has been one of Hollywood’s most successful enfants terribles. From “Road Trip” to “Old School” through all three “Hangover” movies, few directors have more comprehensively catalogued sophomoric self destruction than the Brooklyn-born NYU dropout-turned-hitmaker.
Phillips denies the notion that his film validates the character’s violent impulses. “Movies are mirrors, not molders,” he says. Rather, the director says he and his co-writer Scott Silver were specifically interested in interrogating what lies beneath, and perhaps leads an individual to them. Warner Bros. had such low expectations for “The Hangover” that the studio didn’t bother to sign its stars for multiple films, forcing much higher payouts for parts two and three after the original earned almost $500 million during its theatrical run. And on “Joker,” Warner lowballed the production with a reported $60 million budget, perhaps hoping Phillips abandon what they perceived as a risk to the integrity of some of the studio’s most-valuable intellectual property.
“That was an exploration of when my mother always said, ‘whatever you do, don’t belong to a group,’ ” he says. “It was all under that ‘why fit in when you were born to stand out?’ “As I would get more and more quote-unquote power, and I use that term loosely, my inclination is to just go darker,” he says. “It’s just who I am. The first movie I made was a documentary about punk rock singer G.G. Allin, called ‘Hated,’ which is a very dark film. So my tastes are there a little bit.”
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He the best joker ever period
Wonderful movie, interesting piece, root for Todd this awards season.
Or how about what it has in common with Scorsese films?
I’m guessing it’s that makes shit up regardless of an actual narrative
Best movie of the year