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dunkelzahn · 4 days ago
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I'd like to point out that the majority of Batman's (super)villains usually live in movies.
Westman: The Penguin, Joker, Riddler, and Catwoman all live, naturally (given this is the Silver Age) Burtman: The Joker dies, the Penguin dies, the Catwoman survives. Schuman: Riddler lives, Two-Face dies, Poison Ivy Lives, Mr. Freeze lives. Nolman: Ra's dies, Scarecrow lives, Joker lives, Two-Face dies, Bane dies, Talia dies. Reeveman: Penguin lives, Riddler lives.
Ten deaths to seven. Not overwhelming, but… (Also, I'm not counting Bane over in Batman and Robin b/c he was basically just a mook they slapped a familiar name onto. And Catwoman wasn't exactly a villain in the Nolan-verse.) In any case, compared to, say, Spider-Man, he's got a pretty solid ratio of villains who survive! If we want to include animated movies, the living score goes up even higher.
I think it’s interesting, considering how most live-action superhero adaptations kill off the villains after their debut, that both The Batman and The Penguin end with the villains not just living, but set up to return and somehow cause Even Bigger Problems down the line. Is this just because it’s the first Batman film adaptation that’s a capital-F Franchise, so the writers need the villains to stick around long-term, or is something else going on?
Almost entirely comes down to the fact that The Batman was not meant to be Batman's origin story - by Reeves' own admission, it was the origin story of the Rogues Gallery. They got the Cloverfield and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes guy and he did a story about the boots-on-the-ground gritty perspective on larger-than-life terrors emerging from the ruins and failings of human civilization, taking the struggles and wars and laborious processes that others shy away from and putting them front in center. It's just this time, instead of kaijus and parasites attacking and destroying the city, instead of apes emerging as the Mad Max warlords rising from the ashes to fight over the world, we have Batman villains in that role instead.
To me, that was actually the conception - if we weren't going to do a Batman origin story, but we were going to do it in the early years, I thought well, in the comics, the rogues gallery characters often are creating their alter egos in response to the fact that a masked vigilante shows up in Gotham called the Batman.
And so I thought, oh well, what we could do is see all of the rogue's gallery characters in their origins, like Selina Kyle before she's Catwoman, and that we could go into, as we're looking for a suspect, we could go to a nightclub, a nightclub could be the Iceberg Lounge and we could see a pre-kingpin Oz, and we could see, you know, a Riddler who is declaring himself the Riddler sort of because there's a Batman. And so all of that was sort of built into the conception. - Matt Reeves
It's far from the first Batman film adaptation to be a capital-F Franchise, even if that aspect was there - Reeves initially pitched the movie as an HBO series, and throughout production pitched additional show ideas such as an Arkham show or a Gotham PD show, The Penguin being the only one that survived as far as we know. This pulls off an origin from the Rogues Gallery better than every other Batman media ever made, and there's a couple of reasons why it does so and why the villains get to take center stage here:
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Part of the difference between the way Nolan tackled realistic Batman, and the way Reeves tackles realistic Batman, is that Nolan needs realism to explain Batman, and Reeves needs realism entirely in the service of making Batman weirder. Pattison Batman is the weirdest Bruce ever put on film almost entirely because he lives in our world while still being Batman in every way that counts - Keaton Bats slept upside down in a cave, but he lived in a Tim Burton world. Adam West Bats is weird, but everybody is like that or even weirder than he is, he is the comedic straightman to everyone else. And where as Nolan needs Batman to be the thing that makes sense, Reeves needs Batman to be the thing that doesn’t make sense.
Nolan wanted weird difficult irreducible villains opposite a logical pragmatically sensible Batman, and Reeves wants exactly the opposite. For Nolan, even besides the Joker who was defined entirely around the lack of a real explanation for him, you have his take on Two-Face, Bane, the Al Ghuls, characters that don't demand that much reasoning or explanation because they can act and exist in ways that defy logic, while Batman's the guy who has to hold the center of logic and reason. Where as here, Pattison Batman is the most interesting and complicated and larger-than-life figure this world is dealing with in much the same way that Ledger Joker was for his movie, and everyone else is in the position of starting out and having to deal with Batman and the paradigm shift he brings - nobody else in the movie is quite the character they were supposed to be, that's something they're all growing into in response to their nightmare city and what this titanic freak in armor represents to them.
