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So Is Joker: Folie à Deux a Musical or Not?
Why did Lady Gaga say the movie isn’t a musical? I can think of a few possible answers.
On Wednesday afternoon, Lady Gaga created a shockwave that echoed from the Adriatic across the Atlantic when she revealed at the official Venice press conference for Joker: Folie à Deux that she didn’t necessarily consider the film a musical. For instance, the sequence where Gaga’s Harley Quinn attempts to break Joker out of prison while singing “If My Friends Could See Me Now” from Sweet Charity begins and ends with actions that are meant to be taken literally, but what’s in between is a flight of fancy that only the two of them are experiencing. ( David Ehrlich complains that “most of the tunes are pared down into dull cabaret arrangements and shot against the black void of the characters’ shared imagination.”) Still, most of my audience seemed to enjoy the fantasy where Joker and Harley are the hosts of a Sonny & Cher– type program, where they sing “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” You gotta admire a good bit.
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