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Joker: Folie à Deux

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Joker: Folie à Deux is a 2024 American epic jukebox musical[5] psychological thriller film directed by Todd Phillips from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Loosely based on DC Comics characters, it is the sequel to Joker (2019). The film stars Joaquin Phoenix reprising the title role as Arthur Fleck, with Lady Gaga joining as his love interest Lee Quinzel. Zazie Beetz and Leigh Gill also reprise their roles from the previous film, while Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Steve Coogan and Harry Lawtey join the cast. It is produced by Warner Bros. Pictures in association with Joint Effort and was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Joker was conceived as a standalone film, although Warner Bros. intended the film to launch a DC Black film series. Phillips expressed interest in making a sequel, which entered development in June 2022, with Gaga and Beetz joining later that year. Principal photography took place in New York City, Los Angeles, and Belleville, New Jersey, from December 2022 to April 2023.

Joker: Folie à Deux premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2024, and was released in the United States on October 4, 2024. Although various reviewers praised the performances of Phoenix and Gaga, the film was not well-received by critics and has grossed $117 million worldwide against its $200 million production budget.

Plot[]

In an animated sequence, the Joker is impersonated by his shadow, who takes his place to perform his singing number for a TV show, and then abandons him on stage half-undressed, before three policemen arrive and beat him.

Arthur Fleck is in custody at Arkham State Hospital awaiting trial for the crimes he committed two years prior. His lawyer, Maryanne Stewart, plans to argue that Arthur has dissociative identity disorder and that his "Joker" personality is responsible for the crimes. At a music therapy session, Arthur meets another patient, Harleen "Lee" Quinzel. Lee confides to Arthur that she grew up in the same neighborhood he did, had an abusive father who died in a car crash, and was committed after burning down her parents' apartment building. Lee also expresses her admiration for the Joker's crimes and personality.

During a film screening, Lee starts a fire. She and Arthur are caught trying to escape, and Arthur is placed in solitary confinement. Lee seemingly visits him at night to say she is being released to avoid his influence but promises to attend his trial, and they have sex. During an interview with television personality Paddy Meyers, Arthur sings to Lee through the television screen, deepening her love for him.

On the day of the trial, Assistant District Attorney Harvey Dent calls witnesses who dismiss Arthur's claims of insanity. During a break, Maryanne reveals that Lee was actually a psychiatry student who grew up in the Upper West Side, and her father, a doctor, is alive. Furthermore, she voluntarily committed herself at Arkham, checked herself out, and never burned down an apartment building. When Arthur confronts Lee, she confesses that her lies were an effort to get close to Arthur but also tells him that she is pregnant and has moved into his old apartment building to create a home for them.

At the trial the next day, Arthur dismisses Maryanne and represents himself. After bringing Arthur's former co-worker Gary Puddles and neighbor Sophie Dumond to the stand, Dent rests his case. Arthur, visibly affected by Gary’s testimony, offers no defense, although, during his speech, he mentions the Arkham guards negatively. Returning to Arkham, he is taken to the showers room by head guard Jackie Sullivan and two guards, where he is brutally assaulted before being brought to his cell partially naked. Ricky, an inmate and friend of Arthur, verbally confronts the guards, resulting in Jackie strangling him to death. Overhearing this, Arthur reminisces about the aftermath of his first kills as Joker.

During his closing argument in court the following day, a devastated Arthur renounces his Joker persona, taking full responsibility for his actions. Enraged at this, Lee storms out, and the jury finds Arthur guilty of first-degree murder. As the foreman reads the verdict, a car bomb explodes outside the courthouse, killing and injuring numerous attendees and scarring half of Dent's face. In the chaos, two followers help Arthur escape.

Arthur wanders through Gotham and encounters Lee outside his old apartment, but she rejects him for renouncing his Joker persona and implies that her pregnancy was a lie. The police apprehend Arthur and return him to Arkham. The next day, a young patient approaches Arthur and begins telling a joke before repeatedly stabbing Arthur in the abdomen, echoing Arthur's punchline from when he murdered talk show host Murray Franklin. As Arthur bleeds to death, the patient carves a smile on his face while laughing hysterically.

Cast[]

Music[]

Hildur Guðnadóttir composed the film's score, returning from the first film.[25] The film is expected to include at least 15 musical numbers, most of them covers of pre-existing songs, with an opportunity to also feature one or two original songs; these songs will incorporate elements of Hildur's score.[26] Gaga released a "companion album", Harlequin, on September 27, 2024.[27]

Marketing[]

A teaser trailer for the film was released on April 10, 2024, while Warner Bros. screened a presentation at the 2024 CinemaCon, being promoted by Phillips. It features Sammy Davis Jr. and Tom Jones' cover of the song "What the World Needs Now Is Love" (1965). Christi Carras from Los Angeles Times felt the film's presentation as a musical adhered to a trend where movie studios seemed reluctant to promote their films as musicals, citing Wonka (2023) and Mean Girls (2024) as examples.[28] Writing for Variety, Rebecca Rubin called the footage "dark and gritty" and highlighted the portrayal of Quinn as being Fleck's "demented muse".[29] TheWrap's Jeremy Fuster and Stephanie Kaloi described the trailer as focusing on Quinn and Fleck's "wild, destructive love".[30] The trailer gained 167 million views in 24 hours, being Warner Bros.' biggest trailer premiere at the time, having surpassed that of the first trailer for Barbie (2023).[31]

