『ジョーカー』で象徴的なロケ地の階段、観光名所に　米ＮＹ

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】現在大ヒット中の映画『ジョーカー』で、主演のホアキン・フェニックスがダンスをしながら下りて行く象徴的な場面のロケ地となった米ニューヨーク・ブロンクス地区にある階段が観光名所になっている。（写真は映画『ジョーカー』のロケ地となった米ニューヨーク・ブロンクス地区にある階段で、ジョーカーをまねて踊る女性）
　シェークスピア通りとアンダーソン通りの間にある１３２段のこの階段は、トッド・フィリップス監督による映画が１０月初めに封切られるまで、観光客が訪れるような場所ではなかった。
　今では世界中の映画ファンが押し寄せ、作品のポスターにも使われているフェニックス演じるジョーカーのポーズをまねて写真に撮ろうと行列ができるほどにぎわっている。インスタグラムにはそうして撮影された写真が投稿され、インターネットミームとなって拡散されている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2019/10/29-09:00）

Tourists are flocking to a flight of stairs in the Bronx area of New York that Joaquin Phoenix dances down in an iconic but controversial scene from hit movie Joker.
Film buffs have even had to queue before being able to snap photos of themselves recreating the character's pose that appears on the poster of the Todd Phillips-directed blockbuster.
It looks even better than in the movie, Tasula Ceballos, a young Russian living in Miami, told AFP, slightly disappointed that the crowds meant her photos didn't come out quite as she had hoped.
I love when directors shoot in real places. Usually they film in studios like Warner Brothers but this is a real place. We can come and we can touch the floor, she added.
Before Joker hit theaters in early October, the 132 steps between Shakespeare Avenue and Anderson Avenue were about as far away from the tourist trail in New York as you could get.
Now visitors are swarming to them from all over the world to upload pictures to Instagram or create hilarious memes to share online.
I've been a huge fan of Batman since I was small and I'm really happy to come here, said French teenager Noa Angenost, who planned to post his photos on Instagram.
In the film, Phoenix dances down the steps -- with a backdrop of streetlights and classic New York fire escapes -- after transforming himself into the Batman villain.
Many reviewers were outraged, however, that the song he danced to was by convicted pedophile Gary Glitter. The former glam rocker is in a British jail for sexually abusing three girls in the late 1970s.
This is not the first time that a staircase featured in a film has become a tourist draw -- the steep, narrow flight of 75 stone steps in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood seen in The Exorcist have drawn crowds for decades.
In the Bronx, the sudden Joker craze is not appreciated by everyone.
Elliott Raylassi, carrying his white bike on his shoulder, tries to disrupt the photo shoots.
It's my neighborhood and I have to do what I can to defend it, he told AFP, saying it was a shock that his area was suddenly under the microscope.
The movie came out and within a week, people came to visit one of the worst neighborhoods in the borough.
There's a trend in New York City that when a neighborhood garners a lot of tourists' attention, it sparks the interest of developers, he added.
Frankie Astacio, who lives on the other side of the street from the steps, welcomes the interest though.
It's good for the neighborhood. It makes it more exciting, he said.