Joker: Folie à Deux‘s press tour is in full swing because the sequel DC comedian movie inches ever nearer to its theatrical launch, and director Todd Phillips and star Lady Gaga are adamant that the sequel movie isn’t a musical. The one drawback is their hurried explanations for what the movie truly is walks, talks, and sashays precisely just like the dictionary definition of a musical.
Throughout a Joker 2 press junket on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant, Gaga reiterated that Joker 2 will not be a musical as a result of it’s totally different from the standard one.
“The way in which that music is used is to actually give the characters a solution to categorical what they should say as a result of the scene and dialogue is simply not sufficient,” Gaga mentioned.
Reader, Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a musical as “a movie or theatrical manufacturing sometimes of a sentimental or humorous nature that consists of musical numbers and dialogue based mostly on a unifying plot.” In different phrases, it’s precisely what Gaga simply mentioned Joker 2 isn’t.
Woman Gaga doesn’t view #Joker2 as a musical.
Gaga says “the music is used to actually give the characters a solution to categorical what they should say as a result of the scene and dialogue is simply not sufficient” #Venezia81 pic.twitter.com/XV5tmmrhY9
— Deadline (@DEADLINE) September 4, 2024
As talked about earlier, Gaga isn’t the primary particular person concerned in Joker 2 to downplay the movie’s obvious musical leanings. In an interview with Variety a few weeks prior, Phillips admitted to fighting labeling Joker 2 as a musical regardless of having musical numbers the place Phoenix and Gaga escape into songs with renditions of classics like “Get Joyful,” “For As soon as in My Life,” and “That’s Life.”
“Many of the music within the film is admittedly simply dialogue. It’s simply Arthur not having the phrases to say what he needs to say, so he sings them as a substitute,” Phillips advised Selection, rake-stepping his method into defining what a musical is.
“I simply don’t need individuals to assume that it’s like Within the Heights, the place the woman within the bodega begins to sing and so they take it out onto the road, and the police are dancing,” Phillips continued. “No disrespect, as a result of I cherished Within the Heights.”
“Arthur has music in him. That was a logical leaping-off level for the sequel.” Joker: Folie à Deux – solely in theaters and @imax, October 4. #JokerMovie #FilmedForIMAX pic.twitter.com/Jmlj8sF1fQ
— Joker Film (@jokermovie) September 3, 2024
Hilariously, the official Joker X Twitter account not too long ago uploaded a featurette titled “The Music Inside;” in it, Phillips, Phoenix, and Gaga recount how utilizing music—albeit in a rough-sounding method—was a “logical leaping-off level for the sequel.” Even when the music sounds horrible, it’s nonetheless a musical.
No matter whether or not or not historical past will deem Joker 2 as a musical or not, the clown-centric movie will hit theaters on October 4.
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