Even The Riddler is ultimately explainable, human, reducible to his tantrums and vulnerabilities, even without you knowing in-depth his character and backstory that would be elaborated for Dano's Year One. Even The Penguin - he may be larger-than-life, he may be unexplainable on some level, but we know all too well all of his failings and feelings and life story and all the cracks in his persona that he killed Victor to try and bury. But Batman? Next to everyone else, he is still an anomaly, he is just Like That, even to his own detriment and that of the city, and he learns that he must apply being Like That to something better.
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Reeves is not interested in doing "Batman vs [X]" movies, the movies are going to be focused on Batman's arc first and foremost, which means the villains will never really take them over the way they've usually done - this is a world where it's the villains who react to Batman, not the other way around. This frees them from the burden of having to exist in direct relation to how much they can directly menace Batman, and it makes it so that these are characters that can carry their own spin-offs, which is probably a lot easier for WB to work with because these are spin-offs that they don't really have to get Pattison to show up for, but they can construct in ways that don't even need Batman to be physically there. Even after The Penguin, they might not have to do that Smallville/Gotham song-and-dance of teasing a main character who'll never get to be here, there are a lot of other things happening in Reeves' Gotham besides the existence of Batman, even if the existence of Batman has changed all of them. So structurally speaking this series has a ton of room for reocurring villains, and building it has been one of their top priorities. In fact, this ONLY gets to do so because the movie already laid out the entire groundwork for them and how it all ties together.
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See, the way Batman stories do the rise of a Rogues Gallery and how it affects the city and therefore Batman always follows a sort of a 7-step program:
Gotham City is ruled by crime, crime that takes away the Waynes (Falcone / Carl Grissom (89) / Falcone backed by the League (Nolan) / the Falcone-Hill-Wayne triumvirate (Telltale) / Gotham S1 and first-half of S2)
Crime begats Batman, who beats Crime
Crime + Batman = Weird Crime (Jack Napier becomes Joker after an encounter with Batman (89) / "we still haven't picked up Crane and those other Arkham inmates btw check out this weird card" (Nolan) / Black Mask and the international assassins + Joker's rise (Arkham) / Children of Arkham (Telltale) / the Indian Hill experiments and patients (Gotham)
Weird Crime Replaces Crime (The Long Halloween / Joker takes over the mob (89) / the mob is so impressed by the pencil trick they give Joker all the money (Nolan) / Joker literally replaces Black Mask in the process of becoming Batman's main enemy (Arkham) / Penguin assassinates Mayor Hill and the Children enter a war with Mayor Dent (Telltale) / Indian Hill breakout and Maniax cult and etc (Gotham)
Weird Crime is a Rogues Gallery now (Penguin and Catwoman and Max Shreck in the sequel (Burton) / Joker and Two-Face become separate problems, Bane + Talia + Crane + Catwoman in the sequel (Nolan) / after Origins a whole asylum full of them (Arkham) / Riddler + The Pact and John becoming Joker proper (Telltale) / Gotham S3 with Tetch and Riddler and the Legion of Horribles
The city is changed by the new paradigm
Batman responds / expands or retracts in response to this change
(4 and 5 don't necessarily always happen one before the other, mind you, frequently you do have a Weird Crime Rogues Gallery before Weird Crime replaces Crime at the head of the table)
And you can apply this to most other Batman stories that don't automatically start and stay at level 5. But where as all of these have to stretch the process across sequels and continuations, The Batman is the first Batman work that gets to do all 7 of them in one row. It gets 1 and 2 done offscreen before the opening act and shown to us how they happened throughout the movie's reveals, 3-4-5-6 comprise the Riddler's plot + the other United Underworld members roped into it, and it ends with 7. Even the Batmanless spin-offs follow the process: The Riddler: Year One covers Eddie's perspective on 1-2 as he enters stage 3 and prepares it for the movie, and The Penguin covers 4-5-6, leaving us waiting for Bruce's response back to stage 7 where The Batman ended.
And up until The Batman, the process behind the creation of a Rogues Gallery had never really been much of a process - comics that go into the transition like Long Halloween/Dark Victory just show the fall of Carmine Falcone -> the freaks waiting in the wings causing it or happening immediately after. Gotham tries to work that escalation gradually and it starts relatively "normal", but it's always dancing around the premise and the central black hole and the building blocks don't have anything to do with each other - the gang wars and Penguin have nothing to do with Bruce investigating a conspiracy, which has little to do with Gordon and Bullock investigating weird serial killers who keep escalating, and then eventually we get that Hugo Strange was building freaks in his basement at the orders of the Court/Ra's the whole time until they all just escape. You can piece together how Batman works that aren't about this transition ultimately touch on most of those 7 stages and have their own version of it as soon as they introduce Gotham City in a pre-Batman/pre-villain state, but the connections are always rather tenuous and not necessarily connected to each other (and it's fine, y'know, not everything in a story always has to come from the same source).
