breakinglight11 | The Dark Knight (Reply)

It seems I am very much failing in my goal to post every day lately, particularly on the weekends. Ah, well. At least I'm posting most of the time. I'm not sure why I'm so convinced that what I have to say is so utterly fascinating to people that I must offer it up every single day, but no matter. I like writing stuff, and having people read it.

I am so excited for the new Batman movie. Batman is my favorite superhero because he's so psychologically complicated and screwy. His whole crusade is him taking an eternal vengeance for having to stand by helplessly as he watched his parents get murdered, so no one is permitted to commit such acts and he never has to feel helpless again. And I love that he's a man with no superhuman powers, only one that makes the best possible use of all his human abilities, devoting all his being to the turning himself into the perfect detective, warrior, and concept of terror so as to be the best crimefighter he can possibly be. But he turns himself into those things at the expense of his real self-- you can't be perfect at all those things and still have a life left over. But for Batman, that's the struggle. For most superheroes, they want to lay down the burden that is being the hero, and all the responsibility it comes with. For him, though, he must resist the temptation to lay down the burden that is being Bruce Wayne, and just give himself entirely over to Batman.

It's like this fantastic episode of Batman Beyond, a show I regrettably never watched nor realized the greatness of until after it went off the air. Some villain or other is trying to make him think he's going crazy by putting a voice in his head. But the whole time, he refuses to believe he's losing it because he knows the voice couldn't be coming from his own head. Why does he know this? Because the voice calls him Bruce. And in his own head, he calls himself Batman. I love that.

I was reading about Aaron Eckhart's preparation to play Harvey Dent in the new movie. The way he thinks of it, he tries to think of the contrasts in the character in order to get the true focus of him. He's partially in Batman's world, partially in the world of people. He's the white knight of Gotham, while Batman is the dark knight. I like that.

And then there's the Joker. Oh, I love the Joker, and I can't wait to see Heath Ledger in this part. I doubt he'll unseat Mark Hamill as my all-time favorite Joker, but I'm still excited. The character is such an awesome combination of caprice and true psychosis. So freaking cool. And like Johnny Depp has so many times in the past, Heath seems to have taken a perverse pleasure in fucking up his gorgeous face to get into this bizarre, awesome character. I don't know why, but I love it when pretty people deliberately screw up their faces. It takes guts. Of course, I'm hearing a shockingly large amount of girls think Ledger's Joker is sexy ANYWAY. Oooookay. I mean, yeah, Ledger is hot, but as the Joker? Seriously? I'm hardly one to judge, I suppose, but I can't say I'm not surprised. I'm not sure if I'm disturbed or... curious. :-)

I gotta see this movie.

Also... this is an awesome picture: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm644912896/tt0468569