Bonus Reel: Joker & Taxi Driver

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On this special bonus episode, Paul & Amy compare the controversial supervillain origin story Joker with one of the films that inspired it, Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A loner.
0:01.3	Walking through a gritty street.
0:03.3	Looking for change.
0:05.0	An actor who lost a lot of weight.
0:07.4	And changed his hair.
0:09.2	The movie?
0:10.3	The Joker.
0:11.3	What?
0:11.8	Oh!
0:12.8	Ha-ha!
0:30.0	Hey, buddy, I am Paul Sheer.
0:31.4	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:32.2	And welcome to Unspooled.
0:34.8	And this is a very special bonus episode of Unspooled
0:38.4	where we are comparing and contrasting Joker and Taxi Driver.
0:43.8	Yeah, I mean, because one of the interesting things
0:45.8	about doing this show is you pick a film
0:47.6	and you look at its echoes through the culture.
0:50.0	And the echo between Taxi Driver and Joker
0:52.6	could not have been louder.
0:53.7	I mean, these are two films that were released
0:56.7	in similar patterns and received in similar ways.
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