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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   2624 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 28, 2022

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Absolutely! I am glad I'm not a gambler, because I would have lost my ass betting on the likelihood of a woke Zorro movie coming out in the last decade. I wouldn't have even minded it that much, because like you say, it fits. And it's not like Zorro is too ridiculous a concept next to marvel movies about magic robot suits and talking animals from outer space.

On the side, I get the impression Batman fans (aside from those like me who want to watch the world burn) want to forget Zorro exists. That's why Nolan changed the movie to an opera and why the latest one doesn't show the movie. Because it raises the question - wasn't Zorro's disguise good enough? Why did Bats also have to roll in aspects of a flying rodent? I know I know, his mother or father's ghost threw one at him and insisted on it, but now we're drifting closer to "traumatic experience destroys young man's mind" than "super cool vigilante uses fear to clean up crime". And while I think that's a way more interesting concept, it is definitely one which exceeds the grasp of most writers. Even the ones who don't fuck it up entirely usually just do something dull with it.

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