Phillips revealed during a Q&A session with IGN that he originally intended to shoot a trailer for the in-universe television film about Arthur Fleck's story mentioned in the film, confirming that it starred Ethan Chase, Justin Theroux's character from the first film, having planned for Theroux to reprise the role to shoot it. Plans for the trailer fell off due to running out of time.[32]

Release[]

Joker: Folie à Deux had the world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2024.[33] Warner Bros. insiders claim that the studio didn't want to premiere the film in that festival as they had done back in 2019 with Joker, but Phillips pushed back until they accepted, though a spokeperson said Warner fully supported the decision to screen the film in Venice.[34] The film was released theatrically in the United States on October 4, 2024, by Warner Bros. Pictures. At their 2024 CineEurope presentation, Warner Bros. announced that the film would be released overseas on October 2, 2024, two days before the domestic premiere.[35] The film was released on IMAX screens, when Megalopolis (2024) relinquished them a week after its own release.[36]

Following the success of Oppenheimer (2023) and Dune: Part Two (2024) in the format, Joker: Folie à Deux was released in the IMAX 15-perforation 70 mm film format to eleven venues worldwide.[37][38] The film was also released in 70mm IMAX screens in select theaters.[39]

Reception[]

Box office[]

As of October 8, 2024 (2024-10-08), Joker: Folie à Deux has grossed $42.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $75.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $117.3 million. Variety estimated that the film would need to gross $450 million in order to break even.[40]

Five weeks ahead of release, Boxoffice Pro projected that the film would "easily" gross at least $100 million in its opening weekend in the United States and Canada and outgross its predecessor's debut of $96.2 million, with estimates at $115–145 million despite it receiving mixed reviews at Venice like its predecessor.[41] Two weeks after, projections dropped to $70 million, and the week of release, estimates became $55–60 million.[42] After it made $20 million on its first day, including an estimated $7 million from Thursday night previews, projections dropped again to $45 million for the weekend.[43] It went on to debut at $37.7 million from 4,102 theaters, topping the box office but coming way below expectations.[44][45] Deadline Hollywood attributed the opening to fans of the original not wanting to see a musical.[43]

Jeff Goldstein, the studio's president of domestic distribution, acknowledged the film's performance in an article by The Wall Street Journal, mentioning that the sequel was a "deeper dive into mental illness" and making guesses about some of the film's core audience (particularly males) struggling to connect with this new direction for the character of Lee.[46] Wall Street financial analyst Dan Ives deemed the film a "black eye" for Warner Bros. at a key time, with the industry having expected the film to be a hit. Variety also attributed the film's underperformance to Bradley Cooper's lack of participation on it with his commercial instincts unlike its predecessor, as Cooper dissolved his producing partnership with Phillips in 2021.

Critical response[]

Publications described the critical consensus upon Folie à Deux's release as either negative or mixed. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 32% of 341 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.9/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 45 out of 100, based on 59 critics, indicating “mixed of average” reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "D" on an A+ to F scale (down from the first film's "B+" as well as the lowest grade ever for a comic book film),[47][48] while those surveyed by PostTrak gave the film a 40% overall positive score (with an average 1/2 out of five star rating), with "a very low" 24% saying they would definitely recommend it.

Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood felt the film was "brilliant", while also commenting that the "production values across the board are excellent, particularly returning Lawrence Sher's cinematography, the production design of Mark Friedberg, and costumes from Arianna Phillips".[49] William Bibbiani of TheWrap gave the film a positive review, writing that the film "is the most interesting film about Arthur Fleck. It's genuinely a little daring, genuinely a little challenging, and genuinely a little genuine".[50] Geoffrey Macnab of The Independent described the film as "deeply unsettling".[51] In his four stars out of five review for The Daily Telegraph, Robbie Collin lauded the film for its musical numbers and Phillips for "stay[ing] true to the project’s nihilistic ethos," while noting Lady Gaga was "magnetic but underused".[52] Rafa Sales Ross of The Playlist echoed similar thoughts on the use of Gaga but enjoyed Phoenix "in a much more contained turn, a welcome change to those put off by the constant, annoyingly loud cackling that permeated much of the previous instalment".[53]

