As the discharge date for the long-awaited Joker sequel approaches, we’re someway no nearer to understanding whether or not or not the movie is a musical.
When the brand new film, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga, was first reported again in 2022, it was claimed that it will be a musical, though its cinematographer downplayed this throughout an interview earlier this 12 months.
Since then, everybody from director Todd Haynes to Joaquin himself has had a go at discussing Joker: Folie À Deux’s musical components – and whether or not it’s truly a musical or only a “movie with music”.
Forward of the film’s Venice Movie Competition premiere, Gaga was requested once more concerning the undertaking’s relationship with music.
“The best way that we approached music on this movie was very particular and very nuanced,” she defined.
“I wouldn’t essentially say that that is truly a musical, in a number of methods it’s very completely different. The music is used to actually give the characters a solution to categorical what they should say, as a result of the scene and simply the dialogue just isn’t sufficient.”
Now… is it simply us… or is that not simply precisely what a musical is? Both manner, we’re happy to see we weren’t the one ones confused…
Joaquin received an Oscar for his efficiency within the first Joker movie, and returns for the sequel alongside new addition Girl Gaga as the enduring Batman villain Harley Quinn.
The movie’s forged additionally contains Zazie Beetz (getting back from the primary Joker movie), Steve Coogan, Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener.
Joker: Folie À Deux hits cinemas on Friday 4 October.
