For me the movie leon the professional takes the cake. It's got great action and performances but the movie is literally about the directors own affair with a pre-teen girl via Jean Reno and Natalie Portman. Ever since I learned this I had a hard time coming back to visit the film.
The misogyny is for sure but he is a bad guy who you're meant to dislike. Growing up with the show, I can say as a little kid I didn't like how he treated Harley and took it as a bad person doing a bad thing that you shouldn't do. I'm not everyone but I can recall that as a childhood memory, I wasn't really raised in any hyper masculine or sexist way in the first place, my parents are libs but absolutely NOT bigots and would crush anything like that if I repeated it from school or TV. It's a bad character doing a bad thing, it does play it a bit comedic, and I do gotta lower the bar cause it was written by 1992 guys and there were some mindsets. I've reeatched the series a few times as an adult cause it's pretty good as well and my general view is....ehhhhhhhh, can't expect much better for the time, pretty sure they were trying to show it as negative cause kids wanna be batman and therefore not the Joker, but also it did have a positive effect on me but that was reinforced already...which makes me feel like they did try with it and teaching kids about how predatory relationships can happen with a softened blow can have its value. So, I'd call.it well intended, badly executed but still worked for me as a kid and the overall idea of soft peddling how to recognize abuse through a cartoon villain isn't the worst idea.
Any examples of scenes from barman tas of Joker being abusive being played for laughs? I'm sure they exist, not trying to challenge that, I'd just like a refresher on examples cause I'm basing most of this on memories.
This was way before villains were supposed to be "the cool guy" who gets all the awesome lines. People unironically cheered for Superman and Captain America back then. Villains used to be just...bad. Bad people who do bad things and suffer a bad end.
I thought the "Joker x Harley is the ideal relationship" thing came from post TAS stuff. Most of it was extremely edgy in a way the TAS stories never were. TAS was kind of a light noir for kids, but then the comics and other media picked up the Harley character and did what everyone was doing with comics in the 90s - Made it cringeworthy edgelord bullshit.
I legit haven't seen it for a while. And yeah, that's not great. aspirational and immitable I'd give an eh, it's certainly not good but also literally no one wanted to be the Joker back then. There's a different cultural tie with being the Joker pist Dark Knight. It probably shouldn't have been done but I don't really think it had any significant effect on society.
It doesn't have a totallizing brainwash machine direct 1:1 effect on people. Media isn't a adbreakers art piece brainwashing ray. It's a cultural overlay that effects different people differently and in the MACRO SCALE can be manipulative, the cultural stimuli you absorb outside of media has a greater effect on how you absorb media than the content of the media itself. Your observations aren't universal either. Interpretation of art is probably one of the most inrinsinctly individual things there is and that interpretation works in subtle tandem with media's intent whether intentional or not to create an individual perspective.which though unique to everyone contributes to a greater core culture. Cherrypicking this and that which you don't like or hasn't aged well is fairly meaningless without any observation of outside context or that a plurality of people simply didn't take things the way you think they did. It's being incredibly reductive to both media influence and individual human intelligence and awareness of when they're being hocked to. People aren't blank slates who only watch TV and learn from it, we don't live in Platos cave and why people are the way they are demands much more rigorous understanding than what shows they watched.
I recall feeling bad for Harley a lot. I don't recall sympathizing with Joker ever, but I do remember rooting for Harley and thinking Joker was a bad guy for how he treated her. This is all fuzzy thirty year old memories, but I remember Joker being genuinely cruel and mean, while Harley was mostly goofy and having fun. Joker was a sadist, Harley just didn't care about breaking the law and occaisionally hurting some people in a stylized cartoon way.
I really like how Harley's character has been developed, though I do miss the old clown suit. I'm sick of the grim dark batman and I'd really like to seem something more whimsical and goofy like the Adam Westbatman, Brave and the Bold animated series, or even just Tim Burton's dark gothic tragicomedy. Just lighten the mood and have some fun with the characters for once. Robbie's Harley Quinn has been a nice break from teh grimderp batman stuf of the last decade and change.
The only part of that entire series worth watching is in La Femme Nikita when "the cleaner" shows up at the embassy and shoots every mothafucka in the room.
For me the movie leon the professional takes the cake. It's got great action and performances but the movie is literally about the directors own affair with a pre-teen girl via Jean Reno and Natalie Portman. Ever since I learned this I had a hard time coming back to visit the film.
