Jasmine Adel
After star Joaquin Phoenix won the Golden Globe a few days ago as the best actor for his role in the movie "The Joker" and nominated him for the British Oscar and BAFTA, and in front of his strong odds of winning, and because "The Joker" is not his only work worth seeing, this is a list of the best films he has presented so far.
Joker
Joaquin Phoenix was not the first to introduce the Joker character on the screen, as many actors preceded him, and despite the fans' loyalty to the late star Heath Ledger and their rejection of any alternative to him, confirmed by their pre-refusal of the star Jared Leto, the audience is able to obtain Joaquin on the role with high satisfaction and expectations, especially After the roles he gave in recent years.
It seems that the audience's bet was in place. On the one hand, the audience and critics unanimously agreed to Joaquín’s performance and the extent of his reincarnation of the character and his ability to embody it with all the transformations that he underwent. Revenue in 2019, before it became the first adult-only movie to cross the one-billion-dollar barrier and ranks 29th on the AMDB art website's list of the top 250 films in cinema history.
The events of the film take place in the eighties, specifically the beginnings of the Joker when he was working as a clown amid his attempts to prove himself as a comedian, and with his persistent persecution and derision, and in light of his psychological disturbances, his character turns from a peaceful man to an angry person.
Her.
According to the "Esquire" website, "Her" comes first in the films presented by Joaquin Phoenix during his career, a romantic drama in a science fiction framework, which was rated by the American Film Institute as one of the ten best films released in 2013, before To win the Oscars and the Golden Globe.
His events revolve around "Theodore," who was separated from his wife, whom he loves recently, to live alone, who only socializes his letters while working to help strangers express their sincere feelings towards those around them.
However, conditions change completely when he decides to take advantage of modern technological technologies, and choose a smart artificial operating system with a woman’s voice to share his nights free of life’s manifestations, unless his account is calculated by his being in love with that virtual character, which complicates matters more, while making viewers wonder about But it is love and the nature of relationships that deserve to last forever.
"You were never really here"
Although this work belongs to the category of crime and mystery, it came mostly more dramatic than being a movement movie, the hero "Jo", a former soldier who works as a hired killer with the rank of knight noble, as he seeks to find the missing girls, before he suddenly finds himself involved in the process of saving a girl who will be forced to Working with prostitution, and with his noble purpose, his means to achieve this requires him to kill everyone who hinders him from carrying out his mission.
As events unfold, we discover a part of the human side of the hero’s life when we trace his relationship with his mother, and we also have the opportunity to eavesdrop on some of his miserable childhood memories.
"You Were Never Really Here" was distinguished by the directing that combined realism and the bleak spirit that dominates work and expressive soundtracks, while acting was marked by Joaquín's ingenuity in the role of the person who suffered consecutive disappointments until he was buried with life , To win his role as Best Actor at the Festival de Cannes, and Lynne Ramsay - for the movie - won the Best Screenplay Award at the festival itself.
Walk the Line
Another film that Joaquin Phoenix won the Golden Globe and nominated for Oscar and Bafta, but this time he worked as a musician and a biography that tells the story of the genesis of "Johnny Cash", and how art finds a way to him while in the army.
Despite the end of his service and the establishment of a family in the midst of his work as a roaming salesman, his passion for country music does not leave him, and he decides to enter the field with all the joy, creativity and hardship he brings in order to reach the events. His career and family are on the verge of collapse.
At the time of its release, the film grossed more than $ 186 million in revenue, making it the highest-grossing music autobiography in film history before it was surpassed by "Straight Outta Compton" in 2015.
The Master
By production standards and figures, this film is a disaster. His revenues did not exceed $ 28.3 million, although his budget amounted to 32 million, but on the technical level, critics and jury loved him so that he ran for the Oscars, Golden Globe and BAFTA, which is not surprising if he knows that his director Paul Thomas Anderson who previously To be nominated for the Oscars eight times, and the tournament was awarded to Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.
The events of the film begin with the end of World War II, when one of the soldiers returns to the homeland, and in front of the psychological effects of the war that causes him some disturbances besides his other original problems, he believes that salvation lies in joining a group of what Professor Lancaster specializes in treating such cases in a way Uncommon, it causes him to gain as many hostilities as he has two murids.