Joker 2 Is Borrowing From The Wrong Scorsese Movie

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Todd Phillips’ Joker sequel is finally coming together. The director recently posted the cover of the screenplay on social media, confirming the title to be Joker: Folie à Deux. The eponymous mental disorder, “folly of two” in English, refers to a delusion or madness shared by two people. After fans spent a couple of days speculating about who might share Arthur Fleck’s folly – other Jokers? Bruce Wayne? – the Hollywood Reporter announced that Warner Bros. was in talks with Lady Gaga for the role of Harley Quinn (and that the sequel is apparently a musical).

While the first Joker movie was a huge critical and commercial success, its derivative script received some complaints. Phillips borrowed heavily from the works of Martin Scorsese, particularly Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy. Joker is essentially a mashup of those two movies. Just like Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle, Arthur Fleck is a disturbed loner who takes up arms to exact his own brand of vigilante justice. And just like The King of Comedy’s Rupert Pupkin, he’s a wannabe comedian who lives with his overbearing mother and shares a delusional relationship with a late-night talk show host. Like Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, Joker ends on a hauntingly ambiguous note after its antihero turns to a life of crime.

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With the latest announcement about Folie à Deux, it seems that Phillips is continuing to lift ideas and visuals from Scorsese’s filmography. The musical romance aspect of the Joker sequel’s Harley Quinn storyline suggests that it’ll be borrowing a lot from New York, New York. But New York, New York is the wrong Scorsese movie to borrow from. After the ambiguous ending of