scans_daily: Movie Night

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@ 2011-02-09 10:04 pm UTC

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char: alfred pennyworth, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, char: robin/red robin/tim drake, creator: christian alamy, creator: peter j. tomasi, title: nightwing

Movie Night

Today's posting from Batman and Robin #20 sparked a memory from way back in 2009 and a similar scene. I checked back in tags but sadly the images no longer work, so here I have for your reposting pleasure:

While certain members of the family are missing from the Batman and Robin #20 *coughcasscough*, it still is nice to see this come full circle.

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	no subject arysteia 2011-02-10 03:18 am UTC (link)
	I have always loved this. Even more than the empty chair, it's the four milk shakes and four bowls of popcorn. Excuse me, I have something in my eye. (Reply to this)

	no subject superfangirl1 2011-02-10 03:41 am UTC (link)
	I was thinking about these scans afterwards and thank you so much for posting them. :D (Reply to this)

	no subject ecto_gammat 2011-02-10 04:05 am UTC (link)
	... Are they watching The Magnificent Seven? That movie is the entire basis for my unhealthy love for Yul Brynner. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject rainspirit 2011-02-10 04:35 am UTC (link)
	Sounds more like Seven Samurai, I think. Which would be a great shout-out. Love Kurosawa movies. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject glprime 2011-02-10 05:46 am UTC (link)
	Nah, Sotero was from the Western, not the Eastern ;) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject thehefner 2011-02-10 04:16 am UTC (link)
	So far, so good. It looks like my hope for Tomasi carrying on this kind of storytelling will come through in Batman and Robin. I wonder if he'll finally be the one to try and bring back Two-Face as Dick's nemesis, as Tomasi himself set up somewhat awkwardly at the end of The Great Leap. (Reply to this)

	no subject sistermagpie 2011-02-10 04:26 am UTC (link)
	I'm so glad somebody posted this to go along with the B&R scene.:-) (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject uadlika 2011-02-10 04:33 am UTC (link)
	I had to after I saw the B&R scene. I wish I could do a page by page comparison because they are so similar, down to Alfred closing the curtains and Tim tossing Dick the remote. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject sadoeuphemist 2011-02-10 04:37 am UTC (link)
	You know, it's kind of sad that their big family bonding activity is sitting in front of the television in separate chairs. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 11 comments) (Show 11 comments)

	no subject calvision 2011-02-10 04:39 am UTC (link)
	Considering what family this is, though... ;) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 8 comments) (Show 8 comments)

	no subject sadoeuphemist 2011-02-10 04:50 am UTC (link)
	Still sad! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 7 comments) (Show 7 comments)

	no subject sistermagpie 2011-02-10 04:57 am UTC (link)
	I don't get it. What's sad about it? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 6 comments) (Show 6 comments)

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kagome654
2011-02-10 10:50 am UTC (link)

Obviously I'm not sadoeuphemist, but if I had to hazard a guess it's that movie watching usually involves sitting in silence and not talking (too much), while some other bonding activities (like playing games or eating a family meal together) involve team work and/or a lot of chatting to one another. I think you can bond through a shared experience, especially if it's a movie as significant to one of the watchers as this one, but it's not as immediately obvious as a bonding experience because it's something they could just as easily all do solo. The separate chairs, rather than the traditional crowded sofa, kinda emphasizes that. They're together, but there's a distance between them.

Not that I'm knocking movie night, it was a tradition in my house growing up, but I can understand why it might seem a little cold to and outside observer.

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icon_uk
2011-02-10 12:50 pm UTC (link)

I like to think this is a little ritual that Alfred and Bruce established when Bruce was a kid, and they've just expanded it as they've added family members and it's now a tradition.

Alfred would insist that young Bruce stop being quite so... intense all the time (Study/exercise/study/brood rinse and repeat), and take some time to sit down and let his mind wander a little, and a good movie would be a nice distraction.

Going to the cinema has a rather unfortunate connotation for Bruce, so getting out the home 35mm projector (or whatever the state of the art would be) would be the next best thing.

Little things like the ice cream ritual would be expanded on with Dick's arrival and so on.

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	no subject sadoeuphemist 2011-02-10 02:55 pm UTC (link)
	This, yeah. Also, judging from the two scenes posted, they either did it in complete silence, or watched the movie Bruce most associates with his parents' death. That's ... a weird representative sample. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-02-11 08:32 am UTC (link)
	They were in mourning for Bruce, I can imagine it being a fairly subdued affair. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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sistermagpie
2011-02-10 04:44 pm UTC (link)

Oh.

I have to say that sounds like strangely judgmental outside observer. Not only did they make all the stuff they're eating together, and have plenty of time to talk when the movie is over, I don't see what's cold about having a comfy seat for everybody. (Of course the main reason it's like that here is that Tomasi used the empty seat to show that Bruce was missing. Like Archie Bunker used to look at Edith's chair after she died.) This is a family that also bonds training with each other, sitting on rooftops, and studying things. They have more bonding time in more varied ways than most families. Relaxing with a good movie (that has personal meaning for them) is a nice change for them.

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	no subject realpestilence 2011-02-15 04:08 pm UTC (link)
	Plus, they all know each other well enough to ~do things quietly together, and not need to talk a lot to get things done, or to share an experience. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-02-10 12:44 pm UTC (link)
	That's the Wayne family bonding as domestic activity to involve Alfred, the Bat-family bonding is much more... adventurous. And it IS a classic movie. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject toby_wan_kenobi 2011-02-10 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	To be fair, they do fight crime together, which requires massive amounts of trust, teamwork, and effort. That's the bonding activity. This is just relaxing together. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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karunya
2011-02-10 06:26 pm UTC (link)

It's exactly the same way that my siblings and I do things together. The weight of disasters averted (or at least ameliorated somehow), suffering shared, etc. It's got to be even more intense with the Bat-Family than with a family of firefighters. We don't talk. We just decompress in each other's company, often by watching violent movies for some odd reason. It's become such a part of us that after my father's funeral, we headed straight for the matinee at a movie theater (causing all kinds of consternation among my husband's relatives, among others).

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	no subject thosefew 2011-02-10 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	I theorise it is tradition to include the "fap" sound effect in these issues. (Reply to this)

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bradhanon
2011-02-11 01:29 am UTC (link)

Okay, hang on. There are four milkshake glasses prepared, and four bowls of popcorn visibly placed on the coffee table. Yet in the penultimate panel, there are only three of each present.

Is this a screwup, or the intended implication that Bruce snuck into the room and got his snacks without being seen or heard? Not that that's beyond him necessarily, but what? Movie Night was going to cut into his intense angsting schedule, so right now he's crouched on a rooftop between two gargoyles, eating popcorn and drinking a milkshake? I am confused!

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	no subject icon_uk 2011-02-11 08:37 am UTC (link)
	At this point, they believe he's dead. This is just post RIP and this is the Wayne family equivalent of the Missing Man Formation (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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