The bat man
Jul. 28th, 2008 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intersticeFinally saw Dark Knight. It was even more breathtaking than I expected; of course, you don't need me to tell you to go see it. Spoilers ahead.
1. This may sound a bit odd, but the style of Joker's anarchist expositions really brought to mind an evil George Carlin. I wouldn't be surprised if Ledger used him for part of the character model.
2. Made me realize how truly awful the V for Vendetta movie was, and how difficult the V character is - it didn't even occur to me how much they watered V down, putting him in the Matrix mold. But now there is a glimpse of what would be a fair representation: the Joker as a protagonist. Many of his tactics were directly analogous to V's. In fact this movie does much more for the graphic novel than the V movie did.
3. Some silly stuff that almost intruded on my enjoyment: the cybereyes and how they work (offset by the political analogy which I thought was appropriate); as if the accountant wouldn't tell anyone else before the telecast; the misadventures of Harvey Dent seemed almost like a separate movie at times. Then there's the silly stuff that didn't bother me.
1. This may sound a bit odd, but the style of Joker's anarchist expositions really brought to mind an evil George Carlin. I wouldn't be surprised if Ledger used him for part of the character model.
2. Made me realize how truly awful the V for Vendetta movie was, and how difficult the V character is - it didn't even occur to me how much they watered V down, putting him in the Matrix mold. But now there is a glimpse of what would be a fair representation: the Joker as a protagonist. Many of his tactics were directly analogous to V's. In fact this movie does much more for the graphic novel than the V movie did.
3. Some silly stuff that almost intruded on my enjoyment: the cybereyes and how they work (offset by the political analogy which I thought was appropriate); as if the accountant wouldn't tell anyone else before the telecast; the misadventures of Harvey Dent seemed almost like a separate movie at times. Then there's the silly stuff that didn't bother me.
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Date: 2008-07-28 04:59 pm (UTC)"He spent his whole career fighting corruption and crime."
"I know, and the Joker ruined him."
"Yes. The Joker ruined Dent."
"Wait! I have the perfect plan to honor Dent's memory - Let's lie about the circumstances of his death!!"
"I certainly can't think of a better way to explain how his corpse got all the way from a hospital over to here. And me, my wife, our son, and various other people who saw him walking the streets, brandishing a pistol definitely will keep their mouths shut."
"It should be easy to switch the blame to Batman from Dent. He was so subtle. No one would notice his burned face. And burned suit."
"This plan is perfect! Harvey Dent's main value was in his status as an icon, a figurehead. And being dead, he's more useful to us now than ever."
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Date: 2008-07-28 11:28 pm (UTC)Apart from the fact that practically speaking their plan would require a few dozen "hush-ups", it may not warrant such cynicism.
I agree that Gordon was mostly a platitude-spewing ornament in this episode.
I wonder if they could actually pull off Batman going evil in the next installment - it would be a funny answer to the speculation about who the villain is going to be.