Oz ,'Storyteller'
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I'd actually really like to see Nolan's take on an Azrael story. And if we need a pure villain to offset the freaky-vigilante-who-thinks-he's-a-good-guy, maybe bring in Bane.
You could have Azrael be a vigilante who had been working in a strongly Catholic South American city who follows Bane to Gotham, encroaching on Batman's territory, shining more mirrors on the are-you-good-if-your-intentions-are-good thing.
I wonder... since he's worked with Nolan before, how Guy Pearce would be as The Riddler?
if you could get the right actor-- one who could be a cool, measured, intellectual counterpart to Batman with a nice dose of the craxy
You know who'd be good in that role? Christian Bale.
I wonder... since he's worked with Nolan before, how Guy Pearce would be as The Riddler?
Oooh, or Guy Pearce.
I wonder... since he's worked with Nolan before, how Guy Pearce would be as The Riddler?
thunk.
Dude. That casting + the whole One Year Later metrosexual makeover (which, I dunno, did they undo? that was one of the few GOOD things that came out of OYL!) would make me sit up and beg.
Strega, thanks for the link.
I thought I heard around the release of the first movie that he planned to do a trilogy. Maybe these are just thoughts bouncing around in my feverish mind.
Rewatched Batman Begins today. I think part of Bats' inalienable appeal for me is that all the good stories seem to be tragedies, even when the crime is stopped.
Superman gets to marry Lois, you know?
I want to have the Batman movies' babies.
I'm assuming from the previews that Colin Farrell's character in Pride and Glory is at least compromised, if not bad, right?
Have you all seen this? It was completed in seven months by five young French animators.
Ooh.
My wife had obligations galore this past weekend, so I had both kids for most of each day. During naptime on Saturday, I watched two of Kurosawa's first movies, Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata II. Both were convential wuxia stories (Sugata is a judo master who has to learn to control his power and stop accidentally killing those he wrestles), but both had moments of pure Kurosawa gorgeousness. In the former, Sugata is almost defeated when he looks at the sky and remembers an important lesson he learned earlier, symbolized by a flower that he focused on while mostly submerged in a pond, and... that's not important. The moment, with the flower juxtaposed on high-contrast clouds in the sky, is as beautiful as any of Kurosawa's finest.
On Sunday, I watched the final parts of When The Levees Broke, which should be required viewing for Americans of voting age.
Didn't Spike Lee do a good job with that? I was absolutely riveted through all parts.