Batman -- a story in imagery!
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http://youtu.be/g8evyE9TuYk?hd=1
I cannot WAIT for the next Batman film. I loved Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. But what really struck me, and I thought about this at work (there are times when a boring data entry job has it's uses). I've been a fan of comics, especially Batman for a long time. I'm currently reading graphic novels because there isn't much in the way of comics stores locally, and I can order graphics from Amazon. But even when I was spending upwards of $10.00/week on comics -- it was the storylines and the characters I loved. The art always came second for me. Now, I'd guess most fans of graphic art, would say the opposite, or that they needed good art and a good story. But, for me, yeah, at times I noticed a particularly nice piece of art in a (comic) book or a graphic novel, but over all - I read the story.
However, when I think about the character of Batman -- it's images that immediately spring to mind. Batman with one knee down, the other up, clutching the broken, bleeding, beaten body of Robin (Jason Todd), his head bowed, in the rain -- from A Death in the Family. Bane holding Batman over his knee, about to break Bruce's back in Knightfall. Even the classic image of Bruce kneeling in blood of his dead parents, again in rain, the broken white pearl necklace in the foreground (pick any back story book you want, or even Nolan's film). It's always a static image. Even Final Crisis had the image of a dead Batman, Superman holding his body on the cover (an image which isn't in the book, btw). And Long Shadows has tons of 'em: Clark Kent and Diana presenting the empty cape and cowl to Alfred. Clark, Diana, Alfred, Dick, and possibly Tim and Damien -- all standing in a circle, their heads bowed in mourning and sorrow. Dick, sitting in a chair, loose and almost side saddle, in the Batman uniform but with the cowl off, looking completely bereft. And that's followed with a conversation between him and Alfred where Dick says (something like), "I always knew he would die. But I wasn't ready for it to be this soon." Not to mention my favorite line in the book, which is when Alfred, who's to the point of tears, says to Diana, "My son is dead, I am NOT alright!" Yeah, major angst in that book. Which after, Final Crisis, the Bat family needed.
Anyway, between the description in for the preview vid (see clip) for this summer's Batman film, and the surprise revelation of just who the second villain is -- and all I could think about was certain images from various Batman books, and occasionally films. It sounds like it will be VERY awesome!
--Olivia
http://youtu.be/g8evyE9TuYk?hd=1
I cannot WAIT for the next Batman film. I loved Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. But what really struck me, and I thought about this at work (there are times when a boring data entry job has it's uses). I've been a fan of comics, especially Batman for a long time. I'm currently reading graphic novels because there isn't much in the way of comics stores locally, and I can order graphics from Amazon. But even when I was spending upwards of $10.00/week on comics -- it was the storylines and the characters I loved. The art always came second for me. Now, I'd guess most fans of graphic art, would say the opposite, or that they needed good art and a good story. But, for me, yeah, at times I noticed a particularly nice piece of art in a (comic) book or a graphic novel, but over all - I read the story.
However, when I think about the character of Batman -- it's images that immediately spring to mind. Batman with one knee down, the other up, clutching the broken, bleeding, beaten body of Robin (Jason Todd), his head bowed, in the rain -- from A Death in the Family. Bane holding Batman over his knee, about to break Bruce's back in Knightfall. Even the classic image of Bruce kneeling in blood of his dead parents, again in rain, the broken white pearl necklace in the foreground (pick any back story book you want, or even Nolan's film). It's always a static image. Even Final Crisis had the image of a dead Batman, Superman holding his body on the cover (an image which isn't in the book, btw). And Long Shadows has tons of 'em: Clark Kent and Diana presenting the empty cape and cowl to Alfred. Clark, Diana, Alfred, Dick, and possibly Tim and Damien -- all standing in a circle, their heads bowed in mourning and sorrow. Dick, sitting in a chair, loose and almost side saddle, in the Batman uniform but with the cowl off, looking completely bereft. And that's followed with a conversation between him and Alfred where Dick says (something like), "I always knew he would die. But I wasn't ready for it to be this soon." Not to mention my favorite line in the book, which is when Alfred, who's to the point of tears, says to Diana, "My son is dead, I am NOT alright!" Yeah, major angst in that book. Which after, Final Crisis, the Bat family needed.
Anyway, between the description in for the preview vid (see clip) for this summer's Batman film, and the surprise revelation of just who the second villain is -- and all I could think about was certain images from various Batman books, and occasionally films. It sounds like it will be VERY awesome!
--Olivia
