Last week, while rewatching The Third Man, the Siren was immediately struck by the thematic and visual consonance between Carol Reed's masterpiece and this great neo-noir.
Specifically, the use of the urban environment in the cinematography, with modern-day Gotham City hearkening back to the ruins of post-war Vienna, and the magnetic Joker as the doppelganger for the amoral but not uncharming Harry Lime.
Oh god. Just kidding.
The Siren couldn't keep that up if she tried.
Real post tomorrow.
Real post tomorrow.
18 comments:
Jesus fuck! Don't ever do that again! I barely got my heart re-started! :-O
I got suckered by that one, although I should have known better! Thanks for the much-needed April Fool's laugh, Siren. Just came back from "A Separation" and needed some jocularity...
Some academic has already done this. Trust me.
"Et tu, Siren?" I thought. Then from above came the voice of sanity: "No, it isn't possible!!!" (Lee J. Cobb, 12 Angry Men). And so it wasn't.
All things April 1st are suspect.
hee hee hee!
I read this on April 2nd. Needless to say I fell for it. lol
You are too, too funny.
I didn't even think of it being April Fools Day; I was just reeling from the knowledge you'd seen The Dark Knight...
The perfect lampoon of gassy film exegesis.
I just saw this now and was duped. :D I was so excited because I thought you were writing about "The Dark Knight"...and then came all the white space....:(
You can have Dark Knight I prefer "Deep Night"
Well, if it had been true, you'd have had to talk about this: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=14529 (And, yes; it's not real.)
Six or seven seconds of "Siren: WTF?!?" Oh, my heart...
Ha! That was a good one. I thought I was on the wrong blog for a minute.
It was sufficiently believable that it made me look at the date it was posted to confirm it was indeed a gag... something I can't say any other cinephilic 4/1 gag got me to do.
Well played.
Ha, for a second, I thought you actually believed that piece of garbage The Third Man was comparable to the masterpiece The Dark Knight. Good one. Now get back to guessing about the plot of the next Dark Knight movie! No one posts better pieces on comic book adaptations than you.
Hee-hee.
Oh thank god. Getting suckered like this is the price I pay for reading April 1st posts days later.
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