If anything, it just serves to give the movie even more publicity for curious moviegoers to check it out in the cinema. The Joker, directed by Todd Phillips, clearly draws its influence from another dangerous movie, Taxi Driver, way back from 1976, as well as King Of Comedy (1983). It’s an origin story of The Dark Knight’s arch nemesis and although this is linked to a comic book character, it is really far off from a typical superhero movie. Plenty of other movies have even more violent content, Taxi Driver included, and even in other superhero movies like Deadpool. There’s no point though in comparing Phoenix’s portrayal to the one that Heath Ledger so seamlessly took on in The Dark Knight back in 2008.

Source: New Strait Times October 14, 2019 04:07 UTC