media overload and [my] ultimate geek's desire
listening to the new foo fighters album. (the second cd, the less "ragey" one.) i like it a lot, more than the new audioslave ablum which i also thought i loved. (i guess i still kinda like audioslave, but this album is far superior.) anyway, along with this album, i have also found no less than five novels that i want to read in the next few weeks, and i've re-discovered (through dvd) "the adventures of pete and pete." plus, vincent only worked half a day today and so we decided to go to the movies. we went, naturally, to see "batman begins." i'm on a media overload because all of these things are so brillant.
i thought christian bale was a hottie when i was twelve watching "newsies." i was willing to date him as an orphaned newsboy and, well, maybe i thought about what it would be like to marry him. but then he did "american psycho" and while i didn't want to marry him, i at least thought he was an excellent actor. now i think he's the perfect bruce wayne. he's the best. of all of them. wizard did a break down of all the past batmans recently and i can honestly say that from now on, christian bale will always be batman in my mind.
okay, so that aside, here's a little bit of intertextual fantasizing that's got me all hot around the edges:
*american psycho* is my current pet text, the one i've written three major papers on, and what i can as being the beginnings of a grad thesis. the main character is patrick bateman, played by christian bale in the film adaptation. ellis has said that the similarity between bateman and bruce wayne were intentional with bateman's "psycho-persona" being a sort of anti-batman. nolan and/or bale had a scene in "batman begins" that could have been taken directly from "american psycho film" and that was the obvious intention. so now that there are all of these direct connections, i think there should be some kind of cross over.
obviously the best circumstance would be bob kane and ellis getting together and penning something, but since bob kane is dead and the people who hold the batman franchise are probably douches, that's kind of out of the question. so i'm thinking that the best route would be for ellis to get permission to write batman into a prequel or sequel to *american psycho.* i'm not looking for a to-the-death battle or anything, i just think that it would be awesome if bateman blatently comment on batman or vice versa. then it could be adapted to a film and bale could play both roles.
shit. i think i've just outed myself as a complete dork who loves comic books and slasher novels...but i love them both for the fact that i've been able to elevate them to an academic level through valid analysis.
all of this said, and while i'm making a fool of myself, other things i'm thinking about "batman begins" beyond the movie itself:
1. jim gordon and sirius black have connections now because they've been portrayed by the same person.
2. the hero's training sequences are always brilliant, but NEVER long enough. someone should make an entire film just of a hero getting trained. the bride, luke, bruce wayne; all awesome, all too short.
3. michael caine is as perfect as alfred as bale is as batman.
4. robin sucks and if nolan decides to draw him into the next film, he'd better be an angry teen and not fucking chris o'donell. maybe the youngest culkin (the one from "signs") or the kid from "the ring."
but anyway, all of these are just geekly masturbation and it'll all pan out as quickly as my unflinching belief that all of m. night's films are connected into one incredibly long narrative to be revealed in ten years time.
i'm going to listen to the foo fighters again. dave grohl makes me feel all ragey. and that's a good thing.
i thought christian bale was a hottie when i was twelve watching "newsies." i was willing to date him as an orphaned newsboy and, well, maybe i thought about what it would be like to marry him. but then he did "american psycho" and while i didn't want to marry him, i at least thought he was an excellent actor. now i think he's the perfect bruce wayne. he's the best. of all of them. wizard did a break down of all the past batmans recently and i can honestly say that from now on, christian bale will always be batman in my mind.
okay, so that aside, here's a little bit of intertextual fantasizing that's got me all hot around the edges:
*american psycho* is my current pet text, the one i've written three major papers on, and what i can as being the beginnings of a grad thesis. the main character is patrick bateman, played by christian bale in the film adaptation. ellis has said that the similarity between bateman and bruce wayne were intentional with bateman's "psycho-persona" being a sort of anti-batman. nolan and/or bale had a scene in "batman begins" that could have been taken directly from "american psycho film" and that was the obvious intention. so now that there are all of these direct connections, i think there should be some kind of cross over.
obviously the best circumstance would be bob kane and ellis getting together and penning something, but since bob kane is dead and the people who hold the batman franchise are probably douches, that's kind of out of the question. so i'm thinking that the best route would be for ellis to get permission to write batman into a prequel or sequel to *american psycho.* i'm not looking for a to-the-death battle or anything, i just think that it would be awesome if bateman blatently comment on batman or vice versa. then it could be adapted to a film and bale could play both roles.
shit. i think i've just outed myself as a complete dork who loves comic books and slasher novels...but i love them both for the fact that i've been able to elevate them to an academic level through valid analysis.
all of this said, and while i'm making a fool of myself, other things i'm thinking about "batman begins" beyond the movie itself:
1. jim gordon and sirius black have connections now because they've been portrayed by the same person.
2. the hero's training sequences are always brilliant, but NEVER long enough. someone should make an entire film just of a hero getting trained. the bride, luke, bruce wayne; all awesome, all too short.
3. michael caine is as perfect as alfred as bale is as batman.
4. robin sucks and if nolan decides to draw him into the next film, he'd better be an angry teen and not fucking chris o'donell. maybe the youngest culkin (the one from "signs") or the kid from "the ring."
but anyway, all of these are just geekly masturbation and it'll all pan out as quickly as my unflinching belief that all of m. night's films are connected into one incredibly long narrative to be revealed in ten years time.
i'm going to listen to the foo fighters again. dave grohl makes me feel all ragey. and that's a good thing.