To be fair, Robert Wuhl is full of fail in everything that he does, so it makes sense that his character would spend his time sniffing Vicki Vale's panties.
One of the biggest problems with Superman-as-archetype is that it seems to have cemented certain ideas about superheroes' girlfriends, which is why we have so many fifth-rate Lois Lane knockoffs, both in the comics and in other media.
It's clear that Burton's sympathies kind of lie with the Gothic clown, rather than with the stern-faced Man in Black trying to bring him down (anyone surprised by this has never seen another Burton film EVER), but what's funny is that Nolan actually makes the Chaos vs. Order dynamic much more explicit, and yet, his Joker is also more openly acknowledged as horrific.
It's also worth noting that action movie morals don't really hold with the idea of recurring villains, which is why most superhero films end with the bad guys dying at the end, even though that's an incredibly bad practice for a franchise.
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Date: 2009-08-04 10:26 pm (UTC)One of the biggest problems with Superman-as-archetype is that it seems to have cemented certain ideas about superheroes' girlfriends, which is why we have so many fifth-rate Lois Lane knockoffs, both in the comics and in other media.
It's clear that Burton's sympathies kind of lie with the Gothic clown, rather than with the stern-faced Man in Black trying to bring him down (anyone surprised by this has never seen another Burton film EVER), but what's funny is that Nolan actually makes the Chaos vs. Order dynamic much more explicit, and yet, his Joker is also more openly acknowledged as horrific.
It's also worth noting that action movie morals don't really hold with the idea of recurring villains, which is why most superhero films end with the bad guys dying at the end, even though that's an incredibly bad practice for a franchise.