There is little doubt that Joker was perfectly done with not a single scene out of place. However, Joaquin Phoenix and director Todd Phillips have just confirmed that there was a scene that had to be deleted from the film although it could have made things just a little more interesting.
Phoenix and Phillips recently spoke to Collider about working on Joker and they confirmed that there were no actual "deleted scenes." Instead, they explained that there were "deleted acts" that Phoenix felt should have made the final cut.
"There was a scene that, that during the shoot we thought was one of the best scenes and we loved his behavior in the scene, and I'd always really liked the scene. And Todd told me and said, ‘We're cutting that scene out.' And at first I thought, like, ‘Wait a minute, what do you mean you cut that scene out?' And then of course I saw it, and it was very obvious. It has to go," Phoenix said.
The said scene turned out to be a second interaction between Arthur Fleck and Randall at the stairwell where Glenn originally lent Arthur the gun. Although we'll never know what happened in the scene, it doesn't necessarily change anything about how the film turned out. Still, we wonder if the scene will end up in an extended cut of Joker, which is something that Phillips teased because of a fun sequence he worked on.
"It's funny, you talked about deleted scenes before and I was just thinking, while I don't like deleted scenes, we did cut this fun thing together of all the times (to Phoenix) — I haven't showed it to you yet — of him walking out on Murray Franklin because every time the guy would go, Murray would stand and go, ‘Please welcome Joker,' and the curtains would open and he comes out and does something different every time. You know the thing in the movie, he spins, he kisses the woman. But we cut this thing together of ‘Please welcome Joker,' and I don't know, we did it 13 times maybe, and they're all different and they're so funny and there's so many good ones. I was like, ‘Oh, I wonder why I didn't use that one?'" Phillips revealed.
OK, so a Murray/Arthur supercut isn't a bad idea at all. We'd love to see this in case Phillips does decide to release the director's cut of the movie but again, we're not confirming that one actually exists. (And yet, we are hoping for one).
Joker is currently screening in theaters worldwide.
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