

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Acting
Phoenix's 52-pound weight loss and that laugh.
Score
Hildur Guðnadóttir's cello = impending doom.
Cinematography
Scorsese's New York, but it's Newark.

Director
Todd Phillips
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Phoenix based the laugh on real recordings of pathological laughter disorder patients. He also improvised the bathroom dance — the original script just said 'Arthur dances'.
The US military issued warnings about potential violence at screenings, and the film became a bizarre Rorschach test for critics' political leanings — everyone saw their own Joker.