First ‘Joker’ Footage Screens At CinemaCon And It’s Creepy

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Here at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Warner Bros. offered their panel for his or her upcoming 12 months to the theater proprietor affiliation and press assembled.

Two of the massive ticket attracts have been first appears to be like at Joker and It: Chapter Two. Both motion pictures are about clowns.

Let’s speak about “Joker”

When director Todd Phillips took the stage, he stated the studio requested him to explain the style of Joker. After pondering, he responded, “a tragedy.”

The footage we noticed wasn’t actually a scene, extra of an excellent reduce of scenes. It begins with Joaquin Phoenix’s non-makeup Joker in remedy, saying his mom instructed him he wanted to smile extra usually.

We then see Phoenix working as a road performer when some road toughs steal certainly one of his props. Phoenix provides chase, however the road toughs do a as soon as over on Phoenix. We then see a shot of Phoenix sitting, shirtless, on his house flooring mumbling one thing about the way it’s getting “tougher out there.”

This is a closely stylized movie, which options random pictures of Phoenix simply laughing manically at inappropriate instances, with a voiceover that claims, “I thought my life was a tragedy, but I realized it’s a comedy.” (Todd Phillips and Joker appear to have a disagreement on this.)

The subsequent scene is Joker on the subway in full make-up. Just a few bros resolve it’s a good suggestion to taunt Joker with barbs like, “What’s so funny, clown?” And, as anticipated, it doesn’t prove nicely for the bros. (This scene jogged my memory a little bit of Seinfeld when Crazy Joe Davola requested Kramer if he preferred clowns. I do know that sounds bizarre, but it surely’s a creepy scene, no less than for Seinfeld.)

The scenes have been a bit too scattershot to place an excessive amount of collectively, plot smart. But it does look tremendous bizarre. And from time to time, we’d see a late evening tv host in entrance of these older model Johnny Carson sort curtains. Which makes me wish to guess that Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy is perhaps an affect. Anyway, sure, it seemed good!

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