{SPOILERS FOR THEBATMAN2022} Bruce learned from his father's mistakes, from his own soul searching, and became the core idea of Batman---hope.
"A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders, to let him know the world hadn't ended."-TDKR
"I have one power. I never give up."-TDK
"Why do we fall? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up." -Batman Begins
"Man is still good. We break things, tear them down, but we can rebuild. We can be better; we have to be."-BvS
"I’m starting to see now. I have had an effect here. But not the one I intended. Vengeance, won’t change the past. Mine… or anyone else’s. I have to become more. People need hope. To know someone’s out there for them. This city is angry, and scarred. Like me. Our scars can destroy us… even after the physical wounds have healed. But if we can survive them. They can give us the power. To Endure. And the strength to fight."-The Batman
Extra (I'm still working on where to incorporate this bit.): Instead of the unnecessary scene with the Unnamed Arkham Prisoner, the film could have concluded Edward's arc with a scene played in slow-motion of him being dragged away to his cell shouting and screaming overlapping the line "Our scars can destroy us...even after the physical wounds have healed." The audience would have then understood where Edward stool mentally, and hone in on the idea of the negative effects of allowing past trauma to stunt our growth as an individual.
Much in the vein of when Bruce in the Nolan films became a bit softer in his view of criminals after spending time homeless in a far off country, Selina is to this Batman a window into the citizens of Gotham. The everyday in-betweens who have no power over the city, but who are also not revolutionaries, yet they are unhappy with their lot in life. They accept it as a given, they cannot escape from, only survive in and maybe make a little better. "I have a thing about strays" conveys this, but her traumatic experiences have tainted her worldview into one of cynicism. There cannot be anything worth fixing, the city is "never going to change", though in the end she admires Batman's hopeful worldview, even if he follows it to a fault.
Alright, I might actually try to pick back up my hobby of video essays and thought I might share with you fine folks a project of mine. (It's a pretty rough draft.)
Note: This contains heavy spoilers for The Batman2022, but if you are okay with that...(Part 1)
{SPOILERS FOR THEBATMAN2022} An important point to establish beforehand is this, the focus of the film can be found in the title. The Batman. The concept we are exploring here is the identity of Batman and its effect on Bruce, a concept that has appeared in previous films for sure, but this time from a different angle.
With Snyder's Batman we view an older Bruce broken from years spent fighting a seemingly endless war, his psyche vulnerable enough to be influenced by Lex. How could an inhuman seemingly set himself above humanity, above Bruce after everything he has done? Perhaps if he were to eliminate him, prove him nothing more than a false deity, he could restore some semblance of his own humanity and add purpose to all those years spent fighting his endless war on crime.
"I'm older now than my father ever was. This may be the only thing I do that matters."-Bruce in BvS
However, it was the humanity of Superman that brought him out of his dark valley, for if this all-powerful inhuman would care for something as personal as a human mother, what did that speak about Bruce and his own life? It revealed the disconnection Bruce had with his own relationships, for even he reviled Alfred's warning about his blossoming obsession with the destruction of Superman.
"That's how it starts. The fever... the rage... the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men cruel."-Alfred in BVS
“He has the power to take out the entire human race and if we believe there is even a one percent chance that he is our enemy, we have to take it as an absolute certainty!"-Bruce in BVS
Now, where could explore Batman next? Perhaps, in having the audience discover the core ideal of Batman, regardless of your preferred flavoring. (Keaton, Bale, Affleck, DCAU, etc.)
And the core ideal, is that of a candle in the midst of darkness, rather than the full-on sun as with Superman.
But what if a young Bruce, merely two years in had his child-like sense of justice questioned? He enters the wasteland naively thinking the city would begin to have noticeable change almost immediately, but real life does not work this way. In his opening monologue, he tells us he has carved out his own name within Gotham. So feared is he, that just by looking at the shadows criminals are spooked into believing Batman is there. But is it enough? Is there an element missing in all of this? There is---humanity.
you have to wait until I can watch it on HBO in a few weeks man
Apparently, we're gonna receive a frew *checks notes* meow...wow? and a, uh, tyran-tyranto rex plushie? Oh, and KH is celebrating their 20th...uh, something.
