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This picture is simply the perfect summary
of the Dark Knight Trilogy. Let me just say this straight up: I am a comic book
lover. Not fan. Lover.
I never realized though how much I loved
Batman in particular until I saw Rises which completely blew my freaking mind
away. Funny story about the first time I saw it; the night before it I was
drinking with some good friends of mine and things got a bit out of hand. I got
poisoning and threw up till like 2PM the next day.
As it would magnificently happen, we had a
field trip scheduled for New York the next day. So while I was puking my guts
out, my friends were having the time of their lives in Times Square. Sucks
balls, eh? That's what I thought.
Alas! This voice in me refused to let that
make my day a complete waste. That morning I had completely forgotten that
Rises had came out a few days before so I decide to go see it as (like any
other normal human being) was dying to see it.
I literally could not stop thinking about
it for the rest of the day. That movie blew my brain away completely! I
remember actually jumping in my seat (not moving in an upwards motion but
actually freaking jumping) from the excitement. It got me thinking so much that
for the following weeks, I couldn't stop thinking about it again and again.
As I walk into a book store around two
weeks later, I find a big-ass book called "The Art and Making of the Dark
Knight Trilogy". Usually when I'm buying things, I check the price tag and
determine if that is a logical price to pay or not before the purchase. This
was an extremely rare occasion in which I just looked, confirmed I had the
money and bought it without a second thought.
As soon as I was home, I started reading
it. It gave insight into how and why the trilogy was made into what it was and
it made me love it even more. The next day, I watched The Dark Knight. This
time, I actually focused on the themes and ideas the book had mentioned while
watching the movie and was amazed by it even further (and that says a lot cause
I had always been blown away by it).
Not long after that, I watched Batman
Begins for the first time in years and found countless things I had never
noticed before like the prevalence of fear as weapon, tool and philosophy.
Watching the three movies backwards made me realize so much about how both the
character and the genre have actually impacted me extensively throughout my
life. In fact, I was so blown away (yes this is the third time I use the phrase
because it was so fucking amazing!) that I decided I would write my college
essay on Batman and how he has impacted me.
