‘Joker 2’ Director Says Arthur Fleck Was Never Joker: ‘He’s an Unwitting Icon’ and Joker Is ‘This Idea That Gotham People Put on Him’

Spoiler Alert: This story includes details about the ending of “Joker: Folie à Deux’
The murder trial at the center of “Joker: Folie à Deux” ends in explosive fashion: A bomb goes off and destroys the courtroom after Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) decides to defend himself and confesses that the Joker is not some split personality of his. Nor does he even exist. It’s been Arthur all along and he’s guilty of the murders he’s on trial for.
“He realized that everything is so corrupt, it’s never going to change, and the only way to fix it is to burn it all down,” director Todd Phillips told Entertainment Weekly when asked about having Arthur confess to his sins. “When those guards kill that kid in the [hospital] he realizes that dressing up in makeup, putting on this thing, it’s not changing anything. In some ways, he...
The murder trial at the center of “Joker: Folie à Deux” ends in explosive fashion: A bomb goes off and destroys the courtroom after Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) decides to defend himself and confesses that the Joker is not some split personality of his. Nor does he even exist. It’s been Arthur all along and he’s guilty of the murders he’s on trial for.
“He realized that everything is so corrupt, it’s never going to change, and the only way to fix it is to burn it all down,” director Todd Phillips told Entertainment Weekly when asked about having Arthur confess to his sins. “When those guards kill that kid in the [hospital] he realizes that dressing up in makeup, putting on this thing, it’s not changing anything. In some ways, he...
- 07/10/2024
- di Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
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