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Originally Posted by spoon
I gently inquire as to your feelings of Robin Hood and of Javert ? I ask this because as an African-American I feel an admiration toward both John Brown and Nat Turner and as a lad of comic books I understand fully the motives and actions of Batman.
I am but a practicing playwright with scant success but aspire to the Artists who as Plato would have approved of move us to tears, tremor and laughter allowing us to purge ourselves of our own urges allowing us to proceed withe our higher natures.
I think it is a healthy thing to allow our darker selves to indulge themselves in artistic endeavours so our better selves may perform the best of ourselves in the work we do.
Just my opinion and I hope I do not offend.
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John Brown AND Nat Turner were opposing obvious moral /social wrongs in their times. They considered they were at war with a great injustice. Neither man was a compulsive serial killer and had slavery not eixsted might not have raised a weapon against one let alone many. They were real;Dexter is not.
Robin Hood was equally opposing moral/social wrongs as well as the rule of an illegal king- Richard wasn't dead but brother John had usurped the throne. Robin got a royal pardon from Richard for his acts on behalf of his lawful king. He stopped being an outlaw.
Would they dare give Dexter a plea bargain since he,too, is fiction? The writers might. The Sopranos ended ambiguously but many suggest there were key clues in the last scene to prove Tony was going to be hit just after the camera stops. Tony had killed several people- even his nephew and cousin. I don't think he enjoyed those but for the character to survive he had to destroy those men. Dexter enjoys what he does- at least, in the episodes I watched. Real life serial killers escalate- most don't decelerate or exhibit believeable remorse.
Javert was a freaking nut case. That single minded focus actually exists in mid level bureaucracy. A little power and a lot of pride can do that.
Batman broods too much. I'm most familar with the film Batmans and I fault Alfred for not getting that child some serious counseling. ALL THAT MONEY and the kid lives in emotional misery.
By all means - please keep on writing but do take seriously the power of a charismatic antihero. Look at the films where the main character is monstrous but still draws viewers: starting with Dracula as the roots to the latest ''Twilight".( Sexuality and death intertwined.)
I understand escapism but I see not all personalities capable of drawing the line when the film or the video games ends on the umpteeenth time. I know some young people from their 30's to their teens so far into antihero films and and games that when they discuss what they saw or how they played a sequence they relate things as if in real life not artifcial. That worries me.
11-09-2009, 05:58 PM
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