{"id":633457,"date":"2024-09-04T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-joaquin-phoenix-lady-gaga-in-a-cracked-musical\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T17:05:00","slug":"watch-joaquin-phoenix-lady-gaga-in-a-cracked-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-joaquin-phoenix-lady-gaga-in-a-cracked-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga in a Cracked Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b1f0c5ff2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b1f0c5ff2\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-joaquin-phoenix-lady-gaga-in-a-cracked-musical\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Joaquin_Phoenix_Lady_Gaga_in_a_Cracked_Musical%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga in a Cracked Musical&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-joaquin-phoenix-lady-gaga-in-a-cracked-musical\/#%E2%80%9CJoaquin_Phoenix_Lady_Gaga_in_a_Cracked_Musical%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga in a Cracked Musical&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Joaquin_Phoenix_Lady_Gaga_in_a_Cracked_Musical%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga in a Cracked Musical&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CJoaquin_Phoenix_Lady_Gaga_in_a_Cracked_Musical%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga in a Cracked Musical&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In \u201cJoker: Folie \u00e0 Deux,\u201d Todd Phillips\u2019 desperate-to-be-darkly-irreverent but actually rather clunky and earthbound musical sequel to \u201cJoker,\u201d Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), the sad-sack incel who turned himself into a homemade psycho-killer version of Joker, is about to go on trial for his crimes. In theory, this would seem to be a good thing, since Arthur doesn\u2019t get out much. At Arkham State Hospital, he lives in a small grimy cell from which he\u2019s released each morning so that he can skulk down the corridor with his bucket of pee and pour it into a sink. Arthur is now skin and bones, his face creased with despair. The guards, led by the jaunty sadist Jackie (Brendan Gleeson), keep asking him, \u201cYou got a <em>joke<\/em> for us today?\u201d But Arthur is out of jokes, and out of smiles. He\u2019s back to being a paragon of miserablism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Of course, he is also now famous \u2014\u00a0so famous for killing the late-night talk-show host Murray Franklin on live television that they actually made a TV-movie about him. \u201cEverybody still thinks you\u2019re a star,\u201d says Jackie. He\u2019s right. The whole world knows who Arthur is. A lot of people hate him, but at least one person at Arkham, an inmate named Lee Quinzel (Lady Gaga), with two-tone platinum hair and a gaze of scraggly desperation, adores him. She has seen that TV-movie countless times. When he walks into the room, her eyes light up. The rest of the world may think he\u2019s a nutcase, but she looks at him and sees\u2026Joker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Arthur\u2019s trial is sure to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> event. It\u2019s set to be broadcast on live television, and Arthur, in preparation, submits to a jailhouse interview with Paddy Meyers (Steve Coogan), a tabloid-TV figure who baits and taunts him. Arthur responds by singing, in a dry cracked voice, \u201cI\u2019m wild again, beguiled again\u2026,\u201d launching into \u201cBewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,\u201d from the 1940 musical \u201cPal Joey.\u201d If you\u2019re surprised to hear him reach into such an old-time song book, get used to it. A great many of the songs Arthur sings in \u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux\u201d \u2014 \u201cIf My Friends Could See Me Now,\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s Entertainment!\u201d \u2014 sound like they came out of your grandmother\u2019s record collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    At last, the trial begins, the whole thing spinning around one key question. No one disputes that Arthur killed Murray Franklin and four other people; even Arthur admits it. The only issue is whether he will be declared insane, which would save him from the death penalty. His lawyer, played by that tough nut Catherine Keener, argues that Arthur didn\u2019t really commit the crimes, because he\u2019s got a split personality, a deranged alter ego, a hidden identity that takes him over. But the Gotham City district attorney, Harvey Dent (Harry Lawtey), argues that Arthur does <em>not<\/em> have a split personality. He\u2019s not two people, says Dent. He\u2019s just sick, sad Arthur. So he should be held responsible for his actions and found guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This debate is the fulcrum of \u201cJoker: Folie \u00e0 Deux.\u201d It\u2019s even forecast by the film\u2019s opening sequence: a mock \u201940s Warner Bros. cartoon in which a backstage Broadway version of Arthur is literally taken over by his homicidal shadow (all set to the tune of \u201cMe and My Shadow\u201d). But the reason it\u2019s odd, and rather unexciting, to hear the film chew over the split-personality question ad nauseum is that \u201cJoker\u201d already excavated it in a most spectacular way. The premise of the first movie, which treated Arthur as a scuzzy sociopath out of a Scorsese fever dream, is that unlike the dark-side characters in comic-book <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, Arthur really <em>was<\/em> just a disturbed individual. Even when he put on his smeary clown makeup and red suit, he wasn\u2019t a larger-than-life villain. He was an ordinary loser pretending to be a larger-than-life villain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    <em>And yet<\/em>\u2026such was the movie\u2019s black magic that this DYI Joker felt so much power coursing through him that in a strange way he kind of <em>did<\/em> become Joker. Was he a split personality or just a solitary sick one? The delectable answer is that he was both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And that\u2019s what we\u2019re hungry to see the continuation of in \u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux\u201d: Arthur the ordinary maniac who somehow, by embracing his identity as Joker, transcends who he is. The letdown of the movie is how little it makes us feel that. There are plenty of scenes with Arthur dressed as Joker, defending himself in the courtroom, singing this or that chestnut, sometimes in fantasy numbers that might almost be taking