If you’re obsessed with the craft of moviemaking, you know that making overt references to past films is risky: It can feel like a humble salute to your inspiration, or like a desperate attempt to attach your film, barnacle-like, to better ones.
Joker takes its chances, again and again. Here’s every Joker Easter egg, homage, and repetition we noticed, from the subtle to the flagrant.
[Spoiler Warning: Please don’t read this unless you’re OK with some mild spoilers about Joker. If we’re approaching a big spoiler, we’ll flag it. Look out.]
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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.