Thursday, July 19, 2012
Big Hollywood's John Nolte on The Dark Knight
Posted on 10:00 PM by Unknown
""The Dark Knight" was an obvious thank you to George W. Bush for agreeing to take the slings and arrows required to fight against an evil that "just wants to watch the world burn."" Those are the words of John Nolte from Big Hollywood, the site Andrew Breibart spearheaded back in late 2008 around the time Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. Nolte willfully ignores that Bruce Wayne's parents were wealthy liberals and that Bruce used his private proceeds from their deaths to fight public ills without profit. Bush was a federally appointed/then elected politician who used public funds to fight matters that were partially private (in Bush's words, Saddam Hussein "tried to kill my dad"). And, last time I checked Heath Ledger's accent in Knight was American (aka making The Joker a domestic terrorist). This isn't to make the argument that The Dark Knight was some kind of liberal manifesto. It certainly was not. But, it was much more complicated than Nolte's perception that it was a "thank you to George W. Bush." Just a little something to chew on, Mr. Nolte.
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