Joker: Folie à Deuxset up the perfect story for a threequel, but thatDCmovie is most likely never going to materialize.Joaquin Phoenix continues to excel in the role of Arthur Fleck. The actor delivers another tour de force performance as the lead ofJoker: Folie à Deux’s cast, which should get him nominations come awards season. However, the same cannot be said for the movie as a whole.Joker: Folie à Deuxhas become a box office bomb, which is shocking, as the originalJokerbroke the $1 billion mark.
Joker: Folie à Deuxis a controversial movie, just like the first was. However, the main issue is that the new film goes directly against what the first one was about, and it does that by offering very few thrills throughout and almost no exciting musical sequences, making the decision to have it be the first superhero musical seem like a waste.Joker: Folie à Deux’s ending has led to outrage, contributing to many of the negative reviews from critics and fans alike. The movie left the door slightly open for a better sequel, which will sadly never come.
Folie À Deux Sets Up A REAL Joker
Arthur Fleck Was Never Meant To Fight Batman
The most controversial aspect ofJoker: Folie à Deuxis the movie’s decision to make it clear that Arthur Fleck is not the real Joker. That decision goes against the whole point of the first movie, which was how Arthur’s life constantly beat him while he was down until the mentally ill character snapped, donning the Joker identity that made him feel empowered and deadly.Joker: Folie à Deuxhas Arthur wrestling with his two identitiesup until the very end, with Phoenix’s character admitting that the Joker was never real, just Arthur’s fantasy.
Joker’s Director Told You Exactly How Folie à Deux Would End 5 Years Ago
Joker: Folie à Deux’s ending has proven itself controversial, and the DC movie’s major finale reveal was shared by its director five years ago.
To really hit that point home,Joker: Folie à Deux’s endingfeatures the biggest twist in the franchise. Throughout the movie, a young inmate at Arkham appears at times, always looking up to Arthur Fleck, inspired by the Joker. When Arthur backed down from his role, this inmate could not take it, and sohe brutally stabbed Arthur to death. That ending reveals that Fleck was never meant to be the Joker, explaining why Bruce Wayne was only a kid in 2019’sJoker, as the inmate, who goes on to carve a smile on his face, is the true Joker.
Folie À Deux Also Set Up Harley Quinn’s Full Evolution
Lady Gaga’s “Lee” Ends The Movie In A Dark Place
While not given nearly as much focus as Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck, Lady Gaga’s Lee — the movie’s Harley Quinn — also went through a major personal journey inJoker: Folie à Deux.The DC movie revealed that Lee was a wealthy person who voluntarily went to Arkhamso that she could become close with the Joker, who inspired her and thousands of others. That came as a shock to Arthur, as Lee had lied to him, telling a story about how she had burned down a building after setting fire to her parents' apartment.
The moment Arthur told the truth and called the Joker a mere fantasy, Lee was out.
Lee pushed Arthur Fleck to embrace his Joker identity throughout the movie, showing her support and “love” for him, while Phoenix’s character once again became the Joker. However, the moment Arthur told the truth and called the Joker a mere fantasy, Lee was out. The movie’s version of Harley Quinn is at a dark place by the end of the movie,abandoning Arthur to be arrestedafter Joker, the figure she looked up to and had dedicated a lot of effort to following, was “killed” before her eyes. That said, Lee did don her full Harley costume, hinting at more.
Why Joker 3 Is Unlikely To Happen
The DC Movie’s Director Has A Firm Stance On The Matter
There are a lot of factors that makeJoker 3impossible. Chief among them is the performance ofJoker: Folie à Deux, which is breaking negative records and has a box office projected to pale in comparison to the originalJoker. Also, Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck was the franchise’s main character, and continuing it after his death is a tall task. Capping it off,director Todd Phillips is done with DC.Phillips addressedJoker 3hopesbeforeJoker: Folie à Deuxwas released, saying, “I think we’ve said what we wanted to say in this world.”
While it is hard to seeJoker 3happening, the movie has enough elements set up that it could be a more exciting film thanJoker: Folie à Deuxturned out to be.Joker 3could explore the young inmate who killed Arthur as he becomes the real Jokerfrom DC Comics. As she was inspired by Fleck’s Joker persona, Lady Gaga’s Lee could be attracted by this new Joker, fully becoming Harley Quinn. The theoretical threequel could also take place years in the future, showing how the character that Arthur inspired inJoker: Folie à Deuxfights Batman.
Joker: Folie a Deux
Cast
Joker: Folie à Deux is the sequel to Todd Phillips' critically acclaimed comic book thriller Joker. Reprising his Academy Award-winning performance as the failed comedian Arthur Fleck, Joaquin Phoenix revisits the iconic DC character alongside Lady Gaga, who makes her debut as Joker’s lover Harley Quinn in this standalone continuity of the DC Universe.
