“Joker” was scored by Hildur Guðnadóttir, an Icelander who made her big Hollywood splash by musically embodying this famously devious clown as played by Joaquin Phoenix. Director Todd Phillips heard that score as he was looking for something “dark and heavy” for “Joker,” and reached out to Guðnadóttir. He also did something he’s never done before: sent a composer the script, and asked her to start writing music right away. Advertisement“When you’re making a film about one person,” Phillips said, “every other element really becomes a character in the film. “I thought it was really important to try to go into Arthur’s head, and try to make music from that place — what it meant to be Arthur, how Arthur felt,” she said.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 06, 2019 01:52 UTC