One of the most important things for us
when making Joker was
to make a very human story.
I think sometimes we think of IMAX
as an experience that's made for
huge action movies with
these vast landscapes
but a movie like Joker
which has at the heart of it
one of the best performances
I've ever seen in a movie
is awesome in IMAX
My mother
always tells me
to bring laughter and joy
to the world.
It's important to know that
Joker is not an action movie.
The tone of this movie is probably
the best word would be unsettling
and I think that goes hand-in-hand
with the Joker character.
It wasn't a typical comic book movie.
He wanted it very realistic.
It's important that we connect to Arthur
and understand that he is
a very tangible real person
so it was really important to make
a very tangible and real environment.
Literally every single sound in the movie
is deliberately thought out.
There was light buzz and there's room tone
and there's just mood everywhere we go
and even when there's quote unquote silence
there's never silence.
He trudges his way through
sort of a an invisible life.
We tried to connect with him
through the imagery.
Sometimes it was by putting him very small
in a huge landscape
like when he's performing with the sign
early on in the movie
and then only choosing to get close to him
at moments when he's alone.
So this movie in a way
was sort of made perfectly for IMAX.
You're witnessing this man perform
in close-ups and it fills that screen
top-to-bottom, side-to-side.
The expressions of the actors
and the nuance that they're doing
just comes out better in IMAX.
You know we spent so much effort
and so much time
in these immaculate facilities
and we make everything perfect for those screens.
And our objective would be that
that everyone has a chance to see it
in that same level of perfection
in that same technical quality.
I know if somebody's seeing it in IMAX
they're going to see that
and they're going to see it exactly the way
we wanted it to be seen.
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