Entry #6-First Photo Journal

*This is something I just started. I sometimes browse pictures and save the ones I like. These pictures can beg anything from a beautiful woman to a fancy car to a powerful quote. I have decided to start a journal about each picture. Enjoy!*

The picture in question.                                     

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.

We'll see what Columbia thinks about that!