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Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller film directed and co-produced by Todd Phillips from a screenplay he wrote with Scott Silver. The film, loosely based on DC Comics characters, stars Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker.
Oct 4, 2019 · Joker: Directed by Todd Phillips. With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy. Arthur Fleck, a party clown and a failed stand-up comedian, leads an impoverished life with his ailing mother. However, when society shuns him and brands him as a freak, he decides to embrace the life of crime and chaos in Gotham City.
Joker gives its infamous central character a chillingly plausible origin story that serves as a brilliant showcase for its star -- and a dark evolution for comics-inspired cinema. Read Critics...
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Aug 31, 2019 · Joaquin Phoenix boldly reinvents Batman's cackling archnemesis in 'Joker,' Todd Phillips' dark new vision of the supervillain origin story, also starring Robert De Niro.
Aug 31, 2019 · Joaquin Phoenix is astonishing as the mentally ill geek who becomes the killer-clown Joker in Todd Phillips' neo-'Taxi Driver' knockout.
Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him.
101M views 4 years ago. https://www.joker.movie / jokermovie / jokermovie ...more. Director Todd Phillips “Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone...
Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) works as a clown-for-hire for a company called Ha-Ha's. He struggles with severe depression personally but finds some form of optimism in performing for others and trying to make people laugh.
Apr 21, 2020 · When Joaquin Phoenix won the Best Actor Oscar — unbelievably, his first — for Joker at the 92nd Academy Awards on February 9, 2020, it seemed a bit like he was the only one who was surprised.
For his performance as the titular character of Joker (2019), Phoenix won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has since starred in the independent films C'mon C'mon (2021) and Beau Is Afraid (2023), and portrayed the title role in the historical drama Napoleon (2023). Phoenix is an animal rights activist.