Jean Reno had to make his character mentally slow so the character just seemed aloof to the child’s flirtatious advances lol
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The misogyny is for sure but he is a bad guy who you're meant to dislike. Growing up with the show, I can say as a little kid I didn't like how he treated Harley and took it as a bad person doing a bad thing that you shouldn't do. I'm not everyone but I can recall that as a childhood memory, I wasn't really raised in any hyper masculine or sexist way in the first place, my parents are libs but absolutely NOT bigots and would crush anything like that if I repeated it from school or TV. It's a bad character doing a bad thing, it does play it a bit comedic, and I do gotta lower the bar cause it was written by 1992 guys and there were some mindsets. I've reeatched the series a few times as an adult cause it's pretty good as well and my general view is....ehhhhhhhh, can't expect much better for the time, pretty sure they were trying to show it as negative cause kids wanna be batman and therefore not the Joker, but also it did have a positive effect on me but that was reinforced already...which makes me feel like they did try with it and teaching kids about how predatory relationships can happen with a softened blow can have its value. So, I'd call.it well intended, badly executed but still worked for me as a kid and the overall idea of soft peddling how to recognize abuse through a cartoon villain isn't the worst idea.
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Any examples of scenes from barman tas of Joker being abusive being played for laughs? I'm sure they exist, not trying to challenge that, I'd just like a refresher on examples cause I'm basing most of this on memories.
This was way before villains were supposed to be "the cool guy" who gets all the awesome lines. People unironically cheered for Superman and Captain America back then. Villains used to be just...bad. Bad people who do bad things and suffer a bad end.
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I thought the "Joker x Harley is the ideal relationship" thing came from post TAS stuff. Most of it was extremely edgy in a way the TAS stories never were. TAS was kind of a light noir for kids, but then the comics and other media picked up the Harley character and did what everyone was doing with comics in the 90s - Made it cringeworthy edgelord bullshit.
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I legit haven't seen it for a while. And yeah, that's not great. aspirational and immitable I'd give an eh, it's certainly not good but also literally no one wanted to be the Joker back then. There's a different cultural tie with being the Joker pist Dark Knight. It probably shouldn't have been done but I don't really think it had any significant effect on society.
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It doesn't have a totallizing brainwash machine direct 1:1 effect on people. Media isn't a adbreakers art piece brainwashing ray. It's a cultural overlay that effects different people differently and in the MACRO SCALE can be manipulative, the cultural stimuli you absorb outside of media has a greater effect on how you absorb media than the content of the media itself. Your observations aren't universal either. Interpretation of art is probably one of the most inrinsinctly individual things there is and that interpretation works in subtle tandem with media's intent whether intentional or not to create an individual perspective.which though unique to everyone contributes to a greater core culture. Cherrypicking this and that which you don't like or hasn't aged well is fairly meaningless without any observation of outside context or that a plurality of people simply didn't take things the way you think they did. It's being incredibly reductive to both media influence and individual human intelligence and awareness of when they're being hocked to. People aren't blank slates who only watch TV and learn from it, we don't live in Platos cave and why people are the way they are demands much more rigorous understanding than what shows they watched.
Anecdote vs anecdote.
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Yes. Cause it did. Abusive creeps existed outside of batman fandom
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I recall feeling bad for Harley a lot. I don't recall sympathizing with Joker ever, but I do remember rooting for Harley and thinking Joker was a bad guy for how he treated her. This is all fuzzy thirty year old memories, but I remember Joker being genuinely cruel and mean, while Harley was mostly goofy and having fun. Joker was a sadist, Harley just didn't care about breaking the law and occaisionally hurting some people in a stylized cartoon way.
I really like how Harley's character has been developed, though I do miss the old clown suit. I'm sick of the grim dark batman and I'd really like to seem something more whimsical and goofy like the Adam Westbatman, Brave and the Bold animated series, or even just Tim Burton's dark gothic tragicomedy. Just lighten the mood and have some fun with the characters for once. Robbie's Harley Quinn has been a nice break from teh grimderp batman stuf of the last decade and change.
The only part of that entire series worth watching is in La Femme Nikita when "the cleaner" shows up at the embassy and shoots every mothafucka in the room.
Otherwise forget it.