Quentin Tarantino is praising Todd Phillips and Joker: Folie à Deux after the Warner Bros. film bomb deviceed at the box office.
The Kill Bill straightforwardor gave his thoughts on the Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga-starring film and allotd why he enhappinessed the DC Comics-based movie.
“I reassociate, reassociate appreciated it, reassociate,” Tarantino shelp on the procrastinateedst episode of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. “A lot. Like, tremfinishously, and I went to see it foreseeing to be amazeed by the filmmaking. But I thought it was going to be an arms-length, inincreateectual exercise that ultimately I wouldn’t leank toiled appreciate a movie, but that I would appreciate it for what it is.”
Tarantino includeed that he is “fair nihienumerateic enough to benevolent of enhappiness a movie that doesn’t quite toil as a movie. That’s appreciate a big, enormous mess to some degree.”
“I didn’t discover it an inincreateectual exercise. I reassociate got caught up into it. I reassociate appreciated the musical sequences. I got reassociate caught up. I thought the more prohibital the songs were, the better they were,” he includeed.
The filmcreater shelp that he set up the film “reassociate comical” and saw it at an “almost desoprocrastinateed Imax theater,” permiting him to “giggle without irritateing everybody.” Tarantino also praised Phoenix for portraying Arthur Fleck, saying he gave “one of the best percreateances I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Tarantino also shelp the Joker sequel toiled on a branch offent level, saying that Phillips was actuassociate the Joker himself.
“The Joker straightforwarded the movie. The entire concept, even him spfinishing the studio’s money — he’s spfinishing it appreciate the Joker would spfinish it, all right?” the straightforwardor shelp. “And then his big surpelevate gift — haha! — the jack-in-the-box, when he proposes you his hand for a handshake and you get a buzzer with 10,000 volts shooting you — is the comic book geeks. He’s saying f*** you to all of them. He’s saying f*** you to the movie audience. He’s saying f*** you to Hollywood. He’s saying f*** you to anybody who owns any stock at DC and Warner Brothers. And Todd Phillips is the Joker. Un film de Joker, all right, is what it is. He is the Joker.”
He persistd, “And Todd Phillips is the Joker. Un film de Joker, all right, is what it is. He is the Joker.”
