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Hi, this is Todd Phillips. I'm the director of "Joker."
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So, this scene is interesting, because it's right after a life-changing cataclysmic event in Arthur's life.
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And he's found this little, kind of rundown park bathroom to go in and collect his thoughts and get himself together.
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What's interesting about this scene to me is it's entirely different than what we had scripted.
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In the script, Arthur was to come into the bathroom, hide his gun, wash off his makeup, and staring at himself in the mirror, like, "What have I done?"
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And when we got to the set on the day, Joaquin and I just sort of stood around, like, huh... this doesn't really seem very Arthur.
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Why would Arthur care to hide his gun?
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And we really kind of tossed around a million ways to just do something different.
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And it was about an hour into it, and I said, "Hey, you know, I got this piece of music from Hildur..."
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Hildur Gudnadottir is our composer, and she'd been sending me music throughout, while we were shooting.
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And I just wanted to play Joaquin this piece of music and...
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Joaquin just started to dance to the music, and it was just me and him alone in the bathroom.
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There's 250 people on the crew waiting outside.
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And he just starts doing this dance, and we both kind of look at each other and said, "OK, that's the scene."
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It made sense to us because when I first met with Joaquin and we first started talking about "Joker," I talked to him that Arthur is one of those people that has music in him.
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So music and dance became a theme in the film.
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And this is the second time we see him dancing, and it's a little bit of Joker coming out, a little bit more than the scene before and a little bit less than the next time we see him dance.