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On updating a classic (Off-Topic)

by Cody Miller @, Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 14:33 (2045 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

If someone makes a Batman movie and gets either of these sides of his personality wrong, then it isn't a Batman movie. Not really. It might still be a good movie, but the fans will not accept it as part of "cannon" in their own minds.

And this is one of the reasons why comic books are bad in my opinion.

Why can't Batman change? Evolve? Be 'wrong' then learn 'right'? If your character is unflexible and unchanging, then you are losing a powerful storytelling tool.

Characters change all the time in Television and Film. It's when you get these larger-than- life must-coninue-eternally franchises that you are locked into bullshit like this. Comics always have to have another issue. So nothing can REALLY change. Just like a large franchise must always have another story to tell.


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