'SCARFACE' IMAGERY APPEARED IN TODD PHILLIPS' 2016 FILM, 'WAR DOGS'
South China Morning Post's James Mottram, reviewing Todd Phillips' Joker following its world premiere this past weekend at the Venice Film Festival, mentions that "at one point we see a cinema marquee advertising Brian De Palma’s Blow Out." This would suggest that Joker, which Phillips has said is inspired by films such as Martin Scorsese's The King Of Comedy and Taxi Driver, Milos Forman's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and Sidney Lumet's Serpico, takes place in 1981. Phillips' most recent previous film, War Dogs (below, from 2016), included imagery from De Palma's Scarface.
