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Joker
Phillips and Phoenix turn the origin story into a Travis Bickle echo chamber.
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Joker
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Arthur Fleck walking through Gotham — the Travis Bickle anatomy
→ Taxi Driver (1976)
Phillips transplants Travis Bickle into Gotham: the journal voiceover, the city as sewer, the vigilante violence celebrated by the dispossessed. Phoenix has cited De Niro's performance as his direct model.
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Joker
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The dance and the smile — violence as performance
→ A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Arthur's bathroom dance and Alex's singing in the rain share the same logic: violence aestheticised through choreography. Phillips cites Kubrick's film as the model for making the audience uncomfortably complicit.
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