EXCLUSIVE: With its billion-dollar business and dark subversive spirit, Todd Phillips’ Joker has been, fittingly, the wild card of superhero cinema this year, and the Warner Bros film’s…
script he and Silver pressed into the psychological recesses of modern life and found their disaffected central subject in Arthur Fleck , who veers from the traditional comic book portrayals of the Gotham City madman known as the Joker.bucks the traditions of DC Comics and also rebels against the brightly lit storytelling of contemporary superhero films, which tend to over-explain every corner of their characters. “We purposely set out to leave some things vague and unanswered,” Phillips said.
“I think a lot of different things about the film have really connected with people and one of the things I’ve noticed has really caught on is the idea of what Arthur writes in his notebook: ‘The worst part of a mental illness is that people expect you to behave as if you don’t.’ That really resonated with a lot of people who do suffer from mental illness and saw a little bit of themselves in the movie, or in Arthur, or in his experiences in different ways.
“If you have a broken leg people hold the door open for you and you clearly have an ailment, but when you have a mental illness it’s a hidden thing so even when people know you have it they just expect you to behave as if you don’t. They don’t see it on you and often they don’t see you at all.”
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