As mentioned before, the Joker in "Joker" and "The Dark Knight" are completely different.
Arthur in "Joker", everything he does is logical.
Why did he become a "clown"?
It is caused by many reasons. For example, social public welfare expenditures have been greatly reduced. For example, the female social worker said: "They don't care about people like you at all."
In fact, it is equivalent to that, to a certain extent, he has been abandoned.
You know, Arthur is a mental patient, he needs to take medicine for a long time, but now, from this moment on, he can't get the medicine.
A mentally ill patient suddenly stops taking his medication, and he is also a severely mentally ill patient. He suddenly stops taking his medication, which is a terrible thing in itself.
These audiences in the theater are all insiders, senior filmmakers, or related people. Of course, they can understand what these mean.
The angry killing on the subway is just the initial start of the clown.
In fact, even a normal person would make the same choice as him if he had a gun on him when faced with such bullying.
Most likely it will!
But what makes Arthur different from normal people is the weird dance after entering the toilet!
Closer to home, after Arthur left the female social worker, the scene switched.
He came to the comedy club.
Waiting in the background to go on stage.
At the same time, someone was performing on the stage in front.
"Most women choose a man like buying a car. They ask: Is it durable? Is it safe? Is it reliable? Will it kill me?"
"When a man chooses a woman, it's like parking a car. When there is a parking space, he gets in. When there is a parking space, he just parks. But there is a fee for parking? That's a pair!"
The talk show performed successfully aroused laughter from the people in the audience.
Finally it was Arthur's turn.
For Arthur, becoming a comedian or talk show actor is his dream, or in other words, it is the only value of existence that he can think of at the moment!
This moment was undoubtedly sacred to him.
The host came on stage: "The next performer describes himself as a lifelong Gotham citizen. He has known his mission in life since he was a child, which is to bring laughter to this cold and dark world. Okay, please welcome Arthur F. Ford with a round of applause.
Lake, Arthur Fleck!”
Amid the applause of the audience, Arthur walked across the hall and came to the stage, where he stood in front of the microphone.
Under the spotlight, Arthur looked a little embarrassed and uneasy, and he couldn't help laughing.
Although he forced himself not to laugh, he couldn't help it.
In fact, the design of this disease and his dreams can be said to be very interesting settings.
As we all know, a comedian must bring laughter to the audience, but the prerequisite is that you cannot laugh yourself!
But before he even started, he couldn't help laughing.
"Hello everyone, glad to be here!"
However, he was too nervous and couldn't help laughing again.
He covered his mouth and suppressed himself from laughing. He tried hard to control himself from laughing: "When I was young, I hated school!"
As he spoke, he couldn't help but laugh.
"I hated going to school when I was little, but my mom always said..."
He imitated his mother's tone but still smiled: "You should study hard, one day you will have to work for a living."
"No, I won't, Mom, I'm going to be a comedian!"
There was dead silence in the audience. Obviously, they didn't think this was funny at all.
Only Sophie at a table smiled.
Arthur became even more nervous. He took out his diary and opened it: "I have a joke. I was thinking a few days ago, why rich people..."
But at this moment, music, laughter, and applause sounded, and Arthur opened his arms and smiled.
The song goes: "Smile, even if your heart aches, smile, even if it's hurting, when there are clouds in the sky..."
The singing was still ringing, but Arthur had already left the stage. He and Sophie came to the still shabby and dirty streets together.
Sophie was walking in front, and suddenly Arthur stopped. His eyes were attracted by the newspapers hanging in the newsstand.
Because there is a picture of a clown on the front page, and the newspaper contains news about the shooting incident of a clown on the subway, with the headline: "Subway Warriors!"
“Yuppie Holocaust” “Killer clown on the loose!”
Arthur looked at the picture of a clown printed on the newspaper and opened his mouth.
At this time, Sophie walked behind Arthur and took a look at the newspaper: "Do you believe this nonsense? Go to hell!"
Arthur looked back at Sophie.
