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Rahm Emanuel
Joker Origin Story Announced
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Rahm Emanuel
If they're worried Joker will inspire crime, they should have banned Gotham series years ago. People were having mental breakdowns and becoming supervillians every other week on that show (including at least 2 Jokers
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The point is that the protagonist is the murderer in the movie. Reviewers have said that the movie clearly takes his side.If they're worried Joker will inspire crime, they should have banned Gotham series years ago. People were having mental breakdowns and becoming supervillians every other week on that show (including at least 2 Jokers
Dexter and Hannibal say hello.
The Sopranos didn't glorify the mob, did it? They were the protagonists there, but the series clearly didn't advocate what they did.
I haven't seen the movie but I have heard the movie is a comentary on society how it creates people like this. Unless we are saying people are born evil that sounds intresting. Exploring how evil is created is always interesting. Some people just want simple answers and I don't their are any. Jason
Movies have done this before.
It's even covers a few genres. The anti-hero and the serial killer. Then you got the criminal protoganist. Everthing from The Godfather to a current show I really liked called The Yellowstone. If this movie had been more connected to the comics it would proably would have been a crime movie but it seems to not be that. More Taxi Driver than Goodfellas. Jason
Quite right, quite right. I still remember the outcry over things like "The Last Temptation of Christ" and "Fight Club." And, as I mentioned upthread, "A Clockwork Orange" pretty much replicates the concern of "The Joker." And, of course, violent video games. Which, to my viewing, video games have only gotten more violent so where is the outcry over that?
People still blame violent games sometimes. They tried it during the last major shooting. Seeing as how the killers are live streaming you wonder why they don't go after phones or social media. Only thing nobody goes after anymore is rock music but that is only because modern music sucks to much to inspire anything. Jason
The simple fact of the matter is that all this hand-wringing and pearl-clutching about Joker inciting violence is almost entirely astroturfed, and it's a crock of shit. No one shot up screenings of the Purge movies or the John Wick movies, and the constant insistence by the media that the Aurora shooter was dressed up like the Joker (he wasn't) is just feeding into it, because the news media are by and large worthless nowadays.
This whole "controversy" is completely ginned up.
This whole "controversy" is completely ginned up.
The military literally sent a formal warning to theater chains. Oh well, lets just blame the media.
Seriously?
For a culture of overreaction that is currently going on? Yeah, I blame the media in part for this.
The military sent a warning! That's not normal. That's news.
The U.S. Army sent a notice to service members, citing an unidentified FBI report, reminding them of the "run / hide / fight" protocol.
Also, as someone with degrees in journalism and PR, and who worked in the media for eight years ... yes, and I have experienced this sort of bullshit first-hand.
The only priority among media outlets nowadays is anything that will move papers / magazines / clicks / subscriptions. Or, as the philosopher Watterson put it, "It's a crass culture, Hobbes. Shoddy and quick is all anybody knows."
Most people aren't cannibals, so Hannibal is off the list of "inspiring people".
Thomas Harris literally wrote Hannibal (the book) because he was horrified at how society had fallen in love with Lecter in the wake of Hopkins' performance in The Silence of the Lambs.
That doesn't make it any less of an overreaction.
What is?
The stuff I read said that while we see it from his perspective, it does not idealize what he does. We understand him, but we aren't meant to agree with him.