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The Boy Who Loved Batman
theodp writes "As a young boy, Batman producer Michael Uslan — a self-described 'ultimate comic book geek' — was traumatized to see the Caped Crusader being 'murdered' in front of his very eyes by the camp 60's TV series. 'I was horrified,' Uslan told a Harper College audience last week. 'I was horrified because the whole world was laughing at Batman, and that just killed me.' At that point, the 13-year-old vowed to teach the world about the Batman he knew, about the crusader who lurked in the shadows, about a darker, grittier superhero. As told in his memoir The Boy Who Loved Batman, he made good on that vow: Uslan has served as the executive producer of all Batman major motion pictures, from 1989's Batman to the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises (trailer)."
So he made a few more movies where everyone laughed at Batman, and then he made Batman Begins? Why would he do that?
Because bat nipples, the hockey team from hell, "I'll get drive thru", turning Two Face into a cackling idiot side kick, the Riddler being nothing but a Jim Carry character in disguise, the Joker being Jack playing Jack (NOTHING to do with the joker character), or a host of other horrid things in those late 80's/early 90's movies really did a lot to help Batman's image.
Until Begins, NO ONE captured Batman on the big screen properly. The Animated series did as good of a job as possible at the time, but don't give this jackass credit, when was involved with projects that did just as much bad as good.
people who are preoccupied with homosexuality and predisposed to see it in everything
The problem is how common such people are in modern American society. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had the Teletubbies scandal with Po accused of calling Tinky Winky a "faggot faggot" over purple fur, a triangular antenna, and a purse.
FTFA
At that point, the 13-year-old vowed to teach the world about the Batman he knew, about the crusader who lurked in the shadows, about a darker, grittier superhero.
And then he goes out and becomes executive producer of Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, and the shit-tastic Halley Berry classic Catwoman.
More like he wanted to show the world that he could cash in on the caped crusader as much as everyone else.
Firstly, no; he really didn't. He did go back twelve years, but he didn't have to.
And you don't bother to mention anything more recent. You really can't.
Secondly, he wasn't proffering it as evidence of "the awfulness of American society". Thirdly, I'd like to point out the irony of your comment, considering it's in reply to a discussion of people who are predisposed to seeing things where they don't exist.
#2 is splitting hairs, #3 isn't irony, just your lack of a sense of humor to see that I'm teasing our friends across the pond(s).
Lastly, if you want to see how "laid back" and "tolerant" America is, count the number of states where gay marriage is legal, count the number of frothing, rabid protestors whenever issues of abortion or gay marriage are raised, count the number of people who listen to Rush Limbaugh.
A fair reckoning, of course, would be to look at the funding for AIDS research, but that would be inconvenient to your paranoia about a homophobic conspiracy.
Also inconvenient is that the group that has come out the most strongly against gay marriage have been blacks. They're not listening to Limbaugh (nor are you, since the guy is perfectly tolerant and laid back if you actually listen to his show) but they also don't feel any compulsion to do what whiny white liberals demand that they do. More importantly, when whiny white liberals threaten to not be their friend, they don't give a fuck. They've listened to the arguments on their merits and found them unconvincing.
That's the reason the gay rights movement has been a train wreck: they've never presented a coherent reason why they deserve broad social approval, only condemnation of people who don't grant it, as you just did. And then, repeatedly, when the issue came to a vote and it didn't go their way, they went to the courts to overturn it. That notion that they were going to force society to accept them through dicta from courts has basically been the animating factor behind the anti-gay rights movement.
I suspect that in 20 years gay marriage will happen, but it will be largely due to demographic shift, and in *spite* of the gay rights movement. But liberals will never accept responsibility for their actions or seriously question their judgment, it will just be on to the next Quest for Great Justice.
You may be lucky enough to live in one of the few amazing cities in America where tolerance and fair-mindedness seems to prevail but from everything I've seen, those are mere enclaves surrounded by a morass of closed-minded moralising nogoodniks.
Well, those cities are all run by liberals, so what do you expect? It is a lot more laid back and tolerant down South.