Why No One Will Get Fired Over ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was interested when I heard it was going to be a musical.

  I was turned off when I found it was just licensed music and would not have any original songs. Like… What’s the point of making a musical if you’re not gonna make new songs specifically for the story?

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  • Yeller_king@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ahhhh this is the first time hearing it isn’t original music. I took for granted that a musical would have original songs.

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Worked for Moulin Rouge

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    • Stern@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The caveat there is Moulin Rouge was a musical to begin with and didn’t have any prior expectations.

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not a new concept. They are called jukebox musicals. It works well for this story imho.

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  • Klordok@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The point is Joker escaping into familiar songs to cope with reality.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Should’ve had the point as him escaping to the world of music and have original songs

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  • Teils13@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they can somehow fit pre-existing music into the film, it can be fun to see essentially several high budget musical clips of known songs at once and also a film. Bollywood can be good at this.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s thoroughly disappointing to hear

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Neither Phillips nor Phoenix was even sure about making a sequel and, for a time, contemplated putting on a Broadway show instead, before ultimately committing to the movie and bringing aboard Gaga in a role inspired by the comic book character Harley Quinn. The idea for the sequel came to Phoenix in a dream, and he and Phillips brought the idea to Emmerich, according to sources.

  In the end, some are saying that Joker: Folie à Deux is a very expensive art film. But when asked who the intended audience was, one outside source sums it up this way: “For Joaquin.”

  I’d have loved to be a fly on the wall:

  I don’t want to make a sequel movie to Joker.

  Well wait until you hear this: Joaquin has had a dream…

  Oh dear.

  And they are going to pay you $20M each!

  I’m listening.

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  • njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A good Lord I saw your quote here and I thought they were talking about Roland Emmerich for a sec. That would have been wild if he was involved in this film.

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I will throw down for emmerich the dude knows how to entertain

      Is it high art? No. But jesus is it a spectacle.

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  • synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the end, some are saying that Joker: Folie à Deux is a very expensive art film.

    Oh wow, that is exactly what I said to my friends as we left the theater

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• steve_floof@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Box office isn’t everything, not anymore. They’ll make it back in collectible trash they sell to incels

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  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are there enough incels who are willing to pay for Joker merch?

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    • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a whole online industry dedicated to making more incels, folks like Jordan Peterson. It’s been depressingly effective.

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• therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If only it weren’t a musical

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  • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The musical aspect was the only reason I was even a little interested

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s enough to quash any curiosity I have about it. I wonder what the overall sentiment is for musicals.

      Personally, I’ve always hated TV episodes that turn a non-musical show musical.

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  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That killed any interest I had in this franchise. The addition of Gaga solidified I wouldn’t be watching this. One of the best psychological, low key dramas of the last decade, so let’s make the sequel a musical and add a trendy pop star into it! Not to mention Gaga is an overrated, overproduced nepo baby. But that’s just my opinion

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Interesting that it had no test screening. Would the movie have been savable with reshoots and re-edits?

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  • Teils13@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only if they reshoot the entire film with another script, they practically did a Matrix 4 again, just because a minority of fans of the first film had bad takes they ruined what many normal people loved.

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  • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Release the reddig33 Cut!

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I liked it.

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  • Klordok@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same. It’s not a bad film. It is a fairly logical progression from the first movie. I was actually surprised it wasn’t more fantastical. There were several points where they could have escalated to a city wide musical caper, but they kept it grounded.

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    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People spontaneously breaking into song isn’t grounded

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they’d put in double stair kicks this would have made $2 billion.

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• Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because they have money to burn?

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    WDB is deep in debt, taken on when they merged. So no they don’t have money to burn.

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    • steve_floof@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They spent less than they pay their ceo

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