Post by Sneelock on Nov 5, 2019 17:25:17 GMT
I was 8 years old when the BATMAN T.V. show conquered Pop Culture. one of the lovely by-products of this was that DC comics reprinted all that old Bob Crane/Bill Finger stuff to rake in some extra dough. well, like most 8 year olds I loved anything that said "Batman" on it but I'd never seen those comics before and The Joker is pretty striking in those original comics.
he's more insane than the one on T.V. so I can see why artists & film makers have wanted to give him back an "edge".
I guess my main problem is what passes for an "edge" nowadays. don't get me wrong. I'm not crazy about that movie but Heath Legder was singled out for extraordinary acting. I'll see "the joker" especially as I'm avoiding the sociology people who like it are engaging in. any "comic book movie" that has people talking about income inequality is okay by me. How many people are regarding these issues because they went and saw a comic book movie? maybe just one? if so, then more power to them.
Not a day goes by when I don't see Brett Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" regarded as a modern satirical classic. Me, I never liked it. I thought it was a sick yuppie fantasy and I pretty much still think so. So, maybe The Joker has some sociology and maybe it doesn't. At the very least it might have another dynamite performance.
Still, I guess I'll always crave a simpler time when maniacal laughter and murder were insanity enough. it seems, like on crime procedure shows, that my people demand greater degrees of insanity from the villians that entertain them.
he's more insane than the one on T.V. so I can see why artists & film makers have wanted to give him back an "edge".
I guess my main problem is what passes for an "edge" nowadays. don't get me wrong. I'm not crazy about that movie but Heath Legder was singled out for extraordinary acting. I'll see "the joker" especially as I'm avoiding the sociology people who like it are engaging in. any "comic book movie" that has people talking about income inequality is okay by me. How many people are regarding these issues because they went and saw a comic book movie? maybe just one? if so, then more power to them.
Not a day goes by when I don't see Brett Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" regarded as a modern satirical classic. Me, I never liked it. I thought it was a sick yuppie fantasy and I pretty much still think so. So, maybe The Joker has some sociology and maybe it doesn't. At the very least it might have another dynamite performance.
Still, I guess I'll always crave a simpler time when maniacal laughter and murder were insanity enough. it seems, like on crime procedure shows, that my people demand greater degrees of insanity from the villians that entertain them.