welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my breakdown of the Joker
movie ending hopefully you've had a chance to see the movie we're doing a
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leave your favorite Joker moment on the video please do use spoiler tags at
least till we get through the weekend just to give everyone a chance to see
the movie and if you have not seen it just blanket spoiler warning because we
will be talking about everything that happens at the end of the movie most of
the questions that I've seen you guys commenting on my Joker movie review
video it's just a question of what is real and what is fake because the Joker
is an unreliable narrator as is his mother or at least were led to believe that
she's an unreliable narrator because there are a lot of questions about that
picture that she carried around of her signed by Thomas Wayne with a special
message so as seen some fantastic theories that you guys have had about
this but really when we talk about the ending that starts when he learns that
he's secretly been adopted while he's at Arkham Asylum getting his files on his
mother she had previously worked for the Wayne's about 30 years ago and believed
that she had a relationship with Thomas Wayne at least that's what she thinks
she keeps writing him letters eventually Arthur reads one of the letters and in
it she tells Thomas Wayne that Arthur is his son
so Arthur believes that he's the son of Thomas Wayne but because a lot of the
events in Arthur's life he made up and then you later learned things did not
happen the way that he thought that they happened you're led to believe that that
might be fake he's not really the son of Thomas Wayne and his mother was lying
the whole time because as Thomas Wayne says she was institutionalized there are
even adoption papers for Arthur inside her file we learned that the affliction
that causes him to laugh the reason behind his crazy laugh is because of the
head trauma he received when he was as a child
so his world starts to unravel he goes suffocates his mother then
begins to just completely fly off the chain starts painting himself up in
Joker makeup his former friend seemingly that sold him the gun earlier in the
film and then ratted him out comes to visit him because of the police to make
sure that he doesn't tell them the wrong thing that will get him in trouble he
winds up him before he goes on Murray Franklin's TV show in full Joker
makeup lets his smaller friend go you were the only one that was nice to me so
at this point you're starting to question what's real and what's fake
because he climbs into a roof and a lot of people think that he
actually died in the refrigerator and the rest of the movie is imagined but
the reason why I don't think that's the case is because too much of the movie
happens in that last 15 minutes for him to have all experienced it within his
mind while he was inside a refrigerator so I think the takeaway
from the refrigerator is that it's him just slowly transforming metaphorically
into the Joker character like he goes into a chrysalis inside the refrigerator
then he merges more the Joker than he's ever been before the basketball game
music swells up as he rolls out of his apartment in full Joker costume and
makeup dancing down the stairs and the montage that they put in all the
trailers but the cops that have been after him the whole movie chase him into
the subway he uses the clown rise up move it to stop them inadvertently
starts a riot in the subway later claims that he has nothing to do with that
movement and Thomas Wayne himself is also partially responsible for all these
people wearing clown masks that I'll explain in a second you get the scene of
him waiting in the greenroom on the Murray Franklin show that we've seen in
all the trailers where he talks to Maria's assistant producer played by
Marc Maron one thing when you introduce me can you introduce me as Joker sure
thing bud sounds great him being on the TV show is meant to be a mirror of the
dream sequence from earlier in the film it's exactly how I imagined it he says
so he dances on is this wonderful introduction he's charming everyone he
kisses the old lady doctor then sits down and gives his big speech about how
society is just as bad as villains how the rich doesn't care about the poor
there's this big class war going on during the movie no one cares about him
because rich man Thomas Wayne isn't talking about him on live TV
the way he was talking about the three that he earlier on the
subway he freely admits to them and it's almost like he's taking this
weight off of his shoulders like I'm tired of pretending that it's not funny
it's funny comedy is subjective he claims that he didn't them to start
a movement he's not political I'm not trying to start any kind of thing I
them because they were terrible then he calls out Murray Franklin for
being just as terrible and he has his iconic line what do you get when you
cross a mentally deranged loner with a society that treats him like crap you
get what you freaking deserve then Robert De Niro's character Murray
Franklin on live TV remember this is taking place in the
late 70s early 80s so there was no time to
they built into the broadcast system everybody that was watching Marie
Franklin saw that happen the clown movement that's happening in the streets
during the last 15 minutes of the movie just boils over everyone just riding
everywhere in the streets their fires cars turned over the Joker throws all
this gasoline on that fire with his presentation he looks into the camera
and starts speaking just as the station cuts him off then things get really
subjective this is where you're really getting inside his head as he's being
driven away in the back of a cop car you're meant to believe that he was
arrested by the police and he maybe gave himself up
he's smiling as they're driving through all the riots but then a couple of his
admirers wearing clown masks crash an ambulance into the cop car that has him
freeing him then he wakes up on the hood of the cop car starts dancing basking in
the adulation of all these rioting people wearing clown masks and draws the
iconic Joker smile on his face with his own all this happening while
