Lady Gaga is seen bringing the music, dance and a very bad romance to the Joker film sequel in its first trailer.<\/p>\n
The singer and actress plays a new version of Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux opposite Joaquin Phoenix, who won an Oscar for the original movie.<\/p>\n
The pair seemingly meet and fall in love in Arkham Asylum before apparently escaping and forming a musical duo.<\/p>\n
Director Todd Phillips said it isn\u2019t a musical, as had been rumoured, but that music is \u201can essential element\u201d.<\/p>\n
Phoenix won an Oscar for best actor for his performance in 2019\u2019s Joker.<\/p>\n
Here are seven things of note from the sequel\u2019s trailer.<\/p>\n
Arthur Fleck (aka Joker) and Harley Quinn\u2019s eyes appear to meet as she takes part in a singing group in Arkham Asylum, where he was left at the end of the 2019 film.<\/p>\n
Her origin story is as a psychiatrist at the institution who is obsessed with the failed comedian and \u201ccrown prince of crime\u201d \u2013 but here, she could be a fellow inmate. It\u2019s not quite clear which side of the bars she\u2019s on.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems to confirm a massive shift in Harley Quinn\u2019s origin story,\u201d\u00a0wrote IGN\u2019s Alex Stedman, \u201cas it appears to show her as a patient in Arkham Asylum rather than as a psychiatrist\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cLong gone, it seems, are the days of Dr Harleen Quinzel.\u201d<\/p>\n
But if she is working rather than residing there, that might help explain how she can help him escape.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s get outta here,\u201d she whispers, before the pair are seen in a fantasy rooftop dance sequence.<\/p>\n
That abruptly cuts to a gritty Gotham City street, where they continue their carefree dance as emergency vehicles rush in the direction of whatever chaos they have just caused.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe use music to make us whole \u2013 to balance the fractures within ourselves,\u201d the title character is heard saying in voiceover.<\/p>\n
Joker has found a partner in love and crime, but also music. In one clip, they perform as Joker & Harley on a TV show, complete with full band and backing singers.<\/p>\n
The trailer is soundtracked by What the World Needs Now Is Love, made famous in 1965 by Jackie DeShannon.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like to say it\u2019s a movie where music is an essential element,\u201d Phillips told CinemaCon on Tuesday, when asked whether this is a musical.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me that doesn\u2019t veer to far from the first film,\u201d he said, adding that in that original film, \u201cArthur has music in him. He has a grace to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed, one of the most famous scenes from the first film was where Joker danced down a flight of stone steps. In the new trailer, Harley is seen\u00a0walking up those same steps.<\/p>\n
In another snippet, she and Joker mimic his original dance as they go down what look like courthouse steps, with cheering crowds on either side.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, there\u2019s no Gary Glitter music this time.<\/p>\n
At another point, Harley, wearing a white wedding dress and veil, dances down an aisle to a chapel, where Joker is waiting in a white suit, apparently accompanied by backing singers as bridesmaids.<\/p>\n
This is, however, one of several fantasy sequences that are reminiscent of classic Hollywood movie musicals.<\/p>\n
That led one person on X to say it looks like 2016 musical La La Land, but for \u201cpeople who hear voices\u201d.<\/p>\n
The British comedian and actor pops up in the trailer as some sort of authority figure who asks Arthur\/Joker: \u201cWhat\u2019s changed?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s changed \u2013 I\u2019m not alone any more,\u201d he replies.<\/p>\n
Coogan\u2019s appearance\u00a0led some to hope for a repeat\u00a0of a line by his most famous character, Alan Partridge, when he declared: \u201cI\u2019m Batman!\u201d Which really would be a plot twist.<\/p>\n
After causing mass mayhem, with riots on the streets, an explosion in a packed room with TV cameras (the same studio as their performance?), and Joker and Harley running hand-in-hand out of a flaming building, the trailer ends quietly with Harley apparently visiting Arthur in prison.<\/p>\n
Using her red lipstick, she draws a curved line on the glass between them and tells him: \u201cI want to see the real you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Phoenix\u2019s glum face slowly shifts and breaks into a big smile, which aligns with the now out-of-focus lipstick to suddenly become Joker\u2019s famous red face paint.<\/p>\n
A masterful shot which we hope took several hundred attempts to perfect, rather than having the lipstick digitally added in post-production.<\/p>\n
The trailer actually ends with the release date \u2013 10.04.24 \u2013 which means it\u2019s out TODAY! Hurrah!<\/p>\n
Oh, wait. Americans write their days and months the wrong way around. So we\u2019ll actually have until 4 October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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