Joker director Todd Phillips has reflected on the film’s global success and he does not think it’s down to Batman.

Previously, the Joker has only ever appeared in the context of being Batman’s nemesis. In Phillips’ adaptation of the comics, Batman does not yet exist. Instead, the film focuses solely on Joker’s origin story and how society let the broken man down.

The feature became the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time when it exceeded grossing of $1 billion at the box office. When asked whether the film’s connection to Batman is the reason Joker was such a hit, however, Phillips denies that this is the case.

“I think it was more than that,” he told Deadline. “I mean, I think there are themes in the movie that really resonated with people. None of us thought an R-rated movie could do over $1 billion across the world. But I think the themes in it really resonated.”

In relation to the power of the script, Phillips added: “The thing [script writer] Scott Silver and I set out to do when we wrote the movie together was to make something meaningful in that comic book space, but also something really that addressed what was going on in 2016 when we started writing.”

Joker will be released on DVD next Tuesday (January 7).

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Joker is one of the biggest box office hits of the year, and the buzz around it isn’t dying down anytime soon. Fans of this movie found a creative way to celebrate its success – by taking photos on the staircase in the Bronx which served as a setting for one of the most memorable scenes.

A couple of months ago, the stairs located on 1170 Shakespeare Avenue were just an ordinary piece of concrete, but those days are long gone. Joker’s dancing scene, which shows the Clown Prince of Crime taking a stroll down the stairs, changed everything after becoming a viral meme and ending up on a poster of Todd Phillips’ latest directorial effort.

This symbolic sequence captured Joker’s descent into total madness and transformation into a true villain. That’s probably why so many people were drawn to it and decided to pay it a visit.

Fans of the movie are flocking to the Bronx stairs on a daily basis, but locals are divided on this tourist phenomenon. Some are excited about the positive attention this movie is bringing to their neighborhood, while others don’t like it one bit because they feel it’s disrespectful to treat their community as a photo op.

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Joker director Todd Phillips has reflected on the film’s global success and he does not think it’s down to Batman.

Previously, the Joker has only ever appeared in the context of being Batman’s nemesis. In Phillips’ adaptation of the comics, Batman does not yet exist. Instead, the film focuses solely on Joker’s origin story and how society let the broken man down.

The feature became the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time when it exceeded grossing of $1 billion at the box office. When asked whether the film’s connection to Batman is the reason Joker was such a hit, however, Phillips denies that this is the case.

“I think it was more than that,” he told Deadline. “I mean, I think there are themes in the movie that really resonated with people. None of us thought an R-rated movie could do over $1 billion across the world. But I think the themes in it really resonated.”

In relation to the power of the script, Phillips added: “The thing [script writer] Scott Silver and I set out to do when we wrote the movie together was to make something meaningful in that comic book space, but also something really that addressed what was going on in 2016 when we started writing.”

Joker will be released on DVD next Tuesday (January 7).

The post “Joker” Director Reflects on The Movie’s $1 Billion Success appeared first on toppoptoday.com.

Joker is one of the biggest box office hits of the year, and the buzz around it isn’t dying down anytime soon. Fans of this movie found a creative way to celebrate its success – by taking photos on the staircase in the Bronx which served as a setting for one of the most memorable scenes.

A couple of months ago, the stairs located on 1170 Shakespeare Avenue were just an ordinary piece of concrete, but those days are long gone. Joker’s dancing scene, which shows the Clown Prince of Crime taking a stroll down the stairs, changed everything after becoming a viral meme and ending up on a poster of Todd Phillips’ latest directorial effort.

This symbolic sequence captured Joker’s descent into total madness and transformation into a true villain. That’s probably why so many people were drawn to it and decided to pay it a visit.

Fans of the movie are flocking to the Bronx stairs on a daily basis, but locals are divided on this tourist phenomenon. Some are excited about the positive attention this movie is bringing to their neighborhood, while others don’t like it one bit because they feel it’s disrespectful to treat their community as a photo op.

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