After seeing Batman Begins Sunday and really enjoying it I got into a conversation with a couple of female friends and was soon asking the question ‘If you could be a super hero / heroine who would you be and what powers would you have?’
After some musing and giggling one replied she’d be Glitter Girl and she’d have special glitter dust to charm people, the other friend said something equally as nice, for a moment I thought I was conversing with two Bonnie Langfords, both of them wanting to be so good. Alright I’ll confess I was hoping they’d say Miss Whiplash or Super Play Girl but alas no.
Why don’t people want to be bad guys? Surely its more fun? Ok, traditionally the villains always lose but recently in cinema we’ve seen the ‘anti-hero’ characters such as Snake Plissken from Escape from New York, Riddick, Marv from Sin City, The Gecko brothers in Dusk till dawn, the little cute alien chest buster in Alien !!!
Why can’t the Joker kick Batman’s arse and go on a crime rampage that we can all delight in?
Why can’t Catwoman get kinky with Robin?
Why can’t Christopher Walken take over the world as Max Zorin in View to a Kill?
Oh the dark blood is flowing tonight (cackle-cackle)
What bad guy would I create or be? I’d better not say
MMMuuaaahhHHHH !!!
After some musing and giggling one replied she’d be Glitter Girl and she’d have special glitter dust to charm people, the other friend said something equally as nice, for a moment I thought I was conversing with two Bonnie Langfords, both of them wanting to be so good. Alright I’ll confess I was hoping they’d say Miss Whiplash or Super Play Girl but alas no.
Why don’t people want to be bad guys? Surely its more fun? Ok, traditionally the villains always lose but recently in cinema we’ve seen the ‘anti-hero’ characters such as Snake Plissken from Escape from New York, Riddick, Marv from Sin City, The Gecko brothers in Dusk till dawn, the little cute alien chest buster in Alien !!!
Why can’t the Joker kick Batman’s arse and go on a crime rampage that we can all delight in?
Why can’t Catwoman get kinky with Robin?
Why can’t Christopher Walken take over the world as Max Zorin in View to a Kill?
Oh the dark blood is flowing tonight (cackle-cackle)
What bad guy would I create or be? I’d better not say
MMMuuaaahhHHHH !!!
3 comments:
the thing about (fictional) anti-heroes is that they are not really bad guys.
they are just people who play outside of the rules of normal society. but they have themselves a code of honour.
of course when it is carried over into the realm the everyday and we eulogise over the krays because they never hurt their own....
Not sure about that one but did see Batman at the weekend and absolutely loved it.
I'm constantly in a quandry as to whether to use my powers for good and not evil...
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