Posted on 07/25/2008 10:55:56 AM PDT by Bratch
A cry for help goes out from a city beleaguered by violence and fear: A beam of light flashed into the night sky, the dark symbol of a bat projected onto the surface of the racing clouds . . .
Oh, wait a minute. That's not a bat, actually. In fact, when you trace the outline with your finger, it looks kind of like . . . a "W."
There seems to me no question that the Batman film "The Dark Knight," currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.
And like W, Batman understands that there is no moral equivalence between a free society -- in which people sometimes make the wrong choices -- and a criminal sect bent on destruction. The former must be cherished even in its moments of folly; the latter must be hounded to the gates of Hell.
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Maggie was hot in "Secretary." A damn shame she didn't get cast as Tony Stark's secretary instead of that bird-like skank Gweyneth Paltrow.
It does! And hearing Rush talk about it today helped too. I really wanna see this.
You can have her, NFP! I don't need a man card to know what is sexy and what is not.
What does that mean?
I’ll wait for the Blu-Ray DVD. >:-}
And no one is going to convince me Maggie Gyllenhaal is sexy. I've spent 60 years knowing sexy when I see it, and Maggie ain't by a long shot!
Now, Katie Holmes is sexy, but after she went the Tom Cruise route, I'd have to be very drunk to take her home for fun and games.
All in all, I'd rather have Alisyn Camerota over Maggie, Katie or most Hollywood babes.
I bet she's old enough... to know better--
But still young enough... to still have a yen!
“What does that mean?”
Writers could not make stories about paranoia of communism.
But they could make stories about aliens and make the same point.
Example.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street
I think that Nolan and his writers are doing the same thing with the war on terror with Batman.
The only problem is, it wasn't paranoia. There WERE Communists collaborating with the Soviet Union in the State Department, in the Defense Department, in the highest levels of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, and in Hollywood.
Cold War era documents have proven beyond any doubt that McCarthy was right.
Conservatives should never go along with the lie that concerns about communism were paranoia.
Cool your jets.
You’ll find no friend of commie preverts here. ;)
Just pointing out how political climate can influence writers then and now.
Movies cost $5.50 (geezer discount) here in a theatre seating multiplex.
I agree with your assessment of Alisyn Camerota, she ain’t to shabby. She looked great this morning doing her Fox and Friends weekend anchor job.
I agree. While she's not bad looking, she's just plain.....I do not see why she was cast in that role.
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