What is it about this character that has resonated with so many people from so many walks of life for so long?
What is it about this character that has resonated with so many people from so many walks of life for so long?
Christian Hall
Joseph Williams
his disdain for niggers
Evan Wilson
being able to give up an unhappy life, put on a mask and become someone who is now in control
Aaron Gomez
wow that sums it up nicely.
Samuel Powell
>hates niggers
>but dates a black girl
He's me
Nicholas Moore
spbp
Daniel Butler
>For my whole life, I didn't know if I even really existed. But I do. And people are starting no notice.
Lincoln Bennett
Is Joker unironically in the top 10 in terms of fictional characters?
Kevin Ortiz
He's the most iconic villain of all time
>inb4 Darth Vader
Bentley Nguyen
People tend to think their lives are tragedies...
But when they open their eyes, and unveil the Veil of Maya that wraps this reality, they see that is nothing but a comedy.
Luke Lee
Stephanie Zacharek, Time:
In Joker—playing in competition here at the Venice Film Festival—Phoenix is acting so hard you can feel the desperation throbbing in his veins. He leaves you wanting to start him a GoFundMe, so he won’t have to pour so much sweat into his job again. But the aggressive terribleness of his performance isn’t completely his fault. (He has often been, and generally remains, a superb actor. Just not here.)
Asher Diaz
Someone is trying too hard but it's not Phoenix
Adrian Martinez
Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair:
At the center of all this creeping ruin is Joaquin Phoenix, hunched and emaciated, laughing and laughing and laughing (and dancing) away. … I’ve not always gotten along with Phoenix’s mannered, muscle-strained approach to his craft, but here he makes a compelling case for going full-tilt. He somehow doesn’t condescend to Arthur’s condition, even if the movie around him sometimes does. There’s a softness cutting through the affect, a sorrow of soul that gives Joker a pale, tragic glow.
Brayden Turner
anyone seen it? can greentext a summary
Leo Gutierrez
Jessica Kiang, The Playlist:
But if the unwavering unwholesomeness of the mood is set a little too steadily, that’s only to give a baseline for Phoenix’s extraordinarily unsettling performance, which changes and jerks and heaves and zags when all laws of psychology and physics suggest it should zig. … Comparisons with Heath Ledger’s Joker are inevitable, but the two interpretations are very different, with Ledger’s Joker always possessing a steely core of cunning, almost a sophistication running through his psychosis. But there is no grandeur in Phoenix’s Arthur, not even megalomania. He is pathetic and irritating and small, and when he becomes big, it is by accident.
Nathan Flores
Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com:
If you live to see Joaquin Phoenix go to performing extremes like nobody’s business, this movie really is the apotheosis of that. As Arthur Fleck, the increasingly unglued street clown and wannabe stand-up comic down and out in what looks like 1980s Gotham (although who knows what period detail looks like in fictional cities), Phoenix flails, dances, laughs maniacally, puts things in his mouth that shouldn’t go there, and commits a couple of genuinely ugly and disgusting crimes with ferocious relish.
Kayden Williams
David Sexton, Go London:
Joaquin Phoenix gives an absolutely convulsing performance, maybe the most powerful of his career, as the Joker, Arthur Fleck. To play the role, he shed an extraordinary 52lbs, making his muscular body painfully emaciated, his already aquiline features even more cutting. An Oscar nom is on its way already.
…he is just extraordinary, always dancing and posing, often topless, working that oddly lumpy, peculiarly hard to outline body, so wasted that his muscles and bones are bulging right there beneath the skin. His face seems a similarly both very strongly defined and yet unnervingly plastic, sometimes fiercely concentrated, sometimes completely distorted in a mad grin. It’s a total physical inhabitation and one of the most alarming portraits of psychosis ever put on the screen, quite deliberately out De Niro-ing the young Robert De Niro. It’s unthinkable anybody else could have played this part now.
Bentley Johnson
is this going to be one of those ironic movies that get memed to hell or an actual good movie stuck in an oversaturated market?
Matthew Parker
corporate ideals so the masses feel like they're smart
Samuel Diaz
it's one of the strongest contenders at the Venice festival so far
Jaxon Perez
Could this movie make smoking cool again?
Samuel Stewart
Logan 2.0
redditors and other plebs will tell you it's high art, but a month later it's forgotten.
Camden Martinez
Manchildren and retards who read picture books don't constitute a wide variety of "walks of life", user.
Jordan Sullivan
yes
Xavier Murphy
Landon Myers
This is the only character I resonate with
>I try to fix things but I always end up making them worst
Tyler Roberts
Brayden Diaz
Never reply to me again
William Howard
>Never reply to me again
Caleb Green
Don't bully Humpty
Eli Cooper
it's fashionable to have a mental illness now, that's why
Landon Rivera
Because when shits fucked up all you can do is laugh about it.
Jason Sanders
came here to post this
immense amounts of incel energy ITT
it's throwing off my chakra waves
Samuel Thomas
Unironically based.
Ian Gonzalez
Neo-slave morality
>My life is empty and mediocre but that's not my fault it's the society/Jews/capitalism/etc!!! One day I will make a big revolution that will change everything, just have to wait for my opportunity....
Ayden Morris
Wow, this really says a lot about society
INSERT BOTTOM TEXT
Adam Bell
smoking has always been cool faggot. you just need to hang out with cool smokers
Wyatt Gutierrez
>mfw we've had this thread 37 times already
Carter James
>"hey user, I just saw Joker"
>"I think you would really like this movie, the protagonist reminded me a lot about you"
>"I think it's gonna be your favourite film!"
w-what did my friend mean by this?
Jaxson Thomas
>MOM LOOK I REPLIED TO EVERYONE MY AXE WOUND FEELS BETTER
Jace Evans
i think most people find it appealing to be crazy but in control rather than miserable and out of control
Joshua Peterson
He's had really great writers and actors in the past and (relative to comics) he's one of the less dopey villains.
Jason Richardson
>put on a mask and become someone who is now in control
Nolan Fisher
the last 20 years of rainbows
Julian Morris
>dates
He fantasizes about her and embarrasses himself when he confronts her about it and she says it's not true
Ian Howard
he's just a funny guy.
Jaxson Hall
cringe
the left can't meme
James Watson
fake, you don't have any friends
Andrew Myers
For you
Grayson Myers
Was Bushworld posting peak Yea Forums?
Pissed of jannies and R&M faggots, and it was funny as hell
Austin Davis
>you
Jaxon Powell
Powerful dude, racists nazis off our board!
Robert Powell
>all me
:^)
Luis Hernandez
Should I?
Grayson Diaz
Ryder Thompson
Heath Ledger's Joker and The Dark Knight
Dylan Torres
your mothers gonna freak
Lincoln Hughes
>t.
Jason Diaz
makes a lot of sense desu