tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post2412577843138382679..comments2024-02-28T17:50:10.303+00:00Comments on LUCID FRENZY JUNIOR: DARK KNIGHTGavin Burrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-3197547557518070532008-09-04T12:53:00.000+01:002008-09-04T12:53:00.000+01:00Thanks for the comments, Andrew. Glad to hear you ...Thanks for the comments, Andrew. Glad to hear you were “almost convinced”, I wondered after posting if I’d been a bit too critical of the film. It does a decent stab of both creating a Heat-style thriller and (at times) a superhero film. Sometimes it has trouble joining the two things together, would be my only complaint. I’d say it was worth seeing.<BR/><BR/>I’m not sure “comic book fans want their superheroes to be dark and serious” any more. It seems to me that comics got over all that, but movies <I>of</I> comics then subsequently got stuck in it. It’s one reason why I think anime-style cartoons would work better for superheroes,I suspect some of it comes from film imagining its lending comics some of its greater authority. <BR/><BR/>The Method once filtered through Hollywood seems pretty much to me to be about collecting mannerisms. Find a mannerism for a ‘weight subject’ like domestic abuse, and you’re looking at Oscar bait. Admittedly I’m not the best judge as (discussed in previous threads) I tend more towards the Brechtian side of drama.<BR/><BR/>Incidentally I may have promised in a previous thread to post some stuff about Doctor Who and Quatermass. Which I will still do, but a couple of other items may be beating them to the punch...Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-79107092504630784562008-09-04T05:06:00.000+01:002008-09-04T05:06:00.000+01:00Great article. Haven't seen the film and may not ...Great article. Haven't seen the film and may not ever do so, but your article almost convinced me to give it a try. (Everyone else I know who has praised The Dark Knight also really enjoyed Batman Begins, which I didn't care for.) Another reason I have avoided it is because, like you, I find it odd that comic book fans want their superheroes to be dark and serious. The man dresses up as a bat and fights crime; how seriously am I supposed to take this? I'll take the '60s TV show.<BR/><BR/>By the by, method acting doesn't actually have anything to do with mannerisms, or shouldn't. (The method is simply recalling events from your own life in order to create the emotional effect you're trying to reach.) However, people taught by Strasberg do have a tendency to collect mannerisms as well. Dustin Hoffman may be an even better example - virtually any film of his contains some Stupid Actor Trick or another. A famous anecdote is told about Hoffman. On the set of Marathon Man, Hoffman stayed up all night to play a character who had been up all night. When Lawrence Olivier asked why he had done this, Hoffman asked how else he should have prepared. Olivier responded, "Have you tried acting? It's much easier." Hoffman denies the story, however, and it's probably not true.Andrew Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13453328821252013152noreply@blogger.com