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Quentin Tarantino defends ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’ from comic fans criticizing the movie
The director behind movies like ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Inglorious Basterds’, speaks up about his appreciation for Todd Phillips ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’
They say that great minds think alike, and that seems to be the case for Quentin Tarantino, even though few know how to decipher what is happening inside his head. The director of masterpieces like ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ raised his voice recently, this time with his opinion about ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’. The filmmaker admits that he loved what his mutual, Todd Phillips, has done, whom he points out as the real Joker of the film.
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“I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously,” Tarantino begins in an interview in Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast. “Todd Phillips is the Joker. 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? And then his big surprise gift — haha! — the 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. He’s saying f— you to all of them. He’s saying f— you to the movie audience. He’s saying f— you to Hollywood. He’s saying f— 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.”
The filmmaker recognizes that it is a film “that doesn’t quite work as a movie”, but being able to enjoy it has to do with the deep message that you find when watching it. “That’s like a big, giant mess to some degree. 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. I thought the more banal the songs were, the better they were.”
The disaster at the box office has been impactful either way. We recently learned that the film had reached 200 million in collection after three weeks in theaters. It is the amount it cost to create it, but at the same time, this figure does not take into account marketing and production costs. To be profitable, it still has a long way to go in digital format and its subsequent arrival on shelves.
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