“Are we being fun-hating downers who are overthinking something that everyone will recognize is obviously a joke?”
IMHO
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Kemper was 19 years old when she was selected to be the Queen Of Love And Beauty. At that age, teenagers are mature enough to know what they’re being part of.
You know, AVC, you can’t regularly call Twitter a shitty hell website and then give in to its worst tendencies constantly.
How would I know that? A quick Google image search shows at a few scattered BIPOC have been involved in recent years, but I have no idea when they actually started to make inroads. It’s a shitty organization either way. I’m not defending it. Just pointing out that there’s a difference between “Future celebrity…
Oh man, you didn’t check in to see how this insane stretch of a nothing-burger was getting roasted over at The Root? Cause it’s getting no traction there, and it feels like their readership should know.
“At that age [19], teenagers are mature enough to know what they’re being part of.”
The Atlantic reported in 2014 that the Veiled Prophet Organization barred Black and Jewish people from joining.
It’s not *quite* accusing someone of Nazi sympathies because they once owned a VW Beetle made in the ‘70s, but it’s only a step or two removed from it.
“We live in a society, Counselor.”
My memory of Joker is that Murray Franklin thinks Arthur Fleck is a funny “bit,” so Franklin keeps going to that well. Arthur Fleck isn’t obsessed with Franklin, it’s almost the other way around.
Nighcrawler did absolutely rule and now I wish Dan Gilroy had at least written the screenplay for Joker.
It’s not “some” King of Comedy. The whole movie, right down to de Niro playing the Jerry Lewis role and Joker being obsessed with him, is King of Comedy but With a Supervillian.
Really? Gotta go check out After Hours again to see the similarities, but off the top of my head I can’t see too many.
People are probably not ready for “The Last Temptation of Joker”.
Its going to be a rip off of the Irishman and New York New York, just to mix it up.
I hear Joker 2 is heavily cribbing off Silence and Kundun.
Naturally, knowing Todd Philips’ other sequels, it will be the exact same plot as the original but set in Thailand and have unfunny transphobic jokes…
Why write a full article when “Todd Phillips just learned about Cape Fear and oh boy is he pumped to have more material” would do?
Steve Martin