Sophie continued: "I think that guy is a hero. Gotham has lost three bastards and there are still more than a million left!"
After saying that, she turned and left.
Arthur smiled.
At this time, a taxi came over.
Arthur saw a man wearing a clown mask sitting in the back seat of a taxi.
Arthur smiled at the man.
In the donut shop, Sophie and Arthur sat on the window seat together. Sophie laughed, and Arthur looked at Sophie and smiled too.
It was obvious that he was in a happy mood when he was with Sophie.
Even if he loses his job, even if he has no medicine to take anymore, at least at this moment, he is still happy.
Return home.
On the TV, Murray's talk show was playing.
His mother, Penny, was watching TV there and fell asleep. The talk show had come to an end.
Arthur woke up his mother: "Mom, wake up, let's go to the bed to sleep."
Penny woke up, Arthur helped her stand up, and mother and son danced to the music on the TV.
Penny said: "Oh, HAPPY, I wrote him another letter."
"Come on, dance with me!"
"It's for Thomas Wayne, that's important!"
"You seem to be wearing cologne?" Penny couldn't help but smile when she saw Arthur dancing happily.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Because I just dated an important person!" Arthur said happily while dancing.
After sending her mother to the room, she said to Arthur: "Don't forget to send the letter!"
Arthur returned to the living room and picked up the letter written by his mother to Thomas Wayne.
Suddenly he opened the letter. His mother had been writing to Thomas Wayne, but he never replied, but she persisted, and Arthur was extremely curious.
So, this time, he opened the letter and read it.
However, the content in the letter made Arthur's expression gradually become serious.
Because her mother, Penny, mentioned something in her letter, the answer to the mystery was solved.
The general idea is: Your son and I both need your help. You are the only hope for my son and me! He is a good man, although he is a bit pessimistic. I think you will be proud of his work. My days of accompanying him are over.
Already......
Arthur obviously couldn't imagine that he was Thomas Wayne's son.
In the next scene, Penny slams the door to her room and screams: "You're going to kill me, you're going to give me a heart attack!"
Excited Arthur knocked on the door: "Don't do this to me!"
Penny said: "No, don't, I won't talk to you until your anger subsides!"
Arthur had to compromise: "Okay, okay!"
He turned around and walked a few steps to calm down, and then walked to the door again: "I'm not angry, Mom, I'm not angry, please, Mom, is this true?"
Obviously he was still a little unbelievable.
Penny leaned against the door and said: "He is an extraordinary man, HAPPY, he is a big shot, we love each other, he said to save face, it is best for us not to be together, and I will never tell other people, because I...
....Signed some papers, but other than that, you can imagine what people are going to say about me and Thomas, and what they are going to say about you!"
Arthur listened to his mother's description and leaned his head against the door: "Mom, what would they say?"
This turn of events can be said to be unexpected by many people.
After all, one is an ordinary citizen living at the bottom, a clown. The other is a high-ranking figure in the city.
He is actually the son of a big shot?
The scene switched, the train was moving, and the car was full of people. Many people were reading newspapers. The headlines written on the newspapers were: "The murderous clown is still on the loose!"
Arthur also held a newspaper in his hand, which reported news about Thomas Wayne's campaign for mayor. He tore out the photo of Thomas Wayne from the newspaper, looked at the photo, and stuffed the photo into his diary.
Inside the book.
Outside a huge manor.
Well, this is Wayne Manor, yes, that's Thomas Wayne's estate.
There is a little boy playing in the manor!
Seeing Arthur wearing a clown's prosthetic nose attracted the little boy.
Of course, there is no Batman in this world, so no one knows that this little boy is Batman.
However, this is actually not that important.
The little boy walked behind the iron door and looked at Arthur.
The two were separated by an iron fence, and Arthur held a wand in his hand. He made many gestures, then reached through the fence and handed the wand to the little boy.
The little boy held the wand, but the straight wand suddenly became bent.
He handed the wand to Arthur, Arthur made a gesture, and the wand straightened again.
He waved the wand again, and the next moment a flower appeared and bloomed at the end of the wand.
