10 Movies You Should Watch If You Love The Joker (This Isn’t Folie à Deux)

Joker: Folie à Deux didn’t make much of an impression on fans of the first film, prompting consideration of films more similar to the 2019 film. Joker Watch as a palette cleanser. Openly hostile towards fans of the previous film. Joker: Folie à Deux failed to reach audiences, failing even more than infamous comic book movie bombs like Morbius and Madame Web. The sequel was such a disappointment to those who enjoyed it Joker, now is a better time than ever to watch some great films that are more like the first film than Joker: Folie à Deux is.

Topics Joker include mental health, loneliness, abuse and social disenfranchisementall of which are better represented elsewhere than in the commercial disaster that Joker: Folie à Deux. Some of these films clearly influenced the original, reflecting in Todd Phillips’ work both stylistically and thematically. Others are simply great seekers of the ideas presented in the book. Jokerbuilding on them without the burden of DC Comics representation.

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Falling Down

A true portrait of a man out of control

If there’s one thing Joker could have done differently to get his point across, it would have made Arthur Fleck more of a force to be reckoned with, leading to a much more visceral fall from grace. Falling Down This is exactly what happens, following the downward spiral of a seemingly normal protagonist who quickly reveals who he really is.

The film centers on William Foster, a defense engineer trying to get through Los Angeles to his daughter’s birthday party at his ex-wife’s house. Foster is subjected to a mixture of minor inconveniences and dangerous situations that quickly unleash his hidden inner violence, causing extremely chaotic reactions from what appears on the surface to be a rule-abiding citizen.

Like Joker, Falling Down This is a rather dark film, which centers on the interconnectedness of the main character’s disappointments in the world around him. If Arthur Fleck had been much more dangerous and less histrionic, he would have looked like William Foster.

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Dark Knight

The answer to the question why the origin of the Joker should remain unanswered

As a property adjacent to Batman, Joker makes the case that Joaquin Phoenix gave the best performance as the Clown Prince of Crime ever. But at the end of the day, no one can top Heath Ledger’s iconic character. Dark Knightwhich is still considered the best Batman film ever made. The second and most critically acclaimed of Christopher Nolan’s trilogy, this film sees Christian Bale’s Batman take on his terrifying version of the Joker as he continues to fight corruption in Gotham.

In many ways Dark Knight expresses the opposite point of view Joker, never giving a concrete answer to the question of the Joker’s origins. In truth, the character might have been better like this, more convincing as a chaotic force of nature than an actual character with his own arc. Dark Knight worth watching after Joker just to enjoy the only Joker performance that could outshine Joaquin Phoenix.

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Taxi driver

One of the Joker’s main inspirations

That’s not to say Todd Phillips didn’t wear his influences on his sleeve. Joker, as the film takes incredibly clear cues from two of prestige cinema darling Martin Scorsese’s most important films. Taxi driver is one of the best films (not to mention one of the first) to feature a character arc similar to Arthur Fleck’s – an ignored and downtrodden member of society who snaps back furiously.. Travis Bickle portrays Arthur, a Vietnam veteran and taxi driver who seeks an outlet for his pent-up rage.

In truth, Taxi driver this is actually the best version Joker, presenting a more disturbing character study of a subject who is far more terrifying than Arthur Fleck. Unlike Phillips, Scorsese doesn’t try too hard to make Travis sympathetic, making him a more complex and multifaceted character who is ultimately praised for his brutality. Original model Joker imitates Taxi driver A must-see for fans of the loose origin story of a comic book villain.

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King of Comedy

Scorsese’s misunderstood masterpiece

The second obvious inspiration for Joker It’s easy to get out of Martin Scorsese’s filmography King of Comedy another edgy character driven story. Unlike most of Scorsese’s other works, King of Comedy proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and its brilliance was only recognized years later. The film follows Robert De Niro’s Rupert Pupkin, an aspiring stand-up comedian who dreams of becoming the equal of his longtime idol Jerry Langford, a famous late-night TV host.

If Arthur Fleck’s hidden anger and problems as an outcast are best represented by Travis Bickle, then his sense of stage presence and desire for the audience’s adoration are clearly reminiscent of Rupert Pupkin. Just like ArthurRupert is obsessed with the manufactured love of the public and the turmoil of show business that surrounds it, becoming deeply troubled and increasingly fanatical when his hero does not live out his dreams. The film also ends on a similarly dark note, condemning celebrity worship in American media culture.

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Nightcrawler

Gets even darker than the Joker

Dramatic thrillers with uncomfortable themes such as Joker are always intriguing, but the way Todd Phillips goes out of his way to ensure there’s just the right amount of sympathy for his Joker can sometimes get in the way. Enter Nightcrawler, a film where the main character has no morals and exists solely to further his own agenda at the expense of everyone around him.

