Quentin Tarantino made headlines in late October when he defended “Joker: Folie à Deux” and stated that Joaquin Phoenix offers “among the best performances I’ve ever seen in my life on this film,” which apparently pissed off a number of fanboys. The Oscar winner was a current visitor on “The Joe Rogan Expertise” and known as out a few of the poisonous reactions to his love for the maligned “Joker” sequel.
“I am going on a present and I say that I like ‘Joker 2.’ Now there’s 150 articles on it,” Tarantino stated. “One individual listens to the factor and writes an article about it and there’s 150 ripoff articles on that. And then you definately learn the feedback: ‘Quentin is a fucking asshole. That film fucking sucks. He’s a fucking asshole for saying that.’ Why am I a fucking asshole? I favored the fucking film! That makes me a fucking asshole? You both just like the film otherwise you don’t. I’m not plugging the film. I’m not doing something. I’m simply saying I prefer it. Who offers a fuck what I like? What do you care what the fuck I like?”
“Then they are saying I’m a fucking asshole for not seeing one thing,” the director continued. “What the fuck do you care what I see or don’t see? Somebody will say, ‘Nicely I feel he’s lacking out.’ Nicely I’m certain there may be a number of shit I may say you’re lacking out on and I don’t care when you miss out on.”
Tarantino gave his “Joker 2” protection throughout an interview on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast.” He was one of many first distinguished administrators to talk up in help of the film, which earned largely damaging critiques and bombed on the field workplace with $58 million domestically and $206 million worldwide. These figures had been a far cry from the $1 billion gross of 2019’s unique “Joker” film.
“I actually, actually favored it, actually. Quite a bit. Like, tremendously, and I went to see it anticipating to be impressed by the filmmaking,” Tarantino stated. “However I assumed it was going to be an arms-length, mental train that in the end I wouldn’t suppose labored like a film, however that I’d recognize it for what it’s. And I’m simply nihilistic sufficient to type of get pleasure from a film that doesn’t fairly work as a film or that’s like a giant, large mess to a point. And I didn’t discover it an mental train. I actually acquired caught up into it. I actually favored the musical sequences. I acquired actually caught up. I assumed the extra banal the songs had been, the higher they had been. I discover myself listening to the lyrics of ‘For As soon as in My Life’ in a method I by no means have earlier than.”
Tarantino additionally recommended director Todd Phillips for being a joker himself, explaining: “The Joker directed the film. Your entire idea, even him spending the studio’s cash — he’s spending it just like the Joker would spend it, all proper? … the comedian e-book geeks. He’s saying fuck you to all of them. He’s saying fuck you to the film viewers. He’s saying fuck you to Hollywood. He’s saying fuck you to anyone who owns any inventory at DC and Warner Brothers […] And Todd Phillips is the Joker. Un movie de Joker, all proper, is what it’s. He’s the Joker.”
Hearken to Tarantino’s full interview on “The Joe Rogan Expertise” right here.
