Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Batman Arrested?


This hit the news yesterday but instead of linking to the skanky entertainment magazine type websites, I'll link to an actual news site, the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/23/ukcrime.actionandadventure

Okay, let me say this nice and slow. Batman wasn't arrested. Batman is a fictitious character. Christian Bale, an actor, was arrested. He went in to the station voluntarily, gave his account of what happened and left without any charge being made against him by the police.
Now sure, it's ironic when somebody who is supposed to fight crime for a living ends up committing a crime. When somebody who acts like they fight crime in a movie, what is that? Ironic? Not exactly. Mr. Bale was also in The Prestige, where he fought the Wolverine and they both did magic tricks. It's ridiculous to carry an actors previous role into another movie they are in, and it's just as ridiculous to carry the actors role over into his actual life.

But now, what if it did? Let's get dorky:
1. If he was really the Dark Knight, he would have no sister and his mother would have died in a backstreet mugging that happened right before his eyes. Therefore, they wouldn't have been able to allege assault yesterday. Cuz they would either be dead or never existed in the first place.

2. If he was really the Dark Knight, he wouldn't be a good cop, he would be the guy that beats the crap out of somebody. Batman is a vigilante, not some boy scout *cough cough, superman, cough cough*. Holding him up to some sort of light is just stupid. He's not running around in the day hanging up wanted posters, he's the Dark Knight for hells sake!

3. Okay, at this point I've started to lose interest in my own post but didn't want to leave it with only 2 points. So if you have additional points, feel free to comment! Even if you don't, feel free to comment anyway. Like, say you're from Montreal, or the U.K, or anywhere else for that matter, and you look at my blog fairly regularly but don't comment, don't be shy! Introduce yourself and say hello!

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