so which of you fine gentlemen would like to join our team oh there's only
one spot open right now so we're gonna have tryout one small thing yeah when
you freak me out can you introduce me as Joker
Joaquin Phoenix is highly anticipated performance of the Joker has finally
been released onto the world and the reviews are actually a bit of a mixed
bag now despite some citing the film is
sluggish and drawn-out well no one has anything bad to say about the
cinematography or walking Phoenix phenomenal performance as the twisted
clown please stop bothering like him so he gave us new insight into the
origin story of one of entertainments most popular villains allowing us to
finally look at the driving forces that turned a failed stand-up comic arthur
flack into Batman's most twisted and menacing folks
now it's safe to say that he'll be nominated for a Golden Globe and an
Oscar but he doesn't have these on his mantle just yet whereas we do know that
Heath Ledger's Joker well it blew the pants off of practically everyone and
his portrayal will have set the bar for the type of character development and
performances that we could be seeing in film now for his hard work keeps a comb
top honours or at least his family did after his untimely passing this award
tonight would have humbly validated his quiet determination to be truly accepted
by you all here his peers within an industry
he's so loved thank you no Heath Ledger's death it only made the lore
surrounding the Joker even deeper which made the shoes Joaquin Phoenix stepped
into well all the bigger no pun intended okay maybe just a little intended now
I'm a big movie buff in a comic book fan particularly for DC villains so in this
video I just well I wouldn't saw the movie last night I just I wanted to do
this so here we go what's going on guys it's point Michael mcreddin back at it
with another verses video now the last time we hit you guys with one of these
it was on another pair of clowns I'm talking about trippy red and Kid Buu
know any dude who act she goes and gets a little you know face
tattoo forever wow that's kind of clownish in my eyes I'm just saying now
in that video 84% of you guys voted for trippy red but I got a feeling this one
it's gonna be a little tighter now you guys have your say in a poll we run in
the final round also I'd love to hear what you guys have to say in the
comments down below this is something I'm pretty I'm pretty
passionate about making I got a lot to say so I'm interested in your feedback
down below also let us know who you want to see in the future versus now let's
get into this video also I need to announce that this video has spoilers
but you've already clicked on it you should have known better all right here
we go brown one fight now for the first round we're gonna talk about both films
and their overall performances the two actors now for those of you who might
think I knew nothing on the matter well once upon a time
I myself was actually an act or hi my name is Michael mcreddin I'm with kg
talents today you're the Joker film is an exploration of what causes a lonely
unhinged man to explode no one has moments that are riveting
it's weird it's an eerie performance and well this Joker he's demented
he's also strangely gentle and that laughs well that laughs gives him points
alone now it's something that walking he actually obsessed over prior to filming
and he just kept meeting up with director Todd Phillips ensuring that he
got it just right him we watch his Arthur flexions from sad loner to
murderous madman step-by-step now he has a disorder that causes him to laugh
hysterically without feeling happy no why there were delusional fantasies of
him being a successful stand-up comedian there was also some romantic
relationship but it was all in his head we found out that he was abused as a
child in his reaction it was uncontrollable laughter he danced he
killed and we understood how he felt justified in his heinous actions because
he had lived life as an outcast and the whole world just continued on him the
earther flake in this movie he's got a long way to go before he becomes the
criminal kingpin and the most feared villain in Gotham I mean he sees
just still seems childlike but it was hard to take your eyes off of walking
performance but I still have to question was it better than Heath I mean that
portrayals one for the record books so I decided to dig up some old reviews of
Heath's work after people had just seen the movie this is what they had to say
now The Times red ledger is so terrifying and unpredictable that his
very presence on screen makes you horribly nervous The Hollywood Reporter
wrote Ledger's performances of Beauty his Joker has a slow cadence of speech
as if weighing words for maximum mischief it contends he moves languidly
as if the Samer his dark deeds his head and body jerking at times from an
overload of brain impulses the Daily Telegraph reported Ledger's deranged
demonic Lord of chaos is a genuinely unsettling brilliant nuanced portrait of
evil now I for one I don't take everything critics say as facts I mean
they do have to sell papers they got to get them views and to do that well
they're often nitpicky about absolutely everything
no Joaquin's portrayal it seems to be suffering from a bitterness at the time
of this recording but from what I can tell here there were a few who had
anything but high praise to say about Heath Ledger's performance The Dark
Knight it really set the bar even people as they walked out of the movie theaters
just the whole world was blown away by his work by that film really well
directed really well-executed the casting was great and I thought that
Heath Ledger did a masterful job it was cool it was good a lot of action
funny that's right he was living it out no not
to take anything from Heath Ledger but he wasn't a supporting role next to
Batman and he was also in full swing as the Joker the agent of chaos now this
means he had a lot to work with I mean he was wiring up boats with explosives
he was squaring off against the bat he would rob a bank he'd blow up a hospital
