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13 Joker Easter Eggs and Inspirations: The King of Comedy is Just the Start

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Tim Molloy

Frank Sinatra: Joker uses Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Life” with a sense of subversion that echoes the way Goodfellas uses a Sid Vicious cover of Sinatra’s “My Way” for its end credits. (“That’s Life” also turned up in De Niro’s lovely directorial debut, A Bronx Tale.)

Also read: 5 Stories The Irishman Left Out… Including One About Sinatra

Image courtesy of Reprise Records

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Tim Molloy

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  • You forgot to include "Conquest for the Planet of the Apes" from 1972. The end riot scene, with Joker being pulled form the back of the crushed police car, laid out on the hood of another vehicle and then rising to his feet as the night sky burns with flames and the crowd's anger, recalls the last 15 minutes of "Conquest for the Planet of the Apes" without question.

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