A Star Is Born is the fifth version of it. It doesn’t make it a bad movie.
It's called an archetype and it's an awesome way to show an interesting narrative and character study. This character is no different than a criminal character study in any other movie, he just happens to live in Gotham City and wear clown makeup. Its the oldest type of literary and now cinematic formula that is based on 12 common traits of people and how they divide into freedom, ego, social, and order ethos. You focus too much on the setting and name instead of the underlying mechanics of the story and you will miss out on some cool shit that is as deep as an Terrance Malick film without the pretentious boring stuff.
Now granted for every deconstructed comic book movie there are 5 mind-numbing action fests that are simple good vs evil, but you can't dismiss any story because of the facade if the mechanics are sound. I'd argue if they took out The Joker title and just made it a movie about a guy slowly going mad in modern society it would basically be a modern take on Taxi Driver.
Saw this pop-up in Netflix the other day, looking forward to watching it this weekend:
I watched it. My son is fascinated by flat earthers. He thinks they're hysterical. We had a lot of good laughs watching it.
It did totally destroy any notion I had of white supremacy, lotta white faces in a flat earth convention crowd.
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