he was putting bombs in people's stomachs the character was already
established and we got to watch him at the height of his energy still every
line delivered by Heath Ledger it seemed to become a cinematic classic now this
is about as tough of a comparison as there is to make no I myself I'm a
die-hard Heath Ledger fan but it seems there's something extra difficult about
following in Heath Ledger's footsteps now giving us something totally
different that isn't a letdown well that's pretty tough to do and I
think Waukee well he carried an entire movie on his frail vegan shoulders now
despite which movie I prefer I'm still giving walking the win for overall
performance also hit that like button if you like that frail vegan shoulder
reference it's true lost a lot of weight Brown - fine I'm moving on to the second
round we're gonna talk about the costumes and the makeup now we know
everyone they're gonna skip over Jared Leto's emo option costume when they're
gonna have to pick between Joaquin's classic approach or Heath Ledger's well
you know kiss meets drug addict the cool one but there was something
about that Suicide Squad dude you just seem too cool for school they really
missed the mark with that one who's a fan of that
kill ya I just wanna hurt ya really really bad interestingly enough neither
heithir walking's characters stem from the comic book origin story where the
Joker fell into a vat of chemicals this clip right here is basically my
childhood made me afraid to go to the bath
instead what we got is two men and makeup and traditional clown attire now
the costume designer behind Heath Ledger's Joker Lindy Hemings well she
actually had this to say you can imagine Vivienne Westwood meets Johnny Rotten
Sid Vicious Pete Doherty and think of all those people who dress themselves up
and are very interested in their appearances and then we added into it
the life of him so whatever is that's wrong with him and made him be like this
well means he doesn't care about himself at all really
he's very sweaty and he probably doesn't have a proper home we were trying to
make him sort of I don't want to say vagrant but a backstory for him that he
really doesn't look after himself now the prosthetic supervisor Conor
O'Sullivan he stated once I had in my mind that it was going to be scars
rather than a fixed smile I immediately thought of the punk and skinhead era and
some unsavory characters now the look he wound up with it's known as a Glasgow or
a Chelsea smile now actor Flanagan Tommy you know him from Sons of Anarchy well
that guy got mugged outside of a nightclub and he was left with these
facial scars like for real yikes now as for the makeup well Heath
he apparently played some part in its final design and it was also based on
some inspiration by painter Francis Bacon know what we got was a depiction
of a character unlike one has ever seen before in the film or in comics
I mean it's gritty it's real it's sweaty its menacing and it's just something
that's really hard to beat I wanted to see what you do and you didn't
disappoint you let five people die then you let them take your place it's
even to a guy like me that's cold they're walking Phoenix his film is set
in the early 1980s and for a film about Gotham well it's very much set in the
real world now he's rocking a rust colored waistcoat a mustard tone vest
and a pattern bottled green shirt the costume designer Marc bridges what they
were going for were clothes that were appropriate for the time everything from
the cut to the color palette and director Todd Phillips he actually had
some ideas right out of the gate he wanted him to be very clean very classic
and very clown that was hair it was inspired by the color of broccoli
definitely no no Jared Leto puke green here and no doubt you'll be seeing a
version of this out for Halloween 2019 but I don't think it pushed anyone's
imagination quite like the dark and I did so for this round I gotta give the
winter heat round three fine i wrapping things up with a third round let's talk
about how these films will go down in history know at the time of this
recording joker is number one at the box office in their 96 million domestically
and just under two hundred fifty million dollars globally which is the biggest
october debut of all time and with a reported budget of 55 million
dollars well it made the boys at Warner Bros and DC very happy campers but the
film it still is a long way to go to catch up to the Dark Knight which is
surpassed 1 billion dollars it's also become the fourth film to ever do so
it's actually the top earner of any Batman movie ever released and with a
budget of nearly 200 million dollars well I'm sure they're happy with their
investment now it's actually the 43rd highest-grossing film of all time but of
course there's more to history than just the money now of course as we mentioned
Heath Ledger he won a pop zoom his Oscar for a supporting role I'm sorry if I
butchered that word now this film it was stuff for the Best Picture and Best
Director likely in part because you know it's a comic book film
whereas Joker well it'll probably be considered I mean there's very little
about this film that is comic-book esque at all with the exception of the working
material of course the accidental death of Heath Ledger it
only added to the intrigue the press the fanfare and the legacy of this film but
there has been plenty of attention surrounding Joaquin Phoenix's work that
was friendship with Heath Ledger and made news headlines as did his reported
investment in the character everything from his weight loss to his ax his
obsession on set him staying on character having some freak-outs know I
really do hope this man gets his Oscar cuz there are already super cuts that
exists online of his three previous losses in each time
well his mood changes just a little bit
Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Oscar goes to Daniel day-lewis yeah every time
he gets increasingly upset you might actually turn into the Joker if he loses
again yeah I mean no as we do here we need you guys to let us know who you
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