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bada wrote:I typically have zero issue with changing a superheroes ethnicity or gender but Bruce Wayne is a blue blood elite who's families wealth dates back well over a hundred years to the very beginnings of Gotham. He's white. Could be a woman though.
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bada wrote:I typically have zero issue with changing a superheroes ethnicity or gender but Bruce Wayne is a blue blood elite who's families wealth dates back well over a hundred years to the very beginnings of Gotham. He's white.
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You could make Bruce's mom black. Problem solved
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The Argonaut wrote:You could make Bruce's mom black. Problem solved

lol Rich dudes dont marry black chicks.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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The Argonaut wrote:You could make Bruce's mom black. Problem solved

She's old money too. You could change that of course. Bottom line you'd have to fundamentally change Bruce's back story to swap his ethnicity. He really is a uniquely white character. It would be like making Black Panther white. He's from a long line of African Kings. Batman's successor could be black. You could make Terry McGinnis black or even Damien Wayne or Dick Grayson.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Yeah that could work.
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I was thinking something such as: young African American kid witnesses parents killed by bad cop during routine traffic stop. He then lives through childhood in foster care, in and out of trouble. He's eventually taken in by one of Gotham's oldest, loneliest magnates as some kind of late-life PR move. Kid takes a liking to old man, gets adopted, learns and travels and inherits his fortune after he suspiciously dies on a business trip.

Then he falls in hole and gets lifted out by bats.

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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:Tom Cruise would make a better Joker. Dat laugh.
Maybe they should cast him as both Batman AND Joker. That would be pretty fucking rad.
They should cast brad pitt and edward norton and just make it the sequel to fight club
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If Batman was recast as black or a woman the ensuring internet meltdown would be far more compelling than the movie could EVER hope to be
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stip wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:Tom Cruise would make a better Joker. Dat laugh.
Maybe they should cast him as both Batman AND Joker. That would be pretty fucking rad.
They should cast brad pitt and edward norton and just make it the sequel to fight club
Who would be Batman?
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Is Affleck officially out?
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stip wrote:If Batman was recast as black or a woman the ensuring internet meltdown would be far more compelling than the movie could EVER hope to be
All the more reason for DC to do it.
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wease wrote:
stip wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:Tom Cruise would make a better Joker. Dat laugh.
Maybe they should cast him as both Batman AND Joker. That would be pretty fucking rad.
They should cast brad pitt and edward norton and just make it the sequel to fight club
Who would be Batman?
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stip wrote:
wease wrote:
stip wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:Tom Cruise would make a better Joker. Dat laugh.
Maybe they should cast him as both Batman AND Joker. That would be pretty fucking rad.
They should cast brad pitt and edward norton and just make it the sequel to fight club
Who would be Batman?
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That I should be Batman.
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