Harley Quinn is never a serious character, she became popular because of her dark comedic style plus some sexual attraction.
Even though her origin had some potential, it was not really developed other than a few independent comic issues.
Harley Quinn is never a serious character, she became popular because of her dark comedic style plus some sexual attraction.
Even though her origin had some potential, it was not really developed other than a few independent comic issues.
Please, look Clyde, that term is OLD, I'm 44 hence I've been cognizant of the term since the 90s. I know what it means too, withought following a goddamned link to Merriam-Webster. I knew what it was before they did. I know and realize it's not an all-encompassing term just because whatever you want to pin the shit on something speaking to black experience. Or that the mere instance of an issue or two in the larger context of a movie largely starring black folks. That's not how it works. You don't boil down something that big under an over simplistic label like that.
By that train of thought it's merely a 'Black' movie then. Only actual thing that movie spoke to was selling action figures and T-Shirts using Marvel IP. A subtext to a part of a films screenplay does not make the film deserving of some blanket label. By that goofy ass logic Coming to America was woke because it had overtones of the relationships and incongruence between African-American's and Africans right? Conbread and Earl was 'woke', right? Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was SUPERWOKE according you then right?
Being awake is a subset of thought, an awareness, just like 'a Plantation mentality' is a subset of thought. Being awake was a reaction to the decades worth of minimization over the history of black people in America. Martin Luther King wasn't the only Black historical figure contrary to most of what was taught in the history of our public schools. I know what I'm talking about, so no thanks.
Beefing up the old home security, huh?You bet yer ass.
Beefing up the old home security, huh?You bet yer ass.
Of course it's bad.
Demonize a certain group is not objective, and offensive to the group of audience. It's also very likely to make the characters very bland/shallow because of such theme. The changes were also made for such purpose.
A person is good because he/she is good, not because his/her gender/sexuality/race.
An interesting discussion on the tactility of the movie, and especially its fight scenes, that I found over on Youtube (it's not all a festering hellhole over there):
«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])
I've seen complaints that all the men in the film were D-Bags. But these complaints also come from the type of people who complained because Harley the protagonist blew up Ace Chemicals hence probably poisoning hundreds if not thousands of Gothamites and thus she's really is an awful character. They conveniently ignore that in 1989 Batman blew up Axis Chemicals but that was ok.
Last edited by Slowpokeking; 03-10-2020 at 03:44 PM.