“Hes saying ‘f— you’ to Hollywood.
Quentin Tarantinocan’t get enough of the Joker’s twisted sense of humor.
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“Todd Phillipsis the Joker.
Quentin Tarantino and ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’ star Joaquin Phoenix.Steve Granitz/WireImage; Niko Tavernise/warner bros.
Un film de Joker, all right, is what it is.
He is the Joker,” Tarantino said.
And then his big surprise gift ha, ha!
Quentin Tarantino.ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty
The film intentionally antagonizes fans of superheroes, movies, and studios making money, Tarantino said.
“Hes saying ‘f— you’ to all of them,” he said.
“Hes saying ‘f— you’ to the movie audience.
Hes saying ‘f— you’ to Hollywood.
“But the talk show scene is one of the best scenes made in the last 20 years.
Of this century, easily, easily.
The whole movie was worth it for that.
And to see it in a crowded theater was the way to see it.”
Tarantino’s estimation of the 2019Jokeraligned more with the skeptical fans who found it derivative of other films.
“Now before that scene, I wasn’t digging the movie that much,” he said.
“I was going,Well, I dunno.
Is this where we’ve come?So that was the monologue I was having with myself.
And it was all really pretty f—ing one-notey, all right?
For like a long, long period of time.”
“It was for sure he was gonna win the Oscar that year,” he said.
But I didn’t love the performance that much; it was more about the commitment.
Tarantino praised the movie for its unusual use of musical numbers.
“I really liked the musical sequences,” he said.
“I got really caught up.
I thought the more banal the songs were, the better they were.
The filmmaker also praised Phoenix’s vocal performance, defending the actor from critics of his unconventional singing voice.
“I thought he pulled it out,” he said.
‘Does he sing good?’
Well, he doesn’t sing good, but he sounds likehim!”
The two-time Oscar winner also heard some of his own voice in the sequel.
“Notasas indebted asTaxi Driver, but pretty f—ing indebted.”
“Thats theNatural Born KillersI would have dreamed of seeing,” he said.
“As the guy who created Mickey and Mallory, I loved what they did with it.
I loved the direction he took.
I mean, the whole movie was the fever dream of Mickey Knox.
It was fantastic.”
