"When we learned that Warner Bros was releasing a movie called 'Joker' that presents the character as a protagonist with a sympathetic origin story, it gave us pause," it reads, adding the studio should use its platform to lobby for gun reform.
In response, Warner Bros said:"Neither the fictional character, Joker, nor the film, is an endorsement of real-world violence of any kind. It is not the intention of the film, the filmmakers or the studio to hold this character up as a hero."Phoenix has been lauded in many quarters for his performance, which has generated Oscars buzz.
He told the ABC the very idea was to ground the story in reality more so than most previous Batman adaptations. "In some ways I think we did try to approach it through as realistic of a lens as possible," he said. "But it also maintains some of the mythos of Batman and that world, and this fictional character and city and how they function in it.
If it were based on a gritty adult graphic novel, people would take to it. A clown, an actor that does creep really well, edgy violence gritty realism isn't the usual run of the mill justice POrn that Disney shits out way too often.
No it’s not . You are .
Just panicking the already panicked 'woke' left, lmao!
So, what they are telling us is that the general public cannot tell the difference between fantasy (the film) and real life. That's the frightening part of this report. I go to the cinema to be entertained by actors for $5-50 pensioner rates, not to get fresh ideas on how to kill
It's fiction woke-left + conservatives.
Giuliani would be the time right one to play the joker
This is pathetic. The culture the woke left is forcing on us is too fragile to survive and they are dragging the rest of us down with them. Its a MOVIE based on a kids superhero cartoon FFS
This movie launched the civilwar