Batman Dark Knight breaks office records with a very dark vision (so I hear — I haven’t seen it) that stars a man who died shortly after filming. Because the movie looks so dark and because Heath Legder’s character is so psychotic, the whole thing just makes me uneasy. It just seems a little paradoxical that people looking for an escape from their worries flocked to see something so dark, sinister and spooky.
Of course, this isn’t the first time a movie has been released after one of its stars died. I remember how sad it was when Natalie Wood drowned while Brainstorm was still filming. She was only 43. It was odd watching the movie (which was quite good) knowing the beautiful woman on the screen had tragically died as this movie was still being filmed. I think everybody felt a little odd about it since it took nearly two years after her death (it was released in 1983) to get to the theaters.
I haven’t seen the movie either but I do find it odd that people are flocking to this movie. I did see ‘Batman Begins’ and I have heard that it is similar in presentation as a very much ‘good vs. evil’ movie and ‘hope that there is still good in the midst of apparent and ubiquitous evil’.
The reason I find it odd is that people flock to a ‘good vs. evil’ movie and yet they steer away from the politically charged movies such as ‘Lions for Lambs’ and the like. Yet in real life most of these same people do not like the clarity of ‘good vs. evil’ and tend to live in the gray blurry area of mediocrity. Maybe they flock to these types of movies because it allows them to stand for their real inner-convictions by proxy. Maybe this is a subject matter for a different post but that is Mi2Cents.
P.S. Brainstorm? Wow, you’re really showing your age. Now if you had mentioned ‘Brandon Lee’ and ‘The Crow’… Oops, now I’m showing my age…