Things you never noticed before

[eledoremassis02]

Seen this films too many times to recall, but I have no idea why I never relaized the photo of Alecia was black and white with red lips (very 80s. very joker) and it's the same photo that sits under Joker when she see's him for the first time (and how she later gets deformed by the joker)




It's also similar to the Joker models (minus the green hair)

[The Laughing Fish]

Seen this films too many times to recall, but I have no idea why I never relaized the photo of Alecia was black and white with red lips (very 80s. very joker) and it's the same photo that sits under Joker when she see's him for the first time (and how she later gets deformed by the joker)

I gotta admit, as a kid growing up, I thought that was Madonna posing in that portrait. The lack of a mole should've been a giveaway. I guess my mind was scrambled because of the product placement of Vogue magazine and the music video of the song made around 1990, somehow making me think there was a connection to the movie.

[The Laughing Fish]

This probably belongs in one of those Cultural Allusions posts on this forum. But I was thinking about the scene where Alicia got horrified by the sight of the Joker and fainted, and I found out the painting behind her is a real-life piece of artwork by Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. The painting is called The Fete Day, made in 1914.



https://www.kurtvonmeier.com/surrealism-ps-angeles-and-twentieth-century-architecture

It could be debated whether or not this is the original painting or it's recreated because if you look carefully, the movie version is missing an arrow and the log on the ground might be a bit longer than the original. But aside from those differences, the painting is otherwise the same.

You gotta love the use of artwork in B89. It makes the movie more distinctive, imaginative and pleasing to the eye.

[The Laughing Fish]

^I had another look at the pictures I compiled together again, and I realise the movie shot is missing an oval shape (it might be a rugby ball). Yeah, it's definitely not the original painting.

[eledoremassis02]

^I had another look at the pictures I compiled together again, and I realise the movie shot is missing an oval shape (it might be a rugby ball). Yeah, it's definitely not the original painting.

The arrow pointing to the eggs shadow has been altered too. I wonder if they got like a wallpaper version and modded it, or if someone made a replica painting with those changes. Very interesting