You might have caught Joker by now.

You might also have felt slightly disturbed, and here's possibly why.

But one scene served as a standout in a movie with quite a few standouts.

The staircase scene

Here is the original.

Here is an alternate version.

The stairs are located in the Bronx, at 1170 Shakespeare Avenue.

Here it is.

You can read a really good interpretation of the scene by Sunita Partra here.

But basically it's to juxtapose the slouching, weary way in which Arthur Fleck climbed the stairs at the beginning of the film.

Perhaps if Fleck were to try and recreate the scene again, it might be a little difficult with all the selfie-takers on the stairs.

Here are some examples.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B30J7kTJz2Q/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B301V12ANch/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3z6MWvhdxP/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3xiX0xlYr0/

Which isn't that bad, until you zoom out to show all the other people doing the exact thing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B30PaIClSga/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B30XTxQgXyb/

With one post making a good point about how these Instagrammers might be inconveniencing those who actually need to take these stairs to get to work.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3zRXJwgODe/

Here are some tweets by locals around the area who aren't really seeing the funny side of a bunch of people descending on the Bronx like it was a tourist attraction.

legally as a bronx resident you're allowed and encouraged to tax anyone visiting the joker stairs

— Desus Nice💯 (@desusnice) October 17, 2019

https://twitter.com/OBC4LBenji/status/1185559603926487040

https://twitter.com/MLVVLN/status/1184528507919048706

https://twitter.com/bad_dominicana/status/1185717544512086019

Lmao niggas going to the joker steps in the Bronx just for pictures and be a victim of a robbery.

— WAVY. 🇩🇴 (@wavyprdit) October 18, 2019

https://twitter.com/YankeeSopranooo/status/1185625886789439488

Still a good movie though.

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