Mr. Freeze: Entertainment Postage

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When I first saw "The Phantom of the Opera" (Gaston Leroux), I fell in love with the medium of entertainment.


You have a story of a pseudo-madman so obsessed with self-image and the haunting quality of unrequited love of a woman that he becomes a society spook.

Women can make men do almost anything, and great works of history-extracted literature such as "The Illiad" (Homer) speak to this.


This is why the strange Mr. Freeze (DC Comics) is such a potent adversary of Batman and such a symbolic villain in Gotham's world of the criminally insane.

Mr. Freeze was a respected scientist until a freak accident led to a catastrophic alteration for him and his wife. Pathetically dependent on cold temperature to keep his vital systems smooth, Mr. Freeze works like a mad scientist on a cure for his beloved wife while exacting maniacal vengeance on a society he deems responsible for the terrible condition of his wife.

Mr. Freeze haunts Gotham and fans of Batman. Gotham is a place of brooding and urban shadows, and as Batman scrambles to maintain justice and sanity, bizarre demons such as Mr. Freeze rise to power to terrorize Gotham and unnerve even Batman's sense of mental satisfaction.

Mr. Freeze serves as an emblem of the age-old theme of haunted vengeance and is an art symbol of our modern age of urbanization-catalyzed values paranoia.

Mr. Freeze is Gotham's ultimate 'Phantom of the Opera,' reminding people of the eeriness of desperation and the dangers of vigilantism, which is why perhaps he often seems more romantic and sentimental than the valiant Batman.

I wish an eccentric film-maker such as Alfred Hitchcock made an offbeat Batman film, perhaps starring an unusual actor such as Montgomery Clift as Batman and a flip-side offbeat actor such as Charles Bronson as Mr. Freeze.

If our society was more confident about discussions regarding criminal insanity and the terror it produces, we would see more vital society Batman mementos such as Mr. Freeze postage stamps.







The Phantom of the Opera



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[Abishai100]

When we think about how New York City was shocked by the events of 9/11, we may imagine that America needs its own version of Scotland Yard.

Scotland Yard provided the people of London a way to reimagine humanity managing the meanderings of crime.

America is a multi-cultural land with varied terrain. There are sunny beaches, rugged snowy mountains, desertlands, and vast flatlands.

Americans can reimagine the mental impact of the terrain of Earth as they celebrate multi-culturalism traffic.

The Hollywood (USA) movie "Ice Storm" (1997) finds everyday American suburbanites coming to terms with real drama amidst the splendor of a crystalline ice storm weather system.

An ice storm occurs when freezing rain and some sleet-snow mix land on the ground and on trees and cars and houses and create a blanket of frozen clear ice that glimmers in the sunlight but is very hazardous to trek.

An ice storm reminds people of the general haze of human traffic as it is connected to strange Earth weather. Since human traffic is America is by definition multi-cultural and its terrains are so varied, an American ice storm represents real perception magic.

Maybe Planet Hollywood is Scotland Yard, and Batman (DC Comics) is Sherlock Holmes.


Beware of the creepy Mr. Freeze who seeks to stun and paralyze people's sense of freedom of movement with ice...










Ice Storm