He handed the flower to the little boy, who took it. Arthur took off the red nose on his nose, looked at the little boy and asked: "Hi, what's your name?"
"I'm Bruce!"
"Bruce, I'm Arthur!"
Arthur stretched out his hand through the iron fence, opened the corners of Bruce's mouth with his two thumbs, and raised the corners of Bruce's mouth upwards, revealing a weird smile like a clown.
"That's much better!" Arthur said.
At this time, the manor's butler ran over, picked up Bruce and said to him: "Bruce, Bruce, stay away from that man!"
Arthur stood up and raised his hands: "I am a good man!"
"What are you doing? Who are you?" the butler said unkindly.
"I'm here to see Mr. Wayne!" Arthur said.
"You shouldn't be talking to his son, why are you giving him these flowers?" the butler said, taking the flowers Arthur gave him from Bruce's hand.
Then give it back to Arthur.
Arthur took it and explained: "This is not a real flower, this is a magic prop. I just wanted to make him laugh."
"But it's not funny, is it?" The butler didn't accept his explanation at all.
"Do I need to call the police?" he said.
"No, please, my mother is Petunia!" Arthur said.
"Penny?" The housekeeper was a little surprised.
"Penny Fleck!"
"She used to work here many years ago. Could you please tell Mr. Wayne that I want to see him?" Arthur said.
"Are you her son?" The housekeeper was a little surprised when he saw that Arthur obviously knew something.
"Yes! Do you know her?" Arthur asked.
"I know about them! She told me everything!" Arthur added when the butler didn't answer.
"There's nothing to know, there's no 'them!'" Unfortunately, the butler obviously didn't accept Arthur's "threat".
"Your mother is paranoid, she is sick!"
"Don't say that!" Arthur frowned.
"Let's go quickly before you bring shame on yourself!" the butler said as he approached Arthur.
"Thomas Wayne is my father!" Arthur said.
The butler couldn't help but laugh, and suddenly Arthur reached out and grabbed the butler's tie and pulled him over.
Grabbing his neck: "He abandoned me!"
Arthur glanced at Bruce behind the butler, finally let go of his hand, and ran away.
The butler took Bruce's hand and ran back to the manor.
After Arthur left Wayne Manor, he returned to the apartment building, but at this time, some people gathered downstairs, and there were flashing police lights. He saw several police officers carrying Penny on a stretcher.
"Mom? What happened?" Arthur didn't know what happened.
"Who are you?"
"Her son, what happened to her?" Arthur asked.
"Get in the ambulance first. We still don't know what the situation is. Get in the ambulance quickly and pay attention to the steps. The patient is not breathing smoothly. Hurry up!" the police officer said to his colleagues carrying the stretcher.
They carried Penny into the ambulance, and Arthur quickly followed.
In the hospital, Arthur was smoking, and two police detectives came over. It turned out that they investigated Arthur because he had dropped a gun at the children's hospital and was fired.
But Arthur quickly explained that it was a prop gun.
The reason why Penny got into trouble was because they asked her a few questions.
They mentioned that Arthur's boss gave him a business card, but they didn't know if it was a clown act or if it was actually a disease.
at night.
Arthur and Sophie stayed in the ward with Petunia.
Sophie said she was going to buy a cup of coffee, kissed Arthur on the forehead and left.
Arthur was sitting there and happened to see Murray's talk show, which he often gave.
But his eyes widened as he watched, because Murray said: "Someone thinks he can tell jokes like me. We got this tape from the Gotham Comedy Club. This guy, he thinks if he keeps laughing, he will
Become a master of comedy, look at this clown!"
Then, Arthur saw that the "clown" in the video was himself!
"Oh My God!"
Arthur couldn't help but walk closer to the TV, and he couldn't help laughing.
But soon, he couldn't laugh anymore.
Because Murray said: "He should really listen to his mother!"
But that wasn't the end yet, he showed another video of Arthur performing in a club.
Murray said again, I like him! But he just treats him like a clown to please the audience!
