitute. The America where the filthy rich just get richer and filthier. Except in this story a discomfiting question is posed: What if ane twenty-four hours the dispossessed decide to fight back? ~ Michael Moore

I don't call back the Joker had costless will, given his life. He was a walking time bomb waiting to explode—all information technology took was some pregnant life stress, beatings up, losing a job. You've got nothing left.… The well-documented risk factors—this was [the grapheme's] destiny. No one is born into that kind of violence. ~ Adrian Raine

• We share each other's grief and endeavor to lighten each other's burdens caused by that "one bad day." And and so we go along to grieve with and support the survivors and victims' families like those of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado, shooting during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises that killed 12 and wounded 70 others. But, while their entrada against Joker and Warner Bros. may evoke our sympathies, it is counterproductive to their goal equally it sets a bad precedent for activist groups trying to define the boundaries between gratis speech, detest speech communication and violence-promoting speech.
  All the same, though I am supportive of their goal, this is the wrong movie and the wrong strategy to promote the fight for gun control because it creates a diversion. First, the strategy is wrong because it feels uncomfortably close to passive extortion. Even though there is no call to boycott, they take cast a curtain over the film that is meant to exist damaging. No matter how Warners reacts, the damage has already been done. Even if Warners complied with their demands, the film has been tainted in the eyes of the average moviegoer. A photo of a Warner Bros. executive handing them a large check wouldn't change that. There's therefore no incentive for the studio to comply. In fact, according to a Warner Bros. statement in response: "Our company has a long history of donating to victims of violence, including Aurora, and in recent weeks, our parent company joined other business leaders to call on policymakers to enact bipartisan legislation to address this epidemic."
  Second, Warner Bros. and Joker are the wrong focus of attending, which further compromises the grouping's goal. Despite their claim that "we back up your correct to free spoken language and free expression," launching this entrada effectually a movie — peculiarly one like this that strives to exist more than artistic than exploitative — tin can have a spooky effect on complimentary expression.
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why the 'Joker' Gun Violence Protests Miss the Marking", The Hollywood Reporter, (x/2/2019)

• This Joker'south genesis is determinedly mature and uncartoony, compared to, say, Jack Nicholson's low-level cheat Jack Napier falling into a chemic vat in Tim Burton's Batman, turning him into the Joker with white skin, dark-green hair and a rictus grin. (The look of DC's Joker was originally inspired by Conrad Veidt in the 1928 silent classic The Man Who Laughs, a man whose face was disfigured into a smiling by his begetter's political enemies.)
  There is no reason why Phoenix's elaborately backstoried Joker shouldn't be as powerful every bit Heath Ledger's mysterious, motiveless, originless Joker in The Nighttime Knight. Simply at some stage the comic-book world of supervillaindom has to be entered, and Ledger was more powerful because he wasn't weighed down with all this realist particular and overblown ironic noir grandeur, and he wasn't forced to acquit an unabridged story on his own. This Joker has merely 1 act in him: the first act. The film somehow manages to exist desperately serious and very shallow.
  • Peter Bradshaw, "Joker review – the most disappointing film of the yr ", The Guardian, (Oct 3, 2019).

• Joaquin Phoenix renders the iconic villain on an intimate, human scale in Joker, a agonizing film about one human'due south psychological destruction and a urban center's descent into criminal anarchy.
  • Justin Chang, "'Joker': A Piercing Psychological Portrait Of Batman'southward Notorious Nemesis", Fresh Air, NPR, (October 3, 2019).

• Phoenix makes Arthur an exceptionally vivid monster. His performance is a symphony of scowls, howls, grins, grimaces and, of course, those countless fits of laughter. It'south a big, grotesquely showy slice of acting, but yous can't accept your eyes off him.
  • Justin Chang, "'Joker': A Piercing Psychological Portrait Of Batman's Notorious Nemesis", Fresh Air, NPR, (Oct 3, 2019).

• But as assuredly gritty as it looks, "Joker" falters in its effort to conjure a backdrop of social unrest. Nosotros hear news of a rising in tearing law-breaking and anti-rich sentiment aimed at billionaire tycoons like Thomas Wayne, whose son Bruce Wayne will, of form, abound upwardly to become Batman himself. Simply these stabs at political relevance feel mostly coy and disengaged.
  • Justin Chang, "'Joker': A Piercing Psychological Portrait Of Batman's Notorious Nemesis", Fresh Air, NPR, (Oct iii, 2019).

