![]() It's basically a bit of meta-referencing, which struck me as particularly cool. is Superman's opinion of the rest of us, a pointed caricature of what we, the noncriminal element, were really like. That fellow with the eyeglasses and the acne and the walk girls laughed at wasn't real, didn't exist, was a sacrificial disguise, an act of discreet martyrdom. The Green Hornet had to go through the fetishist fol-de-rol of donning costume, floppy hat, black mask, gas gun, menacing automobile, and insect sound effects before he was even ready to go out in the street.īut Superman had only to wake up in the morning to be Superman. "The Shadow had to cloud men's minds to be in business. It's basically a paraphrase of something Jules Feiffer wrote in THE GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES, a 60s-era critique/appreciation of the comics of the Golden Age. Jules Feiffer, who is about as awarded a creative person as a human being can behe was the first formal historian of comics with his book, The Great Comic Book Heroesis able to give first. ![]() ![]() But there's one bit I particularly loved- without spoiling anything, it's one of Bill's big speeches. Can't wait until I can buy them both on DVD and watch 'em back to back.Īnyhoo, everyone knows that in general, and in these films in particular, Quentin Tarantino does a lot of borrowing and a lot of pop culture referencing. ![]() ![]() Loved it overall, concludes the story while at the same time giving it some substance. ![]()
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