Ok first thing's first here. I can't talk about this movie without talking about how frickin much I love the post-modern deco noir style of the movie. Here comes some foreshadowing, ready?
"All my movies of the week
will be noir influenced movies......
ooooooohhhhh"
I defy anyone to suggest that this iteration, and for that matter all versions but the Adam West TV series, were and are very noir-styled pieces. Noir literally means black, or dark in french. The noir film was originated in the 1930's and generally relates to large urban settings, often detective stories, how is that NOT batman?
NOW you get to listen to me ramble about nemeses for a minute, in particular how this affects my monday night tv watching, and how pissed I am about it.
Nemesis was the greek goddess of divine retribution. She smote down those who succumbed to their hubris, and was a spiteful bitch.
The term nemesis came to denote one's arch rival, the exact opposite in many ways, but tending to stem from, or mirror many of the same tennets or characteristics of the protagonist. This is what differentiates a nemesis from any other bad guy.
Classic Examples of Nemeses:God - Satan
Harry Potter - Vouldimort
Captain Ahab - Moby Dick
Hester Prynn - Large Red Font
Sherlock Holmes - Professor James Moriarty
which brings me to
Dr. Gregory House - .....?
MANY FRUSTRATED EXPLETIVES!
I know you don't watch a lot of House, but here's the deal.
Foreman is constantly shown to be "like House" he wears the same shoes, he envies his intelligence, he often makes decisions based on "what would house do?" logic. He wears the same frickin SHOES!
BUT! he often shows vehement moral disagreement to his decisions, and often refuses to act as directed by House.
(The connection by the way is that House, and his surrounding players are "not so loosely" based on Sherlock Holmes)
Foreman is Moriarty! but they won't do it! Nothing changes permanently, Foreman's fired, he's hired again, yadda yadda yadda. They won't buckle down and boot Foreman so he can start terrorizing House Nemesis style, and it's PISSIN ME OFF!
What are supposed to be talking about? Oh yeah, acting.
WHY? praytell should Ledger not have been nominated for best actor? And why has no-one else raised a fuss about this? I don't care what role he had in what film, he gave the primo performance of the year, and should have been recognized as such. His character had more screen time than Batman, or Bruce Wayne individually. Though mostly through the dialogue of others, the story chronicled HIS journey (at least till the last scene.) And in a cast of all stars, he shined above. What a rip-off.
I'll continue this after lunch.
Never seen it, but I hear a lot of noir in-jokes are based on this movie, I should probably check it out. Noir meets that flavor of pizza I've always wanted to try but never had the extra cash to risk it.