But everything in The Batman follows a long chain of dominos that had to happen for this system to become the way it needs to be for Batman villains to emerge. Everything started in that one night Thomas Waynes saved Carmine Falcone, everything started from that ensuing connection and Thomas' failures leading to a city ruled by mobsters for 20 years and the sheer level of rot and corruption and human misery that creates and justifies the existence of Batman, and thus The Riddler in his example. Everything we get in The Penguin is the result of this paradigm shift and total civic collapse, showing the destruction of Carmine's empire as well as his legacies torched and mutated by Sofia and Oz respectively. Everything is still connected. The United Underworld guys featured in the movie live and dwell in entirely separate spaces and represent entirely different things, and they're still all connected in the same chain of dominoes, which allows them to expand and cover entirely separate narrative real estate while still giving it all cohesion.
The movie never has to specifically establish a system full of supervillains or made for them, it has to establish a system so utterly fucked and dominated by Falcone, so utterly failed by every institution and body of government and system imaginable, that it creates Batman, and the minute Batman arrives and survives long enough to be a third power / a fifth state, people in his wake trying to respond to him or do the same things he does, as a response to the same afflictions he faced and to his example or influence, are the only logical thing. Without needing to literally show the other rogues waiting in the wings, The Batman established an entire world of possibility just by very smartly using the 4 big ones + Carmine and showing why and how this regular American city becomes a place where supervillains bombing city blocks and running for political office can become a facet of daily life. Joker, Penguin, Catwoman and Riddler - positioned as separate from each other as possible to show the ways in which this is, and maybe always has been, spreading fast out of Batman's control.
And now with The Penguin, reinforcing the chokehold of crime in the city in it's old ways as well as the corrupt mutated new ones brought on by our boy, as well as a new Batman Villain (possibly two, if Eve Karlo ever gets her hands on suspicious make-up) arriving from Penguin's side of things so that it's not just Batman who has a Rogues Gallery to deal with, not just Batman who has terrific enemies waiting in the wings for a chance to enact their own forms of justice and revenge, no, that's just what life is like in Gotham now, forever.
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lioninsunheart · 5 years ago
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"As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence.  A balance is struck.  Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together to provide nurturance." -  Jim Nollman, Why We Garden, The Sentient Garden  
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gusdlf0928 · 7 years ago
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#B형계의이단아 제 입맛에 면발은 조금 아쉬웠지만 합리적인 가격에(?) 시원하고 뽀얀 국물의 해물라면을 맛볼 수 있는 곳 웨이팅은 기본이지만 회전이 빠른편~ 주차장은 없으니🙅🏻‍♂️ 가까운 공터를 이용하세요~ 바로 앞에서는 멋진 바다를 만나보실 수도 있고🌊 그 이름도 유명한 봄날과 몽상드애월도 바로 옆에 있습니다😁 📸 #Hero5Session X_E3 #XF16mm * * * 🎒 #내꿈은여행가🤙🏻 🏷 #JEJUtrip #제주여행 ______________________________ #GoPro #RemovuS1 #Nolman #Nolmancom #Seafoodramen #고프로 #고프로라이프 #리모뷰S1 #애월 #놀맨 #놀맨라면 #해물라면 #맛스타그램(놀맨에서)
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maxipax1995-blog · 7 years ago
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I was tagged by @elphabaofneverland to answer these questions, so here I go!
