Shortpacked vs Frank Miller: Round 6

[starwolf_oakley]

Wednesday's Shortpacked had another Frank Miller joke. As usual, it is on-point. I, however, go off-point with idle thoughts about "Dark Knight Rises."





Seeing Ellen Yindel was the inspiration for Ellen Yin in "The Batman." A good cop who just doesn't like the idea of a masked vigilante.

I've wondered if Ellen Yin would have worked as a rookie cop in "Dark Knight Rises" instead of John Blake. We could get a better explanation than "Bruce Wayne seemed sad, and I realized Batman would be sad too." Also, we find out her legal first name is Cassandra.

Comments

[mrstatham]

I think sometimes it's a little to easy to conflate Miller's contemporary personal politics with an old story he wrote that involves politics; I think that if they were really going for a sense of irony, they'd comment on the idea that at one point, Miller was basically setting himself up as being on the same side as the OWS group he railed against. His Batman fought the corrupt system and inspired the younger generation to do the same; As an older man, Miller seems to relate more with the system. Which is.. Well, I think they're leaning toward commenting on it, but they didn't quite hit the mark.

[lucean]

You know, that would have actually been a great point to make in a satirical manner, much better than the one they try to do here. I think they're trying to be topical with the coming movie, but as you said, they fail to separate the writer at the time from who he is now.

[lilacsigil]

Well said. TDKR does have all the seeds of later Miller - lone white guy is the only one who can save the day - but it's in quite a different context. I have the feeling that current Miller would be siding with TDKR Superman, but without the tiny wink to Batman at the end.