Joker: Folie à Deux director Todd Phillips breaks down the shocking ending which appears to be alienating followers.

MAJOR SPOILERS for Joker: Folie à Deux. The a lot anticipated Joker sequel is now enjoying in theaters, however not like the first film, it doesn’t look as if followers will assist it turn into one other billion-dollar success story. Joker: Folie à Deux has confirmed to be relatively divisive, with the ending specifically coming beneath hearth.

If you’ve seen the movie, you realize that the sequel finds Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) stabbed to dying by a fellow inmate, who promptly carves a Glasgow smile into his personal face. It was a shocking finish for the character, proving that Fleck was by no means going to turn into the Joker we all know and love. Joker: Folie à Deux director Todd Phillips spoke with Entertainment Weekly to interrupt down the ending and clarify why Fleck in the end rejects his Joker persona.

“He realized that everything is so corrupt, it’s never going to change, and the only way to fix it is to burn it all down,” Phillips stated. “When these guards kill that child in the [hospital] he realizes that dressing up in make-up, placing on this factor, it’s not altering something. In some methods, he’s accepted the proven fact that he’s at all times been Arthur Fleck; he’s by no means been this factor that’s been put upon him, this concept that Gotham folks placed on him, that he represents. He’s an unwitting icon. This factor was positioned on him, and he doesn’t wish to reside as a faux anymore — he needs to be who he’s.“

Phillips continued, “The sad thing is, he’s Arthur, and nobody cares about Arthur.” The director added that Lady Gaga’s character by no means refers to him as Arthur till their remaining interplay. “[She’s] realizing, I’m on a whole other trip, man, you can’t be what I wanted you to be,” he stated.

Given the ending to Joker: Folie à Deux, it makes all the extra sense why Phillips has stated that he doesn’t intend on returning for Joker 3. “It was fun to play in this sort of sandbox for two movies,” he stated, “however I feel we’ve stated what we wished to say on this world.“

Our personal Chris Bumbray wasn’t a fan of the sequel, feeling that it solely exists as a result of the first film made a boatload of cash. “Perhaps Joker was too big of a hit not to get a sequel, but watching Joker: Folie à Deux, you get the distinct feeling that this was an exercise in style for Phillips rather than a sequel that HAD to be made,” Bumbray wrote. “As it is, though, this Joker sequel spins its wheels and winds up being an often dull courtroom movie livened up by occasional flights of fancy into musical numbers. Those sequences are the best in the film, as without them, this would feel like a wholly unnecessary epilogue to what was originally a pretty powerful film.” You can try the remainder of Bumbray’s overview proper right here, and make sure you tell us what you consider the movie as nicely.