Bane From 'The Dark Knight Rises': Does He Hold a Deep Political Message?
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2012/07/19 20:00:00
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All sorts of crazy theories are flying around this week about the villain in the latest Batman movie, Bane from “The Dark Knight Rises.” First, Rush Limbaugh alleged that director Christopher Nolan chose the evil genius with venomous veins, Bane, as a metaphor for Mitt Romney’s company Bain Capital. Rush has since denied that he was accusing the Batman gang of some decades-old comic conspiracy, but the backlash has hit hard for the radio host.
And Rush isn’t the only one throwing around conspiracy theories. Occupy Wall Street protester Harrison Schultz wrote an op-ed for the Daily Beast comparing Bane’s Revolution to the Occupy Movement. Of course, this film has been in the works for years, long before anyone occupied anything. And Bane has been a villain in the comic series since the mid-nineties, just as Mitt was entering the political arena and more than a decade before he had presidential aspirations.
So if Nolan and his co-writers had some big political conspiracy in mind, they must have had a clairvoyant on their team. Nolan told ABC News, “We try to be sincere about writing situations that would frighten us, that would concern us, things that I suppose we absorb from the world around us. We never want to be overtly political in any sense.” So what do you think: Does Bane hold a deep political message?
And Rush isn’t the only one throwing around conspiracy theories. Occupy Wall Street protester Harrison Schultz wrote an op-ed for the Daily Beast comparing Bane’s Revolution to the Occupy Movement. Of course, this film has been in the works for years, long before anyone occupied anything. And Bane has been a villain in the comic series since the mid-nineties, just as Mitt was entering the political arena and more than a decade before he had presidential aspirations.
So if Nolan and his co-writers had some big political conspiracy in mind, they must have had a clairvoyant on their team. Nolan told ABC News, “We try to be sincere about writing situations that would frighten us, that would concern us, things that I suppose we absorb from the world around us. We never want to be overtly political in any sense.” So what do you think: Does Bane hold a deep political message?
But now I'm not so sure. As I write this, Fox News Channel has wall-to-wall coverage of a disgusting and tragic incident in Aurora, CO. For those of you just signing on: someone--the police won't say who--let off a tear gas bomb at the start of the premier showing of TDKR, and then started shooting. Fifteen people are dead, about fifty more wounded (some by stray bullets that pierced the partitions between one viewing room and another), and it's as if nothing else newsworthy is taking place. Nobody knows why he did it. The cops were there already, to control the sellout crowd, so they took this guy down fast--but not before he shot fifteen people, including a *baby* as *point-blank range*.
It's the only theory that makes sense.
Of course the mass chaos is not a great idea, organized chaos is a much better approach.
But if Romney loses a few votes becuase of the real life Bain villian,
I'm not going to complain.
If someone draws a correlation between two things that are similar (and I don't know if it is since I'm not THAT familiar with the Batman franchise) it would make them intelligent for having automatic recall and calculating skills.
What you and others are searching for is paranoid or defensive, if the characters already existed prior to any public knowledge of current movements or people.
All I've said is that moviegoers would probably conjure up comparisons if comparisons can be made. But again, I'd have to be familiar with it to make a list. ~ Whatever. ~