Have to disagree about Catwoman. I thought the writing, directing, and acting all failed when it came to her character. Why does a badass thief still have to play into the ~female characters have to be cutesy and coy and talk down to men while pouting sarcastically~ trope? It was extremely distracting. And why is it that Marvel can manage to put Black Widow in combat boots but when Nolan gives the exact same costume to Catwoman it's with shoes that are not only heels, but heels so high they would severely limit the mobility even of women who wear them every single day? It's utterly ridiculous and they basically tried to play it off as "oh, she wears them because it lets her pin people's wrists to the wall"? You know what else takes care of people's wrists? Breaking them. And that's what a male character would've done.
In a world where the villains are grittier and heavily reinterpreted, Catwoman was a huge disappointment because she could've been much more but instead she felt like she was transplanted from a 90s Batman film and
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... Of course, the other thing about being a comic-book fanboy is you get unfortunately acclimatised to absurd levels of sexualisation of women, especially Catwoman. Also, you're predisposed to like Catwoman because she was an important part of your adolescence
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Marion Cotillard nearly had me persuaded that she wasn't Talia, right up until she was. Incidentally, like most comic-book geeks, I saw that one coming months ago,
It would have been nice if, instead of the twist being built on either, (a) it will never occur to my audience that babies have the potential to be girls or that girls can do stuff and/or (b) even audience members who KNOW that R'as's child is canonically a daughter will remember my gleeful willingness to turn Gordon's daughter into a son last movie and assume I am just pulling that bullshit again --
If instead it had been built on, "There are multiple women with prominent roles in the story who could conceivably be Talia, but you will be misdirected into thinking it is one instead of the other." I know, I know. Crazy.
That would require there to be multiple women with prominent roles in the story and ambiguous motivations. And as clearer thinkers than I have pointed out, Christopher Nolan is not good at women.
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In a world where the villains are grittier and heavily reinterpreted, Catwoman was a huge disappointment because she could've been much more but instead she felt like she was transplanted from a 90s Batman film and ( ... )
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It would have been nice if, instead of the twist being built on either, (a) it will never occur to my audience that babies have the potential to be girls or that girls can do stuff and/or (b) even audience members who KNOW that R'as's child is canonically a daughter will remember my gleeful willingness to turn Gordon's daughter into a son last movie and assume I am just pulling that bullshit again --
If instead it had been built on, "There are multiple women with prominent roles in the story who could conceivably be Talia, but you will be misdirected into thinking it is one instead of the other." I know, I know. Crazy.
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