The final Joker trailer promises a gritty character study of Batman’s archnemesis
Thursday August 29, 2019
The final trailer for Todd Phillips� Joker has arrived, and it reveals the gritty, dark take on the iconic Batman villain.
The Warner Bros. description of Joker says, �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. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.�
Arthur isn�t the only one putting on a clown mask, though. The trailer also shows a Gotham City full of rioting clowns, possibly as a thematic stand-in for something like the disaffected-with-society Anonymous movement in the real world.
It�s heavy stuff, and it promises a far more serious take on the Joker�s traditional comics supervillainy than the already fairly grounded approach seen in 2008�s The Dark Knight.
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