Todd Phillips’ Joker films pull the audience into Arthur Fleck’s world, making us complicit in his rise and fall, and forcing us to question why we wanted him to be the Joker in the first place.
This webcomic, which helped create the “DreamWorks Face” meme, was wildly unfair to Dreamworks and overly generous to Pixar, but it caught on as a shorthand comparison between the two studios, which ...