‘The Batman Complex’ Is My Favorite Movie Never Made
The Internet is a magical place, evidence #6930875379046c —
Themanbatman is one of those glorious online fan producers dedicated to “visual creative writing” by chopping up other movies and media to create new narratives. As the name suggests, many of them are in some way related to Batman. In February, “The Batman Complex - Teaser Trailer” hit YouTube, and now the full-length trailer has started making the rounds.
“The Batman Complex” reorganizes several Christopher Nolan films (plus a few other movies on Christian Bale’s resume) and ends up with this perfect Megazord psychodrama experience. If this had been a real full-length feature film, then “The Batman Complex” would be the only movie I’d ever watch for the rest of my life, forever and ever, amen.
Inception in Real-Time
Obviously November was a black hole of time-consuming fail (for this site. For my other work, it was extremely productive). Since Inception is on DVD & Blu-Ray today, I figured it was only fair to embed the real-time version of the dream levels an editor posted to YouTube.
It doesn’t all match up perfectly, but it’s still impressive to see how much does. Christopher Nolan should throw some cash at this dude, because it also put me in the right mood to watch that movie again. Where’s a Best Buy when you need one?
[via jessa sue, via EW PopWatch.]
Rick Slusher Wins ‘Inception’ Infographic Challenge
Eventually, all the Inception fervor on the Internet will die down and so will my interest. For now, we have this awesome infographic for the movie. Co.Design issued a challenge for graphic designers everywhere to create a graphic that would best explain the movie’s dream levels. New York-based designer Rick Slusher won with this compelling, clean graphic that shows each level and uses designated colors for each character to fill in the levels and track the dreamer for each one.
Granted, this infographic assumes every player makes it out of the dream, so if you’re one of those fancy-thinking naysayers, your version of what happened may not be represented.
‘Inebriation’ - Inception Parody Trailer
Atomic Productions released a pretty great Inception parody trailer. Cleverly re-contextualizing all the most quote-worthy lines from the original film for ‘Inebriation’ deserves an embed.
“Never drink with the same people twice. Always party with new friends!”
[via Reddit.]
Hans Zimmer’s Thematic Scoring For ‘Inception’
This video points out the way Edith Piaf’s “Non, je ne regrette rien” is not only used as a key plot element for Inception. It’s also the song Hans Zimmer uses as a foundation for the entire score.
I continue to think that anything dramatic he’s scored since The Dark Knight takes from that at least a little, but the Inception score is still fantastically captivating and a great display of Zimmer’s tendency to use music for enhancing narrative detail.
The twisted electric violin sound to represent The Joker, for instance, will stick with me always:
Re-Cut Trailer: ‘Toy Story 3’ vs ‘Inception’
This doesn’t satisfy quite as much as the Toy Story 2 vs. The Dark Knight re-cut trailer, but it’s still pretty entertaining. Obviously what we should learn from this is that Christopher Nolan and Pixar always go hand-in-hand, in some bizarre way.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Play The Riddler in Batman 3?
(Fact: the picture illustrates nothing except for how Joseph Gordon-Levitt is beautiful, which is a given. Behold.)
Now that Inception is out, the media’s focusing its attention on Christopher Nolan’s next venture — Batman 3. Although Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s agents have denied it thus far, there are still some persistent rumors floating around that Nolan’s interested in JGL playing The Riddler in the next Batman installment.
Would this be a good idea? That’s hard to tell without other details about the script. Whether or not the Riddler casting comes to pass, though, I do now know that I won’t be completely satisfied unless JGL makes an appearance somewhere in that movie. He was excellent in Inception, and there’s no doubt that he could keep up with Nolan’s darker look at characters in Gotham City.
[via Paste Magazine]
