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If Joker: Folie à Deux has one fan, it’s Hollywood filmmaking veteran Quentin Tarantino.
Rather than condemning Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga’s latest flick, which has a mediocre 32% score on Rotten Tomatoes, Tarantino praised the latest Joker installment while recently visiting The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. According to reports, Tarantino stands among the few Folie à Deux supporters, regardless of its meager $37.6 million domestic box office opening.
“I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously, and I went to see it expecting to be impressed by the filmmaking,” Tarantino told Ellis, per Variety. “But I thought it was going to be an arms-length, intellectual exercise that ultimately I wouldn’t think worked like a movie, but that I would appreciate it for what it is.”
“And I’m just nihilistic enough to kind of enjoy a movie that doesn’t quite work as a movie or that’s like a big, giant mess to some degree,” he continued. And I didn’t find it an intellectual exercise. I really got caught up into it.”
“I really liked the musical sequences. I got really caught up,” he added. “I thought the more banal the songs were, the better they were. I find myself listening to the lyrics of ‘For Once in My Life’ in a way I never have before.”
Elsewhere, Tarantino compared Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck and Gaga’s Harley Quinn to the protagonists of 1994 crime thriller Natural Born Killers, which he wrote the original screenplay for.
“As much as the first one was indebted to ‘Taxi Driver,’ this seems pretty fucking indebted to ‘Natural Born Killers,’ which I wrote, he said. “That’s the ‘Natural Born Killers’ I would have dreamed of seeing, 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.”
Tarantino also thought the Todd Philips-directed musical thriller was “really funny,” explaining that he watched it in an “almost empty IMAX theater” in Tel Aviv and could “laugh without bothering everybody.”
After commending Phoenix for delivering “one of the best performances I’ve ever seen in my life in this movie,” Tarantino saluted Phillips and gave an interpretation of the film’s direction.
“The Joker directed the movie. The entire concept, even him spending the studio’s money—he’s spending it like the Joker would spend it, all right?” Tarantino said. “And then his big surprise gift—haha!—the jack-in-the-box, when he offers you his hand for a handshake and you get a buzzer with 10,000 volts shooting you—is the comic book geeks,” Tarantino explained.
“He’s saying fuck you to all of them, he continued. “He’s saying fuck you to the movie audience. He’s saying fuck you to Hollywood. He’s saying fuck you to anybody who owns any stock at DC and Warner Brothers…And Todd Phillips is the Joker. Un film de Joker, all right, is what it is. He is the Joker.”
Tarantino seemed to enjoy the film just enough to consider it better than the “one-note” Joker, which earned Phoenix an Academy Award for Best Actor. But Tarantino might not get a third Joker, as Phillips announced earlier this month that he’s stepping away from future DC Films projects.
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If Joker: Folie à Deux has one fan, it’s Hollywood filmmaking veteran Quentin Tarantino.
Rather than condemning Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga’s latest flick, which has a mediocre 32% score on Rotten Tomatoes, Tarantino praised the latest Joker installment while recently visiting The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. According to reports, Tarantino stands among the few Folie à Deux supporters, regardless of its meager $37.6 million domestic box office opening.
“I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously, and I went to see it expecting to be impressed by the filmmaking,” Tarantino told Ellis, per Variety. “But I thought it was going to be an arms-length, intellectual exercise that ultimately I wouldn’t think worked like a movie, but that I would appreciate it for what it is.”
“And I’m just nihilistic enough to kind of enjoy a movie that doesn’t quite work as a movie or that’s like a big, giant mess to some degree,” he continued. And I didn’t find it an intellectual exercise. I really got caught up into it.”
“I really liked the musical sequences. I got really caught up,” he added. “I thought the more banal the songs were, the better they were. I find myself listening to the lyrics of ‘For Once in My Life’ in a way I never have before.”
Elsewhere, Tarantino compared Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck and Gaga’s Harley Quinn to the protagonists of 1994 crime thriller Natural Born Killers, which he wrote the original screenplay for.
“As much as the first one was indebted to ‘Taxi Driver,’ this seems pretty fucking indebted to ‘Natural Born Killers,’ which I wrote, he said. “That’s the ‘Natural Born Killers’ I would have dreamed of seeing, 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.”
Tarantino also thought the Todd Philips-directed musical thriller was “really funny,” explaining that he watched it in an “almost empty IMAX theater” in Tel Aviv and could “laugh without bothering everybody.”
After commending Phoenix for delivering “one of the best performances I’ve ever seen in my life in this movie,” Tarantino saluted Phillips and gave an interpretation of the film’s direction.
“The Joker directed the movie. The entire concept, even him spending the studio’s money—he’s spending it like the Joker would spend it, all right?” Tarantino said. “And then his big surprise gift—haha!—the jack-in-the-box, when he offers you his hand for a handshake and you get a buzzer with 10,000 volts shooting you—is the comic book geeks,” Tarantino explained.
“He’s saying fuck you to all of them, he continued. “He’s saying fuck you to the movie audience. He’s saying fuck you to Hollywood. He’s saying fuck you to anybody who owns any stock at DC and Warner Brothers…And Todd Phillips is the Joker. Un film de Joker, all right, is what it is. He is the Joker.”
Tarantino seemed to enjoy the film just enough to consider it better than the “one-note” Joker, which earned Phoenix an Academy Award for Best Actor. But Tarantino might not get a third Joker, as Phillips announced earlier this month that he’s stepping away from future DC Films projects.
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