July
28
Is W the Dark Knight, Cont’d.
(Posted by David S. Cohen)
Another random thought sparked by Andrew Klavan’s op-ed piece in the WSJ arguing that the “Dark Knight” filmmakers are secret conservatives who must mask their true opinions by putting them into a comicbook movie.
If we extrapolate from the movie to real life, since Batman gives control of his let's-spy-on-everyone-in-Gotham's-cellphones technology to Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), who doesn’t approve of it and believes it’s too much power for one man to have, the Nolans et al must believe that the one person who ought to have control of the government’s real-life warrantless wiretapping system is…. senator Russ Feingold?
I tried to think of someone in show business whom I'd trust with that power. My wife suggested… Morgan Freeman. But I’m not so sure. True, he’s Hollywood's go-to guy for kindly authority figures: God, the President, the head of the Fraternity of Assassins. (Okay, not always so kindly.) But I’ve interviewed him on a couple of junkets and I think there’s just a touch of the rogue about Mr. Freeman. It’s part of his charm. But I can’t help but wonder if, given that power, he just might have a little bit too much fun...



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