Martha and Thomas Wayne are walking out of the Excalibur theater getting their
Batman origin story where they're down by one of Joker's admirers wearing
a clown mask we'll call him Joe Chill for the
purposes of this video just for continuities sake
he says you get what you deserve guns them down and Bruce Wayne is standing
there over their dead bodies very iconic Batman moment a lot of people wondered
if this was gonna happen because we saw this shot in one of the trailers this is
where it starts to throw you for a bit of a loop when it comes to false
narration what's real what's fake because the camera cuts to him inside
Arkham Asylum in this white cell being interviewed by a psychiatrist he starts
laughing and when the woman asks him what the joke is he calmly replies you
wouldn't get it as the camera cuts back to Bruce Wayne standing near his parents
dead bodies in the alleyway he starts singing a song and then the camera cuts
again to him walking down the hallway leaving footprints of behind him
on the white floor dancing his way out so because they're always revealing
things that weren't happening the way they seemed that they were happening a
lot of this is happening in Joker's mind you're meant to wonder what's real in
this final scene and what's fake here's what was real and here's what's fake
remember the Joker is always imagining things in his head like he imagines
himself on Murray Franklin show when he's watching it at the beginning of the
film I think everything is real he really did Murray Franklin on live
TV he did surrender to the police but then they took him straight to Arkham in
the scene of him dancing on the cop hood is probably him just imagining that
him inside the Arkham cell that's real but when he's walking away leaving the
footprints of blood that's meant to imply that he that woman the
psychiatrist he was talking to and in the process of escaping Arkham Asylum
this kind of explains why there's such a quick seeming time jump from him dancing
on the cop car hood to appearing in the Arkham cell is that the dancing did not
happen that's all in his head but I do think that Joe Chill
Thomas and Martha Wayne giving Batman his origin story that was real so I know
there's gonna be a ton of theories after this weekend about them doing a new
Batman film with Joaquin Phoenix's Joker something completely different
outside the DC Universe the reason why I'm not so sure that that's gonna happen
is because of the new Matt Reeves Batman trilogy Warner Brothers probably isn't
gonna greenlight a couple different versions of live-action Batman at the
same time based on the age of young Bruce Wayne here you could say that this
is close to being Ben Affleck's Batman because Ben Affleck is playing a late
40-something Batman during his Batman movies but a lot of
people have wondered what the joke he was referring to was when he tells the
psychiatrist you wouldn't understand the joke I think that was a reference to him
finally being lauded as a hero at least in his mind despite all the terrible
things that he did the past few weeks like I'm the hero and Thomas Wayne is
the villain the added level of irony the Thomas Wayne was partially responsible
for his own death because he called all these deranged people clowns that's why
they were wearing clown masks to begin with then the meta aspect of both the
Joker in Thomas Wayne inevitably creating their own worst villain so for
Thomas Wayne he was creating that Joe Chill person wearing the clown mask that
wound up killing him but the more meta aspect is as the Joker was inadvertently
indirectly creating the Batman by doing all this - so that's why he's saying
that the psychiatrist would not understand it because it's such a
complex but beautiful meta joke Joaquin Phoenix was actually asked in an
interview recently what his character would do if he were suddenly confronted
with someone dressed up like a bat flying around Gotham fighting crime and
his answer was is that his character the Joker would be incredibly happy at the
site he would laugh genuinely ironically happy but delighted by how his
nihilistic view of the world was seemingly confirmed by this crazy person
dressing up like a bat or someone that he thought was just as crazy as him that
gets into more joke Easter eggs you're one bad day away
from being me the Joker trying to tell Batman that they're the exact same
person a lot of you are also asking about the picture of Joker's mother
signed by Thomas Wayne with a really intimate message on it making it seem
like maybe she was telling the truth about her relationship with Thomas Wayne
is if maybe there's a small chance that Arthur could be Thomas Wayne's son but I
think that's mostly just to throw you for a bit of a loop I do think that she
had mental problems I do think that she imagined her relationship with Thomas
Wayne and even if he was maybe kind of amorous with her they probably never had
a child together Arthur really is adopted because can you imagine what
comic book fandom would do if they tried to say that the Joker was Thomas Wayne's
son the only version of the Joker that his Thomas Wayne's son is the Batman who
laughs and they have not done him in the movies yet so just remember that parts
of those final 15 minutes of the movie the ending are fake and imagined in his
head some of them are real if there's any other big questions that you have
about the ending of the movie though just let me know in the comments below
but this does give you a point of origin for this version of Batman whatever you
want him to look like Todd Phillips made it seem like they're not planning on
doing any sequels but Joaquin Phoenix might be lured back if the film makes
enough money they might find a way to get him back in a couple years but I
think it's more likely that they would just do other DC Black Label films with
other Batman villains like a really hardcore r-rated film about the Riddler
that would be amazing but the Riddler is going to be a character during Matt
Reeves Batman films so if you have any other big questions about plot points in
the movie or the ending just let me know in the comments and I'll try to address
that in my other Easter egg videos this weekend congratulations carbo you're the
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