Joaquin Phoenix is a mess. It’s 11 March 2009, and he’s just pitched up at Miami nightclub LIV.
Sporting a black suit, an unruly save-that-for-later beard, and a pair of dark glasses, he’s not exactly the sharp Hollywood movie star he used to be.
Why’s he here? To rap, of course. Getting up on stage, Phoenix makes a go at a dirty rap song before heckling from the audience causes him to pause.
“We have a double-expletive in the crowd,” he says, before the jaded jeers prompt our bearded stage-hogger to launch from the spotlight and confront the man responsible.
“I saw the guy screaming at Joaquin, and Joaquin just came down,” reported an onlooker afterwards. “[Casey Affleck's] camera was filming the whole time, so it makes me think he has ulterior motives.”
Wait, Casey Affleck? Oh, right. Hollywood actor Affleck, who also happens to be Phoenix’s brother-in-law, is filming the off-the-rails star for a new documentary called I’m Still Here.
So this is all a performance, right? Method gone mad? Uh, maybe. Let’s investigate…
Next: I'm Still Joaquin
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Ichi1
Sep 13th 2010, 19:50
Total Film....do you need a fact checker? Seriously, only on the third page of this article and there are already a ton of errors. Phoenix did not win his first Oscar for Walk The Line. He was nominated, but Philip Seymour Hoffman won for Copote. And this was not Phoenix's first nomination either. That'd be for Gladiator. Which he lost. That first I Oscar hasn't happened. He also was not in Revolutionary Road, a film that did not win any Oscars either. He was in Reservation Road. Again, another non-Oscar winning movie. Seriously Total Film...WTF?
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beingbettedavis
Sep 14th 2010, 17:50
Not sure a fact checker is needed, Ichi1, just a writer who knows film and basic research/proof-reading skills. No offence to the writer, but there are hundreds of folks out there who would kill for the chance to work for a magazine such as Total Film. Pull your socks up.
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MrSmith70
Sep 19th 2010, 23:02
I don't know, this isn't so much a joke, as an exploration....
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