Alright, I might actually try to pick back up my hobby of video essays and thought I might share with you fine folks a project of mine. (It's a pretty rough draft.)
Note: This contains heavy spoilers for The Batman2022, but if you are okay with that...(Part 1)
{SPOILERS FOR THEBATMAN2022} An important point to establish beforehand is this, the focus of the film can be found in the title. The Batman. The concept we are exploring here is the identity of Batman and its effect on Bruce, a concept that has appeared in previous films for sure, but this time from a different angle.
With Snyder's Batman we view an older Bruce broken from years spent fighting a seemingly endless war, his psyche vulnerable enough to be influenced by Lex. How could an inhuman seemingly set himself above humanity, above Bruce after everything he has done? Perhaps if he were to eliminate him, prove him nothing more than a false deity, he could restore some semblance of his own humanity and add purpose to all those years spent fighting his endless war on crime.
"I'm older now than my father ever was. This may be the only thing I do that matters."-Bruce in BvS
However, it was the humanity of Superman that brought him out of his dark valley, for if this all-powerful inhuman would care for something as personal as a human mother, what did that speak about Bruce and his own life? It revealed the disconnection Bruce had with his own relationships, for even he reviled Alfred's warning about his blossoming obsession with the destruction of Superman.
"That's how it starts. The fever... the rage... the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men cruel."-Alfred in BVS
“He has the power to take out the entire human race and if we believe there is even a one percent chance that he is our enemy, we have to take it as an absolute certainty!"-Bruce in BVS
Now, where could explore Batman next? Perhaps, in having the audience discover the core ideal of Batman, regardless of your preferred flavoring. (Keaton, Bale, Affleck, DCAU, etc.)
And the core ideal, is that of a candle in the midst of darkness, rather than the full-on sun as with Superman.
But what if a young Bruce, merely two years in had his child-like sense of justice questioned? He enters the wasteland naively thinking the city would begin to have noticeable change almost immediately, but real life does not work this way. In his opening monologue, he tells us he has carved out his own name within Gotham. So feared is he, that just by looking at the shadows criminals are spooked into believing Batman is there. But is it enough? Is there an element missing in all of this? There is---humanity.
you have to wait until I can watch it on HBO in a few weeks man
*Stands brooding above the Lego city waiting for April 19.*
In my haste, I forgot to add "Probably Should Watch First, but if not..." Gives me enough time to fix any spelling errors. I just thought of something to add to the Extra Bits section, but I'll pass the time on my wii. *continues playing Lego Batman 1*
A little background on the project though, experimenting with photographing Lego minifigs by a streetlight is quite fun if not for the possibilities of onlookers. To avoid copyright, I am trying to re-create the scenes accompanying my commentary...with a dash of lego humor of course.
you have to wait until I can watch it on HBO in a few weeks man
*Stands brooding above the Lego city waiting for April 19.*
In my haste, I forgot to add "Probably Should Watch First, but if not..." Gives me enough time to fix any spelling errors. I just thought of something to add to the Extra Bits section, but I'll pass the time on my wii. *continues playing Lego Batman 1*
A little background on the project though, experimenting with photographing Lego minifigs by a streetlight is quite fun if not for the possibilities of onlookers. To avoid copyright, I am trying to re-create the scenes accompanying my commentary...with a dash of lego humor of course.
This reminds me of how Mipollo and I were playing lego batman 1 but then her computer rudely lost our game
The fed did give me my stimmy retroactively. I was happy.
I did not receive any stimulus checks since I owe the IRS over half a million dollars and I'll spend the rest of my life behinds bars due to years of tax fraud. I mean, uhm, yeah the stimmies were nice.
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I just thought of something to add to the Extra Bits section, but I'll pass the time on my wii. *continues playing Lego Batman 1*