Few noticed that the film starring Joaquin Phoenix has a reference from the 1989 Batman film.
Joker premiered in 2019 and despite it being out for a while now, fans continue to discover new and interesting details in the film.
Although in October of last year, director Todd Phillips commented in an interview with Collider that he did not intentionally put easter eggs in his film and that if anyone found any they would simply be a coincidence. The director now seems to contradict himself.
This is due to the multiple references that have been uncovered since the release of Joker, this newfound connection relates to the Batman created by Tim Burton.
This is credited to Reddit user googsmaster24 who indicated that a painting displayed in the apartment of Arthur Fleck is the same one that can be seen in the 1989 film, it is the exact art work in the museum that is burglarized by Jack Nicholson’s Joker.
The portrait is titled The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, who painted it in 1770 and is his most famous work. In Batman (1989) it appears in the Gotham art gallery, while in ‘Joker’ it appears as a copy that hung above Fleck’s television.
Perhaps it is a coincidence, but it is not the only “reference” that exists. Maybe one day Todd Phillips will admit that he put them there on purpose for comic book fans.
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