rules: answer these 85 questions and tag 20 people
— What was your last…
1. Drink: Cola Zero
2. Phone call: Today, with my girlfriend when she had her job interview
3. Text message: my girlfriend
4. Song you listened to: City Of Stars - La la land
5. Time you cried: Yesterday
__ Have you ever…
6. Dated someone twice: no
7. Kissed someone and regretted it: no
8. Been cheated on: yes
9. Lost someone special: my grandfather
10. Been depressed: no
11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: yes
— Fave colours
12. Blue
13. Purple
14. Pastel colors
— in the last year have you…
15. Made new friends: Yes
16. Fallen out of love: No
17. Laughed until you cried: Definitely
18. Found out someone was talking about you: nah, not that interesting
19. Met someone who changed you: yes, my girlfriend
20. Found out who your friends are: Yep
21. Kissed someone on your facebook friends list: Only my girlfriend
— General
22. How many of your facebook friends do you know irl: almost all of them
23. Do you have any pets: No
24. Do you want to change your name: Nah
25. What did you do for your last birthday: Going out for dinner
26. What time did you wake up today: 9:00
27. What were you doing at midnight last night: talking to my girlfriend
28. What is something you can’t wait for: graduating!
30. What are you listening to right now: Watch what happens - Kara Lindsay
31. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: No
32. Something that’s getting on your nerves: my thesis
33. Most visited website: StackOverflow
34. Hair colour: dark blonde/light brown
35. Long or short hair: Short
36. Do you have a crush on someone: my girlfriend ;)
37. What do you like about yourself: I can play the guitar
38. Want any piercings: nope
39. Blood type: O-
40. Nicknames: Nolmans, Nolly
41. Relationship status: happily in love
42. Sign: Taurus
43. Pronouns: he/him
44. Fave tv show: at the moment The Good Doctor
45. Tattoos: nope
46. Right or left handed: left
47: Ever had surgery: Yes, wisdom-teeth
48. Piercings: No way
49. Sport: Haha, you’re kidding right?
50. Vacation: going to the Netherlands and Austria this summer
51. Trainers: Have them, never wear them
— More general
52. Eating: not atm, but I love sushi
53. Drinking: Cola
54. I’m about to watch: nothing
55. Waiting for: my food
56. Want: to graduate and be free!
57. Get married: heck yeah
58. Career: project leader
— Which is better
59. Hugs or kisses: hugs while kissing?
60. Lips or eyes: eyes
61. Shorter or taller: taller
62. Older or younger: older
63. Nice arms or stomach: arms
64. Hookup or relationships: relationships ftw
65. Troublemaker or hesitant: hesitant
— Have you ever
66. Kissed a stranger: No
67. Drank hard liquor: yeah
68.Turned someone down: No
69. Sex on first date: No
70: Broken someone’s heart: Yeah
71. Had your heart broken: Yes
72. Been arrested: no
73. Cried when someone died: yes
74. Fallen for a friend: no
— Do you believe in
75. Yourself: sometimes
76. Miracles: yeah
77. Love at first sight: Definitely
78. Santa Claus: No
79. Angels: yes
— Misc
80. Eye colour: Brown
81. Best friends name: Bram
82. Favourite movie: The greatest showman
83. Favourite actor: Hugh Jackman
84. Favourite cartoon: Tom and Jerry
85. Favourite teacher’s name: i don’t really have one
I don’t know 20 people on tumblr, so none (:
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ahgaru · 7 years ago
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DAY6 Throwback Threads Masterlist (@kohiiby)
NOT ALL EVENTS/SCHEDS; NO AIRPORT PHOTOS
[ JANUARY ]
160123 //  Nolman Project Vol. 3
[ JULY ]
160719 // ASC
160721 // Sakura Kiss Radio; Sungjin Young K Dowoon
160724 // DAY6 SSMF
150731 // FFClub Gig (The Legendary Day)
[ AUGUST ]
160802 // ASC - Brian Special MC
160804 // KBS CoolFM Kiss The Radio; Jae Young K Dowoon
160807 // Day6; JYP Nation
150808 // Busan Rock Festival
160819 // Dream Concert in Bangkok Press Con & Tom n Toms Event
150820 // Day6; Gwangsan Podcast Concert
160820 // DAY6 Live Concert Dream in Bangkok
160827 // Day6 Summer Parade
[ SEPTEMBER ]
150905 // Day6 Someday Festival
150906 // Day6 Debut Showcase
150911 // Day6 Bright Night at Rolling Hall
150913 // Day6 Hongdae Busking Live
150916 // Day6 Shinchon Fansign
150917 // Day6; C & You Festival and MBC Radio
150919 // Day6; SaturdayBusking & Incheon Fansign
150920 // Day6; Melody Forest Camp
150923 // Day6; Yeouido Fansign
150925 // Day6; KBS CoolFM Super Junior's Kiss The Radio
150925 // Day6; Live Club Day @ Hongdae
