（带文稿）1014 打破票房纪录却叫座不叫好的电影Joker，你给打几分？【张老邪整理】

张老邪叨哔叨：

这部电影......反正我还没看。最近只想看元气治愈系，把十元的《校阅女孩》又重刷了遍。你呢？最近在看什么（求别说扛把子刘玉玲的致命女人）考研英语的小作文可是考过“推荐一部电影”的哦~ 赶紧拿小本本记下今天这篇关于影评的地道表达吧~

“击垮一个人/造就一个反派，只需要给他糟糕的一天” 

emmm 张老邪还是希望大家多笑笑，多刷刷段子哇！啾咪~

Transcript

    The long awaited Joker opened Friday in theaters across America.

If you have not heard, the movie is the latest examination of the Joker character, a 1940 creation of DC Comics. Joker is an especially tricky criminal, who serves as an enemy to the superhero Batman.

    Filmmakers have been creating “origin” stories for the Joker character for years. This latest effort, directed by Todd Phillips, took home the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

    Yet, many American and British movie critics are laughing at the film -- and not in a good way.

    Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a man with a brain problem that makes him laugh uncontrollably. Often it happens in situations when others might cry or react differently. People do not understand his behavior.

    He dreams of being a stand-up comedian and making audiences laugh. But after being beaten and mistreated by strangers, Arthur launches into a life of a murderous criminal.

  Many American movie critics have praised Phoenix’s performance. Rolling Stone magazine said the word “phenomenal” was too small to describe the actor’s work in Joker. Variety, a film industry trade publication, called Phoenix’s performance “astonishing.”

    However, opinion on the movie overall is less favorable.

    Atlantic Magazine’s David Sims writes that as the movie turns to “bloody violence, it becomes little more than a horror show.”

    The headline of Time magazine’s review of the film reads: “Joker wants to be a movie about the emptiness of our culture. Instead, it’s a prime example of it.”

        There is praise as well.

    Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun Times calls the film a, “dark, intense, well-photographed examination of a damaged and dangerous” person.

Joker caused some fear and debate in America leading up to its release.     Some argued that the film’s social commentary could incite violence.

Its historical context could be a reason. In 2012, a gunman in the U.S. state of Colorado attacked a theater full of people gathered for a showing of the movie The Dark Knight Rises, the second in an earlier three-part Batman movie series. The violence left 12 people dead and more than seventy others injured.

    On Thursday, national security agencies warned about possible violence at the opening weekend of Joker. They expressed concern about online messages calling for mass shootings at theaters that show the film.

Later that night, Joker played in a limited number of theaters and earned more than $13 million in ticket sales. It broke the record set last year for Thursday pre-opening movie showings in the month of October.

    I’m Caty Weaver.

Words in This Story

origin – n. the place, social situation, or type of family that a person comes from

stand-up comedian – n. a person who performs humorous material alone on a stage

phenomenal – adj. very good or great : unusual in a way that is very impressive

astonishing – adj. causing a feeling of great surprise or wonder : causing astonishment

prime – adj. used to say that someone or something is a very good example of a particular kind of person or thing

context – n. the situation in which something happens: the group of conditions that exist where and when something happens