SPOILER ALERT: This story includes details about the ending of “Joker: Folie à Deux‘
Joaquin Phoenix‘s Arthur Fleck is dead. “Joker: Folie à Deux” ends with the brutal stabbing of Arthur by a fellow inmate at Arkham Asylum, but Phoenix and director Todd Phillips both told IGN that the character is at peace once the credits start rolling on “Folie à Deux.”
“There’s a warmth in that scene, which is nice,” Phoenix said about Arthur’s death. “That’s all that I was thinking about that I was after, is here’s this young man who’s telling me a joke and he’s nervous to tell me the joke, I can tell that he’s nervous, and I’m going to hear him out. And it’s a pretty good setup.”
The scene unfolds as the inmate approaches Arthur to tell him a joke. Arthur obliges, which Phoenix and Phillips view as a peaceful gesture for the…
