An ongoing exploration of the dark and gritty reboot
For the past several weeks, this blog has investigated which Batman character has the most in common with presidential candidate Donald Trump. We have considered five Batman villains thus far: Oswald "the Penguin" Cobblepot, Dr. Jonathan "the Scarecrow" Crane, Harvey "Two-Face" Dent, legendary villain the Joker, and the most recent of prominent Batman villains, Bane. …
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Trump and the Joker have been compared many times. Let's take a close look at how much they resemble one another.
"This has never been about who the nominee is," Paul Ryan said yesterday, explaining why his party will fight any Supreme Court justice nomination made by Barack Obama in 2016, and why they are specifically going to fight the nomination of Merrick Garland. This, from a party ostensibly dedicated to the Constitution. This response to the President's …
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This is the second installment in an ongoing series of articles exploring which Batman character Donald Trump resembles most. You can read the first installment here, in which I explain the impetus for this series and compare Donald Trump to Oswald "the Penguin" Cobblepot. Or if you're interested in reading D. F. Lovett’s fiction, you …
Continue reading Is the Scarecrow the Batman Villain Who Trump Resembles Most?
Or, "Stop Calling Them Gunmen and Start Calling Them Terrorists" One of the most notable elements of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is that, despite being made by a British writer and director and set in the fictional Gotham City, the films capture the zeitgeist of the post-9/11 America in a frightening, realistic way. But there’s …
Continue reading What We Failed to Learn About Terrorism from The Dark Knight
If you haven't heard, the latest complete failure at the box office was the flaccid reboot Pan, an attempt to create a franchise out of the Peter Pan story by starting with Mr. Pan's origin as a young boy on an adventure to Neverland. In which the villain is Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard and Peter's best …
The Economist (and this blog) might liken him to The Joker, but Trump disagrees. I am Batman, he told a young boy and the world. The obvious response is to say that Trump isn't Batman. Or, there are those who have said that yes, he kinda is Batman. I won't point out the obvious, like …
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People like to predict that Ben Affleck will fail as the Batfleck. But what this blog post presupposes is, maybe he won't? The fact is, Ben Affleck is a good actor who is actually positioned better than any of his predecessors in terms of his ability to play Batman. Here are some of the reasons …
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You may have seen a sad news story about Lenny B. Robinson, a Maryland man who impersonated Batman to bring joy into the lives of children. Many referred to him as "The Route 29 Batman," as he could often be seeing driving his Batmobile down this road, including when the police pulled him over and …
Continue reading A Hero Can Be Anyone: Reflections on the Loss of a Batman
This is one of many articles on this site comparing the current state of American politics to the world of Batman. Read more here, or buy D. F. Lovett's debut novel here for only $4.99. In an editorial published on 7/23/15, The Economist likened Donald Trump to Heath Ledger's Joker: Mr Trump's lust for attention, …
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