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- Cullen said he was surprised when he read that twist in the script, and revealed that director Todd Phillips sees Thomas Wayne's secret as the key catalyst for Joker becoming Batman's greatest adversary.
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Cullen said he was surprised when he read that twist in the script, and revealed that director Todd Phillips sees Thomas Wayne's secret as the key catalyst for Joker becoming Batman's greatest...
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Aug 24, 2024 · By addressing one of the biggest mysteries from its 2019 predecessor, Joker: Folie à Deux could irredeemably change Bruce Wayne's own origin story as Batman in Todd Phillips' dark Joker franchise.
- Kai Young
Oct 5, 2019 · 'Joker' actor Brett Cullon shares his thoughts on the Thomas Wayne twist and reveals the scene that was rewritten to be more comedic.
- Ron Burton
Oct 6, 2019 · In Todd Phillips' Joker, one key revelation that led to the downward spiral of Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur "Happy" Fleck into this version of the Clown Prince of Crime was that he might have been the illegitimate son of Brett Cullen's Thomas Wayne in the movie.
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- Thomas Wayne: A Distant Dad
- The Problem with Paternalism
- Architect of Unrest
Wayne’s apparent disposal of Arthur Fleck and his mother, Penny, is a mystery that runs throughout Joker. The truth behind their relationship remains open to interpretation. But what’s beyond dispute is that Penny worked in Wayne Manor as a young woman. By the time we meet her, however, she has spent part of her life institutionalized in Gotham’s m...
While you could argue that Thomas Wayne’s distant treatment of Bruce is ultimately good for Gotham, what’s less so is his comparable approach to politics. His mayoral campaign is rooted in paternalism: the idea that the people he would be responsible for don’t know what’s good for them, and must be taught to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. ...
In Batman stories like Batman Begins, Thomas Wayne has traditionally functioned as a tragic backstory - both to Bruce and to the city he’d hoped to save. He’s the failed pitch for funding and policy change that justifies all of Batman’s perp-punching. In Joker, by contrast, he's a fascinating villain: simultaneously condemning Gotham's poor as work...
Oct 16, 2019 · In one scene in the movie it is shown how Thomas and Martha Wayne die. So, given that there is an age gap of probably about 15-20 years between young Bruce Wayne and Batman, does that mean that Batman would fight a 60+ year old Joker in this universe?
Oct 9, 2019 · The 'Joker' movie connects Arthur Fleck to Thomas Wayne, father of Bruce Wayne, which suggests that the Joker and Batman are half brothers. But is that true?
