On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Darren Glass <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The comic may be problematic through some lenses, but your description > leaves out the long list of awards it won at the time and the fact that > many critics still list it as one of the best and most influential Batman > stories of all time. I think the main knock against it these days is that > it's success helped usher in a very dark and gritty era of comics, most of > which weren't nearly as good. > S P O I L E R A L E R T The main knock was the Joker stripping and raping Barbara Gorden, then shooting and paralyzing her, showing photos of all of the above to her captured father. At a time when comics were beginning the slow crawl to embolden strong female characters, this issue showed women as weak victims, and feminists reacted... and continue to react to it. Don't get me wrong; I'll watch the movie when it is released, but its original source material is deeply rooted in a very different era (both in comics and in life). Maybe, as they did with "The Dark Knight Returns" they will tweak it a bit to make it more 2016 and less 1980s. Otherwise this movie will resemble an animated snuff film. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
