"Joker" has exceeded US$1 billion, becoming the first R-rated movie with a box office of more than US$1 billion in history, and the most profitable of all super-English films.
With the popularity of "Joker", everyone's attention to DC movies has naturally ushered in another wave of climax, and the discussion of Jackie Phoenix and Heath Ledger is in full swing.
Someone said: "The appearance of "The Clown" makes the argument of'no clown after Heath Ledger' become a thing of the past." A sentence of
not only illustrates the power of Jackie Phoenix, but also reflects the clown. The legend of this character in the DC universe.
So far, Jacques Phoenix and Heath Ledger have become the only two people in the hearts of many movie fans who can play the clown well.
How legendary is that clown?
The Joker was born in 1940. Jerry Robinson’s original intention to create this character was to portray a terrible villain who can rival Batman. So the Joker has been closely connected with DC's Justice Knight Batman since its birth, and opposed to each other. In the days after
, as creators rendered and perfected the clown, the clown gradually developed into a super villain in the DC universe.
It wasn't until the release of Nolan's "Batman: The Dark Knight" in 2008 that the fullness and influence of the Joker character reached its peak.
even some people call the clown the greatest villain in the Super British movie.
and created this greatest villain, it is Heath Ledger, the clown actor in "Batman: The Dark Knight".
Even if you haven't watched "Batman: The Dark Knight", everyone is not unfamiliar with this face, because he is the male lead actor of Ang Lee's famous "Brokeback Mountain" and nominated the Oscar actor for "Brokeback Mountain".
Surprisingly, on January 22, 2008, not long after the filming of "Batman: The Dark Knight", Heath Ledger passed away.
He was found dead in a private apartment with some pills scattered on the bedside. He was only 28 years old.
At that time, "Batman: The Dark Knight" had not been officially released, but as early as the filming period, there were many news that Heath Ledger was too deep in the film and emotionally fluctuating on the set.
And in order to play a good clown, Heath Ledger also shut himself in the hotel for more than a month before shooting, trying to figure out the character's personality.
So everyone started to have different opinions about the death of Heath Ledger, guessing that he was too deep to extricate himself from playing the clown and was depressed.
Of course, this statement was later denied by the police and Heath Ledger’s family, because according to the autopsy results, it was discovered that Heath Ledger had taken 6 kinds of drugs, including painkillers and prescription drugs, before his death. No antidepressant drugs were found that led to the tragedy.
And the night before his death, Heath Ledger had happily discussed the role of the clown with his family. He expressed his hope that he could play the role of a clown again, and he was full of plans and hopes for his acting career and his emotional state. They are all pretty good.
But even so, the death of Heath Ledger still added a touch of legend to the role of the Joker.
Heath Ledger, who died that year, also won the Oscars and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor for this role.
Heath Ledger's performance is so brilliant that even the aura of the role of the Joker has overwhelmed the protagonist Batman in "Batman: The Dark Knight".
Later, after Heath Ledger's death, Nolan, who was already planning the script of "Batman 3", also specifically deleted the role of the clown.
Because Nolan also felt that Heath Ledger's interpretation was too classic, and it would be impossible to surpass it if anyone else was to perform it.
So the success of this Joaquin Phoenix version of Joker is an unexpected surprise.
Jacques Phoenix is also a play idiot. Most Chinese audiences know him because of the movie "She":
Jacques plays a lonely urbanite in it, and talks about love with the robot voiced by the widow sister.
In order to play the role of a clown, Jacques lost more than 40 kilograms of weight, and he frantically collected information on mental patients, and most importantly, Jacques Phoenix is a great player in extreme roles.Acting passionate actors.
He is keen on independent art films, and most of the roles he plays can't escape the characteristics of paranoia, madness, madness, extreme, depression, and weirdness.
However, when he agreed to take on the role of "Joker", the fans were quite surprised. After all, no one had thought that this super British commercial blockbuster would eventually become such an independent masterpiece with extremely high artistic quality.
Jacques Phoenix also did a very crazy thing, that is, at the premiere of "Two Lovers" in 2008, Jacques announced that he would stop shadowing, saying that he would focus on being a rapper in the future. In the days after
, Jacques began to become uncut, with a big belly, and inexplicably sang some unintelligible songs. He was four hours late at the singing meeting and fought with fans, and his public speech also became Incoherent.
turned out to be when Jacques was surrounded by negative news, but he returned with his new work "I'm Still Here", which is a pseudo-documentary, which means Jacques's previous uncharacteristics were all a scam.
For the experience, the audience and colleagues found it incredible, but Jacques himself enjoyed it and never got tired of it.
It can be seen that Jacques, who is the actor of Cannes, not only has a lot of acting skills, but also has his own crazy side of acting crazy like him.
No wonder Todd Phillips, the director of "Joker", persuaded him for several months to ask him to act as a clown. Looking at it this way, the success of "Joker" is actually not surprising.
A play idiot who likes to torture himself + a "perverted" who has great enthusiasm for paranoid personality, it is indeed possible to successfully set a biography for the clown after "Batman: The Dark Knight".
