DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)
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Not sure if this is the right thread for it, but here's a trailer for the animated movie Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires:
That looks quite historically inaccurate. It appears to portray the Aztecs as a unified culture that the Spanish invaded by themselves, when the truth is that Cortez's conquistadores only assisted the indigenous populations in revolting against their tyrannical rulers, then inserted themselves at the top of the existing authority structure once they displaced Motecuhzomah II. The conquistadores' numbers were far too small to do it on their own; they needed to piggyback on the existing rivalry between indigenous populations. (Well, that and the smallpox.)
Really, I find it surprising to see the Aztecs presented as the good guys, given that this was the height of their militaristic expansion driven by human sacrifice. The conquistadores weren't much better, of course, but I think it would make more sense to make the Batman character an opponent of the rulers fighting to protect the common people from being taken for sacrifice or whatever, analogously to Batman protecting Gothamites from their corrupt government and police.
That looks quite historically inaccurate. It appears to portray the Aztecs as a unified culture that the Spanish invaded by themselves, when the truth is that Cortez's conquistadores only assisted the indigenous populations in revolting against their tyrannical rulers, then inserted themselves at the top of the existing authority structure once they displaced Motecuhzomah II. The conquistadores' numbers were far too small to do it on their own; they needed to piggyback on the existing rivalry between indigenous populations. (Well, that and the smallpox.)
Really, I find it surprising to see the Aztecs presented as the good guys, given that this was the height of their militaristic expansion driven by human sacrifice. The conquistadores weren't much better, of course, but I think it would make more sense to make the Batman character an opponent of the rulers fighting to protect the common people from being taken for sacrifice or whatever, analogously to Batman protecting Gothamites from their corrupt government and police.
James Gunn has posted a high quality picture of the mural from The Hall of Justice, so IGN went through who most of the characters are. Judging by her costume the Amazon is Exoristos from Demon Knights not Hippolyta. I know it shows her with a red costume on her bio, but she wore the green costume from the mural in the issues I read.
Those murals are based on the 1930s Winold Reiss industrial murals from the atrium of the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, which was the inspiration for the original Hall of Justice in Super Friends (back when it was still a train station rather than a museum that moonlights as a train station) and which the movie used as a filming location. I assume they digitally altered the Reiss murals rather than tamper with museum pieces.
It's wild to see that a scene from this movie was filmed in a place I've actually been in numerous times in my life. I visited the Terminal a number of times in my youth, including once when my father hosted a radio broadcast from there, and in 1996 I worked there as a museum guide for the Star Trek Federation Science Exhibit, often taking my lunch break in the very atrium where they filmed. I haven't been there in quite a while, but I can see it from the overlook park near my apartment.
Although it's not the first time a movie has been filmed in a place I know well. When I was in high school, Johnny Cash and Brenda Vacarro filmed a TV movie there called The Pride of Jesse Hallam, about adult illiteracy. Some of my classmates were extras in the film, though I was too shy to apply. And once on the University of Cincinnati campus, I saw John Sayles filming a scene from City of Hope, with Joe Morton driving a car on UC's main road (the wrong way on what was a one-way road at the time). But somehow it feels weirder when it's a superhero movie taking place in such a familiar real-world location.
It's wild to see that a scene from this movie was filmed in a place I've actually been in numerous times in my life. I visited the Terminal a number of times in my youth, including once when my father hosted a radio broadcast from there, and in 1996 I worked there as a museum guide for the Star Trek Federation Science Exhibit, often taking my lunch break in the very atrium where they filmed. I haven't been there in quite a while, but I can see it from the overlook park near my apartment.
Although it's not the first time a movie has been filmed in a place I know well. When I was in high school, Johnny Cash and Brenda Vacarro filmed a TV movie there called The Pride of Jesse Hallam, about adult illiteracy. Some of my classmates were extras in the film, though I was too shy to apply. And once on the University of Cincinnati campus, I saw John Sayles filming a scene from City of Hope, with Joe Morton driving a car on UC's main road (the wrong way on what was a one-way road at the time). But somehow it feels weirder when it's a superhero movie taking place in such a familiar real-world location.
Cool to see Wesley Dodds' Sandman in the mix. He's the one person I recognized without IGN's help.
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