{"id":61992,"date":"2019-09-02T01:50:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T01:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=61992"},"modified":"2019-09-02T01:50:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T01:50:29","slug":"joaquin-phoenix-joker-transformation-start-go-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=61992","title":{"rendered":"Joaquin Phoenix on His Joker Transformation: \u2018You Start to Go Mad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joaquin Phoenix\u2019s Arthur Fleck, the mentally-ill antagonist at the center of Todd Phillips\u2019 Joker, is without question the most deranged version of the DC supervillain to ever hit the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the attraction to make this film and this character was that we were going to approach it in our own way,\u201d Phoenix explained at the Venice Film Festival. \u201cSo for me, I didn\u2019t refer to past interpretations of the character.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>According to director Todd Phillips, he and Phoenix met six months prior to shooting to design the character, his look, and his laugh. But it was the actor\u2019s dramatic weight loss\u2014a reported 52 pounds\u2014that really made things click.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first thing for us was the weight loss\u2014I think that\u2019s really what I started with. And, as it turns out, that then affects your psychology. You start to go mad when you lose that amount of weight in that amount of time,\u201d said Phoenix. \u201cThere\u2019s a book that I read about political assassins and would-be assassins that I thought was really interesting, and kind of breaks down the different types of personalities that do those sorts of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another helpful aide in locating the character was Fleck\u2019s journal\/joke book, filled with his nihilistic musings on the many absurdities of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery early on in the rehearsal, I was given the journal that he had\u2014his journal and joke diary. And that was really helpful, because I had been there for a couple of weeks and wasn\u2019t sure how I was going to start, and Todd sent this [empty] journal,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what to write, so I asked [Todd] for some suggestions, and after a few days, I ignored his suggestions and suddenly it was coming out. It became a really important part of the discovery of the character at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix repeatedly stressed that it was important for him to maintain the \u201cmystery\u201d of the character, and that he and Phillips engaged in a collaborative process where \u201cthroughout the course of shooting, every day we were discovering new aspects to his character and shades to his personality up until the very last day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then there was the laugh\u2014which in this Joker\u2019s case is an uncontrollable, hyena-like shriek, delivered at the most inopportune times.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cBefore I even read the script, Todd came over and talked me through what he wanted out of this character and this movie, and he showed me some videos, and he described the laughter as something that was almost painful,\u201d offered Phoenix. \u201cAnd so ultimately, I think Joker is a part of him that\u2019s trying to emerge, and I think that was a really interesting way of looking at this laugh\u2026It felt like a new, fresh way of looking at it. But honestly, I didn\u2019t think that I could do it. I would practice alone and then asked Todd to come over to audition my laugh, because I felt like I had to do it on the spot and in front of somebody else. It took me a longtime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips says his Joker was influenced by character studies of the \u201870s, including Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy, Serpico, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest. But more so than those, the 1928 silent film The Man Who Laughs served as an important inspiration for director and star.<\/p>\n<p>And though some may see the damaged Fleck as a \u201ctragic\u201d character, Phoenix begs to differ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was interested in the light of Arthur, for lack of a better word,\u201d he said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t just the torment; it was his struggle to find happiness, to feel connected, to find the warmth and love\u2014that\u2019s the part of the character I was interested in and worth exploring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joaquin Phoenix\u2019s Arthur Fleck, the mentally-ill antagonist at the center of Todd Phillips\u2019 Joker, is without question the most deranged version of the DC supervillain to ever hit the screen. \u201cFor me, the attraction to make this film and this character was that we were going to approach it in our own way,\u201d Phoenix explained &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[391],"tags":[3243],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - 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