(Picture taken from Pseudo-Occult Media... It came up on a google search for "dark knight joker pyramid")
I just watched Daredevil for some stupid reason and found the same theme (except this one is an optical illusion with 3 billiards tables):
Da Red Evil - In ancient Egypt, red was sometimes associated with "evil".
His logo is two Ds intertwined (double Ds?), making a familiar symbol:
Below is the Vesica Piscis:
Earlier on in the movie, the Virgin Mary's face is replaced with Ben Affleck's face (if that's not traumatic, I don't know what is):
Man, I bet you weren't expecting that middle screenshot to be so creepy. I know it freaked me out a little bit.
After this, Daredevil pushes a suspected rapist in front of a train, but this isn't any ordinary train, it's the C-train. The guy gets sliced in half by the train, and the number "86" comes up:
(This is probably fully intended symbolism... As if any of the other symbolism in this movie isn't! Other examples include an "END" sign just before his dad dies, and that one was obvious)
In this scene, he is given angel wings:
I highly suggest you don't watch this movie. I actually got depressed watching it the first time through, as if it had sucked the life right out of me with its totally unlikeable characters and drab, soulless atmosphere. I mean, Daredevil himself is a lawyer when he's not wearing his mask. The main villain kills people by throwing straightened paperclips into their throats (actually, he throws anything he can get his hands on into peoples' throats, a very unpleasant thing to see) and flicking peanuts into their mouth to choke them to death.
There are way more syncs in the movie, as to be expected, I just don't want to waste my time observing this failure of a movie anymore.
6 comments:
Yup, gonna have to watch that horrible movie now...Jeez thanks Tommy ;P
Daredevil is one of my favourite comic book characters since I was a young pup. Miller's "Born Again" series was genius, if amazingly hyper-violent and astoundingly grim. As with you the film left me rather cold. It was a nostalgic experience seeing a beloved character brought (somewhat) to life, but the glow of the super-hero for me was nigh extinguished by the rampant commercial circus that these movies were starting to become.
I've slightly adjusted to the reality (?) of it now. I just wish the treatment of such a powerful archetype was given more thought and care than churning out each and every character in conveyor belt of cookie cutter caricatures.
The odd bit of genius makes up for this. Say what you will about the Dark Knight film, Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker was about the most perfect realization of a comic character I have ever seen on screen.
As many have noted, maybe the psychic displacement brought on by embodying such a primordial archetype played its role in the resultant tragedy...
Jon - Enjoy. It's probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Justin - I actually liked the Dark Knight the first time I saw it. Never read any Daredevil. The "cookie-cutter" thing is typical of Hollywood. When they try to make someone appear as badass as they do in a comic book, they just look stuffy and unthreatening, even bored at times. I thought Ledger was hamming it up a little but his role does call for that...
Hamming it up? Yeah, exactly what the role of the Joker requires. The ultimate "ham up".
You still haven't enlightened me as to what the "quantum stochastic process" is though...
From page 111 of Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson: "A stochastic process is a random series, but it is a special kind of random series. In a stochastic process, some agent or agency is making selections - picking out of the randomness a pattern that is not random. A pattern that is not random is known mathematically as information. Information can also be defined as organization, or as coherence. Gregory Bateson has defined information as 'differences that make a difference'."
"Information - coherence - 'differences that make a difference' - Korzybski's Time-Binding - These are all aspects of the unpredictable. If you know something already, or can predict it easily on the basis of what you do know, it is not information for you. Conversely, if you don't know something, or can't predict it, it is information."
I hope that helps.
Indeed it does. Its time I read some RAW, mostly ignorant of his work really as has been shown just now.
Ta!
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