Folie á Deux: Taxi Driver & Joker

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week Amy is out, and Paul is on his own and briefly breaking down the new Joker: Folie à Deux release and its poor reviews and we see if Paul has changed his opinion on Joker. Then we revisit Paul and Amy’s discussion about Paul Schrader's 'man in the room' film Taxi Driver and the 2019 Joker release. You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The years, 1976 and 2019.
0:05.0	Are you talking to me?
0:07.0	Are you talking to me?
0:10.0	Because you don't listen, do you?
0:14.0	The Films, Taxi Driver, and The Joker. Oh, Hello everybody and welcome to
0:35.0	and welcome to Unspoosed.
0:40.0	I am Paul Sheer.
0:42.0	Amy Nicholson is on assignment and I figured it would be a good time to revisit this classic episode of Unspooled where we compare and contrast the Joker and taxi driver. Now the Joker 2 came out and honestly it's kind of shocking because this movie is a bomb.
1:04.0	Joker Folly Edu has a D cinema score, which is worse than Madame Webb.
1:11.0	That's right, the Joker 2 is getting worse reviews than Madame Web by the people in the theater, not the critics.
1:20.0	These are the people that elevated the first film to the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time
1:26.4	until it was recently beat out by Deadpool and Wolverine. Now, I am in the camp of people that did not like the Joker. I really like Taxi Driver. And Amy and I get into this
1:37.9	discussion about what was maybe intended for the Joker versus what was actually achieved. Now again I may be a lone wolf
1:46.4	here and not be a fan of the original film. I think the acting is great. I really like a lot of things in it, but I think it's a muddled film. Let me just
1:56.0	jump in and say this. So Taxi Driver was written by Paul Schrader. Now Paul Schrader thinks of
2:01.3	Taxi Driver as one film in a grouping of films that he calls
2:06.4	a man in the room films or night worker films. Those films that he kind of smashes together
2:11.5	are taxi driver, American Jiggolo, light sleeper, and the
2:14.7	Walker. Now Paul Schrader did direct light sleeper American jiggolo and the
2:20.5	Walker, but he considers all the main characters to be the same.
2:25.0	Basically, it's one character who has changed as he aged.
2:29.1	So that's an interesting way of looking at this film.
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