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Folie à Deux Movie Review
The Clown Prince of Crime has taken on Batman, the Justice League, and the Gotham Police time and time again, but his newest foe…musicals? Joaquin Phoenix is back in his Oscar winning performance as Arthur Fleck in Joker: Folie a Deux. Todd Phillips’ approach to the 2019 film was an even grittier take on the character pulling from various sources primarily from Scorsese films and it paid off big time. This time around with the anticipated sequel, Phillips wanted to deconstruct the character even further and turn the film into a full blown jukebox musical. Joining Phoenix is none other than pop icon Lady Gaga as Lee Quinzel (or Harley Quinn to the fans). The film takes place in 2 distinct settings; Arkham Asylum and a courtroom. Arkham, the iconic prison where Batman’s rogue gallery primarily inhabits, is where Fleck & Quinn have a chaotic meet-cute where they break out into song and dance and build their mad love for each other. The courtroom, though, is where the film loses its footing. The film tries to posit the idea that maybe The Joker isn’t crazy after all and is just a serial killer. It becomes more baffling by the minute as Lee and Arthur go back and forth through fantastical musical numbers and their on and off again romance. Wright, Nathan, and Beau struggled with the film’s tone and approach to the iconic character. Listen as they discuss Joker: Folie a Deux!
DIRECTED BY: Todd Phillips
STARRING: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz, Steve Coogan, Harry Lawtey, Leigh Gill, Ken Leung, Jacob Lofland, Bill Smitrovich, Sharon Washington, Connor Storrie
YOUR REVIEWERS
Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)
Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.
Nathan Flynn (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)
A recent transplant to Austin originally hailing from the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is the Midwest, Nathan Flynn has been a movie super freak since he saw “An American Werewolf in London” way too young and grew up worshipping the James Bond franchise and all things related to Cold War-era spycraft. When he’s not watching movies and being a constant defender of the Tron franchise, he can be found practicing his second biggest love: cooking (having been a chef for 10+ years) and hitting his head up against a desk to write screenplays that nobody reads. He also spearheads his own podcast on the Mission Impossible franchise titled “Mission: Impodible”. He can be found rarely posting on his personal twitter.
Beau Paul (Highly Suspect Reviews, The Original Gentlemen, Screener Squad)
Beau Paul is an Austin native, an actor, and a writer. Sometimes all at once! Previously he has attempted to be an internet entertainer (the funny ha-ha kind, not the naked moneymaking kind) at Spill.com, and now here on OneOfUs.net. You can read his pithy witticisms and the retweeted material of funnier, cleverer people on Twitter or Facebook, and can buy him stuff on Amazon.
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