place in his head. But there\u2019s no longer any danger to his presence. He\u2019s not trying to kill someone, and he\u2019s not leading a revolution. He\u2019s just singing and (on occasion) dancing his way into his Joker daydream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In \u201cJoker,\u201d after Arthur shot those three men on the subway, he ducked into a grungy public bathroom and did that wacked tai chi dance, which expressed his newfound power. He felt serene, discharged, reborn in his violence. At that moment, he became Joker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A musical number can accomplish something similar. It\u2019s there to lift ordinary characters aloft \u2014 to put them (and us) in touch with the force of their secret selves. In contemporary screen musicals, what we want to see more than ever \u2014 what we want to feel \u2014 is the characters taking an emotion and <em>soaring<\/em> with it. We want to see them transformed. In our era, the movie that rewrote the rules of that experience was \u201cMoulin Rouge!\u201d The beauty, the insolence, the aesthetic collisions (the fact that fin de si\u00e8cle Paris dancers and bohemians were singing \u201cLady Marmalade\u201d and \u201cYour Song\u201d)\u00a0were all part of the transcendence. One felt a taste of the same rush in Lars von Trier\u2019s feminine-sacrifice-meets-Bj\u00f6rk musical \u201cDancer in the Dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    I\u2019m not saying that every modern screen musical has to be like that. I enjoyed \u201cHairspray\u201d and \u201cChicago\u201d just fine. But the premise of \u201cJoker: Folie \u00e0 Deux\u201d \u2014 that Arthur the killer clown and his paramour, Lee (who starts to think she\u2019s Harley Quinn), will express who they are by becoming jukebox songbirds\u2026sorry, but that\u2019s not a Broadway concept. It\u2019s an <em>audacious<\/em> concept. It\u2019s one that demands an audacious execution. And for the most part, that doesn\u2019t h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en in \u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Phillips, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Silver, should have chosen a wilder array of songs. And the song choice you\u2019d think would have pointed to that is the supreme needle drop in \u201cJoker\u201d: that snippet of Gary Glitter\u2019s \u201cRock and Roll Part 2\u201d as Joker danced down the West 167th Street Step Stairs. That might have been the greatest moment in the movie. It was the defining one. When Phillips announced that \u201cJoker 2\u201d was going to be a musical, isn\u2019t it beyond obvious that <em>that\u2019s the scene<\/em> that should have been the sequel\u2019s guiding spirit? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There are a couple of sequences in \u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux\u201d that hint at what the movie should have been: an edition of \u201cThe Joker and Harley Show\u201d where the two, \u00e0 la Sonny and Cher, sing the Bee Gees\u2019 \u201cTo Love Somebody,\u201d or the \u201cGonna Build a Mountain\u201d gospel number, which Gaga sings the hell out of. For the most part, though, the songs in \u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux\u201d don\u2019t bust out and jolt us and make our eyes gleam. And they don\u2019t make us swoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The casting of Lady Gaga certainly sounded promising, because she\u2019s a great actor, and was put on earth (among other things) to make musicals. But Gaga, who has a lovely unforced presence in \u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux,\u201d is drastically underused. Her Lee never quite takes wing. Gaga has a nice quiet moment singing \u201c(They Long to Be) Close to You.\u201d (Speaking of Burt Bacharach, why did Phillips waste one of his only choice musical selections, \u201cWhat the World Needs Now Is Love,\u201d on that opening cartoon?) But the number doesn\u2019t build. Gaga never gets a chance to do what she did in \u201cA Star Is Born\u201d: seize the audience with her rapture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    I should mention that not enough happens<em> <\/em>in \u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux.\u201d The movie is two hours and 18 minutes long, and here\u2019s the entire plot:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Arthur is wasting away in Arkham State Hospital. He meets Lee, who devotes herself to him. He goes on trial, and the is-he-a-dual-personality-or-just-a-criminal debate unfolds. A verdict is reached. A fateful bomb explodes. The end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As a critic, I\u2019ve experienced my share of debates, but I have never understood the morally judgmental quality that hung over the criticisms of \u201cJoker.\u201d That the film invited us to have a deep identification with a twisted sociopath wasn\u2019t, in my book, a weakness; it was a strength. (It\u2019s for that same reason that I love \u201cBonnie and Clyde,\u201d \u201cTaxi Driver,\u201d and \u201cNatural Born Killers.\u201d) The movie was, among other things, an allegory of the Trump era, but it\u2019s almost as if the critics were saying, \u201cWe don\u2019t like the movie because Arthur is a nasty incel who leads an uprising just like Trump!\u201d To me, the criticisms of \u201cJoker\u201d were sort of comparable to a studio executive giving notes that basically said, \u201cJake LaMotta in \u2018Raging Bull\u2019 isn\u2019t likable enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Did the critics, with \u201cJoker,\u201d turn into cautious executive scolds? In my opinion, they did. But the upshot is that Todd Phillips, making what I think is a huge mistake, listened to them. \u201cJoker: Folie \u00e0 Deux\u201d may be ambitious and superficially outrageous, but at heart it\u2019s an overly cautious sequel. Phillips has made a movie in which Arthur really is just poor Arthur; he does nothing wrong and isn\u2019t going to threaten anyone\u2019s moral sensibilities. In fact, he actually blows the only good thing that ever happened to him \u2014 winning the love of Lee\u2019s Harley Quinn \u2014 because he denies the Joker in himself. He\u2019s now just a singing-and-dancing puppet clown living in his imagination. Is <em>that<\/em> entertainment? Audiences, I suspect, will still turn out in droves to see \u201cFolie \u00e0 Deux.\u201d But when it comes to bold mainstream filmmaking, it\u2019s the scolds who are having the last laugh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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