RE: Why does the director hate the fans of the first movie?

Oct 4, 2024
3:37:51pm

Gustav Intervention Needed

My impression is that he thinks people took the wrong message from the first one, liked the Joker too much, and had the wrong expectations for a sequel — havoc, a Joker-led rampage, whatever Joker-type shenanigans you'd expect from other Joker stuff.

A few articles (LANGUAGE WARNING):

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/joker-folie-a-deux-review-lady-gaga-1235107280/.

Medium

Joker: Folie à Deux Flips Off Fans and Haters Alike | by Jeremy Fassler | Oct, 2024 | Medium

In Joker: Folie à Deux, his follow-up to the smash hit and Academy Award nominee Joker, writer/director Todd Phillips not only critiques his previous film and its “bad fans,” but also turns it into a…

https://jeremyfassler.medium.com/did-todd-phillips-even-want-to-make-joker-2-8cb49812843f

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