WARNING: This blogpost is evenly distributed with Batman jokes that the author of this post thinks are funny.
The Batman V Superman trailer/teaser leaked a couple days back. I decided that I was to act as a responsible citizen of this blot in the universe we affectionately refer to as Earth, and not google (or as I affectionately refer to said verb as “jiggle”) my way across the vast, the wide, the unending, the Internet (or as I affectionately refer to it as “Inter-nay”, so the t is silent by mandate or Tinkletown banishes you to an Azkaban-esque location I call YouHaveToWearPantsAllTheDamnTime) for “batman v superman dawn of justice leaked trailer online”. A lifetime passed in the next two seconds, and then I did exactly that. I jiggled for it. And I lapped it up.
I lapped it up like an unapologetic fat American kid whose poison was Coca-Cola and whose diet was birthday cake with a regular but controlled dosage of I’mNotSorryBitch.
The Batman V Superman trailer/teaser leaked a couple days back. I decided that I was to act as a responsible citizen of this blot in the universe we affectionately refer to as Earth, and not google (or as I affectionately refer to said verb as “jiggle”) my way across the vast, the wide, the unending, the Internet (or as I affectionately refer to it as “Inter-nay”, so the t is silent by mandate or Tinkletown banishes you to an Azkaban-esque location I call YouHaveToWearPantsAllTheDamnTime) for “batman v superman dawn of justice leaked trailer online”. A lifetime passed in the next two seconds, and then I did exactly that. I jiggled for it. And I lapped it up.
I lapped it up like an unapologetic fat American kid whose poison was Coca-Cola and whose diet was birthday cake with a regular but controlled dosage of I’mNotSorryBitch.
I watched the trailer, it was awesome, and I liked it very much. It was decidedly dark (as dark as comic book movies go anyway), and it was almost deliberate…? If I didn’t know any better, I’d say they tried to butch it up on account of Ben Affleck - I mean this looked edgier than Nolan’s Batman, which is EDGY (as edgy as comic book movies go anyway). But you can’t say these things out loud can you. The trailer doesn’t reveal much except the titular heroes - Batman and Superman. And even though Snyder didn’t intend for it to be that way, Man of Steel was the perfect segue for the film. Beggars can’t be choosers, but if beggar could, beggar ask for tiny glimpse of Wonder Woman and/or Lex Luther. I am so psyched to see Gal Gato and Jesse Eisenberg play those characters, especially the latter.
Now I’m thinking of magic and the supernatural. What I love most about movies, books, tv of this ilk is that it isn’t just magic it’s magical realism which simplistically follows a series of unnatural events in the contextual background of a very rational word. I say very rational because… there’s irrational Narnia, rational Harry Potter’s world, and very rational you-reading-this-line-here-on-Earth world. Marvellous realism is not pop culture, it is not a mood, it is not a fad, it is an actual world that encourages escapism from the embroilment of daily frustration and facilitates imagination, unorthodoxy, fancier faculty, preoccupation, inventiveness and so much else. It invades your mind and it’s full of shit and you love it so much because like your inner Bruce Dickinson, magic is rebellious and will rebel against the laws that seem to govern the world; laws that essentially translate to, and are objectified by, forces which could be gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear forces, “in”visible spectrum that is the brethren of the visible spectrum parented by the electromagnetic spectrum, frictional forces, inertia WHATEVER other vector quantity. It’s like speaking every language all at once when twigs spark and vigilantes use their superpowers, and you want to believe and for those few seconds minutes or hours you actually believe and that world that nirvana is what one attempts to attain. It’s like upgrading the functionality of your system temporarily, or in other words, being stoned. Stoned on Batman, wow, great job writing this blog so far. If I knew how to make casual toilet or office humour, now would be a good time to balance it out with some.
I’m not even saying that one should regularly indulge in escapism and sever the ties that fasten one to reality to do a moonlight flit from the actual physical liveable sniffable world surrounding us, all I’m saying is the continuation of such intelligent innovativeness is derivative of a better world where such facilities can be realised in the actual physical liveable sniffable world we live in. For instance, Captain Kirk’s communicator inspired flip phones, Battlestar Galactica’s Languatron is now Voxtec’s Phraselator, The Jetson’s video phones are real too, Milner Motors is a mere three years away from creating flying cars which were highly coveted after Harry Potter, The Jetsons, Fantastic Four, etc. and I haven’t even started talking about Pentagon’s ray gun that granted, can’t incinerate people on the spot, but is the coolest non-lethal weapon, EVER. Now all we need are handheld ray guns.
Moreover, the bad guys in such fiction symbolise the evils of our society and, in this context, a vigilante like Batman emotes the anger and frustration that we individually feel towards said evil. Batman makes it okay to be Bruce Wayne when we’re going about business as usual, and also provides validation when it’s time to put your game face on and deal with bad guys. These villains aren’t just the brainchild of disenfranchisement and decent graphics, they are a representation of those “some people” that Alfred refers to when he says to Master Wayne, “…some people, just want to watch the world burn…”
Moreover, the bad guys in such fiction symbolise the evils of our society and, in this context, a vigilante like Batman emotes the anger and frustration that we individually feel towards said evil. Batman makes it okay to be Bruce Wayne when we’re going about business as usual, and also provides validation when it’s time to put your game face on and deal with bad guys. These villains aren’t just the brainchild of disenfranchisement and decent graphics, they are a representation of those “some people” that Alfred refers to when he says to Master Wayne, “…some people, just want to watch the world burn…”