Todd Phillips’ great promise clown Stripping away the comic book elements of the eponymous character, it shows what would happen if an ordinary person in Gotham City in the 1980s decided to don clown makeup. (As it turns out, things didn’t go well, mostly for everyone else around him.) The original movie featured a young Bruce Wayne, and you might be wondering what would happen if the adult Batman met this version of his nemesis. According to director and screenwriter Todd Phillips, he thought Arthur Fleck would just think Batman was neat. (I’m sure you’re shocked.)
In a recent interview with IGN, Phillips explained how Arthur would “revere an alpha male like Batman. I think [he’d] Lift your head and admire it. In his book, Arthur was “fascinated by relaxed men” such as his own colleague and Robert De Niro’s talk show host Murray Franklin in the first film. These people are all things he doesn’t have, so why can’t Batman do the same? Presumably, this Batman knows that Arthur was responsible for his parents’ murder, but maybe they can move beyond that.
original clown Eventually Arthur eventually lost his cool and shot Murray in the face on live television, so the fascination was clearly limited. Still, there’s some truth to Phillips’ comment about how Arthur fell in love so quickly, whether romantically or platonic. But Warner Bros. may be interested in making decades Convert the subtext between the bat and the joke into actual text, or at least no more than LEGO Batman This was already done back in 2017.
clown: pas de deux Released on October 4th.
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