Bah! It's high time they made a movie that's actually _about_Batman_, rather than a movie about a bat-villian. I think Frank Miller's primary accomplishment was reminding us that the true antagonist in the Batman saga is not an individual psychopath but is, in fact, Gotham City itself. Batman can be so much more than a modern cowboys & indians (Bat-clan vs. Arkham inmates) cliche. To show Bruce coming to the realization that humanity needs a protector in order to prevent it from feeding on itself would be to restore the sociological implications of the story that Tim Burton & company so blatantly ignored.
_If_ the movie actually gets made, I hope it stays true to the comic and presents the Gotham City Police Department as the eventual antagonist.
JK, I'm a little unclear on what you intend to mean by "individualism." You seem to use it to address a number of concepts, from people working together for a greater good, to antisocial misanthropes. Could it be that the word you are looking for is "humanism?"
Personally, I think we can be as individual as we damn well please, but that isn't going to stop our governments and our corporations from operating in ways that are retrograde to the natural needs and desires of mankind. I think it would be more important for people to think about how they, as individuals, are already changing the world around them by taking part in these anti-humanist organizations.
A whore can differentiate herself all she likes, but she's still a whore. A theif can carry himself in a way unlike all other theives, but he's still a theif. An american can struggle to be more individualistic. . .
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> Does anyone know who the villain[s] will be?
Bah! It's high time they made a movie that's actually _about_Batman_, rather than a movie about a bat-villian. I think Frank Miller's primary accomplishment was reminding us that the true antagonist in the Batman saga is not an individual psychopath but is, in fact, Gotham City itself. Batman can be so much more than a modern cowboys & indians (Bat-clan vs. Arkham inmates) cliche. To show Bruce coming to the realization that humanity needs a protector in order to prevent it from feeding on itself would be to restore the sociological implications of the story that Tim Burton & company so blatantly ignored.
_If_ the movie actually gets made, I hope it stays true to the comic and presents the Gotham City Police Department as the eventual antagonist.
The Simpson's movie had heart, but "Football in the Groin" had a football in the groin.
JK, I'm a little unclear on what you intend to mean by "individualism." You seem to use it to address a number of concepts, from people working together for a greater good, to antisocial misanthropes. Could it be that the word you are looking for is "humanism?"
Personally, I think we can be as individual as we damn well please, but that isn't going to stop our governments and our corporations from operating in ways that are retrograde to the natural needs and desires of mankind. I think it would be more important for people to think about how they, as individuals, are already changing the world around them by taking part in these anti-humanist organizations.
A whore can differentiate herself all she likes, but she's still a whore. A theif can carry himself in a way unlike all other theives, but he's still a theif. An american can struggle to be more individualistic. . .
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