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Originally Posted by dkgojackets
i cant wait for the media reaction when police uncover thousands of bodies in trash bags in the ocean because of dexter
You keep posting questions about movies and shows I haven't seen. I can't help you.
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Originally Posted by Dids
Unless you're just going to render the team meaningless by claiming any action movie glorifies violence, I don't see anything specifically about TDK that does that.
Specifically TDK features a supervillain who appears impervious to pain or injury. He constantly breaks into secure buildings and takes people hostage at gun or knife-point and waxes poetically while he holds a knife to their mouths and tells another story about how he got scars on his face typically making them cry with fear right before he easily escapes unharmed again. The whole theme of the movie is the Joker playing a game of one-upmanship with himself trying to top his previous horrific acts--and he's super cool and philosophical every time. The theater I was in seemed pretty damn impressed when he blew up a hospital, for instance. He's constantly depicted as outsmarting the police and Batman including somehow dropping a noosed dead batman-impersonator out of a city building to scare someone looking out of a window and blowing up a police precinct to facilitate yet another escape. Oh, and whenever he's beaten it's because he really desired to be killed because he's so mysterious and deep. So deep as to bait people in to trying to assault him by saying some crap like, "I like to kill with knives because you get such a sense of closeness and can really tell a lot about a person. Would you like to know which of your friends I've killed were cowards?"
But then I've only seen the movie once and not recently, so maybe I'm forgetting some stuff.
Oh wait, I've thought of more:
The Joker relishes his victims and crimes and the camera admiringly lingers over his work. I think Claire used the term "fetishizes" which is apt, although in general I'd prefer to keep sex out of this.