12 interesting facts about the film "Joker"

About a rigid diet, different kinds of laughter, and other things that make a picture not soon forget.

First, "Joker" has won the main prize of the Venice Film Festival, and then beat a bunch of records and collected rave reviews spectators. Like all good films, Todd Phillips on the tape, you can tell a lot of interesting things. Here are 12 entertaining facts.

1. Especially for the role of Joaquin Phoenix I sat down on a rigid diet and has lost 23.6 kilograms. With this actor helped the same nutritionist, with whom he worked, when to lose weight for the film "Master". After the "Joker" Phoenix has returned to normal, gaining 11.3 kilograms.

2. To the laughter of the Joker for the most natural, Joaquin Phoenix looked at a bunch of videos to the people who suffer from involuntary laughter. By the way, the entire movie hero laughs at least three different ways.

3. "Joker" quickly appeared on the list of 10 best films of all time according to IMDb. At the time of this writing, he was in 10th place - next to the "Fight Club" and "good, bad, evil."

4. Joaquin Phoenix is ​​good friends with Heath Ledger, who played the Joker in "Dark Knight" Christopher Nolan. For this role, Ledger received "Oscar" - posthumously.

5. On PornHub 741 000 requests were registered with the release of the film "Joker".

6. Dance of the Joker in the toilet - pure improvisation.

7. The film is set in the early 80s. Everything for events do not overlap with what is happening in the extended DC universe. The one that includes "Man of Steel", "Aquaman" and other contemporary films.

8. The ladder by which jumped protagonist now has a separate card in a Google search. Fans carried her to places of religious pilgrimage.

9. Robert De Niro, who played TV presenter Murray Franklin - favorite American actor Joaquin Phoenix. But during the shooting time, they did not talk to each other - partly because of the similarity of acting techniques.

10. At the premiere, which took place at the Venice Film Festival, the audience applauded the film for eight minutes. Standing.

11. The script for "The Joker" is constantly changing, with right before the shooting. Therefore, the actors had to adapt to the situation and improvise. Most of all in this respect has got to Zazie Beetz, who played the neighbor of the protagonist.

12. Written in yellow letters, title of the film, which is shown at the beginning, it was shot on film. Then it literally excised and digitized, so that it appears possible old school.