The Long Road

04/16/2004 Archived Entry: "I got nothing."

Why is it that when Hollywood adapts a superhero movie, they always make the villain the cause of the hero's birth? I understand that there's a sort of "delicious irony" to it but it also happens to be completely overused now. Batman's parents were shot by a random street thug, not he-who-would-become-the-joker; Daredevil's father wasn't executed by the Kingpin so that Daredevil could take the Kingpin down; The Punisher's family was accidentally picnicking where a gang war broke out, they weren't specifically targetted; and Peter Parker was bitten by a Spider in some random lab instead of his arch-nemesis' facilities.

I personally thinks it works much better when coincidence is the cause of moral outrage instead of this personal vendetta that hollywood writers have been plugging away at. It's like they're trying to channel Shakespearean irony.

Another wonderful anecdote!

Erin and I were on her couch. I was stroking her cat, Sunday. The cat really enjoys it, begins rubbing herself against the couch.

"what's your cat doing?"
"getting off."
"can we switch seats?"

Replies: 6 comments

Hey, give the movie people a break.! They get two hours to develop a plot line that the comic books take years to craft.

I think connecting the events allows the movie to flow better (combining the moment that creates the hero with the moment that defines the villan), without losing much in terms of the original plot. Sure it's commercial, but that's business.

And I thought the spider was in a random lab in the movie? Or did I miss something?

Posted by ian @ 04/16/2004 04:35 PM EST

Ah, cats in heat, isn't it great? God bless the spay/neuter clinic. The strangest thing is my brother's dog. She's a girl and can hump anyone's leg on command... I guess it's a dominance issue.

Posted by jen smuj @ 04/17/2004 01:10 PM EST

Give the movie people a break?!?!...uhh...NO!!!...they fuck up too many times...Hulk being one of the biggest fuck ups of all; except for casting Jennifer Connelly...:)!!!!

Posted by dAN @ 04/18/2004 10:03 AM EST

This has nothing to do with this post.

2-1 SENS in Double OT!!!
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Game 7 on tuesday in Toronto
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Posted by Anonymous @ 04/18/2004 11:21 PM EST

LOL!

Posted by Dave @ 04/18/2004 11:24 PM EST

The comics only take a few issues to tell a solid story that introduces us to the main characters, sure there's many decades worth of material but all that can easily be ignored if the movie's just going to tell the origin story anyways.

Hulk wasn't THAT bad. The movie absolutely rocked whenever The Hulk was actually on screen. I'd buy the dvd if it were under 15$. But they also tied the Hulk's origin to the villain's. *GROAN*.

The radioactive spider in the movie was in the Oscorp labs.

Missed the 3rd period of game 6 =( , it seemed hopeless.

Posted by Rayne @ 04/19/2004 03:34 PM EST