Many critics have called Birds of Prey “DC’s answer to Deadpool.” Well, they’re both violent R-rated comic book movies led by an antihero character narrating their story to the audience, but Robbie’s Harley doesn’t really break the fourth wall as much or in quite the same way as Deadpool does in his movies. Stream Bumblebee on Hulu Deadpool 2 (2018) That sounds like what Birds of Prey is for the DC Extended Universe, too, giving Christina Hodson, who wrote both that and Bumblebee a reputation for refreshingly crafting economical and more-acclaimed (yet also less lucrative) additions to tired film properties. Unfortunately, it’s still not easily available, but you should look out for it when it does find better distribution.īumblebee is not an obscure movie, though it is an underseen and underappreciated prequel within the Transformers franchise, offering viewers a smaller and female-focused entry as a palette cleanser following a lot of bombastic and sometimes misogynistic blockbuster installments. Based on true events, the China-set movie features a varied ensemble of characters (including one played by Joker and Deadpool 2‘s Zazie Beetz) and a ton of pig corpses floating downriver into Shanghai. I’ll be getting to share such titles by Cate Shortland and Chloe Zhao later this year, too, but for now, I’m getting to recommend Birds of Prey director Cathy Yan‘s feature directorial debut, Dead Pigs. One of the great things about little-known, rather new women filmmakers getting a shot at blockbusters like Birds of Prey is that they introduce audiences to these talents’ relatively obscure prior works. Rent or buy Joker from Amazon Dead Pigs (2018) and Bumblebee (2018) And they both very much reside inside and are filtered through the mind of their main character. They’re each other’s antithesis, but they’re also clearly kin. Both movies deal with toxic masculinity in very different ways, with Joker almost seeming aligned with incels and men’s rights activists while Birds of Prey is a starkly feminist film.
Never mind the Jared Leto incarnation of the Joker whom we’ve seen on screen opposite Margot Robbie‘s Harley Quinn it’s the latest version of the character that Birds of Prey offers emancipation from. This Oscar-nominated drama offers a version of a character heavily referenced in Birds of Prey as it depicts an origin story of the titular Batman villain. As multiple reviews have noted (and surely many think pieces to come will analyze), Birds of Prey is a perfect sort of antidote or (less negatively) successor to Joker. Regardless, they are the yin and yang of DC comic book movies with regards to tone, theme, and style as well as their connective tissue. Maybe they’re both good and bad in their own respective ways. I’m not saying Jokeris the bad or that Birds of Prey is the good. Sometimes to appreciate the good, you have to appreciate the bad.
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