The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 13

Posted on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 by David Chen

The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient audio file. In this episode, Dave, Peter, Devindra, and Adam, discuss the possibility of another Superman film with Bryan Singer, find even more things to debate about The Dark Knight, and discuss some geeky tidbits about the making of Back to the Future. Also, Dave laments the thrashing that was “The Yamato Affair.”

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Topics Discussed

Your calls and e-mails (Call the /Filmcast voicemail line at 781-583-1993)
Poltergeist getting remade by the Boogeyman writers, and are there too many remakes today?
What the heck is going on with the next Superman?
Thoughts on Bryan Singer and Valkyrie
Trouble with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button?
Should the Dark Knight have been shorter?
Jen Yamato makes Dave Chen a sad panda
Why the Back to the Future series was awesome

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Jen Yamato

Oh, David Chen. I'm sorry we had such a rough first exchange the other day. You guys are absolutely right. My comment was brutal. I blame it on the ease and anonymity of the Internet; if we were talking in person I would have been much nicer. (Although I would still have pointed out the missing punctuation.) What can I say? I am a riddle wrapped in an enigma. I suppose we'll agree to disagree. Friends?

Jappo

Zomg a woman on /film.

Vin

OK, so this whole thing with Chen not liking or understanding the need for the whole cell-phone surveillance thing in the Dark Knight can be easily put to rest.

It truly ties into one of the main themes of the film-- escalation. Alfred tells Bruce near the middle of the film the story of the jewel thief and his motive to "watch the world burn". Later, when Bruce is in his penthouse after Rachel dies he asks Alfred what they did to catch the jewel robber and he says "We burned the forest down".

Sal Maroni told Batman that they know he has his rules and Joker taunted him with his moral compass. That is Joker's one job, to push Batman to his limit. He loves seeing Batman skirt around the edges and find ways to beat him.

Joker isn't a villain, he is a super-sane man with a drive to play with the mind of someone who thinks as high as he does. So Batman's response to defeat the Joker is doing something that is morally reprehensible; it had nothing to do with "amount of power" or anything like that. It simply got the job done, but also pushed the limits of Batman and Lucius' crusade.

beng

oh im glad they got rid of the 2 "comedians" for the afterdark.

reslipia_au

thanx beng i wasnt going to get this for fear of jake and amir ruining this but now i will get it

tone

yo. david chen, keep up with the analyzing of films, i dig it. the dark knight one was spot on.

Eddie

It may be irrelevant at this point, but having just heard the podcast this afternoon, I felt obligated to put forth a small addition of what the motives for Batman taking on the responsibilities of Harvey Dent in the end of "The Dark Knight" could be.

Most options have been discussed, as far as why he should/should not simply place blame on the Joker, but consider that Batman has become well known for his practices, as well as limitations. While we, the audience are given the opportunity to realize his bending of such rules (as expressed through the exploitation of cell phone omnipresence), the villains of Gotham are aware that this is a man who does not kill.

After Maroni is dropped from the building, breaking his ankles and proceeds to being interrogated he tells Batman outright "We're wise to your act... You got rules". Is it not possible, that realizing this, he takes the tragedy that is what happened to Harvey Dent, and uses it to his advantage as a way to (once again) strike fear into the thugs of Gotham City?

Small potatoes I guess, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway

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