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- Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "Joker."
- "Joker" is in theaters and Joaquin Phoenix stars as the latest iteration of Batman's greatest foe in the Warner Bros. film.
- While you're trying to discern what's fake from real in the two-hour movie, there are some references to other movies and comics you may overlook.
- From a Justin Theroux cameo to a nod to the Joker's hideout, Insider rounds up some of the details you may miss while watching the movie.
- Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.
"Joker" takes place in 1981 as evidenced by the movies displayed on the movie theater marquee.
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"Joker" is very clearly a movie that doesn't take place in 2019. It almost exists outside of any real time period, but in Warner Bros.' production notes for the film, it's noted that director Todd Phillips is channeling the early '80s.
"We included a few elements from the canon and set it in a broken-down Gotham City around 1981 because that harkens back to that era and would remove it from the comic book world we're so familiar with in film today," Phillips says.
Keep an eye on some of the theater marquees and you'll notice references to a few movies from '81, including "Zorro, the Gay Blade."
The reference to a "Zorro" movie is a direct nod to how Batman's parents are killed in the DC Universe.
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If you're even slightly familiar with Batman, you know that after he and his parents leave a screening of "The Mark of Zorro," they decide to walk down what's known as Crime Alley. Bruce Wayne's father, Thomas, gets held up at gunpoint by a mysterious figure and is both shot dead and robbed. Bruce's mother, Martha, is then shot, and pearls from her necklace are sent spilling all over the concrete.
In one iteration of the Waynes' murders from the comics, it's suggested that they're killed by a man named Joe Chill, who may or may not be the Joker.
The "Joker" also recreates this moment and shows a man with a clown mask killing the Waynes.
Justin Theroux has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo.
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Theroux plays a guest on "Live With Murray Franklin." It's the episode Fleck watches while he preps for his appearance on the late-night show.
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