Night At The Movies 8
Batman The Dark Knight
Heath Ledger is as crazy as ever in Batman the Dark Knight, from using a person's pineal gland to make a pencil disappear to cutting a new smile on someone's face, this actor's swansong as a mad villain is spectacular. Come to think of it, about 15 years ago, there was another young actor who died of tragic circumstances, and after his death, they released a movie in which he also played a character which had long hair and powder all over his face.
The movie starts with the Joker orchestrating a plan to rob a bank, a plan that characteristically leaves most of the henchmen dead so as not to divide up the shares so many ways.
STAR WARS The Clone Wars
Even though there are two full length feature cartoons, and a television series comng up, George Lucas feels that he must fully explore this period of the STAR WARS history and that is the period between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, namely the Clone Wars.
Indeed Alec Guiness himself mumbled a sidelong cryptic comment about the Clone Wars in 1977 in the first STAR WARS movie.
Attack of the Clones explores the inception of the Clone Wars, with the movie ending with the clarion trumpet call to mobilize the troops to fight for the Great War, and Revenge of the Sith is set in the culmination of the clone wars with the final result being Anakin Skywalker's transformation to a robotic homunculus joining a pantheon of miscreants with political ambitions to rule a galaxy.
It is understandable that such an event would be looked at in depth.
Perhaps one day, there will be a clone wars, as cloning technology is possible and secretly breeding clones and using them as soldiers is what George Orwell talked about in Animal Farm when Napoleon the pig secretly bred doberman pinschers and rotweillers as his pretorian guard. A lot of conspiracy theorists believe that this is already happening.
Soundtrack:
Lani Hall - Never Say Never Again
EMF - Unbelievable
*EMF = Ecstasy Mother Fuckers
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