• I call back that it's important to really look at those individuals who are suffering from mental illness and really try to find some love and empathy for these people. For me, the themes in that movie were empathy and feeling sad and empathetic for that character.
  • Emma Tillinger Koskoff in Producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff on Emotional Themes of 'Joker': "I Know Information technology's Very Controversial", by Ciara McVey, Hollywood Reporter, (11/23/2019)

• Simply what condition? Could it be pseudobulbar affect, which is neurological in origin and gives rise to uncontained laughing and crying? Under stress, Arthur certainly breaks into a hyena'south chortle, which stops as abruptly as it starts; he also weeps, and, in closeup, we follow the tracks of the tears on his clown's white-painted face. (I haven't seen such artful drips since 1971, when Dirk Bogarde's hair dye melted, along with his soul, at the terminate of "Decease in Venice.") The film, however, takes no serious interest in what might be incorrect with Arthur. It but invites us to watch his wrongness grow out of control and peachy into violence, and proposes a vague connectedness between that private swelling and a wider social malady. "Is it merely me, or is it getting crazier out there?" he asks. Guess what: it'south both!
  • Anthony Lane, "Todd Phillips'south "Joker" Is No Laughing Matter", The New Yorker, (September 27, 2019, published October 7, 2019)

• What is agreed upon, among those who have seen "Joker," is the prowess with which Phoenix holds it all together. His face up may get the greasepaint, merely it's his whole body, coiled upon itself like a spring of flesh, from which the picture show's free energy is released. He's so thin that, when he strips to the waist and bends, his spine and shoulder blades jut out from the skin; is he a fallen angel, with his wings chopped off, or a skeleton-in-waiting, halfway to the grave? Francis Bacon, I think, would have stared at Arthur with a hungry eye.
  • Anthony Lane, "Todd Phillips's "Joker" Is No Laughing Matter", The New Yorker, (September 27, 2019, published October 7, 2019)

• "Joker" is no superhero nor supervillain nor comic book movie. The film is set somewhere in the late '70s in Gotham City, and Phillips makes no try to disguise it for anything other than what it is: New York Urban center, the headquarters of almost real-life villainy: the rich who dominion us, the banks and corporations for whom we toil, the media which feeds u.s.a. a daily diet "news" they recollect we should blot.
  This movie is not about Trump. It'due south about the America that gave the states Trump — the America which feels no need to aid the outcast, the destitute. The America where the filthy rich simply go richer and filthier. Except in this story a discomfiting question is posed: What if one mean solar day the dispossessed decide to fight back?
  • Michael Moore, "'Joker': Michael Moore Writes Tribute to Todd Phillips' 'Cinematic Masterpiece'", multifariousness,(Dec eighteen, 2019 )

• For 42 years, I've studied the crusade of crime and violence. And while watching this moving picture, I thought, Wow, what a revelation this was. I demand to purchase this moving-picture show down the route, brand excerpt clips of it to illustrate […] It is a nifty educational tool about the making of the murderer. That threw me. I talk nigh all of these factors in the form, and honestly, it's really hard to go a true-life story that fits all of these pieces together, let alone a very dramatic and stylized movie that illustrates these factors quite strongly. That was really a revelation.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Great Educational Tool", (October xiv, 2019).

• Physical corruption is on the list, as is neglect and malnutrition equally a child. Being brought up in poverty is a risk factor. He's adopted, and kids who are adopted are two to three times more likely to get criminal…certainly twice the rate of violence is well established. If y'all're wondering why that is, it's considering with adoptions, the infant is separated from the mum for time—and that is breakage of the mother-infant bonding process in a critical menses that nosotros know affects personality development downwards the route.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Swell Educational Tool", (Oct 14, 2019).

• [T]he link between mental health problems and violence is, of grade, controversial. We don't want to stigmatize mentally sick people as being dangerous people. But we practice know that mental illness is a significant predisposition to violence, which we have to recognize so that people tin can be treated.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Great Educational Tool", (Oct 14, 2019).

• Mentally ill people don't become effectually serial-killing people—plotting a homicide or a bank robbery or a burglary. No, they react on impulse emotionally. It's impulsive and emotion-driven." And in the pic, Raine pointed out, all of Arthur's violence seemed accurate to him because information technology was "reactive assailment."
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Nifty Educational Tool", (October 14, 2019).

• I don't recall the Joker had free will, given his life. He was a walking time bomb waiting to explode—all it took was some meaning life stress, beatings up, losing a job. Yous've got null left.… The well-documented take chances factors—this was [the character'south] destiny. No 1 is built-in into that kind of violence.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Bang-up Educational Tool", (Oct 14, 2019).

Cast [edit]

• Joaquin Phoenix – Arthur Fleck / Joker
• Robert De Niro – Murray Franklin
• Zazie Beetz – Sophie Dumond
• Frances Conroy – Penny Fleck
• Brett Cullen – Thomas Wayne
• Shea Whigham – Detective Burke
• Bill Camp – Detective Garrity
• Glenn Fleshler – Randall
• Leigh Gill – Gary
• Josh Pais – Hoyt Vaughn
• Douglas Hodge – Alfred Pennyworth
• Dante Pereira-Olson – Bruce Wayne
• Carrie Louise Putrello – Martha Wayne
• Hannah Gross – Young Penny

External links [edit]

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