Nightcrawler has all the slick wetness and dirt JokerThe visual design, not to mention the supernatural perspective of a real psychopath. The difference between Arthur Fleck’s breaking point and Lou’s relentless pursuit of his goals is night and day, but they serve as two sides of the same disturbing psychosis. The lengths Lou goes to to secure his new career plunges even deeper into the kind of unholy abdication of morality that plays out Joker.

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fight club

Going all-in on the Joker’s toxic masculinity

It’s safe to say that the same fan base that enjoyed Joker as his analysis of trauma, anxiety and alienation will feel right at home while watching fight club. The film follows an unnamed protagonist, disillusioned with his life as an office drone slave, whose world is turned upside down when he meets Tyler Durden, a radical revolutionary who creates an unprecedented underground militant group simply called Fight Club. Bypassing such topics, fight club notorious for his followers, who have a lot in common with followers Joker, self-identification with a violent character.

Where fight club truly shines in its commitment to Edgar Norton’s unreliable narrative, much like Arthur Fleck’s in Joker, both of which ultimately have critical consequences for the story. Rejection of traditional structures Joker researched is practically a thesis fight club, which thrives in the exploration of counterculture. The film complements the image of the Joker so well that fight club It is often suggested that this is the Joker’s own origin story.

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Photo in an hour

Shares a creepy fantasy idea

One aspect Joker One that often doesn’t get enough attention is Arthur Fleck’s fantasy, centered on Zazie Beetz’s Sophie, not an idol or a celebrity, but an ordinary person with whom he has simple pleasant interactions with whom he wants to develop into a relationship. A similar premise underlies One Hour Photography, who further analyzes this type of dissociative possession. The film stars Robin Williams as Sy, a lonely photography developer who harbors a secret obsession with one of his regular clients, a nuclear family that may not be as idyllic as it seems.

Sy’s loneliness is even more hopeless than Arthur Fleck’s, which makes his puppyish devotion to the Yorkin family all the more heartbreaking. His injury is also only mentioned vaguely, which prevents the narrative from hitting the viewer over the head with the message it is trying to convey while at the same time conveying that Sai suffered before the events of the film. Robin Williams is stunningly great as such a troubled character who shares the fantasy tendencies of Arthur Fleck, creating his ideal world as a survival mechanism.

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American Psycho

Discovers that society can still fail the rich and powerful

Few films live up to the original. Joker genre and syllistically as close as possible American Psycho. Going further into horror territory than its thematic ancestor, American Psycho Christian Bale portrays Patrick Bateman, a successful businessman whose life is entirely superficial and obsessed with appearances, while concealing within himself a dark desire for violence on a startling level. The film follows Batman’s killing spree as he tries to come to grips with reality and his inner demons.

American Psycho offers a similar critique of American culture from a different angle, exploring the empty and boring lives of supposedly successful people such as Patrick Bateman. The film also uses some similar techniques regarding the unreliability of Bateman’s point of view, as the ruthless killer clings to reality through his feeble sanity. From American PsychoAn incredible soundtrack of harrowing images of violence, the film stands the test of time as a premiere exploration Jokerown themes.

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A Clockwork Orange

Looks at a similar story through the lens of youth.

One of the downsides to casting Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck is his age, which misses the opportunity to disenfranchise him from the world around him due to inexperience, among other things. A Clockwork Orange tells a similar story Joker, only, essentially in reverse, describing how a ruthless system can defeat the ostentatious killer and psychopath to haphazardly create a productive citizen.. The film centers on Alex, a violent youth who is captured by the dystopian government of the film’s world and forced to undergo aversion therapy to transform him into a model member of society.

Alex’s reversal of Arthur Fleck’s arc (which ultimately ends in vain) provides a fascinating topic of discussion about how far course correction can go, morally speaking, in “correcting” those who are inherently uncooperative. If the Joker can be created under the pressure of the callous, uncaring nature of an individualistic world, then Alex can be unethically reformed under the unrelenting pressure of a homogeneous social structure. Thus, A Clockwork Orange brilliant hunter Joker it’s just moving in the opposite direction.

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He loves me… He doesn’t love me

Relies on delusional romanticism

It is firmly established that stories featuring unreliable narrators make the best analogue films, Joker viewing. But after Joker: Folie à Deux‘s with the unfulfilled promise of exploring the same themes from a more romantic perspective, one may be left searching for a similar story that fills the same niche. Look no further than He loves me… He doesn’t love me also known by its original name in French, A la Folie…Pas du Tooth. The film follows the exploits of a mentally unstable art student who develops a dangerous romantic obsession with a married cardiologist.

Rather than simply implying an unreliable narrative, He loves me… He doesn’t love me shows all the consequences of this by telling the same events twice from two points of view. He loves me… He doesn’t love me comparable to other French-produced films Amelie, only with a much more disturbing psychological thriller that puts it on the same dangerous level as Joker. WITH Joker: Folie à Deux‘the promise of erotomania leaves much to be desired for many fans, A la Folie…Pas du Tooth maybe this is the next experience to try.

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