Joker: Folie à Deux‘s Stars Are Pretty Sure the Musical They Made Is Not a Musical

Joker: Folie à Deux‘s property circuit is successful afloat plaything arsenic the sequel DC comic movie inches ever person to its theatrical release, and manager Todd Phillips and star Lady Gaga are adamant that the sequel movie isn’t a musical. The lone occupation is their hurried explanations for what the movie actually is walks, talks, and sashays precisely similar the dictionary explanation of a musical.

During a Joker 2 property junket astatine the Venice International Film Festival, Gaga reiterated that Joker 2 is not a philharmonic due to the fact that it’s antithetic from the emblematic one.

“The mode that euphony is utilized is to truly springiness the characters a mode to explicit what they request to accidental due to the fact that the country and dialog is conscionable not enough,” Gaga said.

Reader, Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a philharmonic arsenic “a movie oregon theatrical accumulation typically of a sentimental oregon humorous quality that consists of philharmonic numbers and dialog based connected a unifying plot.” In different words, it’s exactly what Gaga conscionable said Joker 2 isn’t.

Lady Gaga doesn’t presumption #Joker2 arsenic a musical.

Gaga says “the euphony is utilized to truly springiness the characters a mode to explicit what they request to accidental due to the fact that the country and dialog is conscionable not enough” #Venezia81 pic.twitter.com/XV5tmmrhY9

— Deadline (@DEADLINE) September 4, 2024

As mentioned earlier, Gaga isn’t the archetypal idiosyncratic progressive successful Joker 2 to downplay the film’s evident philharmonic leanings. In an interrogation with Variety a mates of weeks prior, Phillips admitted to struggling with labeling Joker 2 arsenic a philharmonic contempt having philharmonic numbers wherever Phoenix and Gaga interruption retired into songs with renditions of classics similar “Get Happy,” “For Once successful My Life,” and “That’s Life.”

“Most of the euphony successful the movie is truly conscionable dialogue. It’s conscionable Arthur not having the words to accidental what helium wants to say, truthful helium sings them instead,” Phillips told Variety, rake-stepping his mode into defining what a philharmonic is.

“I conscionable don’t privation radical to deliberation that it’s similar In the Heights, wherever the woman successful the bodega starts to sing and they instrumentality it retired onto the street, and the constabulary are dancing,” Phillips continued. “No disrespect, due to the fact that I loved In the Heights.”

“Arthur has euphony successful him. That was a logical leaping-off constituent for the sequel.” Joker: Folie à Deux – lone successful theaters and @imax, October 4. #JokerMovie #FilmedForIMAX pic.twitter.com/Jmlj8sF1fQ

— Joker Movie (@jokermovie) September 3, 2024

Hilariously, the authoritative Joker X Twitter relationship precocious uploaded a featurette titled “The Music Within;” successful it, Phillips, Phoenix, and Gaga recount however utilizing music—albeit successful a rough-sounding way—was a “logical leaping-off constituent for the sequel.” Even if the euphony sounds terrible, it’s inactive a musical.

Regardless of whether oregon not past volition deem Joker 2 arsenic a philharmonic oregon not, the clown-centric movie volition deed theaters connected October 4.

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