Monday, October 27, 2008
Batman pwnzorz forevaa~Actually, I don’t want to do my work, so I decided to be constructive and blog instead. I really want to go back to long rambling posts about nothing at all because, well – I just miss doing them and my blog seemed kinda lonely. Awww~
Anyway, I have much work due – like my JS project work because everyone else seems to know what to do except me. And they’ve done their research and everything and even typed out the write-up (well their section of it) and
I don’t know what to do. At all. But I’ve borrowed a nice book which would be helpful to us – that is, if I actually get down to
reading it – so I will be hopeful. Still.
And my lit essay is due next Monday! It’s annoying. I haven’t read like, The Tempest yet. I am so screwed la. I absolutely refuse to do the question on J.M. Coetzee’s book simply because
I don’t have the book yet. Hahahaha. I am so screwed right. Hell if I’ll get the book that’s only needed for one semester.
Other than that, I have to prepare for my PSP module’s Paper3! I
want to do The Dark Knight and the Joker, no matter what anyone says! In this paper we have more freedom than our previous 2 papers. In Paper1, we were restricted to close-reading a single piece of text – in my case: Bauman; then in Paper2, we could do either a lens paper or a compare-and-contrast paper – I did 1984: the book and film (thanks to Irenaeus and Jack respectively for book and film) and now in Paper3, we can do any topic we like, as long as it’s kinda related back to our module: Power, Space and Pleasure. Hence, PSP. Yes... PSP-players will never look at this the same way again. Hohoho.
So we were practising on finding out our topic and etc and I think I will die for this part because I never seem to be able to find a good motive because I don’t seem to think enough. Anyway.
Primary text: The Dark Knight (film)
Okay so my area of interest is in film; next my topic is on superheroes and villains, narrowing it down further – perhaps deeper representation of superheroes and villains in film? Then to one thing which the Joker said to Harvey Dent – that he is an
agent of chaos and what else –
that people need plans, and they don’t mind if the plan is horrible because, well, it’s all part of the plan – there is a PLAN in the first place – so I was thinking of using the Joker as a case study, as to whether he is really an agent of chaos as he mentioned in the film, or is he just too terribly organised. Because he comes up with those elaborate plans in the film: sequential deaths in his bank robbery, many men on two boats, switching of Harvey’s and Rachel’s position in his plans, switching of doctors and bad guys in building...
Shoot. Okay potential topics here:
Organisation and Control VS Humanity [citing Joker’s “
Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying... nobody panics because it’s all part of the plan.”]
Question: Would people desire control and organisation at the cost of their humanity? Is the Joker a representation of animalistic, human urges or the other way around?
Agent of chaos [citing Joker’s “
Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos.”
Question: Is the Joker really an ‘agent of chaos’ as he says he is?
Aiyah. What the hell.
I’m annoyed now. My sources would include the film, Foucault’s paper, maybe this study of Milgram’s on obedience in society (which is damn scary, by the way) and this random paper on heroes. I think. Or something. I don’t know la. Die. Paper on organisation in society, human nature, chaos order...?
I shall end off with Joker/Batman/Harvey quotes. This is what you get when you watch a particular section of the movie at least three times. Argh-argh-argh.
Harvey: Your men, your plan.
Joker: Do I really look like a guy with a plan?
Joker: You know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it. You know, I just
do things. The Mob has plans, the cops have plans, Gordon’s got plans...Y’know... They’re schemers... Schemers trying to control their little worlds... I’m not a schemer; I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.
Joker: It’s the schemers that put you where you are. You were a schemer; you had plans... and uh, look where
that got you. ... I just did what I do best: I took your little plan; I turned it on itself.
Joker: Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying... nobody panics because it’s all part of the plan.
Joker: Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos.
Joker: Oh, and you know the thing about chaos: it’s fair.
Joker: ... Now we’re talking.
Batman: What were you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone’s as ugly as you?
Batman: He wanted to prove that someone as good as you could fall.
Heyyy I seem to see another topic already...
Posted by norbert at 10/27/2008 01:46:00 AM