Misaimed Fandom/Film: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|The Dark Knight]]'''s version of [[The Joker]] is an '''especially''' disturbing case of [[Misaimed Fandom]], since we're talking about a [[Complete Monster]] who does his evil deeds [[For the Evulz]]. And even though he makes a plot-critical miscalculation of human nature at the climax of the film, Joker fanvids [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQT6YCF6lhk like this one] say things like ''"everything The Joker says is true."'' They wrote him extremely well, and he was acted very well by an actor who died between filming and release. He lives in a [[Crapsack World]] where his [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] philosophies ''do'' seem true at first and still have truth in them, but it's heavily implied that he crafts these philosophies to get under people's skin or persuade them, not because he actually believes what he says.

** There's a similar (albeit more understandable) [[Misaimed Fandom]] towards Ra's al Ghul in the previous [[Batman]] film, ''Batman Begins''. Consider, for example, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqHp9vLCYzM this video]; some users in the comments section were saying they prefer Ra's al Ghul's philosophy to Batman's and that Ra's al Ghul had the right idea, whereas Batman was just foolishly defending a city with no hope. There is a difference between agreeing with a [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] [[Complete Monster]] and agreeing with a [[Knight Templar]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], but the issue is the same: people agreeing with the villain more than the director probably intended.

* ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'', a horror parody, actually helped the genre live past the 80s.

** More specifically, it was intended to be a parody and final-nail-in-the-coffin for the Slasher subgenre. The film wound up having the opposite effect, and actually breathed new life into the then-dying genre.