'Joker' has been an unsettling movie in more ways than one this weekend, with heightened security in some theaters and a scary incident in New York City.
This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Joaquin Phoenix in a scene from "Joker," in theaters on Oct. 4.
“I was scared. I’m sure a lot of other people were,” Hood said in an interview conducted by private messages. While Phillips has said he hopes the film inspires discussions about guns, violence and the treatment of people with mental illness, some feared the movie could inspire violence, particularly after a mass shooting killed 12 at a Colorado theater during a screening of another Batman movie in 2012.
The man started clapping and cheering again “really loudly” during a climatic gunfight, he said, and got “belligerent” when people told him to quit. “This was most likely a harmless drunk guy, but all the nervousness built around the film made what happened night really unsettling,” Benson said in an interview conducted by private messages.
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