‘Joker’ Is Different Than Any Other Joker Movies

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In current years, the Joker has been performed by, amongst others, Heath Ledger, Jared Leto, and Zach Galifianakis, together with dozens of voice actors on varied DC reveals (the “Joker in other media” Wikipedia web page may drive you actually insane). So, does the world really want a brand new spin on the Clown Prince of Crime? No… except, he’s performed by Joaquin Phoenix. Joker seems excellent, approach higher than a Joker origin story ought to look (particularly one from the man behind The Hangover Part III), however how will Phoenix’s interpretation of “Mr. J” differentiate itself from all the opposite Jokers? Brian Tyree Henry has a solution.

“I think it’s going to be very different because it really goes into just the origin story. Villains are never born that way, they’re made,” the Atlanta star defined to the Observer. “There’s something that happens in their lives that they give up their faith in humanity; they see the flaws of humanity and mankind and feel like they must correct it. And what happens with Joker is you start to see how he really was a happy person. He really was trying to find this… hope in humanity until it broke him down and he just had to give up and reshape it.”

It appears like Phoenix’s “Arthur Fleck” will likely be extra sympathetic than earlier Jokers, whose origin tales are both unknown or advised by an unreliable narrator. Tyree Henry additionally revealed that “there’s going to be a connection [made] about a boy and his mother,” performed by the good Frances Conroy (Six Feet Under). “That is another thing that you’re going to see — that he was capable of love at some point. But, at the end of the day, I think it’s all about how he was made that way, how he didn’t start being that kind of person.”

You may even say all it takes is a little bit push for somebody to go from this…

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…to this.

(Via Observer)