I think you can draw parralels, but I think that it's reading into it to think that that's what the makers of the movie were referencing.
Yeah, I agree. Because once I started thinking about it, I could start making some arguments by twisting things around, but I never made the connection in my mind until this guy brought it up.
I mean, they're friggin Super-Villains, they destroy cities. It's what they do .
I want to see a supervillain's résumé.
EXPERIENCE
GOTHAM CITY
8/04 - 3/05
*Ran organized crime syndicate
*Delivered narcotic substances in a timely manner
*Executed unfit minions
METROPOLIS
2/04 - 3/04
*Held city hostage for three weeks
*Demanded large ransom with conviction and aplomb
*Fought Superman and lived
CLEVELAND
9/03 - 1/04
*Served coffee to tired patrons
*Calculated totals without the use of a computational device
*Deceived customers with friendly demeanor
Bastard would probably get a job before I did.
their motivations were better and clearer than the majority of the Supervillains I've seen
Heh. I liked how in the beginning,
the League of Shadows came off as this good organization working for peace. But then you realize their methods are a bit...unconventional, and they're actually pretty eeeeevil. I don't think their good intentions held much water once they set on Gotham. They're like the Sith!
I think this is one of those things where what you bring to the film colors it so heavily. As a non-New Yorker, and someone to whom Gotham felt more Chicago than NYC, it didn't ping at all, but it's not a constant ping on my radar like it is if you're right there all the time.
eta: P-C, hee
I love the supervillain resumé
Also, totally not here, because I'm revising a paper. Really.
Hee. My flist (okay, one person) has given me another stupid review, from a person who doesn't like that the movie is serious and feels real:
Bale’s intensity — he badgers the corrupted with screams as piercing as a bat’s, only at a lower pitch — seems sweetly misplaced. Let’s not forget that what we’re talking about is a cartoon.
Or, you know, a comic. Which is a different medium.
He wants us to believe that this Batman is as tuned in to social fears as Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine, but Nolan’s insistence that what Batman does really matters is the funniest thing about the movie.
This seems to imply that Nolan has some gun control agenda, when of course Batman has had a stringent no guns policy...forever. And yes, let's have a superhero movie that presents the role of the superhero as completely unimportant and superfluous. It may have been done, but that's not Batman. Batman does matter, that's the point.
So he wants a super hero who spends years training in various skills and disciplines and dresses up like a flying rodent just because? Even the Adam West stories worked on the principle that the crimefighting mattered.
Maybe she knows Batman thinks it matters, but she thinks it's funny that it actually does. That he actually does make a difference. Ha ha, superheroes making a difference.
That's my Batman. That's my motherfucking Batman.
You are all taunters.
I will see it in less than 24 hours, at least.
I think ita liked the movie. Good, no? I just wish I had the IMAX experience.
