J oker! Finally the lm in a dark tone that we’ve been waiting for and the nal answer to the most mys- terious question of the comic strip universe - how did the greatest villain of all time emerge? Based on what we’ve seen so far (in the trailer), it will be masochistic en- joyment that’s simultaneously wonderful, but also too heavy to watch. We follow the fraught life journey of Ar- thur Fleck prior to him becoming the Jok- er. During the day he works as a clown at children’s parties, while in the evenings he strives to become a stand-up comedian. Just one bad decision leads to a chain reaction of escalating events that brings this study of human character in a fractured society to fever pitch. Arthur discovers that the joke is always on him! Joaquin Phoenix had to lose 23.5 kilos to be able to pro le his hero in the right way, and - as he says – doing so also ended up impacting on his own psyche. “You start going crazy! What attracted me to this personality is that he is so di - cult to de ne. You don’t know how to ap- proach him, because every day you discov- er new aspects of the Joker’s personality... It was like that until the last day,”said Phoenix. The fact that the DC universe doesn’t know lukewarm stories, it always cuts to the
ceived his debut lm, but a poor one. Over- exploitation led to the comic strip quickly plunging into a crisis that was only overcome by Frank Miller in the 1980s. This author re- de ned the comic version to show that a vulnerable Batman is even more appealing to the audience, and the“Dark Knight”car- ries his signature. The city of Gotham in which they live has to date been portrayed 13 times, and Christopher Nolan shifted the standards of the genre with his trilogy. The Dark Knight became a cult lm, with Christian Bale ce- menting a place for himself as the “right, true Batman”, while Heath Ledger managed to create unprecedented mythomania in his portrayal of the Joker. Ledger alleg- edly locked himself alone in a room for a month prior to lming, refusing to emerge
bone. And it is in this sense that it di ers from the dominant Marvel universe, which has be- come a money-making machine. When DC makes a lm, it tends to be a mini master- piece, with experts often mentioning break- throughs beyond known boundaries. Or, to put it simply: Marvel makes lms for all ages, and DC makes compromises that can satisfy the appetite of the audience, but also critics. A symbol and synonym of evil, a diction- ary de nition explaining a state of total mad- ness and the eclipsing of the mind... But the Joker is much more than that, because the greatest villain goes hand in hand with the embodiment of good and one of the most popular superheroes – the Caped Crusader; Batman. He rst appeared in comics back in 1939, thanks to writer Bill Finger and car- toon artist Bob Kane, and four years later re-
Finiks je odlično uskočio u
ulogu, posle fantastičnog
Džeka Nikolsona i nezaboravnog Hita Ledžera Pheonix leapt wonderfully
into the role, following the fantastic Jack Nicholson and unforgettable Heath Ledger
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