In his three stars out of five review for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw praised the opening, the supporting cast and the "real spark" in the first encounter between the two protagonists, but wrote "the whole movie finally turns out to be oppressively, claustrophobically and repetitively becalmed in that oddly unreal Gotham-universe jail with Phoenix and Gaga kept apart for long periods". Bradshaw found that "Phoenix's own performance is as single-note as before, though certainly as forceful and his screen presence is potent" and that Gaga "brings a sly and manipulative malice" to her character.[54] In a mixed review for KQED-FM, Jack Coyle wrote, "laudable as the intentions of Folie à Deux may be, it feels thoughtfully but tiresomely stuck in the past".[55] A negative review for ABC News by Luke Goodsell wrote: "That Joker was intended as a standalone movie is evident from the new sequel ... a quasi-musical courtroom drama that has little interest in advancing any kind of story. In fact, it's even more deliberately obtuse and anti-crowd-pleasing than its predecessor".[56]

USA Today reported that the negative reviews "argued the musical numbers are underwhelming and Gaga's talents are not well-utilized".[57] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times stated the film was "such a dour, unpleasant slog that it is hard to know why it was made or for whom," and that "Phoenix's sour frown, the movie's barely-there story, its unrelenting grimness and its commitment to forced eccentricity suggest that no one involved was really stoked to make it".[58] David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave a scathing review, stating the film "perversely denies audiences everything they've been conditioned to want from it; gently at first, and then later with the unmistakable hostility of a knife to the gut," and that "its turgid symphony of unexpected cameos, mournful cello solos, and implied sexual violence is too dissonant to appreciate even on its own terms".[59] Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic lamented that the film has "nothing interesting to say about the challenge of fame" and feels like "punish[ment] for the crime of wanting to be entertained".[60] Justin Clark of Slant Magazine gave the film one out of four, writing that "Folie à Deux's attempt at showcasing cleverness, verve, or engagement is held cruelly underwater by staid direction, shoddy emotional plotting, a gleeful sense of cruelty, and a grave nihilism that makes Zack Snyder's work seem like a season of Bluey".[61] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter found the film "frustrating," its plot "a little thin and at times dull," and took issue with how the film "all but neutralizes [the Joker]" and "reduces the archvillain to a hollowed-out product of childhood trauma and mental illness".[62] Owen Gleiberman of Variety also criticized its thin plot, deeming it "overly cautious" and lacking in execution, while taking issue with the minimal use of Gaga, noting her "lovely unforced presence" in the film "is drastically underused. Her Lee never quite takes wing".[63]

One source close to the film's production deemed the film's release as a "complete audience rejection", with another one noting the film to be "a very expensive art film" whose intended audience was none other than Phoenix himself. According to yet another source, Phillips spent the weekend release of Joker: Folie à Deux secluded on a ranch property he owns. A source directly involved in the film acknowledged that no one could reach Phillips, so him ignoring fan expectations sealed its failure and harmed the DC brand. Box office analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations called the film "a Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) level of disaster" with Warner massively overspending on the film, only for audiences to show very little interest, seemingly as a result of the filmmakers making creative choices that did not align with fan expectations.

Themes and analysis[]

Critics noted that the film is a work of metafiction that is designed to intentionally antagonize audiences who were fans of the first film. Rather than capitulating to expectations of the predecessor's fanbase that Arthur would fully embrace his Joker persona and go on to become Batman's archenemy, the film serves to rebuke those who idolized the character of the Joker after the original movie. As a deliberate anti-audience effort, the film pushes against the notion of fan service, instead creating a self-aware narrative that is a commentary on its own existence. The film features off-key musical sequences that contrast with fan expectations following the original film, during one such scene Joker acknowledges, "I don't think we're giving the people what they want". Lee Quinzel can be viewed as a stand-in for audiences who were fans of the first film, with her comments about becoming obsessed with Joker after having seen a TV movie based on his life reflecting the audience. Lee represents an affluent fan who desires the anarchy and exotic thrill Joker represents, and like the audience, is upset and disappointed when Arthur fails to live up to his Joker identity.[64][65] The finale where Arthur's crimes are trialed and he is made to seem sad and pathetic represents an effort by Phillips to subvert and undermine audiences who saw Arthur as heroic in the first film, and the trial reiterates the events of the first film in a way that is intended to be dissatisfying and alienating to audiences.[66][67] Likewise, Arthur renouncing his Joker persona before being unceremoniously killed by an unnamed inmate who seemingly becomes the next Joker has also been interpreted as a deliberate attempt by the filmmakers to disappoint audiences, subversively denying fans their desire for a heroic or sympathetic narrative as well as causing them to question who the true Joker of both films' titles is.[68] As a result, many felt the film to be a "very expensive punch line" for the same audiences who saw the first film.

Future[]

In October 2024, Phillips said he had no plans to make further DC films, rejecting the notion of making either a third Joker film or a spin-off centered on Lee due to negative response from critics and audience during the film's premiere.[69]

Trailers[]

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References[]

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  65. ↑ ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ is a brilliant f*** you (2024-10-08).
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  67. ↑ Joker: Folie à Deux Is an Anti-Sequel That Pretends To Be Great, but Never Is (2024-10-03).
  68. ↑ Fans Say ‘Joker 2’ Ending Was a Betrayal, but Was It Actually Its Finest Moment? (2024-10-06).
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