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"Joker" paying royalties to convicted pedophile Gary Glitter because it features one of his songs (UPDATE: Nope)
- Thread starter Syriel
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I have heard this song a million times and I have never heard of Gary Glitter. I am definitely out of the loop on that which is probably my fault but yea in Canada and I guess the US it is used in sports all the time.
Guess you could say Joker really is a bad movie made by bad people, and people who like it are bad! Rabble rabble.
I 100% guarantee Phillips knew exactly what connection this song would make and that it was intentional. Your reaction( and I assume the reaction of those upset by this)was what he was looking for. It's a troll Easter egg.
Shhhhhhhhh, stop making sense. This doesn't fit their narrative.
Me and the other people I saw the movie with immediately commented on it after the film. None of use were looking for reasons to say the film was immoral.
If you're interested, I think other movies probably shouldn't put Gary Glitter on their soundtrack.
I'm not familiar with the artist behind it, but I swear I heard that song at E3 during a trailer or something. I said that to my young brother immediately when the scene played out. Can someone check out if this has been used on a game trailer?
If we remove every criminal/asshole from soundtracks... who would last?
It's the same for movie directors/actors.
Bit surprised by the handwaving and whataboutism in this thread, but I'm British and as someone else said, glitter is universally reviled here and no one would play his music on anything. But using ignorance as a continued excuse is weak. For me, if I learn a musician or actor or whoever is guilty of horrible crimes, I will make sure I avoid them from that point on. kevin spacey for example.
Strong defence of a NOTORIOUS INTERNATIONAL PAEDOPHILE.
I'm from the UK.
This was the weirdest part watching the film for me, because I really recognised the song, remembered liking it as a kid and hearing it a lot, and then not hearing it for a loooong time. It's only when I checked the thread here I remembered it was by Gary Glitter.
I don't think it's a good thing or something that should EVER be overlooked. it's just hard to separate anything anyone says about this movie from the campaign against it, which appears to have largely only raised its profile and guaranteed its success.
Has the director commented on why he chose to use this particular song? I only ask because it was extremely jarring and took me out of the movie. Not because of the artist, but because it seemed tonally off from all the other licensed songs.
I expect this one to get used a lot.
Also, lmao it begins. People completely missing the point of the movie quoting it.
I expect this one to get used a lot.
Never seen that ad. It was fairly recent, I swear. It was a sports/car game trailer maybe? I know I'm familiar with the song because of that.
I saw Joker in the UK, and, out of everything that happens in the movie, hearing that song on the soundtrack made me the most uncomfortable. I was really, genuinely surprised to hear it, and judging by how frosty the atmosphere in the cinema turned, I'm guessing I'm not the only one.
Surely Warner Bros. have a UK division, or someone who works for them who could have told them this was a bad idea? Unless, as has been suggested, it was intentional.
Surely Warner Bros. have a UK division, or someone who works for them who could have told them this was a bad idea? Unless, as has been suggested, it was intentional.
Mentioning how a rapist paedophilde's music was used for a film is "a little crazy?"
...And so many others just bemusedly handwaving and being dismissive because there's many rapists out there in the entertainment biz that it's apparently fine to just tolerate it all, especially when sPoRtS.
Lol fuck this forum.
I'm not sure I understand the point of the Phil Spector whataboutism. It's quite possible to hate both a noted pedophile and a domestic abuser and believe the continued presence of either person's work in mainstream society, especially as people who are alive and able to receive monetary benefit from it, is bad.
Why are you attacking the innocent clown movie bro you can't expect Hollywood to take all of five seconds to google a dudes name and realise they're making a horrible mistake.
actually think you ppl saying it's used at sports and shit are pretty obviously not even sports fans because no arena (at least major sports in north america) has literally not played that shit in decades. maybe in like 1995 or some shit.
that shit is NOT an excuse for this shit being in this movie.
that shit is NOT an excuse for this shit being in this movie.
How do you feel about R Kelly's music being used in movies. Michael jackson? If we're going down this route than we are expunging a lot of music.
I actually loved how it was used in the film. I feel like Gary Glitter is more of an overseas thing. We literally just use this one song for sports, and even then we have the bootleg version now.
I mean, that's obviously why. I'm not sure people are fully understanding just how much no one knows who that is here or that there's even an artist associated with the hockey sound clip that plays to get the crowd to make noise. That's literally all that that's known as here.
Haha what? 'oh he only raped children abroad, probably not worth worrying about'
dont worry boys a few more of these threads and maybe we'll finally be able to cancel the clown movie
Oh yeah, didn't a lot of folks opt to use a cover version towards the beginning of the decade? I always forget how royalties are handled in those cases, but I always assumed that they were considerably less due to not being "the" song itself that would otherwise need to be licensed out.
Not even remotely true.
The only thing he said that fed anything was his comments about comedy and wokeness, which had nothing to do with a film that's not a comedy and the controversy had already been going on for weeks.
Don't try to alter history when said history isn't even a month old, everyone remembers what happened.
Why do you all think it's so hard to acknowledge that these people were all kinda shitty and that their harm isn't outweighed by whatever cultural value their music might have? Who the fuck is listening to R. Kelly in 2019?????
From what I gather pretty much any popular music from the 60s, 70s and 80s is probably a write off. Sleeping with underage groupees seems like it was ubiquitous.
See that's how you know cancel culture is real, it's completely unable to work whatever dark magic the paranoid chuds have ascribed to it
Huh? I'm talking about him as a popular icon.
Like 99% of people will identify the "Hey Song" over Gary Glitter in the states.