By One thing we’ve often heard plenty of times about filmmaker Todd Phillips’ highly anticipated “Joker: Folie a Deux,” so much so that it seems like fact, is that the movie is a musical.
We do know Joaquin Phoenix will return as Arthur Fleck here in a story that will reportedly unfold almost entirely within Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum and will have musical elements.
The inclusion of Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn adding to the idea the film is a full-fledged song-and-dancer, as has the discussion of the movie taking its visual inspiration from Francis Ford Coppola’s lavish musical “One from the Heart”.
However, according to the film’s director of photography Lawrence Sher whilst participating in an online Masterclass in France, it’s not a musical. Rather, it’s a film that just has music in it and so is not unlike the first film:
“Its got some music. It’s not a musical per se, but it’s like.. it just has music in it, that’s all. Music is a part of the movie and the characters, but I don’t know if it’s a musical. But yes, there is music.
But there’s a lot of music in the first ‘Joker’ too. There’s like… there was actually like things that we didn’t do in the first Joker that to some extent are part of the DNA of the second one.”
He goes on to explain how the first film had key use of music – some of it making it into the movie itself, some of which was cut:
“You know how in the first Joker he’s like watching Charlie Chaplin and he has like a little music in him right you know the way you know the dancing on the steps and all that kind of stuff there were some things we shot that were cut out but that there was a little Charlie Chaplin this to his kind of just being a little bit of a clown and a little bit of this whole thing so some of that same idea of music being really prevalent is more of a continuation of Joker than something new.
The R-rated 2019 “Joker” grossed $1 billion and landed Phoenix the best actor Oscar. Zazie Beetz, Catherine Keener, Brendan Gleeson, and Jacob Lofland co-star in the new movie which Phillips once again directs from a script he wrote with Scott Silver.
“Joker: Folie a Deux” is slated to premiere on October 4th. Check out some just released new photos below:
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