Looking forward to the stars, hoping for the moon, finally looking forward to "Joker"...
...... The preemptive version of the film source!
Since "Joker" won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival on September 7, this DC comic adaptation has been on the cusp of the storm and has never come down.
According to the differences in the attributes of many movies between DC and Marvel, the saying of "watching Marvel at the box office and watching DC with awards" has been condensed.
However, both DC and Marvel seem to be unconvinced by this statement.
Objectively speaking, we have removed some differences of opinion, and "Black Panther" has indeed given Marvel a taste of winning awards.
After "Aquaman", "Joker" also proved the box office strength of DC once again.
As of today, "Joker", which has not been released in Chinese mainland, has won $985 million at the global box office, and breaking 1 billion is just a matter of hand.
This achievement made "Joker" the most profitable comic book in film history. Of course, this "making money" refers to the rate of profit.
$63.5 million in production costs, in exchange for $1 billion at the box office. With a profit margin of nearly 16 times, I am afraid that the top management of Warner and DC will laugh like a flower in their dreams.
"Joker" is not only the first R-rated film in film history to break $1 billion at the box office, but also the lowest production cost film in the "billion dollar club".
It is also the first non-Disney film to break $1 billion at the box office this year, and the first film this year to break $1 billion worldwide without being released in Chinese mainland.
In the future, Joker will break more records. And we look forward to its place in the North American awards season at the end of the year.
Through the previously released "For Your Reference" version of the poster, it is not difficult to find that "Joker" has begun to pry the Oscars.
The poster shows that Joker seems to be planning to declare four awards: Best Picture, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Effects.
As for the general optimism about Jacqueline Phoenix competing for the Best Actor Award, perhaps there will be his PR poster later.
And if Joker does take Best Picture (though I think the odds are zero), then we'll see a historic moment:
Marvel's Rocket Raccoon , Bradley Cooper — was one of the producers of Joker and took to the stage to claim the Little Golden Man.
Then this old brother is too showy, truly practicing "making money by Marvel, getting awards depends on DC".
Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips were related to The Hangover, the former producing several films for the latter, including Joker, and the latter also producing his debut film, A Star Is Born.
On the 38th day after the worldwide release of "Joker", anxious mainland movie fans finally waited for this annual topic work.
But after I read it, I fell into a certain confusion -
I didn't find out why the film was put on the altar.
Here's a little bit of a correction:
I didn't say this movie was bad. I said, I don't know why it was put on the altar.
The Golden Lion Award is a recognition of "Joker", but making a big fuss about it is undoubtedly killing this movie.
Admittedly, it is a clear stream in the comic book film industry.
The Joker is not a superhero, he doesn't have superpowers, but he's still derived from the Batman comic book system after all.
Looking at the entire comic film industry, there are very few that can be made as serious and heavy as "Joker".
Even if I knew before I watched it that the film was realistic, I would still be amazed at its coldness and ruthlessness when I watched it.
The film explores how Loser, Arthur Flake, becomes Joker and what kind of affair the Joker has had with Batman Bruce Wayne.
Not only does it subtly connect a series of elements such as the Arkham Psychiatric Hospital, but it also maintains a severely depressing tone at all times.
It's not easy.
Pictured here is the famous Arkham Psychiatric Hospital
Still, the film's flaws are almost as obvious as its strengths.
Too much force.
These four words have always haunted Joker, both in terms of content itself and the outside world's pursuit of it (you see, I don't have to "tout" the word).
I'm not saying that Jacqueline Phoenix's performance is too forceful, in fact, I think his performance is almost perfect.
What really pushes too hard is the script setting.
Why do we accept Asgard in Thor, Atlantis in Aquaman, or Paradise Island in Wonder Woman?
Because they are pure fictional worlds based on mythology and fantasy literature.
The so-called "imagination, they are."
Why can we accept the United States in a series of films such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, X-Men and so on?
Because they portray the real New York, California, Texas and other cities, vivid.
The so-called "what is in reality, they are what they are".
Then, gotham City, such a fictional but real place, is difficult to understand with normal brain circuits.
The Gotham City that Nolan created in the "Dark Knight" trilogy is very shocking.
Stills from Batman: The Dark Knight Rises
It's very real, very ordinary. It's just that the Wayne Group is located here, but the crime rate here is slightly higher than in other parts of the United States.
So much so that you can bring any city in the United States into it. Let's say New York, let's say San Francisco, let's say Philadelphia, it's okay.
And the Gotham City portrayed in "Joker" is somewhat morbid to the point of being incomprehensible.
It's hard to imagine how stupid the police here are, stupid enough to make a staff.
It's hard to imagine how arrogant the government here is, so arrogant that it blatantly fools the people and then tries to get people's votes.
It's hard to imagine how unfriendly the people here are, almost unfriendly to the point of inexplicable.
You also can't understand why everything is aimed at this guy named Arthur Flake.
It seems that everyone is deliberately trying to force out a perverted villain alive, and will not give up until they are forced out.
In fact, I think that the Joker should always be an extremely cunning and extremely cold-blooded antisocial personality.
Heath Ledger's Play as The Joker
But in order to trace the origins of the Joker and the blackening of Arthur Fleck, the first step in the film is to portray Arthur as a cowardly and incompetent Lu Snake.
A poor people at the bottom.
An unenterprising person.
A nest full of good visions but full of ambitions and bullying everywhere.
There are also genetic psychopaths.
How to say it? Although the taste is right, the material used is actually not right.
I don't quite understand such a Gotham City in the film. It is no longer just dirty and sinful, it is simply sick.
What should have been taken was a more realistic path, but now it feels absurd and illusory.
It is even more difficult for me to accept that this film is so forceful and deliberately highlights the bitterness and misery of the clown.
In the end, you will be as surprised as I am:
Is this still the sworn enemy of Batman's life, the high-IQ perverted criminal Joker?
Isn't this the story of a poor uncle who has been bullied and turned into a murderer?
The reason why he became a murderer is because we can't understand such a Gotham city with normal brain circuits.
In short, the setting of some bridge sections is indeed too deliberate.
"Joker" suffered a sharp decline in word-of-mouth after its global release, although it will not become a bad film, but it probably only has a medium-to-high evaluation.
From the rotten Tomatoes freshness score at the beginning of the festival 86%, Metacritic scored 75 points.
Down to the current RT freshness of 69%, MTC score of 59 points.
This is indeed a relatively mundane score, which is unbelievable.
In my opinion, this movie is still very thoughtful and unique. But in the end, it is not as divine as the previous rendering.
Friends who have not yet watched, if you want to have a better movie experience, it seems that you have to lower your expectations first, and then go to see it.
Let's talk about so much first, and leave the rest for everyone to experience for themselves.
note!! At present, there is only a Korean version of HD on the Internet, although the picture is clear enough, but there are hard subtitles embedded in Korean below, and it is not very acceptable for small partners, so they have to wait for a while for the BD Blu-ray version.
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