150929 // Day6 supporting Got7′s Comeback: Got7 MAD: If You Do
[ OCTOBER ]
151001 // Day6; MBC Radio Starry Night
161002 // Day6; Hong Kong National Day Youth Festival
151004 // Day6; Zandari Festa
151007 // Day6; Hankuk Univ Mid Autumn Festival
151010 // Day6 Instagram Updates
161017 // Sungjin and Wonpil on KBS HappyFM
151018 // Day6 showcase in Taiwan
151027 // Day6 @ Mystic Openrun & MBC 2 O'clock Date
151031 // Day6; Halloween Rock Day GOGOS2
UPDATING FROM TIME TO TIME
[[ OTHER THREADS MASTERLIST ]]
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groningsnieuws · 4 years ago
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Deze speelgoedketen opent binnenkort een énorme winkel in <b>Groningen</b>
Say what?! “Het wordt een winkel vol beleving en fantasie”, vertelt Koen Nolmans, CEO van de speelgoedketen. “We hebben bewust voor Groningen ... meer https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://indebuurt.nl/groningen/nieuws/nieuw-in/deze-speelgoedketen-opent-binnenkort-een-enorme-winkel-in-groningen~90279/&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGzdiZTM2OTAwNTFkODk0MDk6bmw6bmw6Tkw6Ug&usg=AFQjCNE9SMgVyCY8K7kmBewII9GlY4e3yA
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gembertaart · 5 years ago
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Rob Nolmans
Ik had een gesprek met 75 jarige automonteur Rob Nolmans van het bedrijf ‘Alles Op Z’n Frans’. Hij zit al 60 jaar in het vak en staat er bekend om dat hij niet alles op legale wijze doet. Toch is hij verbazingwekkend slim en heeft hij vroeger nog HTS gedaan. 
Eerst hebben we ‘t samen gehad over de vergelijking tussen de auto en het lichaam.
Autoherstel is eigenlijk hetzelfde als plastische chirurgie.
Een autosloop is als een patholoog.
Voeten zijn wielen.
Longen zijn de luchtfilter.
Knieën zijn stuurkogels.
Het hart is de motor.
Benzine is hetzelfde als bloed.
Metaal is als de huid: het wordt gelast in plaats van gehecht.
De versnellingsbak lijkt op de heupen.
De hersenen van de mens zijn als elektronica voor de auto.
De cillinderkleppen zijn hartkleppen.  
Daarna hadden we ‘t over de overeenkomsten tussen de werkwijze van een chirurg en een automonteur.
Zowel een automonteur als een chirurg stellen eerst een diagnose bij een patiënt. Een chirurg doet hiervoor onderzoek, maar een automonteur gaat proefrijden en onderzoekt de auto. Voordat ze dit doen hebben ze vaak een introductiegesprek met hun klant. In een geval van nood met de auto kan ten alle tijden de ANWB worden gebeld, terwijl er voor zieke mensen altijd de 112 gebeld kan worden.
Het verschil wat de automonteur benoemde was dat automonteurs bijna nooit een bedankje krijgen voor het werk wat ze doen. Daarnaast krijgen ze een stuk minder betaald dan een chirurg. 
Dit zijn een aantal gereedschappen waar hij gebruik van maakt:
• schroevendraaiers
• steekringsleutel
• tangen (waterpomptang, punt-tang)
• diagnose-apparatuur 
• uitlijnapparatuur
• compressiemeter (meet de kracht van een cillinder)
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pussiel · 6 years ago
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maybe one of these days when i have more energy i’ll do some sort of write up about the murders of israel nolman, danny katz and a few others boys whose names escape me because it’s such a wild story!! a genuinely tragic case of police coercion against various marginalized populations likely letting a serial killer roam free
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brainstem2 · 9 years ago
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#nolman #aewol #handam #jeju #korea #iPhone5S (놀맨에서)
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g-need · 9 years ago
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#제주도 #제주 #애월읍 #애월 #놀맨 #해물라면 #라면 #nolman #먹스타그램 #나홀로그램 #여행 #여행스타그램 (놀맨에서)
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groningsnieuws · 4 years ago
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ToyChamp opent 31ste vestiging in <b>Groningen</b>
“Groningen heeft een enorm achterland”, zegt CEO Koen Nolmans. Met de nieuwe winkel, de 22ste in Nederland, bereikt de keten naar eigen zeggen ... meer https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.retaildetail.nl/nl/news/algemeen/toychamp-opent-31ste-vestiging-groningen&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGzdiZTM2OTAwNTFkODk0MDk6bmw6bmw6Tkw6Ug&usg=AFQjCNHuS2eC-Nt9XlbuYFP9WX3rJB2sFg
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